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If he did this with a statue of Allah/Muhammad it won't be the police dealing with him but the 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide who will go on killing by beheading him for blasphemy. That's why they get what they want and Christians just get walked on. Oh, he's just a "teenager"... Yeah he is muture enough vandalizing and destroying private property but not muture enough being punished!
The guy took a picture of him with his crotch in front of a Jesus statue.
He just seems to have offended your religious sensibilities.
Pretty much this. What the kid does was tasteless and showed a complete lack of class. But no vandalizing was done. No harm was done to the little icon. At worst maybe they should charge him with trespassing, since this was (I infer from the article) on private property. Still, unless the property was posted I don't think there is a case to be made.
I have no sympathy for that idiot. What will he say to Jesus at Judgement- "I had such a need for attention that you were irrelevant? Yes, he is ignorant, but he knew better. I'm so sick of attention getting bad behavior being excused, and those idiots NOT being held accountable for their behavior.
Well if he comes to believe in Jesus he will ask for forgiveness and be absolved. If he doesn't and on the off chance Jesus does end up being mankind's saviour does it matter what he did? I'm sure a lifelong denial of god will do him in anyway.
I don't think you can charge someone with trespassing unless signs are clearly posted or you ask someone to leave your property who refuses to do so.
Possibly. But you must admit that the law he is charged with breaking leaves the door wide open for abuse. Basically it says that you are breaking the law if something you do could be found objectionable by someone. That includes pretty much everyone.
Possibly. But you must admit that the law he is charged with breaking leaves the door wide open for abuse. Basically it says that you are breaking the law if something you do could be found objectionable by someone. That includes pretty much everyone.
Oh I agree. It's absurd.
Please don't charge me if you found my last post objectionable.
A Pennsylvania teenager took photos of himself simulating a sex act with a kneeling Jesus statue. He posted the photos on Facebook and now faces up to 2 years in juvie for "desecration of a venerated object". Pennsylvania's 1972 law defines desecration as “Defacing, damaging, polluting or otherwise, physically mistreating in a way that the actor knows will outrage the sensibilities of persons likely to observe or discover the action.” Too much? What if it was a statue of your political or cultural hero?
PA law vs the results under sharia law would be quite different.
Of course headlining with, 'teen faces two years' is media theatrics as the most extreme potential penalty draws reader interest when weighed against a crime that appears a minor infraction.
Ignoring the rest of the PA law that probably was aimed at cemetery desecretion makes the article even more dramtic and fits nicely with the war on Christianity to make Christianity appear as a bully.
Hard to tell if the article writer and editor or the kid is lacking sensitivity, ethics and good citizenship.
This manner of writing is the stuff of the old Enquirer and belongs right next to the headline, 'man gives birth' and 'A martian is the father of my baby'.
More than one way to handle the story, rather than presenting the kid as a victim of Christianity and the secular laws it engenders.
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