It's the devil, he made me do it
James Dobson tells us that the Foley debacle is really not so much a matter of blame for Foley or the Repbulican leadership but is really due to the "oversexualization" of our society, presumably due to the filthy liberals:
This is yet another sad example of our society's oversexualization, especially as it affects the Internet, and the damage it does to all who get caught in its grasp.My wife reminds me that these are the same guys that say they believe in the "ownership society" where everyone should take responsibility for his own actions and his own welfare. Hmmmm.
posted by walldon | 8:54 AM
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Oversexualization, my foot.
Plato documented man/boy relationships centuries ago in the Symposium. Children and young men/women have been taken as sexual objects by their elders (mostly men, I reckon, but who knows) forever: if anything, our "liberal" society deserves credit for bringing it up and out into the open as a moral issue.
Censorship (presumably Focus on the Family's solution) won't make it go away. Shoot, Foley had been doing Dobson's bidding, legislatively.
The protection the Congressional pages needed was honest and open and accountable systems, which manifestly broke down in the House. That is hardly a "liberal" or "conservative" idea, except insofar as all issues are reduced to simple, "just say no", individual morality. Ironically, the very name, "Focus on the Family"), at least nominally acknowledges one sort of system.
We should indeed worry about Foley's victims, as FF advises. But we must be equally concerned about the system that failed them-- and will fail them again, if no changes are required.
It may be easier for us partisans here to require further reform and resignations in a corrupt House leadership, but the need and the call is not fundamentally a partisan issue. It is a moral one: "Who will protect our children?"
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