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Notes from the Handbasket: ninety days plus life
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Notes from the Handbasket. Waiting for the Second Age of Reason. Sunday, July 5, 2015. Ninety days plus life. Julie Bosman, in today's New York Times, tells the story of a 19-year-old who meets another teen online; the teens meet and have sex. Not the recommended way to conduct relationships but common behavior now. It turns out that the partner who said she was older than the age of consent was not. Lifetime punishment for a single sexual encounter. How did we ever come to this? 8220;You went online, to...
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Notes from the Handbasket: once again: if it weren't your husband...
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Notes from the Handbasket. Waiting for the Second Age of Reason. Saturday, February 23, 2013. Once again: if it weren't your husband. Upon hearing about a man convicted on child pornography charges, many women declare that if it were their. Husband, they know exactly. Perhaps these women know themselves very well and this is exactly what they would do. I will take them at their sometimes bloodthirsty word. Those of us who have husbands in trouble for child pornography, well, we were caught off guard....
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Notes from the Handbasket: divorce him? not on your life
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Notes from the Handbasket. Waiting for the Second Age of Reason. Tuesday, March 6, 2012. Not on your life. The third response to my comment. That’s one BIG deal breaker for me. Don’t care how long I’ve been married, I’d divorce him in a second for having watched, and gone back for more, child porn. No excuse for that. Good luck to you and your kids. Just walk away and leave him to deal with it alone? What kind of monster would I be? Walking away from the marriage would not have saved me the heartache, th...
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Notes from the Handbasket: how a congregation should respond to sex offenders among them
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Notes from the Handbasket. Waiting for the Second Age of Reason. Thursday, August 7, 2014. How a congregation should respond to sex offenders among them. Yesterday, I congratulated The Lutheran. For publishing Same Table, an article that talked about sex offenders in church. Its loving attitude and efforts to dispel myths about sex offenders were like the smell of bread fresh from the oven. Comforting. Promising something wonderful at the table. Perhaps now that The Lutheran has made it known that. Let's...
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Notes from the Handbasket: recovering from heartbreak
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Notes from the Handbasket. Waiting for the Second Age of Reason. Saturday, August 15, 2015. How do we survive heartbreak? Look around and you'll see survivors everywhere. Divorce, betrayal, illness, injury, incarceration, abandonment, broken families, death.the causes are endless. Most of us survive. Does he solve problems by handing out little toys and making people smile? Probably not. He helps people momentarily by eliciting smiles but those smiles cannot solve the problems facing them. JD Salinger, C...
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Notes from the Handbasket: what to say when someone is going to prison?
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Notes from the Handbasket. Waiting for the Second Age of Reason. Thursday, August 16, 2012. What to say when someone is going to prison? By now, we have told many people what is happening with our family. Everyone has been very kind. They listen, they are sympathetic. They worry. Here's the thing: We can't put it out of our minds, so you are not reminding us. The painful subject is always with us. What should you say to someone who has a family member about to go to prison? Im sorry your husband gets his...
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Notes from the Handbasket: bogus number drives sex offender legislation
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Notes from the Handbasket. Waiting for the Second Age of Reason. Monday, August 3, 2015. Bogus number drives sex offender legislation. Where do legislators get the idea that sex offenders are so dangerous that they must be tracked via the sex offender registry? Ira Ellman, an Arizona State University law professor, lays it all out. A treatment program held over the heads of inmates is a threat, not a treatment. And yet the Supreme Court said the prison could continue that program. Again, my emphasis.].
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Notes from the Handbasket: Reason #472 why prison should be last resort
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Notes from the Handbasket. Waiting for the Second Age of Reason. Friday, July 31, 2015. Reason #472 why prison should be last resort. An article in The Guardian. Talks about how feminine hygiene products are doled out to female inmates. Each cell, which houses two female inmates, receives five pads per week to split. I’m not sure what they expect us to do with the fifth but this comes out to 10 total for each woman, allowing for only one change a day in an average five-day monthly cycle. Briefly, the exp...
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Notes from the Handbasket: law piled on law piled on law keep inmates from leaving prison
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Notes from the Handbasket. Waiting for the Second Age of Reason. Sunday, August 9, 2015. Law piled on law piled on law keep inmates from leaving prison. This is an illustration. Of what happens when bad legislation meets bad legislation meets bad legislation. He] served out every bit of his eight-year sentence for sexual abuse and should have been released from prison more than a year ago. Law puts him on the registry and makes sure that he can be rejected for no other reason than being on that list.
