Society and Sex Offenders

Sexual Sin is extremely addictive and rarely (if ever) cured. That is why God ordained sex was only to be for the marriage bed. I agree that secular and christian modernist society (and the Biblical church's silence) has greatly promoted the rampant sexual sin in our society. But the penalties for sexual sin against a child don't deter sex offenders. Violating a child sexually destroys their life: often leading them into a life of sexual sin (i.e. homosexuality, promiscuity, pornography, etc.), destroys their self-worth, distorts their understanding of God as a loving Father, etc.

Leniant penalties for child sex offenders are rediculous. They should never be allowed to reintegrate into society. Though I don't agree with green licence plates for the fear it would strike in the hearts of innocent children. The Fear of God prevents sin. God gave the government the "sword for a reason." If we want to protect our children, only the penalty of death would keep the innocent safe.

I have to agree, this is ridiculous. While sex offender registration began as a good thing, the law of unintended consequences is taking it to the extreme. As a probation officer I supervised a caseload of sex offenders for five years. I know many of the men and women who have been convicted of crimes that cause them to register as predatory offenders, and I know them well. Very few of those on the registry are truly predators. The majority are normal people who made wrong moral choices that are often encouraged by cultural values.

It seems that we, the general public, want there to be monsters out there that we can fear. The media plays on our desire to have the boogey man and highlights the horrific things that occur at any given opportunity. What better way to learn who the boogey man in the community is than to look on the sex offender registry? Then we know who to fear and who to keep our kids away from. Now lets make it even easier to manipulate our fears by giving the boogey man an official neon green, boogey man license plate.

For too long now the culture has been influencing the church. It’s time for the church to turn things around. For far too long now the church has dodged the issue of sexuality. Because we have kept our heads buried in the sand on this issue, the popular culture has worked its way into the heart of the church. Clothes for young girls are marketed to sexualize our kids at younger and younger ages. We, the church, have the power to stop this exploitation one family at a time, but we feed the sexually explicit cultural machine with our dollars every time we buy clothes for our kids or buy products that promote cultural filth.

For the five years I supervised sex offenders, I had the privilege of participating in sex offender treatment sessions. Talk about discipleship. I had the privilege of getting far beneath the masks of men and women to explore attitudes values and beliefs that affect thinking which triggers behav

This is rediculous. How are people supposed to integrate back into society if we expose them in bright neon colors? I am married to a registered sex offender. His crime was not against a child, but it was horrible nonetheless. I don't think the answer to this problem is to have neon green licence plates. I think that Prison Fellowship has the right idea. These men and women need to hear the gospel and how it can change their lives. If we spent as much time sharin as we do being afraid of people, the world would be a much better place.