My perception is that there isn't much difference between Democrat and Republican. The lines are so blurred that I hardly see a separate party. I should have said that Conservatism is nearly non existent in the Republican party. Hardly a fight left in them.
And now it seems the church is ready to compromise for the sake of politics too.
Well, that's nothing new. How many protestant sects will perform same sex marriages?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/22/mainline-protestants-gay-marriage_n_6901430.htmlThose lost their authority with me. as they folded.
But "Child' molestation conjures one vision, of someone assaulting prepubescent children. That isn't what we are talking about here.
We are talking about one person who asserts that Moore had contact with her before she had reached the age of consent. If that is true, (and he did so knowingly) that is statutory rape or gross imposition on a minor, because she would be below the age of consent. It is possible that he thought her beyond the age of consent, or even that she told him she was older, if any incident occurred. It is difficult to tell a 14 year old from a 16 year old due to developmental variation. Fake IDs are nothing new, and teenage girls have been known to exaggerate their ages, and have second thoughts later.
At least three of the women make no assertion of sexual contact, nor of anything in one other case other than asking her out and her feeling 'creepy' about that. Yet these have been lumped in as evidence of alleged wrongdoing which just was not there. Nothing illegal, nothing forcible there.
I keep seeing numbers like eight or nine, but in reality we are talking about half that who make assertions of illegal behaviour. I will not go into the alleged 'morality' of a 32 year old looking at young ladies who were 13-14-15 years his junior, especially considering that most of the women in his age group were either taken, retreads, rejects or of low moral character. His chances of meeting an acceptable and respectable young woman came with a younger age group, just as a demographic consideration.
That does not justify acting against someone's wishes or any use of force, nor would it justify any activity with someone who is under age (below 16), should that have occurred.
None of these women have claimed conjugal relations occurred.
There are a lot of inflammatory statements being made, either for the usual hyperbolic cause of selling stories, or for political purposes or both, but rational and factual approaches to the information available are just not happening, and if/when they do, whomever tries to do so is decried as enabling baby rapers.
The only rape definitely perpetrated here has been perpetrated on the truth.