Dad: Girl Killed By Drinking Water Was Sneaky

The entire Abuse-of-Religion to cover up harming others is one of my issues - in other words it's one I take special interest in standing up against. I have lots of cases bookmarked that fall under that category. I think it's established law in the U.S. that a child can't be denied medical attention for 'faith'-of-parents reasons. There have been cases where a child's parents believe (ridiculously) that going to a doctor proves lack of faith, etc. They will allow their child to die before taking him or her to a doctor. The children of such people have been taken to a hospital against the parents' wishes and such parents have been prosecuted. If denying medical care to a child based on religious beliefs is against the law (which I think it is), I would think forcing quackery-'care' on them which could do actual harm could also be made illegal if it isn't already.

I didn't see the earlier post you did on George Rekers. I think the entire unlicensed-unscientific 'therapy' on children thing in any form is something that should be outlawed nationally because of how incredibly easily it lends itself to abuse and quackery and endangerment to children. I find the whole unscientific-attempts-to-undo-gayness-in-kids-by-force thing to be very disturbing. My heart suffers with those kids for not only what they go through while they're kids, but also for the affects it will have on most of them for Years after they become adults. I don't know what the answer is to that. There should at least be a program developed to help those specific kids in an 'unbrainwashing' kind of way once they're emancipated at the age of 17 or 18. I would think that any anti-gay program directed at individual kids would only come into play around the age of 15 or 16, so hopefully the couple of years of targeted anti-gay messaging could be overcome by a program targeted to help them upon their emancipation. For example, for years I have thought 'where's the safety-net organization to help aged-out foster kids transition to independence?' Does anyone know if such an organization exists? A similar organization could also do outreach to other specific groups of 17 & 18 year-olds on college campuses, for example.

Marion, as far as Christians who think anything licensed by a state or federal government is of the devil, people like me have our work cut out for us. No place is a more dangerous, thankless, or uncomfortable 'place' to work than at the intersection between politics and religion. There is legitimate room in America for people to raise their own children and not want 'the government' to 'raise' them. But I know the kind of thing you're referring to, and it's people going too far with the idea. And I haven't seen or heard of anything being done to address it. I do not hear or see Any oversight, for example, of the homeschooling movement. Homeschooling is something much, much, much too easy for a pedophile or other type of child abuser to hide behind in order to keep kids away from the 'prying' eyes of society in order to work their evil on kids. I haven't seen any national outrage or even serious-enough concern about this. There seems to be a lack of attention to this, a void, which people need to step into to address this.

Someone, some organization needs to step up about this. Sometimes it takes things to get pretty bad before that type of thing happens. For example, for years there was an unbalance in national radio whereby far-right-extreme, total-political 'talk' shows held sway. As someone put it back then (regarding the void of any left-wing shows to balance things out), there was "a whole big enough to drive a mack truck through" in the vacancy that was not being filled by any balancing left-wing talk shows. After a number of years like that, a concerted effort was finally made to create an answer to the far-right talk shows, and the 'Air America' radio channel was born (Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, etc.) No extreme or unbalance or isolationism is healthy for a society. There always need to be countering voices heard for the sake of well-rounded awareness. As far as the Christians who seem to want to take their kids away from American society completely and insist on seeing all government as evil, the job and duty of 'schooling' those parents to less extremism falls in large part on other Christians who know better. If anything, at least other Christians need to step up - in a concerted way - to protect children from Any danger that comes from any religious extreme - and to vigorously counter the extreme-headedness that too many of those parents read into the New Testament. Often, it's not what they themselves read into it, it's what politicians and others have told them to read into it. The extreme-headedness I'm referring to is encouraged and increased by far-right, 'no-government-is-good-government' politicians. Unfortunately I have not heard of any organization of enlightened Christians standing up to those other Christians - or 'schooling' them better -  in a concerted way, so I think there is currently a void - a 'whole large enough to drive a mack truck through' - that needs to be filled.