http://new.catholicmom.com/2009/05/06/sexting-uncool-but-also-wrong/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:38:07 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://new.catholicmom.com/2009/05/06/sexting-uncool-but-also-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-1781 Blaise Alleyne Fri, 08 May 2009 21:37:03 +0000 http://new.catholicmom.com/?p=3514#comment-1781 Colin beat me to the punch. "Legalizing 'sexting'" has *nothing* to do with authorizing and encouraging it, and *everything* to do with making a distinction between teenagers doing dumb things and paedophiles preying on children. "Sexting" is morally wrong, but that does not mean a law that fails to distinguish between that and child pornography ought to stay on the books. Colin beat me to the punch. “Legalizing ’sexting’” has *nothing* to do with authorizing and encouraging it, and *everything* to do with making a distinction between teenagers doing dumb things and paedophiles preying on children. “Sexting” is morally wrong, but that does not mean a law that fails to distinguish between that and child pornography ought to stay on the books.

]]> http://new.catholicmom.com/2009/05/06/sexting-uncool-but-also-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-1748 Colin Principe Wed, 06 May 2009 19:00:15 +0000 http://new.catholicmom.com/?p=3514#comment-1748 So what you're saying is that this behavior of teens should carry the same penalty under law as a 40-something man who preys on teenage boys at a scouting camp, for example? The penalty being that the teens must go on a national sex offender registry for the rest of their lives? So what you’re saying is that this behavior of teens should carry the same penalty under law as a 40-something man who preys on teenage boys at a scouting camp, for example? The penalty being that the teens must go on a national sex offender registry for the rest of their lives?

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