Oh really?

Mandatory minimum laws like Jessica's Law create situations where plea bargains are invalidated, without which the criminal justice system will find it far more difficult to convict the guilty while increasing the chances of the innocent caught in this legal nightmare. Of course, on the flip side, the MORE COMMON side, we'll have teens going away for 25 years for consensual teen sex with their peers, and be labeled sexual predators the rest of their lives. They have already been adding teens to the registry for consensual sx, and we label kids as young as age 4 as sexual deviants.

http://www.oncefallen.com/CriminalizingTeenSex.html

The slippery slope began with Predator Panic brought on by high-profile, rare cases, celebrity advocates lke John Walsh, media hounds like O'Reilly seeking attention, and politicos seeking votes. The day care abuse scandal and the high profile cases like Adam Walsh, Megan Kanka, and Jacob Wetterling propagated the slippery slope of increasingly degrading laws beginning with public registries and spreading to a point we force those labeled sex offenders to live under bridges. And in that panic we suck in those who didn't rape or molest people, such as teens who had consensual sex with other teens.

And if this country TRULY was basing laws on "Judeo-Christian Values," they'd try to help their fellow man instead of oppressing them. O'Reilly would be supporting rehabilitation efforts. After all, Jesus didn't go around supporting laws that further oppressed sinful man, He wanted them to go sin no more. It seems hypocritical for people to preach Christianity when they wish to hurt their fellow man.

Hey O'Reilly, remember what all those Catholic priests were doing to little boys? Remember how the Catholic churches were all trying to wiggle out of liability for all of that Christian behavior run amuck? There are bad people everywhere, and you are not going to find them by asking who is not a Christian.

Sir;...Judeo principals of right and wrong nailed Jesus on a Cross...It is not principals of right and wrong become policy that actually determines right or wrong as a practical matter, but good and evil in people lives, which people always see as effects of good behavior or evil behavior... And that is how most rational people judge right and wrong... Now, maybe we should go by the ten commandments; or would you rather go by the whole Jewish law??? If we did go by the ten we would find it impossible to enforce since so many of those rules relate to the psychology of sin... That is one reason the Jews disregarded them... They wanted a form of behavior rather than the moral feeling, or the moral philosophy that first corrects the sinner, and only then deals with his behavior... You want principals... What are principals??? They are Ideals, and ideals are forms... We need more than forms... We need that moral feeling, the way most of us feel toward our families, and the way all of us should feel toward our nation, and toward humanity, our true nation... Folks like you; Narrow Minded Bigots, just want to make rules for others to live by that you have no intention to live by.. And that is the problem, and as one of these readers has remarked; the institution that should guide people are preying upon them... And yet, our children are preyed upon to, by their own desires for freedom and love... They want to believe in the medicinal quality of love, and too often find that used wrongly, it is poison... But, you do not help, and all those people who look for an excuse to control everyone do not help..There is a culture war...That is true...It is the culture of capitalism against the culture of equality and justice for all....You all are the reason every parent must be working, and no one ever has enough time, or money to spend with their children... Our children are born abandoned...Our children are raised by the television, to want, to desire, to lust, and to envy... It would be one thing to have a few moral feelings, but if no parent has the authority to correct their child, or to protect them from bad people, then what is the sense of principals??? I wish my kids did not have to be sold all kinds of trash to watch t.v....Where is the principal that to make a buck no one could be preyed upon???Well say good bye to your millions, and get a real job... The fact is that while people on the right throw up the moral smoke screen; true morality is the last thing they want in this world, because if they had it, no unjust profit could be made, and no one would be led into temptation... People know the ten commandments... Thou shall not covet...There would be no capitalism without covet, so your principals that you preach so loudly are just a means of pushing the people deeper into slavery... They have nothing to do with morality, but everything to do with the appearance of morality... We need more than that...We have had enough of appearance... We need the real deal, and those children laying with their neighbors have a lot more of it than most of you folks, who are tall on talk and short on reality... Thanks...Sweeney