JackTrade's Blog

     Politicians.

     Parents. 

     Priests.

     Teachers.

      These are some of the people who have been caught having inappropriate sexual relations, and in many instances, they have been doing it with children. 

      To site the obvious example of a politician, Eliot Spitzer, the now ex-Governor of New York, was caught soliciting the services of a BLEEP in Washington, D.C.  He had built a career on fighting corruption, only to himself be shown prone to moral corruption.  I could have put the $80,000 he spent on whores to much saner use than he did.  The sheer blatant hypocrisy of a "fighter of corruption" corrupting himself has destroyed the faith of some voters in the electoral system. 

     Parents are charged with the responsibility of protecting their children from sexual predation.   In today's world, that is not easy.  But when the parents themselves are the sexual predators,the results are tragic.  Even if it is not the child, but some adult other than the spouse the parent is having sexual relations with, the adultery will have a profound effect on the family.  God put the Seventh Commandment in the list of Ten for very good reasons one of which was to protect the sanctity of family life.  Yet this is constantly violated in our society.

     Catholic priests scandalised the world with their molestation of women and  children.  It was the best-kept secret that unmarried "men of God" were having homosexual relations with boys in their parishes, and heterosexual intercourse with women.  If this is the result of "celibacy," Rome needs to change its ways.  But it is not just Catholic priests that are involved in this scandalous behavior, but rabbis, and preachers in every denomination of the church.  These are not isolated incidents.  Do the names Jim Bakker and Jessica Hahn ring a bell?  The worst part about this is that most preachers are decent men who are doing their best to serve their churches, and the stinking breath of scandal hurts their ministries, too.

     Now children are not even safe in school.  Teachers are having sex with their students, some as early as elementary school!  Legally, I think this is called statutory rape.  The penalty should be the same regardless of the sex of the teacher and student.  Any teacher that sexually molests a child should not only never teach in a public school again, but should be severely punished in the penal system, or better yet, publicly flogged.  That goes for any sexual predator, not just teachers.

      Here is the kicker: All of the blame does not rest on the predators themselves.  Everybody's doing it.  Our society feeds on sex.  All you have to do is look at the front page of a supermarket tabloid.  And some of the highest-rated television programs are the most loaded with sex and innuendo.  Decency has completely gone out the window.  And then we wonder why our society has gone to pot.  In the name of free speech, we have abdicated our responsibility to protect our children and ourselves from what I call "paper predation."  Paper predators are those who put out hard- and soft-core pornography, be it Huster and Playboy, the trash in a tabloid, a sexually-laden television program, or the filth to be gotten with a computer.

      A good start in solving this problem would be for everybody to stop doing it.  Stop looking at Internet porn.  Stop reading Playboy and Hustler.  Stop going to pornographic movies and watching the sex-filled garbage on television.  Stop reaching for that gossip-filled tabloid.  Women, stop buying and wearing "clothes" that leave you looking half-naked!  

    Decency must be demanded if we want to stop the insanity.