As you are most likely keenly aware, the Supreme Court decided yesterday that states don’t have the right to execute child molesters and rapists stating that the Eighth Amendment would consider this to be “cruel and unusual punishment”. Disgusting, I know… I’m peeved beyond belief because of it. I think it’s a blatant infringement on states rights and I would love to see a Constitutional Amendment be passed overriding the Supreme Court and allowing states to decide which crimes are worth the death penalty and which aren’t.

As pissed off as that court decision made me, nothing compares to the statement made by the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault, which applauded the Supreme Court’s ruling. OK, read their group name again. The Texas Association Against Sexual Assault:

“Most child sexual abuse victims are abused by a family member or close family friend,” the group said in a statement. “The reality is that child victims and their families don’t want to be responsible for sending a grandparent, cousin or long time family friend to death row.” [Emphasis added]

This is where our society has gone horribly wrong and where we need to reevaluate who exactly is and isn’t responsible for crimes. Excuse me, Texas Ass. “Against” Sexual Assault, the child isn’t the one “RESPONSIBLE” for sending a POSSIBLE family member to death row, you scum bag mother f*ckers. No, you dumb asses, the responsibility falls on the person RAPING AND MOLESTING A CHILD! That blanket statement is the most abhorrent thing I have ever read because they are essentially putting the stigma of such an act on the child’s shoulders. Shame on you Texas Ass. “Against” Sexual Assault, and shame on anyone who feels the same way.

What the hell is wrong with the people in this country?

Update

I’ve sent the Texas Ass. “Against” Sexual Assault an email informing them of my disgust of their organization, and I encourage you all to do the same thing. Here’s what I wrote:

In a recent article on CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/26/scotus.child.rape.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories), your organization was quoted as saying:

“Most child sexual abuse victims are abused by a family member or close family friend,” the group said in a statement. “The reality is that child victims and their families don’t want to be responsible for sending a grandparent, cousin or long time family friend to death row.”

Whereas your organization has the right to support and applaud horrible acts of legislation from the Supreme Courts judicial bench, I think your organization is grossly misguided in putting the stigma of the act of sexual abuse, or the subsequent punishment stemming from that sexual abuse, on the shoulders of a child.

News flash since your organization obviously doesn’t understand the concept of blame: the person who raped and or molested the child is the one “RESPONSIBLE” for the outcome of that persons decisions, not the child! That quote by your organization is the most unbelievable thing I have ever read in my life and I am calling on you to retract that statement immediately.