If you have been sexually abused, or know someone who has been . . . please listen to this.

Ladies, this short video speaks for itself. I challenge you to hear it, show it others, and as appropriate accept Christine's claims as your very own.

Christine Caine testimony - Beloved womens event - YouTube


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What We Have Here is A Gross Desire Not To Deal with Sex Offenders.

This blog of mine is linked to a story from a very liberal, left-leaning newspaper -- one of Canada's biggest. And it is about trying sex offenders.  TheStar seems to think nothing the conservative propose will help. You can read all the details there. But first, let me hit some of the highlights from a conservative perspective:

The province of Ontario's Conservative party wants to address cases of sex abuse especially where it involves children.  They want to use Global Positioning Technology to monitor Ontario’s 14,000 registered sex offenders to allow police to “instantly respond” if a sex offender went near a school or playground.  

The proposal will help keep children and communities safe, the Tories say.   So far so good -- then in walk the bleeding hearts, the leftists, the liberals and capital L, Liberals -- all of whom seem to say "wont't work."  Read, "it's not perfect" therefore "forget it."

Get this, the article says "little or no evidence" that electronic monitoring actually protects children.  Which part of "if it will prevent one child from being molested, let's do it" can't they say?  Of course, the majority of child sexual offenses are carried out by friends or relatives.  And 100% of all spousal abuse is committed by husbands or wives.  Both also occur "at home".  Let's not try to do anything about that crime either.

The article points out that GPS would not have stopped one woman and one man referred to in the article.  So, therefore, no GPS for anyone.  What kind of logic is that.  Many drugs still work on a small number of patients they're given to -- so let's take them away from everyone and not help the few that otherwise would be helped.

And wait there's more.  They're throwing "false alarm" technical issue data at us as well.  Yes, car brakes also fail in many cars -- many accidents are caused by them.  But using the line of arguing of the writer of this article and the position of the 'bleeding heart' liberals, we can eliminate all brakes in cars.  That's about how insane they are.

And then they throw in the "expense" card.  Yes, it's expensive.  But how much is a life worth?  It appears not very much to these people -- many of them are the same ones that sleep very well at night knowing thousands and thousands of abortions take place annually.   But hey, trying to stop those would interfere with the rights of a person's body -- not the baby's of course.

I'm not prepared to say any more.  I am feeling nauseated -- and it's not from the tooth-ache I have.  Heaven forbid that we should take any steps to stop deranged people from having their fun, even if it means allowing children to get abused.  The mentality and morality of these advocates is, on a scale of -10 to +10, averaging -20.   Read the rest here:

Canada News: Reality check: Would PC plan to protect kids from sex offenders work? - thestar.com

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A Very Sad Development in the Sexual Abuse Cases In the Church Issue.

The Washington Post has an extensive article on some new documentation that has come forward on the issue of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. It does not look too good. The 1997 material is a letter that shows the Vatican may have given instructions to Bishops in Ireland not to report abusers to the police. Vatican says the letter was misunderstood. Here are my thoughts on this.

Did sexual abuse go on? Yes.
Is there now a concerted effort by the media and others to make heads roll? Yes. (Of course there would be -- the Church is Christian-based, isn't it? -- that's reason enough for pursuit by the mainline press.)
Is the whole situation doing the body of Christ any good, Catholics and Protestants? No.
The Catholic Church continues to lose in the process as more and more get fed up with at least what they're hearing in the press.
Protestant churches lose too because at times many people out there consider the Church to be the Church -- and do not differentiate. (That may be okay and as it should be.)

The question is, what can we do now? We do now on a large scale what we tell people to do on a personal scale.
1. Start with confession
2. Stop any further efforts to cover-up in any way whatsoever or to protect anyone who is guilty in any way
3. Let the chips fall where they may (sin has its consequences)
4. But support the abusers spiritually as you would anyone else, but don't try to get them out of the consequences.
5. Put into place measures that make future abuse almost impossible, no matter what it takes.

Here's a part I am having trouble with:

The Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy at the time (according to the article) "was led by Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, who has routinely defended the church's practice of not reporting abuse to police in favor of guarding the rights of accused priests. At the height of the Vatican's sex abuse scandal last year, Castrillon Hoyos told a Colombian radio station that no one should be forced to report abuse. "The law in nations with a well-developed judiciary does not force anyone to testify against a child, a father, against other people close to the suspect," Castrillon told RCN radio. "Why would they ask that of the church? That's the injustice.""

That is wrong, wrong, wrong. It is thinking like that, calling for special privileges to the church as an institution (it is not my father, or child, so his analogy doesn't work) that allows some religions to do things in the name of their religion that would not be allowed normally. (Need I name the one I have in mind.)

When Jesus was on earth, He never asked for special privileges and certainly didn't get any.  In fact He told to fully obey the government except where it contradicts God's Word.  End of statement.

Vatican: 1997 Irish abuse letter 'misunderstood'

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