I have talked about this before because we have this in Louisiana. I have explained this is really not "castration" as commonly understood.
However this paper linked at Mirrors of Justice raises some troubling issues about the possible long term effects I was not aware of.
I know "Sex Offenders" are not a popular class of people but still this is sort of troubling. So perhaps the Catholic Blogsphere can get off the 24/7 debate on Waterboarding for a sec and look at this.
See Sex offenders, public safety, and human dignity
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Catholic Social Justice and Chemical Castration of Sex Offenders
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Having now read the paper on the subject, I would say that chemical castration is not the civilised, Christian way forward on this. I do not know enough to comment on other methods of castration, like the actual physical form, but some form of castration would be a good way forward in my own opinion. Surely it would pose a relief for offenders also? I am talking about the more extreme cases.
It's a difficult subject, but the safety of innocent people has to come first surely?
I have never had a problem so much with the chemical castration because it was not actually castration which I would be nervous the GOVT doing or getting into the habit of doing.
I was just not aware of the possible long term effects of this till now
This may be a humane solution to the problem. If the church is serious about celibacy should have all priests chemically castrated.
No priest will ever again be able to rape a child.
It’s not without precedent. There was a time when the Church was cutting the testicles off small children in order to preserve their voices for the Vatican choirs. If priests could castrate little children, why not castrate themselves?
Matthew 19:12 and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.
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