If Someone Calls Themselves “A Christian Lawyer,” Hide the Children
Lisa Biron is a New Hampshire lawyer who has found herself a comfy place in the devil’s workshop. While she was awaiting a hearing on other child pornography charges, the feds removed her from the courtroom and handcuffed her.
A few hours later in U.S. District Court in Concord, Biron, who is associated with a national coalition of Christian lawyers, was formally told of the federal charges against her: transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, possession of child pornography and five counts of sexual exploitation of children.
Now, I’m not saying that all homophobic “Christian” lawyers are child pornographers, but what I am saying is that they seems to have double more than their fair share.
When my wife worked in a children’s shelter it was a given that the more fundamentalist the parents, the more likely there was physical, mental, and/or sexual abuse.
1This proves again that the last refuge of scoundrels is not patriotisim but religion Both patriotisim and religion can be very good things, and for that reason they are used by very bad people to cloak their intent and sometimes to lie to themselves. If someone introduces himself as a “good American” or a “Christian man” don’t reach out to shake his hand but place your hand over your purse or wallet. In doing so you may still find that you are shaking hands.
2Gee Uncle Dave, I had to think a little bit on that last zinger. LOL!
3Please tell us she went to one of those “Christian” law schools.
4Uncle Dave–“In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.”—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, at entry for patriotism, The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce, p. 323 (1946, reprinted 1973). It works for religion too.
5Biron is also a graduate of Pat Robertson’s Regent University, where she holds (or perhaps by now held) a couple of board memberships, and is also a member of the gay-bashing Christian Legal Society and the radical right-wing Federalist Society.
6This is one time that I would refrain from trying to link an offender’s behavior to other factors such as religion or stances on social or political issues. As the following link discusses, the topic of female sex offenders is extremely complex and only sketchily understood.
http://www.csom.org/pubs/female_sex_offenders_brief.pdf
What Lisa Biron allegedly did is reprehensible, but at the same time I have to view her situation with some effort to be compassionate and understanding. She is one very troubled woman.
7I like you Umpty! You’re nice! That lady is sick and broken. I’m glad she won’t be able to hurt any more kids, but I shudder to think what must have happened to her! Nobody is born like that…
8Uncle Dave: “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” [to make sure he wasn’t pocketing some] — R.W. Emerson.
Frederick Douglass said that the harshest slave masters were the most religious, who were sure that their god gave them justification for anything they wanted to do.
9When I see those two intersecting curves as a Christian logo attached to a business they are labeling themselves as crooks.
10Isn’t a “christian lawyer” an oxymoron. Well—Out of trying to respect a person’s religion—I did not say “moron”.
11Okey-d, Several years ago there was a yellow-pages attorney ad with the fish symbol, but the attorney was jewish.
12I would think the atty. would be “Jewish” –which should be capitalized. Just trying for both sides of the street, or he/she was a serious angler.
13When someone’s already hurt people, I kind of don’t care if they’re sick and broken, beyond being willing to help pay for treatment *known to be effective* while they’re in prison. The important thing is to get them away from those they harm. Sick and broken may be a contributing factor, but it’s not an excuse.
14That should fix any ‘Christian lawyer’ leanings you might have.
15Appalling.