Offended by an Offender
I read an article on 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 pissed me
off.
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...