Pat Robertson: Gay Marriage Leads To "Bestiality," "Child Molestation," "Pedophilia"

Some "criminals" can be taught to "think differently" or "retrained", others we simply do not have the technical ability to repair AT THIS TIME, but the primary question should be "can we modify the behavior or not? "



If we can not, the only available option AT THIS TIME is to remove the individual from society, but if we can, we should correct the dysfunction and then return the individual to society. Punishment is utterly useless in this paradigm, and any educated person recognizes this.



Getting back to your statement; another inaccuracy is the premise that "Only within the last few decades, however, has the lifestyle been de-criminalized". In THIS Country (we are the "west" that you are speaking of, aren't we?) Indian cultures often revered homosexuals, several of the "European cultures" that form the bulk of our population accepted homosexual behavior long before they arrived on these shores, and many other cultures have both celebrated those who were different or simply accepted that they were an oddity that posed no threat to the culture as a whole. ONLY HERE, in those parts of the country that latched onto the fundamentalist types of Christianity that sees the world in terms of absolute right and absolute wrong (black and white), where they could read in the bible that their personal bias and xenophobia and prejudice were justified (by selective reading) has the utter condemnation of an entire class of people been justified.
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Pat Robertson: Gay Marriage Leads To "Bestiality," "Child Molestation," "Pedophilia"

Perhaps you should read more than a couple posts before positing your argument.



As I noted earlier, there are these annoying things that we refer to as "scientific facts" that point to the fallacious nature of the arguments you are attempting to make. On top of that there are HISTORICAL FACTS that you seem to be completely ignorant of. Not that I'm surprised.



Homosexuality has been around since the earliest recorded history, and likely was around before that (pre-history). The Greeks (one of the earliest recorded WESTERN cultures) made reference to homosexuals in their earliest writings.



You ARE correct, I do not need scripture (which readily suggests that there are instances when

"God" seemed unconcerned about his "chosen" engaging in pedophilia, murder, incest, or torture".



You may be right about the "most hardcore atheist" thinking that these are "evil", but, the most hardcore SCIENTIST would not agree.



Our moral code (the Judeo/Christian one) is premised on the belief that "if you break one of the rules, you must be punished". This is a form of TORTURE that is inhumane and unproductive. Modern scientific research has consistently demonstrated that the vast majority of behavior that our society considers "evil" is likely beyond the ability of the individual to control, and is likely caused by some abnormality in the brain, or in the learning of the individual.
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