Mark Green....

Hmm. I just got an email from the "Green Team"- Mark Green's political committee.... I DID ask for the emails... but something in this one bugged me a little bit... Read it and see if you can figure out what....

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Child Sex Predators Will Be An Endangered Species Under Governor Green

This past Saturday, Mark was able to spend some time with the good folks of Franklin at a "Meet Mark" event. The residents there have been through quite an ordeal recently. For years now, they have been trying to stop Jim Doyle's administration from placing a halfway house for sex predators in their community. More recently, they found that for a year and a half, one of Wisconsin's most notorious child sex predators – Billy Lee Morford – was making regular visits to their community – TO THE VERY HOUSE HE TRIED TO SOLICIT A SEX ACT FROM A BOY AT!!

The regular readers of the Green Sheet, know how passionate Mark is about protecting our kids from these monsters. Here is a little of what Mark had to say on Saturday about how he'd deal with child sex predators as Governor:

Let me start with a few principles I have.

Government's most important function is to protect public safety – and especially our kids. Making appropriate investments to prevent crime should always be at the top of our priority list.

I don't believe anyone who is a repeat child sex offender will ever be cured or will ever become a good person. As you'll hear, I think there's only one appropriate place for child sex molesters – that's prison.

As your governor, I'll do all I can to keep these predators in prison. But, because our laws haven't always been as strong as they are now, if a violent sex offender like Billy Lee Morford is ever released from prison I'll tell you one place they'll never be placed – that's in a residential neighborhood, like here in Franklin! Not on my watch.

I'll also tell you this. That I will instruct my Department of Health and Human Services to not allow any visitations like the one we saw with Morford here in Franklin. That anyone thought it was okay to let this monster go to the same house where he was accused of soliciting a boy is not only an act of sheer incompetence, it is inexcusable. Again, not on my watch.

I want GPS tracking of sex offenders.

I want longer minimum sentences for child sex offenders and child pornographers.

Elect me governor and we'll make the laws we have stronger – and I'll work hand and hand with you to keep evil peoplelike Morford out of Franklin and away from our kids.
You can read the press release Mark issued here.

Mark has been recognized as a national leader on keeping our kids safe from child sex predators. He authored the "Two Strikes, You're Out" law for child sex predators at the state and federal levels, helped implement a nationwide AMBER alert system and most recently coauthored the "Children's Safety Act," regarded as one of the most sweeping child protection bills of the last 20 years.

Included in this bill is a provision called "Amie's Law" that would add juvenile sex predators to state offender lists. This provision was inspired by the tragic story of Wisconsin's Amie Zyla. Nine-year-old Amie was sexually assaulted by a 14-year-old boy, who went on to assault several other children after serving time as a juvenile.

Governor Green will keep our kids safe from these horrible monsters. On his watch, you can count on that.
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Ok.. Did you guess it, yet? While I support Mark Green in his run for Governor, (I would support almost anyone to get rid of the Doyle scum that's filling the Governor's office right now,) I have to say that I am disappointed at the dehumanization here; sex offenders ARE GUILTY of very vile nasty things... but they are also human beings that Jesus died for, and wants to restore to Himself.... and it is all too easy to get carried away with labelling them with non-human names, rather than to realize: They are sinners. They are people with fallen sinful natures, who succumbed to their temptations. However, God is good enough and powerful enough to save and forgive ANYONE- even a sex predator... So the statement that they can never change or become better people, is a blow to free will and Salvation- it's a mentality that seems to be connected to the faulty psychological nonsense about doing bad things being a disease.

Every sinful act is a choice. And at any time, can you choose NOT to continue down the path you are on, and to accept God's help in turning around, and going the right direction. Like walking off the path in the wilderness... the farther you get from the path, the harder it will be to find your way back- but you choose to take every step... and you can always STOP progressing away from the path, and turn around. You can get out your Compass and navigate back to the Path. If you realize you've lost the path, and don't know where you are, and accept that you need help, and GET out the compass... you can follow the Compass back... if you refuse to acknowledge that you've gone astray, you will stay lost forever, or until you succumb to the wilderness.

So... basically, this is what bothered me. Calling any person a monster or "evil" is kind of silly, because, while their sins are vile, so are ours- even though we don't molest children... we are still no more worthy of Heaven.