I was reading an article on the sex abuse scandal in England that started with the allegations against the late entertainer Jimmy Saville.
One of Saville’s victims was interviewed and reported on as a transgendered person.
Then I read that another transgendered person in this country, the child of Sonny and Cher, Chaz Bono, also had a sexual abuse experience in childhood.
FReepers who have exchanged posts with me also say there is a pattern in the LGBT population of sexual abuse.
I’ve noted that in some sex abuse lawsuits against the Catholic Church and Boy Scouts in the recent past, LGBT activists are among the victims suing for damages.
Who are the child sex abusers in our country anyway?
They are in the system ranging from teachers to coaches includng the most infamous one, a football coach Sandusky of Penn State.
Then there are clergy of all religious denominations. I have been in the media and read the stories of rabbis, priests, ministers of fundamentalist and liberal Protestant sects etc. etc.
I think its payback time for religion from people who in some cases at least have been really victimized by members of the clergy......they also have grievances against angry parents who were very religious but acted like drunks, the way I lived my life when my kids were young.
None of my kids have “come out” as gay but if they did I would have to take into consideration my role in the matter....
People of religious backgrounds need some humility in this situation.....
I must be humble but I must also stand the ground of our First Amendment and the Constitution if needed.
The second part of my comment is that they do not have the right to enforce justice against those who did nothing to them.
Sexual abuse is an individual offense. The individual abuser chooses to engage in it. The victim does not have the right to punish the innocent, no matter that they are a victim.
Studies have indicated that childhood sexual abuse appears to be correlated with LGBT self-identification. However, that does not give LGBT activists the right to take away others’ “unalienable rights”.
By choosing to try and steal those rights, the LGBT activist does indeed warrant anger and derision. It is not because they were harmed by abuse, but because they have selected a course of action that requires that natural rights be denied to others in order to support their sexual proclivity.
If you honestly believe that historical abuse excuses the current actions of these people, I think you may wish to revisit the biblical teachings on loving the sinner but hating the sin. In this case - the sin is even more egregious because it causes others to sin in complying with the demands.
Thank you for engaging in this debate without making it rancorous. I hope I have achieved the same goal in my own words.