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It's encouraging to see those who believe in science and protecting children from pedophiles getting some traction against the groomer extremists.
Then it is time for them to turn their full attention and market power to the Catholic Church and the many Christian youth camps where predatory conduct is an established tradition.
Good point! We should totally ignore the pedophiles in group A because pedophiles exist in group B, also.
Common tactic when one lack's the intellectual ability to make a cogent argument - just distract with whataboutism and red herrings ... the obsession with grooming kids is weird, but they're passionate about it.
For the past six months the constant drumbeat from the right has been the predatory danger of woke politics and in particular sexualizing children. Drag performers are regularly referred to as predators.One of the two leading candidates for the GOP nomination seems to be basing his enitre campaign on this aspect of the %A0culture war. GOP led legislatures acrtoss the country have made "protecting our children" their number one priority. And you have the gall to say the left has an obsession with grooming? Wow, pot and kettle have had a huge collision.
It is more to fair to ask the Christian right why, if they see the sexualization of and/or predatory conduct directeed at children to be the key issue of the campaign, why do they stand silent in the face of regular, repeated, and wide-spread abuse on children and women in the church setting.
Good point! We should totally ignore the pedophiles in group A because pedophiles exist in group B, also.
You are advocating for the same thing and condoning the fact that it has occurred. And somehow convincing yourself that you are clever.
Where is the bigger danger for a ten-year old boy: attending a drag show or serving as an altar boy?
Child abuse is no more prevalent in the Catholic Church than anywhere else. It attracts more attention for a few reasons: 1) the Catholic hierarchy is better equipped to address the problem than other churches or even most schools, yet for many years it failed to do so; 2) people resent the Church's fidelity to sound moral teaching; and 3) whataboutism is an extremely easy debate tactic.
Normalizing gender dysphoria and indoctrinating a whole generation with trans ideology has become the larger problem, by far.
Beg to differ. The thought that normalizing another person's behavior is worse than actual trauma inflicted on a person does not make sense to me. How is saying "its ok for that man to become, or act like, a woman" worse than actual sexual assault of a child?
I didn't say it was worse, but that it's now a larger problem. Although, if we're talking about certain drugs and surgeries for adolescents or even younger people, the harm may be just as permanent.
Why is it a "larger problem"? Sexual assault and other types of abuse of children by the non-trans population is unfortunately widespread.
Edit: as is the sexualization and objectification of women by the hetero population, resulting in a wide variety of problems for girls and women who have not been assaulted.
Big business and the media aren't trying to normalize sexual abuse of children or calling you a bigot for not supporting it (at least not yet). The Catholic Church isn't doing any of that. What makes trans activism a bigger problem is the fact that it's being aggressively mainstreamed.
Big business has long (and still today) normalized the objectification of women. The Catholic Church and most other religious instittuions have long tried to normalize a power structure that denies or at least reduces women's natural rights. It is the mainstream.
And the primary deserved criticism of the Catholic Church on the sexual abuse issue is that it did normalize the behavior by accepting it instead of rejecting it.
To the extent trans activism asks that others to be kind to trans people (which is the core lesson that many Christians are apopletic about being taught in school) and to not discriminate against them in the marketplace, there is hardly a parallel.
I draw the line at interference by the government in the parent-child relationship. Neither school counselors (from the liberal side) nor state legislators (from the conservative side) should be guiding a minor's decisions on these issues; that is the job of the parents and the child's medical providers. So, I understand there has been overrreach from some trans activists; that overreach, however is not the horror show the right pretends it to be and that overreach does far less damage than what we have allowed to go on in the name of "normallity."
That's not what normalizing means, nor is it kindness that's upsetting most Christians. And if you think Catholics deny women's "natural rights," wait till you see where the trans movement leads. If you're paying attention, it's already started.
I respect your consistency in saying neither the schools nor the state should interfere. However, I don't see how that position is tenable if you really believe "gender affirming care" is a form of abuse. If it is, the state would obviously have an interest in preventing it.
100%. The typical regressive motte and bailey argument that the issue is "being kind" is ludicrous. Travestistites have existed for likely as long as humans have, and by and large folks were as kind to them as anyone. Real, committed transvestites want to live and let live and be left alone and not have attention called to them. However, actual gender dysphoria largely has been replaced by Gaystapo activists putting on Girlface and demanding:
- Men freely use women's restrooms and showers
- Men compete in women's sports
- Experimental mutiliations on children
- Sexualizing children
- Pornograpy in elementary school libraries
So stop acting like it has anythign to do with "kindness" or making the false equivalency that wanting to protect women and children is "anti-trans." It's an immature, emotional fallacy common among the regressive program.
I acknowledge state legislatures getting involved in healh care decisions is not my preferred path, but someone has to protect children from mentally ill parents and politicized medicine. The correlation between the profiles of parents with so-called "trans" kids demonstrates it is not a function of the child but the mentally ill parents seeking attention.
There literally is no evidence than mutiliting children is beneficial for them, and "affirming" mental illness is not standard medical practice - we do not "affirm" anorexia, depression, suicidal thoughts, or (maybe it's changing) morbid obesity. As I noted before, without irony Vanity Fair did a piece on Megan Fox' body dysphoria, and classified it as mental illness. Literally nothing is different with gender dysphoria other than the special interest group.
Even Europe has realized the folly and stopped much of the extreme mutilation on children. There is going to be a rash of likley suicides among those poor children who have been sacrificed to the Gaystapo god and the complicit medical community, and we must protect them. The state regularly intervenes in child abuse cases, and giving a child experimental medications or surgery in response to a parent's metnal illness is the definition of child abuse.
Not to mention standing up for women and the rights they have won over 100 years.
