Pedophilia Quotes
Hogarth had just presided over a trial of the authorities of the school. This was the first of a series of Canadian scandals of religious school sexual abuse for whites as well as Indians.
The President had instituted a policy whereby convicted pedophiles would be chemically castrated. He Indonesian Medical Society however voted overwhelmingly that such a practice would be unethical and immoral, and it would be improper for any doctor to participate in such a program. Jokowi was asked by a BBC interviewer what he would do about his new policy if the doctors refused to carry it out. This was his response. His program is illustrative of a reaction of many political leaders when faced with a problem that concerned most people but for which there was no known specific solution. They reach out for ideas regardless of how draconian they were or how extensively they violate human rights—even when they themselves know there is no evidence that the new idea will be successful. If there is a problem and a national leader does not appear to try and do something, he/she is often accused of not caring rather than the reality of not taking a chance with “solutions” that will do some harm and may not do any good.
Physiologically a very young girl is often capable of getting pregnant, but physiologically is not able to bear children without high risk to both children. A similar risk pattern exists with women over the age of 40. While there are a number of Islamic countries that do sanction pedophilia within marriage, there is nothing inherent in Islamic theology that justifies this. Modern Islamic nations like Turkey and other Muslim majority nations do not allow marriage at such a young age. Also, it was not to long ago, in historical time, that Christian nations also sanctioned marriage to very young girls.
The Roman Catholic Church hierarchy had just cracked down on some nuns and their orders who were discussing and debating classic church positions, like male only priesthood, birth control, women’s roles in the society and in the search. There were many strongly worded admonishments from the Vatican. Down found it odd that the Church Fathers should be so distressed by activist nuns when their reaction to Priest sexual predation of young boys was by comparison, so mild.
