Offended by an Offender

I read an articleon this guy that started both an organization and a crusade to (to hear him put it) end children and women rape, and the particulars of the situation didn't exactly sit well with me. First of all viewing porn, much less frequenting strip clubs or patronizing adult bookstores, has no bearing on whether one is going to be a sexual predator. What about the priests in the Catholic Church? They do not (or at least they should not, anyway) do either of those things, yet some of them are guilty of molesting young boys.

It seems that this guy, in his zeal to assuage his guilty conscience for what he did in the past, is over-compensating big-time. From his avenue of attack (targeting legitimate adult businesses), I’m guessing that he used to go to such places and it eventually landed him in jail as a criminal. So he figured that if he were to eliminate such places, all of society’s sexual deviance and sex crimes would be solved. It doesn’t work that way. Second of all, he’s not only targeting legit adult businesses, he’s harassing those private individuals and patrons that back them. What gives him the right to take the pictures of law-abiding citizens who are just exercising their Free Speech Amendment rights, and post them on his website? That would be akin to me starting a cyber-registry - which included names and addresses - of people who purchased guns because I don’t particularly like guns (which I don‘t), and because I shot someone years ago by accident. My point being that the purchase of guns (much like the viewing or sale of legal pornography) is also protected by the Constitution, and just because it can lead to heinous results (in the guns’ case, death, dismemberment, paralysis, permanent injury and/or permanent scars) doesn’t make the gun purchase any less of a protected right.

For the most part, one must already have it within oneself to do physical harm to another human being in order to make the leap from simple pornophile to a sexual molester. The majority of people who are addicted to porn or smut or adult material or whatever you want to call it, just wind up ruining their own personal lives, jobs, relationships, friendships, health, and/or finances. Just ask Kirk Franklin...