The cat in the hat?
USMC 2000-2004, OIF
THIS! I found out just a week before shipping off to Basic that a guy I went to HS with was busted for Statutory rape because he had relations with a 15 year old while he was 22 (I think her parents got involved)... It brought up the subject of is that considered pedophilia or not? At what age is one responsible for their sexual actions without being considered a child? I know of kids who are active at the age of 13. Now myself, I'm not attracted to any women under 21- kind hard to take a girl out and you're the only one who can drink legally... I agree that you have to be one very sick puppy to even think about young children in that way. I also agree that Homosexuality and pedophilia aren't even in the same category, one is a sickness, the other is a lifestyle.
Now, to everyone standing behind the OP on the "fudge packer" comment... do any of you know any gay folks? I do, and they're pretty good people- shit, one of them is a very pro-2A libertarian! I don't agree with his lifestyle, but it's not my place (since I believe in liberty) to tell him he's wrong in being attracted to other men. I am by no means a Progressive (ask DD and NMB), I align more as a Conservative Constitutionalist, but I am able to remove religious stigma and bias from politics, and though raised Christian (again, my dad's brother was gay and my grandparents are very conservative, very religious people but accepted their gay son) I feel I don't align with "mainstream" religion. Much like the teachings of Madison, Jefferson, and Adams- "Religion is the business of the individual, and their methods and means of worship may vary between people following the same faith."
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