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How to Get Away with Raping a Child

February 23, 2018 Comments Off on How to Get Away with Raping a Child

It’s easy in some states–just marry the child.  Child marriage is legal in all states, leaving an “out” for someone caught abusing a child. Next week, Florida will possibly be the first state to ban this practice.  It’s about time we stop this crime against American children and close the loopholes that some lawmakers want to keep open.

Go to America’s child marriage cover up to read more and sign a petition to ban child marriage in Florida.  It may not be your state, but the ban has to start somewhere, and politicians respond to being put into the national spotlight.  Another thing you can do is to contact your own state’s representatives and demand that they introduce legislation to enact such a ban.

For the sake of the children.

 

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Wedding Bells for Priests?

May 27, 2014 Comments Off on Wedding Bells for Priests?

The Pope is reconsidering celibacy for priests?  Maybe.  After receiving a letter from a group of priests’ girlfriends last week, the Pope said,  “The Catholic Church has married priests in the Eastern rites….Celibacy is not a dogma of faith; it is a rule of life that I appreciate a great deal, and I believe it is a gift for the Church. The door is always open, given that it is not a dogma of faith.”

For Catholics, such a papal utterance is akin to the parting of the Red Sea.  Maybe this Pope, who has done so much to return the Catholic Church to the simpler, more human-family-oriented church of the Apostles and early Christians…just maybe he’ll return this “rule of life” to those same olden days.  If priests could marry, the church would have more men joining up, which would help the dwindling ranks.  There would likely still be orders that stick to this “rule of life”–a division in the church that Ireland had to work through in its early Christian days.  A man could choose to join one of those if he felt it was the right thing to do.

Will that change come in Pope Francis’ lifetime?  We’ll see, but I won’t hold my breath.

[Full disclosure: I am a practicing Catholic.]

 

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