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Notes from the Handbasket: ninety days plus life

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Notes from the Handbasket. Waiting for the Second Age of Reason. Sunday, July 5, 2015. Ninety days plus life. Julie Bosman, in today's New York Times, tells the story of a 19-year-old who meets another teen online; the teens meet and have sex. Not the recommended way to conduct relationships but common behavior now. It turns out that the partner who said she was older than the age of consent was not. Lifetime punishment for a single sexual encounter. How did we ever come to this? 8220;You went online, to...

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Notes from the Handbasket: once again: if it weren't your husband...

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Notes from the Handbasket. Waiting for the Second Age of Reason. Saturday, February 23, 2013. Once again: if it weren't your husband. Upon hearing about a man convicted on child pornography charges, many women declare that if it were their. Husband, they know exactly. Perhaps these women know themselves very well and this is exactly what they would do. I will take them at their sometimes bloodthirsty word. Those of us who have husbands in trouble for child pornography, well, we were caught off guard....

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With Justice for All: October 2014

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With Justice for All. Tuesday, October 28, 2014. When it comes to sex offender facts, freedom of speech is squashed. This will be filed under Halloween, but it extends far beyond that. Then this morning, this headline really caught my eye: " Police use creative video to warn community about sex offenders before Halloween.". The opening paragraphs give the full picture- pun intended- better than I could paraphrase it:. These two blog entries just came out and are very informative:. At With Justice for All.

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With Justice for All: April 2015

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With Justice for All. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. For sex offenders, not the way. Is the New York Post. On a vendetta against those on the sex offender registry who are not breaking the law or in violation of requirements but are trying to find a place to live and get their lives back together? On April 19 they printed an article. Degenerates." "Perverts." "Sex fiends.". The incorrect information the headline conveys seems almost benign after reading those words. Does the Post. This is not a loophole.

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With Justice for All: Another Sex Offender Entrapment Experiment? Oh, My!

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With Justice for All. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Another Sex Offender Entrapment Experiment? I may be too angry to write this coherently, but I'm sure gonna give it a try. Some of you will remember the "How easy it would be to kidnap your child in the park experiment" that I blogged about. The villian is an online rag called " GoingViralPosts. The closest I came, with admittedly only moderate effort, to finding contact information was that they are headquartered in San Francisco. Just as research shows th...

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With Justice for All: September 2014

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With Justice for All. Tuesday, September 9, 2014. I love metaphors. They help words paint pictures; they make meanings clearer; they are usually beautiful and always descriptive. I read one this morning that, while very descriptive, misses the mark quite a bit on beautiful. It does, however, get high points for misleading, inflammatory, and downright sickening. It was used in an on-line article. The metaphor, in words and graphic, implies that all who are listed on a sex offender registry are dangerous&#...

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Notes from the Handbasket: divorce him? not on your life

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Notes from the Handbasket. Waiting for the Second Age of Reason. Tuesday, March 6, 2012. Not on your life. The third response to my comment. That’s one BIG deal breaker for me. Don’t care how long I’ve been married, I’d divorce him in a second for having watched, and gone back for more, child porn. No excuse for that. Good luck to you and your kids. Just walk away and leave him to deal with it alone? What kind of monster would I be? Walking away from the marriage would not have saved me the heartache, th...

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Notes from the Handbasket: how a congregation should respond to sex offenders among them

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Notes from the Handbasket. Waiting for the Second Age of Reason. Thursday, August 7, 2014. How a congregation should respond to sex offenders among them. Yesterday, I congratulated The Lutheran. For publishing Same Table, an article that talked about sex offenders in church. Its loving attitude and efforts to dispel myths about sex offenders were like the smell of bread fresh from the oven. Comforting. Promising something wonderful at the table. Perhaps now that The Lutheran has made it known that. Let's...

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Notes from the Handbasket: recovering from heartbreak

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Notes from the Handbasket. Waiting for the Second Age of Reason. Saturday, August 15, 2015. How do we survive heartbreak? Look around and you'll see survivors everywhere. Divorce, betrayal, illness, injury, incarceration, abandonment, broken families, death.the causes are endless. Most of us survive. Does he solve problems by handing out little toys and making people smile? Probably not. He helps people momentarily by eliciting smiles but those smiles cannot solve the problems facing them. JD Salinger, C...