I simply do not understand...

I saw this article.  I knew I shouldn't read it.  I did anyway.  Sometimes, I simply do not understand my own stupidity.  I read this article.  I knew the story would be skewed.  I expected it not to be anyway.  I simply do not understand the stupidity of others. Truly, I do not.

I suppose I am not capable of understanding a human rights group more concerned for the physical and mental consequences of sex offenders than the physical and mental consequences of both their current victims and those they are likely to hurt again.

"Research for the report revealed that of the 104 people operated on between 1970 and 1980, only 3% reoffended, compared with nearly half of those who refused castration or were denied it by the authorities."

47% more victims do not matter to human rights advocates.  Victims who face a lifetime of pain and anguish, whose bodies are affected in ways few understand...even the victims...such as this or this or this or this.  This is a past that rarely remains in the past.  And it not just those whom the sexual offender hurts, but also those who love and care for the victims and those whom the victims might unfortunately hurt themselves because the wounded often only understand life with wounds, because the wounded often were wounded by those who bear the same wounds themselves.  The depths of this evil perpetrated upon God's creation truly have not been plumbed.  Put another way, most ever only really see the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Even then, there is the silence on the matter.  Most sex offenders go unpunished.  Most victims remain silent.  We will never truly know the whole of this scourge upon the human race.

The harshest part of my soul will never understand why it is that those who bear such terrible wounds seemingly matter not, why the world prefers to look away from them under the guise of considering other, more pressing problems.

Hate crimes are often pursed with unrelenting passion and a quest for uncompromising vengeance by our legal system.  Publicly, intolerance for differences is held as an abomination to humanity and civility and society.  Would that it were a fraction of that legal stance were shown against sexual offenders.  For it is not merely the understandable silence of the victims that plagues our world, but the incomprehensible silence of those who know what is happening and choose transfer, retirement, moving, etc. over publicly acknowledging the egregious perfidy committed against mind, body, and soul and holding accountable sex offenders.  

That is why this is the way of the world in the year 2012, why child pornography and prostitution is a thriving industry world wide, why one of the most common weapons of wars waged today is rape.  Why the common mentality regarding sexual abuse is to let sleeping dogs lie, for the past is over.

But it isn't.  Over.


Lord, have mercy.  Christ, have mercy.  Lord, have mercy.