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#15 Web index highest rank ever JW sexual abuse at JW keywords Jehovah's Witnesses Settle Sexual Abuse Cases -- Beliefnet.com
| Sixteen current or former Jehovah's Witnesses have settled ... have been molested by Jehovah's Witnesses. "To me, it's a vindication ... www.beliefnet.com/story/218/story_21843_1.html - 24k - Cached - Similar pages - This is a BIG deal as beliefnet is not an apostate site and this is highest rank of JW sexual abuse keywords in years. |
((SkallyWagger))..Thanks for the links girl!..Your a sweetheart...OUTLAW
Never a problem, my friend.
Hope you found what you needed confirmed. If not, you WILL, soon.
sKally
These Catholics can protest and NOT be kicked out the BIG difference between the Catholic church
Nice. For the first time ever the Catholic church is looking good to me...and my side of the family IS Catholic.....
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Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - 7 hours ago
A victims' rights group has released documents that show the Jehovah's Witnesses recently settled civil suits with 16 people who claimed they were sexually ...
This is now TOP ranked in the news as I type this going into 'knocking' debut week
Anybody that accuses a child of 5 or 8 of being promiscuous and tempting an adult to committ these crimes should be fucking punched in the face
I agree it's ridiculous to attribute 'seductive' or promiscous reasoning/ motives to kids' childish behavior, even childish 'coquettish' behavior.
Kids, from infancy, are tactile--wanting to touch, feel, taste, everything. They make no distinction between 'thing' and 'person' when doing this exploration. Some kids are more naturally tactile in their learning orientation and personality and will remain that way through adulthood. (the mechanic, the artist, the construction worker, for example)
Some kids play mainly with 'stuff' (toys, video games, stuffed animals, etc.),' some kids are more directly people-oriented and like to play with 'people.' They also like the feedback that attentive people give--for these kids, people can be wonderful interactive toys.] That's ALL that they see it as....!!!! Nothing sexual about it.
Some kids are just more demonstrative of emotions than others--and that would often include happy, playful expressions of 'petting' behaviors (not sexual, nor touching sexual zones knowingly)--just hands-on, momentary expression of happiness and appreciation or other emotions.
The adult [or older, sexually advanced child] predator takes advantage of this child's naitivity/ innocence and combined natural tactile playfulness---then blames the tactile nature of the child for his own predatory behavior.
Rapists/ abusers always find a way to blame the victim. Don't fall for it. But if you notice that your kids are very tactile AND very naive, make a point to teach them about good touch/ bad touch and to remind them that clothes are necessary, especially around other people.
Some kids prefer to run nekkid--again, nothing sexual about it, but it IS a tactile/ textures/ physical sensitivity thing. And permitting the child to remain oblivious to his own naked state around others can leave him more vulnerable to the one who is NOT oblivious to it...and not scrupulous about it, either. Protect kids by understanding their nature, by educating them, and by speaking out when a predator is in the midst.
The Roots of Pedophilia damn good read
Time plus 13 hours post PBS knocking and we TOP the news Jehovah's Witnesses settle sex abuse cases
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - May 20, 2007
A victims' rights group has released documents that show the Jehovah's Witnesses recently settled civil suits with 16 people who claimed they were sexually ...
LAWFUL INCEST MAY BE ON THE WAY
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/05/02/lawful_incest_may_be_on_its_way/
When the BBC invited me onto one of its talk shows recently to discuss the day’s hot topic — legalizing adult incest — I thought of Rick Santorum.
Back in 2003, as the Supreme Court was preparing to rule in Lawrence v. Texas, a case challenging the constitutionality of laws criminalizing homosexual sodomy, then-Senator Santorum caught holy hell for warning that if the law were struck down, there would be no avoiding the slippery slope.
“If the Supreme Court says you have the right to consensual sex within your home,” he told a reporter, “then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.”
It was a commonsensical observation, though you wouldn’t have known it from the nail-spitting it triggered in some quarters. When the justices, voting 6-3, did in fact declare it unconstitutional for any state to punish consensual gay sex, the dissenters echoed Santorum’s point. “State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity are . . . called into question by today’s decision,” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the minority. That opinion too was scorned by the politically correct. But now Time magazine acknowledges: “It turns out the critics were right.”
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ag side-note: Antonin Scalia, he's no saint himself... Hear what he had to say a few years...
NEWS BRIEF: "Orgies are the way to ease social tensions, claims US judge", The Guardian (London), Friday, October 1, 2004 (The original story can be read at The Harvard Crimson, http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503540 )
"He is the conservative bastion of the US supreme court, a favourite of President Bush, and a hunting partner of the vice-president. He has argued vociferously against abortion rights, and in favour of anti-sodomy laws. But it turns out that there is another side to Justice Antonin Scalia: he thinks Americans ought to be having more orgies. Challenged about his views on sexual morality, Justice Scalia surprised his audience at Harvard University, telling them: 'I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged' ... He offered no clue to the logic behind his claim that orgies eliminate social tensions."
Back to Boston Globe article...
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Time’s attention, like the BBC’s, has been caught by the legal battles underway to decriminalize incest between consenting adults. An article last month by Time reporter Michael Lindenberger titled “Should Incest Be Legal?” highlights the case of Paul Lowe, an Ohio man convicted of incest for having sex with his 22-year-old stepdaughter. Lowe has appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, making Lawrence the basis of his argument. In Lawrence , the court had ruled that people “are entitled to respect for their private lives” and that under the 14th Amendment, “the state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime.” If that was true for the adult homosexual behavior in Lawrence , why not for the adult incestuous behavior in the Ohio case?
The BBC program focused on the case of Patrick and Susan Stubing, a German brother and sister who live as a couple and have had four children together. Incest is a criminal offense in Germany , and Patrick has already spent more than two years in prison for having sex with his sister. The two of them are asking Germany’s highest court to abolish the law that makes incest illegal.
“Many people see it as a crime, but we’ve done nothing wrong,” Patrick told the BBC. “We are like normal lovers. We want to have a family.” They dismiss the conventional argument that incest should be banned because the children of close relatives have a higher risk of genetic defects. After all, they point out, other couples with known genetic risks aren’t punished for having sex. In any event, Patrick has had himself sterilized so that he cannot father any more children.
Some years back, I’d written about a similar case in Wisconsin — that of Allen and Patricia Muth, a brother and sister who fell in love as adults, had several children together, and were prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned as a result. Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence , they appealed their conviction to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, where they lost. Lowe will probably lose too.
But the next Lowe or Muth to come along, or the one after that, may not lose. In Lawrence , it is worth remembering, the Supreme Court didn’t just invalidate all state laws making homosexual sodomy a crime. It also overruled its own decision just 17 years earlier (Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986) upholding such laws. If the court meant what it said in Lawrence — that states are barred from “making . . . private sexual conduct a crime” — it will not take that long for laws criminalizing incest to go by the board as well. Impossible? Outlandish? That’s what they used to say about normalizing homosexuality and legalizing same-sex [”marriage.”]
Parts of Europe are already heading down this road. In Germany , the Green Party is openly supporting the Stubings in their bid to decriminalize incest. “We must abolish a law that originated last century and today is useless,” party spokesman Jerzy Montag says. Incest is no longer a criminal offense in Belgium , Holland , and France . According to the BBC, Sweden even permits half-siblings to marry.
Your reaction to the prospect of lawful incest may be “Ugh, gross.” But personal repugnance is no replacement for moral standards. For more than 3,000 years, a code of conduct stretching back to Sinai has kept incest unconditionally beyond the pale. If sexual morality is jettisoned as a legitimate basis for legislation, personal opinion and cultural fashion are all that will remain. “Should Incest Be Legal?” Time asks. Over time, expect more and more people to answer yes.
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ChristianityToday.com, IL - 27 minutes ago
One of the most frequent reader responses to David Neff's article on Knocking, the PBS documentary on Jehovah's Witnesses, is that it did not address the...
