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Child abusers do not have the same privileges as everyone else; most often, they have restrictions on places they can be such as schools and playgrounds.
In some jurisdictions, neighbors are warned about sex offenders.

What Is Child Abuse?

"Child abuse" can be defined as causing or permitting any harmful or offensive contact on a child's body; and, any communication or transaction of any kind which humiliates, shames, or frightens the child. Some child development experts go a bit further, and define child abuse as any act or omission, which fails to nurture or in the upbringing of the children.

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act defines child abuse and neglect as: “at a minimum, any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm.”

A child of any age, sex, race, religion, and socioeconomic background can fall victim to child abuse and neglect.

There are many factors that may contribute to the occurrence of child abuse and neglect. Parents may be more likely to maltreat their children if they abuse drugs or alcohol. Some parents may not be able to cope with the stress resulting from the changes and may experience difficulty in caring for their children.

Major types of child abuse are : Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, & Sexual child Abuse, Neglect.( Physical neglect, educational neglect, emotional neglect)

You apparently missed the point of my post. The point is that societies and cultures do not legalize all behaviors. I do not believe they ever have or ever will. I need to also point out that you guys comparison of same sex marriage to race is just nonsense. I also think many blacks and other minorities are highly offended by that comparison.

It also needs to be pointed out that behavior is totally different from the proclivity for that behavior. For example, there are laws against many behaviors but no laws against the proclivities for those same behaviors. I think you have the differences very confused in your mind. If proclivity ever becomes a right or license to behave in any certain way, then we have lost our way as a culture and as a society.

That is what the same sex marriage lobby is attempting to do, because they want society to approve of their chosen lifestyle. They conveniently ignore the fact that the law is probably not going to bother them as long as they do not demand a marriage license to marry somebody of the same sex. Polygamists are also likely not bothered any as long as they do not demand society give them licenses to marry as many people as they want. Their proclivity does not give them a right or license. Marriage has been defined for a long time as a contract between one man and one woman. It has been defined that way for numerous reasons proven practical now for a very long time, not only here but in many cultures throughout history.

The standard for legalization or not is, 'what harm is done?'

What harm is done by allowing gays to marry? None at all.

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The standard for legalization or not is, 'what harm is done?'

That is very likely why gay marriage has not been legalized most places, cyclops.

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What harm is done by allowing gays to marry? None at all.

That is obviously only your opinion, but has not been the opinion of most people throughout history.

Who made $50k thirty years ago? Your starting from a falsehood, then extend that into more imaginary returns on investment.

FACT: Over 43% of Americans have less than $10,000 in savings.

Try to figure out why?

FICA is 15.3 but Medicare makes up 2.9 of that. SS is only 12.4% of current income. (Currently less with the 1 year reduction.)
So you use a figure that is too high today.
But you can't even use 12.4% for your 44 years of work.
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http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/more-evidence-ties-obama-to-socialist-party/
Yet more evidence has emerged tying President Obama to the New Party, a Marxist-led socialist party that sought to infiltrate the Democratic Party and push it so far leftward it ultimately would become a socialist organization.

John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine, recalled speaking with Obama at New Party events in the 1990s.

“When we spoke together at New Party events in those days, he was blunt about his desire to move the Democratic Party off the cautious center where Bill Clinton had wedged it,” wrote Nichols in a January 2009 piece published at Progressive.org.

WND previously reported on newspaper evidence showing Obama was listed as a member of the New Party.

The New Party worked alongside the controversial Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.

In his piece, Nichols referenced quotes from Obama at a 2008 town hall meeting in suburban Atlanta where the politician labeled himself a “progressive.”

Wrote Nichols: “Barack Obama knows exactly what it means to say he is a ‘progressive.’ When he does so, he is not merely avoiding the word ‘liberal,’ as the sillier of his rightwing critics like to claim. Obama actually understands the subtle nuances of the American left.

“This is a man who moved to Chicago to be part of the political moment that began with the 1983 election of leftie Congressman Harold Washington as the city’s first African American mayor, who studied the organizing techniques of Saul ‘Rules for Radicals’ Alinsky, who worked with proudly radical labor leaders to defend basic industries and avert layoffs, who used his Harvard-minted legal skills to fight for expanded voting rights, who was mentored by civil libertarian legislator and federal judge Abner Mikva, who discussed the intricacies of Middle East policy with Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi, and who learned about single-payer health care from his old friend and neighbor Dr. Quentin Young, the longtime coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program.

“And, famously, Obama did not just make anti-war sounds before Iraq was invaded, he appeared at an anti-war rally in downtown Chicago with a ‘War Is Not an Option’ sign waving at his side.”

Nichols authored a 2004 book with avowed Marxist Robert W. McChesney, founder of Free Press, a George Soros-funded organization with close ties to the White House that petitions for more government control of the news media.

2, complaints of bigotry against conservatives, such as we've seen rise a great deal in the last few years, are quite entertaining but hardly serious

LOL. Unless you have a couple of degrees in history, you aren't trained in the study of it - like some of us are

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2, complaints of bigotry against conservatives, such as we've seen rise a great deal in the last few years, are quite entertaining but hardly serious

I find this comment by you to be rather telling about you.
You say that the complaints are "hardly serious".

It seems to me that ANY bigotry, no matter who it is aimed at, is a serious matter.
Even if the group doing the complaining is a group you dont like.

Judging by your statement, you SEEM to be saying that its ok to be bigoted if its towards someone you disagree with or dislike.

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LOL. Unless you have a couple of degrees in history, you aren't trained in the study of it - like some of us are

So someone must have a degree in something to be a student of it, or to be able to properly study it?

Does the name Jane Goodall ring a bell with you?
She had no formal training or a college education, yet she became the worlds foremost expert on Chimpanzee's.
How could she have done that with no degree?

Again, my point was that most of us would now be far better off financially if we had been compelled by the federal government to have invested in 3% US Savings Bonds instead of in FICA.

My annual Social Security income equals $19,608.

Had I been permitted to invest my net FICA deductions in 3% US Savings Bonds instead of in FICA, my retirement income would be much greater.

The same would be true for anyone receiving an annual gross income of more than $20,000 regardless of their net FICA deductions.