11-15-2017, 03:14 PM
...and last night that old hypocrite and unrepentant perv (yes, one still is very much a sinner, culpable of whatever transgressions that one committed until one gets redemption from egregious sins -- and then only upon repentance with a firm resolve to never commit such sins again) who made an appearance in a revival meeting in which he expressed his concern that America was going to ruin until it went back to God and Jesus. Filthy hypocrite!
And this is a former DA and judge, responsible for the administration of justice, one of the most important functions that anyone can ever do. Such requires that one must refrain from abusing power. I can imagine what potential this man had for abusing people. Sure, his messing around with teenagers happened in the 1970s when America was much more tolerant of such than it is now. Except for acceptance of homosexual rights (and those are limited to sex and marriage among consenting adults and the right to adopt and raise children), America is much more repressive on sex than it was forty years ago. Gays and lesbians got their rights by throwing the pervs under the bus, so to speak. What Roy Moore did is inexcusable; it is now good for a long prison term and registry as a sex offender.
Does anyone want to bet that Judge Moore has sentenced many adult men who messed around with underage girls to long prison terms? So would I were I a judge. But I know well that the adolescent world has not been mine since I left adolescence. At most I can guide adolescents toward the finer attractions of the adult world, as in "This is Schubert", "This is Vermeer", or "This is Dostoevsky". But they are not ready for sex even with fellow adolescents, let alone with adults.
Plenty of people have renounced drugs and alcoholism, reckless adventures, promiscuity, extremist causes, and juvenile delinquency. Such people can be fair warnings to the rest of us.
And this is a former DA and judge, responsible for the administration of justice, one of the most important functions that anyone can ever do. Such requires that one must refrain from abusing power. I can imagine what potential this man had for abusing people. Sure, his messing around with teenagers happened in the 1970s when America was much more tolerant of such than it is now. Except for acceptance of homosexual rights (and those are limited to sex and marriage among consenting adults and the right to adopt and raise children), America is much more repressive on sex than it was forty years ago. Gays and lesbians got their rights by throwing the pervs under the bus, so to speak. What Roy Moore did is inexcusable; it is now good for a long prison term and registry as a sex offender.
Does anyone want to bet that Judge Moore has sentenced many adult men who messed around with underage girls to long prison terms? So would I were I a judge. But I know well that the adolescent world has not been mine since I left adolescence. At most I can guide adolescents toward the finer attractions of the adult world, as in "This is Schubert", "This is Vermeer", or "This is Dostoevsky". But they are not ready for sex even with fellow adolescents, let alone with adults.
Plenty of people have renounced drugs and alcoholism, reckless adventures, promiscuity, extremist causes, and juvenile delinquency. Such people can be fair warnings to the rest of us.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.