Thaddeus Gadfly

Okay, if we are going to legalize homosexual marriages, and I think the time has come for a societal sea change of attitude on the subject, that gays should be allowed to marry, it begs the next question, which is, if we are accepting alternative lifestyles, and we do accept gay marriage, shouldn’t we allow polygamy, as well?

I’m of the opinion that to allow gay marriage and to disallow polygamy is an inconsistency.

If you do not think it is an inconsistency , please tell me your reasoning. I’d love to hear it.

Now then, on the question of recent events surrounding a particular religious enterprize which alledgedly is engaging in child abuse, the 400 or so children were removed from their parents and put into foster care, I have some comments.

I’m fearful of the “lynch mob” mentality that seems to be developing, that the government acted without sufficient evidence. Something about the whole thing stinks, if you ask me. I’m against child abuse in every form, but I’m also against destroying families just because they have chosen a different lifestyle than one I would choose, and I’m definitely against destroying families without sufficient evidence.

Are we going wind up with a wild wich hunt case like we say during the McMartin trials of the 1980s?

I remember vividly, that everytime a news report was given about the trial, the splash screen on TV we first saw was those of childrens toys being ensconsced in an inclement shadow of an adult, and the idea was clearly to suggest child abuse.

But there was a problem with the whole thing, it wasn’t true, none of it. In the years of trial that followed, the owners of the children’s day care center, they lost their business, their reputation, and it ruined their lives. All because of overzealous prosecutors who relied on scant evidence, and the testimony of children whose testimonies were manipulated, and keep in mind that children will be children, they have wild imaginations, and have no idea of the forces that are at play, that the whole thing can easily be seen as a game to them, and are not cognizant of the consequences of their testimony, and have no concept of “truth” and “integrity”, THEY ARE CHILDREN, just kids, get it? What the McMartin trials demonstrated was that the testimony of kids were manipulated by adults.

Let that scenario not happen again, let us rely on real corrobative evidence, not the kind of witch hunting we saw during the McMartin trails. But, I fear, we, as a society, never learn.