Christopher Johnson at Midwest Conservative Journal, a non-Catholic who has taken up the cudgels for the Church so frequently that I have named him Defender of the Faith, explains one of the basic rules when it comes to sex crimes in contemporary America: some animals are more equal than others:
or, “There’s Never A Massive Earthquake Around When You Need One.”
Frisco? A bunch of us were shooting the breeze the other day and we decided that if you and the rest of Cali ever wanted to secede from the Union and rejoin Mexico, join Canada or form your own basket case of a country, none of us Tea Party wingnuts will stand in your way. Why? Larry Brinkin:
Larry Brinkin, who worked at the Human Rights Commission for the City of San Francisco for 22 years and was a prominent homosexual rights activist for more than 40 years, pleaded guilty to felony child pornography possession last week.
Brinkin is expected to serve six months in jail, five years of probation, and register as a sex offender for the rest of his life when he is sentenced on Mar. 5. But he likely will get to keep his city pension because possessing and viewing child porn apparently is not considered a crime of “moral turpitude” under San Francisco’s retirement/pension rules.
More on that last sentence in a few moments. I’m not posting this to make points at the hands of homosexuals. You and I both know that gays with a conscience will be horrified at all this, particularly at one of Brinkin’s e-mails reproduced in the story. The language has been cleaned up but I’m not going to copy it here.
It’s that bad.
I mention this only to note that the very people who would be shrieking like banshees if Brinkin were a Catholic priest are closing ranks.
After Brinkin’s initial arrest, Theresa Sparks, executive director of San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission, told the media, “It’s almost incredulous, there’s no way I could believe such a thing. He’s always been one of my heroes, and he’s the epitome of human rights activist – this is the man who coined phrases we use in our daily language. I support Larry 100%. Hopefully, it will all come out in the investigation.”
Bevan Dufty, who served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and now is director of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement in the mayor’s office, following Brinkin’s arrest said, “I have admired and respected his work for the LGBT community. I respect and am confident that there will be due process.”
Did you know that in Frisco, possessing and viewing kiddie porn does not constitute “moral turpitude?”
Concerning whether Brinkin will retain his city pension, his attorney Randall Knox said he did not think the felony child porn possession conviction was relevant because it apparently does not fall under “moral turpitude,” as explained in the city rule Proposition C.
“This is not a moral turpitude crime,” Knox told the Bay Area Reporter, and it is “not something that happened when he was working for the city.”
Go here to read the rest. Faithful Catholics were rightfully scandalized by predator priests and the Bishops who protected them. Why? Because we wish to protect kids and because we understand that every sexual act has a moral element and that no sexual act can be committed in a moral vacuum. On the cultural left that belief is usually not present. Many of them truly believe in a separation of sex and morality. Oh sure they will rail against Catholic priests who are accused of abusing kids, but that is purely tactical, a club with which to hit their main enemy, the Church. A more accurate reflection of the attempt to empty sexual acts of morality, that is the norm on the cultural left, is the ongoing effort to “normalize” pedophilia. A familiar pattern is at work here:
1. Destigmatize.
2. Decriminalize.
3. Treat as a protected minority.
4. Laud in popular entertainment.
5. Stigmatize opposition.
6. Teach in schools.
7. Pass laws criminalizing “discrimination” against the favored group.
When one holds that morality can be divorced from sex, the public acceptance of any type of sexual act or sexual conduct becomes merely matters of time and how feverishly activist groups are willing to work for the mainstreaming of their favored sexual perversion. The roadmap has already been created.
Reminds me of the Woody Allen controversy. Anybody else notice that his daughtes claims have been dismissed in the mass media?
Reminds me of the Roman Polanski case. People wer actually complaining that he had been caught in a sting.
Finally, I note that in the cable TV series “Shameless”, one of the sympathetic characters is a homosexual surgeon who is having an affair with a 15 year old character.
The double standard in the media is truly nauseating.
Are we as Catholic EVER going to start punching these peole in the face?
Because some can be connected to a universal institution that opposes the immoral, execrable liberal/progressive/state nightmare . . .
Because no one in the so-called media has one question for Obama on “Fast and Furious”; his IRS’s war on the right, Obamacare lies and non-compliance by the EXECUTIVE branch; etc.
“A more accurate reflection of the attempt to empty sexual acts of morality, that is the norm on the cultural left, is the ongoing effort to “normalize” pedophilia.” ” All animals are equal but Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others”
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These victims, all victims, are prey, soulless prey to be consumed. Obliterate the human soul, the individual substance of a rational nature, the human person, the civil rights, the sovereignty of the human soul and the body becomes a beast of burden; the strong to own the weak, the battle of conquest of enslaving the person. The human being could not invent this. This is straight from Hell. It is demonic. Where is your brother?
The perpetrator may want to decriminalize child pornography. However, this perpetrator is a public employee and as such he must represent all people, every person including his victim.Therein lies the crime of seeing his victim as a means of self-gratification instead of as a human being, a constituent, a human person. Who is next?
Sickening culture.
#1. Destigmatize. So true.
In Germany the phrase is “minor
attracted persons.” Substitute
for pedophilia.
Add one more.
#8. Lower the age of consent.
This will widen the field of prey.
I do not wish for calamity on an unprecedented scale, however if it happens in San Fran I could sorrowfully understand. God will not let these injustices go on forever.
While I am clearly NOT homosexual (I absolutely love and adore my beautiful Filipino Roman Catholic fiancée who is a mere 5 years my junior and I am 55), I can understand how a man may fall in love with another man, or a woman with another woman. It is weird to me, very strange and abnormal, but I can understand it. Of course sexual acts between same-sex people are intrinsically evil, but I have done so many evil things (other than that particular evil) in my life that I really should not cast the first stone. However, when it comes to pedophilia, child pornography, child abuse, etc., I really think some harsh punishment is in order. Removal of the reproductive organs may be in order for such vicious creatures who prey on the innocent with such abandon. I suppose that this consideration on my part places me to the right of Attila the Hun.
San Francisco was not always this way. I wish I could see the San Francisco of the somewhat distant past, before the loonies took it over.
Philip: “#8. Lower the age of consent. ” Justice? Ruth Bader Ginsberg advocates lowering the age of informed sexual consent for girls (not boys?) to fourteen years of age in her book. A fourteen year old girl cannot even drive to the grocery store for food, or vote, or enter the armed services, but she goes unprotected into statutory prostitution. The wit and wisdom of our judiciary.
Pedophilia fed and nurtured by photos and films of children being physically and spiritually abused. We ought to fight inch harder against those who produce and sell pornography.
Mary De Voe.
A nightmare that seems endless.
A society that devours it’s young. How can that society prosper?
Your being very kind in your sarcasm; “the wit and wisdom of our judiciary.”
I see Rod Sterling and hear the ( do doo do dooo do doo do dooo…) and enter the bizarre…Our Day…the Twilight Zone!
Pornography came into the public domain as freedom of speech. Only truth has freedom of speech. The fact that pornography exists is vice not virtue, not the truth. Pornography was induced not the public domain by lobbyists for its dissemination, for the money.
Pornography is a lie and perjury in a court of law about the human being and the human condition. Pornography debases one of the most beautiful gifts our Creator has endowed to man, the gift of procreation. Does the pornographer have the right to purvey his sickness? No, vice does not have freedom of speech. If pornography were self-abuse the courts would have nothing to say about it. The fact that pornography debases all persons of their civil right to privacy, decency and virtue is not freedom or civil rights.
There is a victim to pornography, all citizens are victimized.
Does God exist? If not, we are mere animals to be managed by the state and whatever we otherwise do is acceptable, as long as we stay within the politically correct corral. We must be disarmed, as if dehorned, declawed and defanged, so as not to injure our handlers. Even if we devour our young, it is of little concern to the Godless State. We are not there yet but this is where we are heading. “It is time to stand athwart history and yell stop”. *Thank you and rest in peace, Mr. Buckley.
When one holds that morality can be divorced from sex…one will hold that morality can be divorced from everything.
Dead on correct. What started as a fringe part of the male homosexual rights movement (saying that it was normal for men to have sex with underage boys) has almost become mainstream in that movement’s thinking–if it hasn’t become fully mainstream!
I worked at a high school several years back where the admin actively supported homosexual rights & marriage-& hired accordingly. We had a very aggressive, active gay male member of faculty–who used our faculty meetings as an opportunity to push his political agenda & lecture all of us about our bias against members of the LGBT crowd. His male students were afraid of him-the students we taught were about 95% African American & those young men DID NOT WANT ANYONE QUESTIONING THEIR MASCULINITY! One day in class, this gay teacher just could not leave it alone & started lecturing his class on racial issues & homosexual issues at the same time. As those young black males were livid over his self righteousness, a literal riot ensued in the classroom. School property was damaged; security had to end the violent behavior. This gay teacher then was required by administration to take racial sensitivity training due to the riot he provoked & what his black students had to say about the gay male teacher’s having provoked the riot. I promise–I am not making this up! Not long after that, this same homosexual male teacher had a teenage male aid in his room that the teacher started paying an inordinate amount of attention to–flirting with the student vs. teaching class–buying the student things–including pizza for lunch so the male student would stay with the teacher during lunch time–giving the student neck massages. Yep! You guessed it. The next thing that happened was the male aide’s parents filed charges against the homosexual teacher–saying that the teacher had called their child at home asking the student to come to the teacher’s house for a hot oil massage. I will not bore you with all the political/ legal chenanigans that took place after this. It was a mess that never was resolved correctly IMHO. I do believe that my building administrator did everything within her power to bring about justice in this case–& protect our students from this predator. I can’t recall knowing anything about the sex life of any of the other 200 faculty members–because they never publicly discussed their sex lives.