Doing Church Like Steubenville: Paul’s Interview with Alexandria Goddard
Church doesn’t sanctify bad ideas. Elitism, caste, and collectivism will lead to the same bad behavior and a religion of tyrants worshiped by cowards.
~ Paul Dohse
When antinomianism rules the church, refuge will only be found in common sense wherever it may exist by God’s grace.
~ Paul Dohse
Alexandria Goddard is the creator and editor of Prinnified.
She has a 20+ year career as a legal assistant with experience in fraud analysis and risk management as well as being a former volunteerguardian ad litem-court appointed special advocate for the juvenile court system. Goddard is also a business owner, providing social media profile analysis to parents, as well as offering training seminars to parents and educators to enable the monitoring of children’s social media.
She is on Twitter @prinniedidit.
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I really do hate to ask this but when I see a tweet from a high school young man saying, “I have no sympathy for whores”, I have to wonder if Steubenville is a fundy or evangelical stronghold town? Do you know anything about that?
I am always thrilled to watch out of control moms on Dr. Phil. :o( There goes 3 min I cannot take back.
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Paul – I had no idea pressure had to be applied for the town to do the right thing. Sounds like many there aren’t very happy about that, pretty pathetic.
Classic tactic by the Mom on Dr. Phil. She made it about something no one can argue about – positivity, patriotism, all the kids not being able to go to school. Sound like collective is more important than an individual? The issue was the rape charge of a 16 year old girl. Fall out or consequences aren’t reason to throw out the charge. Fall out is why you teach/warn your kids. When someone does bad, it can affect many people AND you don’t blame that on the victim either! Many organizations don’t tie consequences to actions. And this is the behavior you get when consequences aren’t there. Dangerous environment to live in. Consequences must be looked at as good and bad behavior as bad, not the other way around.
The news media of the sentencing was no different. The boys’ “lives were over” not at the sentencing, but at the very moment they chose their criminal actions. Period. That’s what has to be learned and taught.
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Yes, instead of the “mom” on Dr. Phil being appalled at what the leaders in her community/school had done to cover this over, she was outraged that anyone dare think bad of her town. People so have it backwards. Everyone who hid this should have been fired and the moms like that leading the way.
And you are so right about those young men lives being over the minute they decided to rape her. Not only that but their behavior afterwards is stark realization of just how barbarian they are. The town should have been appalled and taken action.
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