Christian Democrats in the United States
Domestic Issues - Personal Abuse The United States suffers from severe pain that all people (consciously or unconsciously) try to hide — sexual and violent abuse. These censored experiences are shared by more people than you'd care to imagine, and an unbelievable number of children, and permeate our current struggle for dominance and authority in our daily lives. We challenge all Americans to set the lamp of truth on its stand, and let it shine everywhere, because God sees into all of our dark places. In terms of specific policy, we advocate longer sentences, lifetime national registration and real-time position tracking for sex offenders, and use of medical treatments to prevent recidivism. We also should empower our law enforcement to investigate our citizens who travel overseas to commit these abuses, because America is supposed to set an example for the world. Furthermore, we advocate increase of hospice care oversight to stop senior abuse in our homes and care institutions. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
10:36 PM
I hope the girls realize someday they are free citizens and they can do what they want and direct their own lives, and that good people outside their circles will help them, that they are not doomed without the material support from parents and husbands to downwards spirals of depression, prostitution, and worse abuse should they choose to open their cages. I pray the dark folds of urban poverty would not envelop them, but I think realistically, that's a fear that anyone would have, and a reason why some of the girls don't want to leave — they feel doomed by all of existence, so they cling to family, even though family is bad. Where would they go? What would they do? Forgive them for finding it difficult to believe in themselves.
Some crazy lady told me she thought the Afghan women's suffering under the Taliban government was their own fault, due to their own complacency or stupidity, that if they had asserted themselves more, things would have been okay. I found her viewpoint inhospitable and lonely. So what if they were complacent or stupid? Maybe not all women have to fit into the stereotype of nice, trusting people who want to nurture life and to please, but if some do, is that so terrible? How could one condemn such women to that sex slavery, blood and domination, as if it were their own fault for falling prey to order's most brutal responses to chaos? How could one not wish them free from that unwilling bondage?
So it is also good that Texas interferes in the affairs of her citizens when it looks like the most defenseless children are getting a raw deal. God bless that every person involved decided to open up and work out the situation without violence. Texas kills too many people as it is. I only hope Texans would choose to take good care of any of the girls who themselves choose emancipation from their families. Texas and all good governments should offer choices of emancipation, a foster guardian, and divorce to any married child, to any child abused at the hand or with the consent of family.
Decrying the possible cost of social services is a cop-out. If more of us were willing to go out among people, to talk, listen and learn, all of us to speak and to preach, society would reconnect itself, and we might love one another. Government must ensure defenseless children do not fall through the cracks. Moving heaven and earth is up to you, and you must, or life will be hell.
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I never knew what to say about the little girls in Texas who were wed against their wills to older men, and I hope the interference of well-meaning public officials will give them all a little perspective. Thank the Lord no one shot anyone. It's always seemed like the most obvious case of someone constructing religious rules for personal sexual slavery. I am astonished that anyone would allow that to happen in America. So I never knew what to say.I hope the girls realize someday they are free citizens and they can do what they want and direct their own lives, and that good people outside their circles will help them, that they are not doomed without the material support from parents and husbands to downwards spirals of depression, prostitution, and worse abuse should they choose to open their cages. I pray the dark folds of urban poverty would not envelop them, but I think realistically, that's a fear that anyone would have, and a reason why some of the girls don't want to leave — they feel doomed by all of existence, so they cling to family, even though family is bad. Where would they go? What would they do? Forgive them for finding it difficult to believe in themselves.
Some crazy lady told me she thought the Afghan women's suffering under the Taliban government was their own fault, due to their own complacency or stupidity, that if they had asserted themselves more, things would have been okay. I found her viewpoint inhospitable and lonely. So what if they were complacent or stupid? Maybe not all women have to fit into the stereotype of nice, trusting people who want to nurture life and to please, but if some do, is that so terrible? How could one condemn such women to that sex slavery, blood and domination, as if it were their own fault for falling prey to order's most brutal responses to chaos? How could one not wish them free from that unwilling bondage?
So it is also good that Texas interferes in the affairs of her citizens when it looks like the most defenseless children are getting a raw deal. God bless that every person involved decided to open up and work out the situation without violence. Texas kills too many people as it is. I only hope Texans would choose to take good care of any of the girls who themselves choose emancipation from their families. Texas and all good governments should offer choices of emancipation, a foster guardian, and divorce to any married child, to any child abused at the hand or with the consent of family.
Decrying the possible cost of social services is a cop-out. If more of us were willing to go out among people, to talk, listen and learn, all of us to speak and to preach, society would reconnect itself, and we might love one another. Government must ensure defenseless children do not fall through the cracks. Moving heaven and earth is up to you, and you must, or life will be hell.
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