Florida will now execute child rapists.
Of course, the media says this is "controversial."
From News 4 in Jacksonville:
A number of new laws are now in effect, as of Sunday. Arguably the most controversial centers around changes to Florida's death penalty. Child rapists can now face execution for their crimes.
The law specifically pertains to child victims under the age of 12.
RAPING KIDS UNDER 12.
That's what we're talking about here.
Executing people who would violate children in such a horrific way is considered "controversial."
Higher courts have already said imposing death sentences in these types of cases is a violation of the 8th Amendment. While some say the law is still a measure of protecting children, others say different.
Christ said that it would be better to tie a giant millstone around your neck and hurl yourself to the bottom of the sea than to lead a child astray. What then, should be the prescription for violating them in the most evil way humanly possible? Or are we more just and compassionate than God now?
Upon signing it into law, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said: "These are really the worst of the worst. The perpetrators of these crimes are often serial offenders."
The law will face a series of legal challenges, and it remains to be seen how it will be applied. One of the legitimate criticisms is how penalties would be given in the majority of cases that involve family members.
About 90 percent of child sex abuse victims know their abuser and about 30 percent of children are abused by family members.
Critics say this would force children to "bear the weight of a possible death," which is the same type of excuse used to cover up all sorts of evil, from concealing abuse ("you wouldn't want me to go to jail, would you?") to convincing parents to mutilate their child at a gender clinic ("better a living daughter than a dead son, right?").
Critics also say the death-penalty process languishes for years, which is another injustice of our rotten system. Those who have been given such punishments should be given priority appeals and, barring any further evidence or overturning of their sentence, have justice doled out swiftly.
But what concerns me is not the conversation that civilized people can and should have about the details of sending criminals to meet their Maker after a fair trial:
This new law would still require an 8 to 4 jury recommendation for a death sentence.
What I'm more interested in is the LGBT reaction to this law, starting back in April.
Consider this post that went viral again last night:
[SCREENSHOT BECAUSE HE DELETED IT]
"Penny" is a man who plays at being a woman and is very concerned that this law with harsh penalties for the rapists of small children will unfairly target "trans and queer" individuals.
I don't believe Penny is "saying the quiet part out loud," at least not intentionally. He has the delusional belief that those who disagree with LGBT ideology want to target that community as their enemies. He has no real idea that the majority of Christians, conservatives, and average American parents just want to stop rapists and groomers.
The ironic thing is that there is a much higher prevalence of sexual crime within the LGBT "community," largely because those individuals have experienced that trauma at some point in their own life, or suffer with mental illnesses that make them more readily give into depravity, or believe in an ideology that places sexual appetite and behavior as its chief virtue and god.
So, whether Penny meant to or not, he said something the rest of us know is true, just not in the way he intended it.
You may not like the idea that a person deserves death for a crime (perhaps because you've been conditioned to believe that only things like voting for Trump or burning a rainbow flag would warrant such punishment), but the government is to be God's agent of justice in this world. It would be good, as JRR Tolkien's Gandalf once noted, not to wish death on all those who deserve it, for not even the wise can see all ends, but it would be folly to believe that the alternative to strict laws and concise punishments is "tolerance" and kindness.
Law fulfilled by grace is the supreme aim, but in a society that has forgotten such things, law must exist, for the only alternative is this out of Minnesota:
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