Re: Praise Jesus
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The key point is that without government it would be a non-issue. Atheist/naturalist lawmakers can and do use their power for unsavory purposes as well.
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Wow. Total atrocity being committed against an innocent kid, brought on by ignorantly strict interpretations of an antiquated text force-fed unjustly into law...and instead of just ACKNOWLEDGING that zealous Christianity in government is FAILING this kid, you regurgitate more nonsense about how we shouldn't have a government and assert that atheist/naturalist lawmakers (how many of them do we actually have?) do bad things too (which, even if you're right, what does it have to do with this situation?).
I remember now why I stopped posting in Politics.
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I know I am the one who posted this, and I am as saddened by it as anyone, but the kid is not innocent. He committed crimes, and his actions after committing those crimes have played a part in putting him where he is now. He chose to go to trial rather than plea (still several years in prison) and become a registered sex offender for the rest of his life, because he wanted to be able to see his little sister.
The outrage isn't because the kid is innocent though. The outrage is because he was put into this absurd situation because, when the law was being discussed and passed long ago, it didn't even need to be defended...because it simply could not have been. The legislators all knew that sodomy was just self-evidently evil and wrong and FAR worse than vaginal sex.
The actual issue is definitely more of a political one. The DA's office could give him a lesser sentence RIGHT NOW if they wanted to, and the reason they do not do this is NOT for religious reasons. Its all a political clusterf*ck at this point. But it should never have come to this.
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