Vermont Legislature Considers Legalizing Porn for Kids

By Bob Ellis on April 14th, 2009

j0433100If you’re sane, when you heard that the Vermont legislature had decided to allow homosexuals to call their unions “marriage,” you probably thought something like, “Man, the Vermont legislature must be morally bankrupt.”

If you did, now there’s more proof that you were right.

According to  WCBSTV, Vermont legislators now want to make sexting legal.  Yes, I’m talking about the practice growing common among teens of sending nude or semi-nude photos or videos among one another via cell phones.

Lawmakers there are considering a bill that would make it legal for teenagers 18 and under to exchange explicit photos and videos of themselves – an act that’s come to be known by teens as “sexting.”

Under the current law, teenagers could be prosecuted as sex offenders if they get caught sending graphic sexual images of themselves, even if it was consensual.

A state House committee will hear more testimony on it later this week.

So the Vermont legislature wants to make it legal for teens to take demeaning pictures or videos of themselves and send them to other people.  The Vermont legislature wants to make it legal for kids to pass sexual material to one another–when it would be illegal in most places for them to go and buy such pornography at a store.

What’s more, this is child porn.  These are pictures and videos of children in various states of undress and sexual poses (sometimes even sexual acts) being passed around. 

Has the Vermont legislature lost it’s mind?  Between what they’ve done to marriage, and now this, it certainly seems so. 

And look what this knuckle-head “expert” on talking to teens says:

“Don’t talk to them in language saying this is right this is wrong. That’s not going to get to a kid,” Salmansohn said.

Perhaps too many parents already took this bad advice, which might explain why it’s already happening.

So many times these days I have to wonder: can people really be this stupid, or are they simply out to destroy the moral fabric of our society…and people’s lives along with it?

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  • justvisiting
    Great post Bob. We need to get this country on a more religious track and handle these offenders in a manner more in line with biblical teachings. If a 15 year old girl succumbs to temptation and does something stupid and regretable with her phone cam, stoning would be a good start, followed by some severe caning, and maybe burning at the stake. Why do girls need cell phones anyways? Let's get the laws of our country to echo our oldest, most unforgiving religious teachings. Why should we let the Taliban lead us in this regard??? USA should be second to none in terms of religious intolerance!!!!
  • If you'd like to pursue that, I suppose it's your right to advocate it.

    However, I think existing laws are sufficient. They obviously don't need to be watered down--as the Vermont legislature is considering--to accommodate bad behavior.

    If young people start stealing more, perhaps we should relax laws against theft to accommodate their immoral behavior better.

    If young people start assaulting and killing more, perhaps we should relax laws against assault and murder more, in order to accommodate their violent tendencies more.

    Hopefully you see how completely idiotic such a proposition is.
  • Haggs
    Bob, if you can find a person without sin, that person can throw all the rocks he or she wants at me. You, my friend, are not that person.

    You say I excuse and defend evil, and yet you constantly excuse and defend the evils of torture and unjust wars. You're putting your political ideology ahead of God's teachings.

    Maybe you should worry about your own soul before you worry about mine.
  • You might want to check your Bible again--that is, if you open it much at all (there seems to be a whole lot you've missed in there): I'm reasonably confident you won't find anything that says to speak the truth only if you've never sinned...or to be salt and light to a dark and decaying world only if you've never sinned.

    If that were the standard, the apostles should have all stayed home, because they all sinned. But I suspect you aren't that ignorant of what the Bible really says; you're simply trying to hold onto your advocacy of sin and onto Christ at the same time--something impossible...and dangerous to your soul.

    By the way, I already explained to you who started the last unjust war the United States was involved in (hint: it was our adversary).

    And talking about putting a guy in a box with a caterpillar isn't torture. You should consider what our enemies do to people--that's real torture:

    http://www.dakotavoice.com/2008/03/real-torture...

    http://www.dakotavoice.com/2007/12/uncovering-t...
  • Kris
    Accurate headline, sleazebags.
  • Haggs
    So if a teen girl sends a sext to her boyfriend and they get caught, you are okay with both of them being labeled as sex offenders for the rest of their lives? I don't think this law is condoning sexting, but it's trying to make it so the punishment isn't so severe.

    I don't like sexting either. Parents need to be made more aware of it and discuss why it's wrong with their kids.
  • So you're defending the legalization of child pornography then? I guess we know where you stand, at least...and the state of your moral compass.
  • Haggs
    Wow, Bob, did someone press your Jerk Button today? I never said I agreed with the law or that I'm defending child pornography. But thanks for judging my like you always do. That says more about you than it does about me. And I don't think you have much to talk about when it comes to moral compasses. You've defended torture in the past.

    As for this sexting issue, I would just like to see a different way to deal with it. Teenagers are going to do stupid things. But I don't think those kids should be labeled as sex offenders for the rest of their lives for a stupid, teenage mistake.

    Can we find a middle ground between sexting being legal and those kids being sex offenders?
  • It never ceases to amaze me what someone can condone, defend and mitigate while claiming to be a follower of Christ.

    Kids shouldn't be making, distributing or viewing pornography of any kind. That this involves child pornography makes it even more despicable.

    How profoundly sad that you just don't get that.
  • Haggs
    I was trying to have a discussion with you, but if you're just going to act like a petty child then I won't even bother.
  • I'd like to have a discussion with you, too. But I'd rather you get your heart right and quit excusing evil.
  • Haggs
    That's the problem, Bob. You have no idea what's in my heart but you like to assume you do. I've told you time and again that I'm a Christian and I have Jesus in my heart. But you're more interested in painting me as an evil liberal because of my politics than treating my like a brother in Christ.
  • I can only know what's in your heart by what you let out of it. Remember that Christ said we'd know the genuine Christ-followers by their fruit?

    If you defend or excuse evil, that's bad fruit my friend.

    I base my politics on my faith, not the other way around, which is why I oppose things like abortion, homosexual behavior, extra-marital sex, and pornography both morally and politically.

    As your brother in Christ (I hope), I admonish you in Biblical fashion to quit clinging to the dark and destructive "wisdom" of this world and start pursuing and upholding God's higher standard. I wouldn't be doing you any favors by ignoring your spiritual illness.
  • Haggs
    I base my politics on my Christian faith as well. That's why I support social justice issues like equality and helping the poor. My faith is also why I oppose things like torture and unjust wars.

    You're always trying to put God into your little ideological box. But God is bigger than conservative and liberal. He's bigger than our petty partisan arguments. He didn't make all of His children conservative, whether you want to believe that or not.

    Y'know, one day we're going to meet each other up in Heaven and laugh about all these arguments. :)
  • Social justice is good...but not when you rob another person to accomplish it.

    Opposing torture and unjust wars are also good...but barking dogs and loud music aren't torture, and neither was the war President Bush went into Iraq to finish--the unjust war was started by Saddam Hussein back in 1990.

    God is concerned that we live according to his instruction--all of them. That includes not taking innocent human life, not perverting his wonderful gift of human sexuality, and establishing clear societal boundaries of right and wrong. You seem totally oblivious to God's standard, and seem to think he's some moron who'll just go along with whatever you want to do as long as you're sincere. Be advised: God is not a moron, and he will not be mocked.

    I do hope to see you in heaven, but according to the fruits you show (embracing and excusing evil), right now that's only a hope.
  • Haggs
    I have my ticket to heaven and I don't need permission from a conservative to go there. I believe that Jesus sacrificed himself so that my sins are washed away and I'll have eternal life in heaven. Everything else is partisan BS.
  • Obeying God's instructions for living and being the salt and light (not further corruption) to a fallen world that he's called his followers to be is anything but "partisan BS." That you are oblivious to this truth is why I am concerned for your soul.
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