America runs on feel-good platitudes, forced smiles and gimmicks. No wonder the registry is “popular.” It’s an overwrought scam that gives psychological comfort to those that are easily duped and suckered-in .

It is a shame that many in church are hypocrites, but Jesus did warn people the way to life was narrow and that few would find it.

I wrote the pastor an email strongly encouraging him to look at the issue from another point of view, however I never received a response.

Ed C

Back when I still had some money, I looked at buying up a block of homes and renting to people on the registry. I stupidly mentioned it to someone I though I trusted and word got out. Next thing I knew an attorney was calling me threatening to go to the news about it.

Well I bowed to the pressure, not wanting that exposure on me and my family and nixed the idea. The old “Not in my backyard” mentality keeps coming back to bite us. I mean that is why I was going to buy everyone out so I could control the narrative.
C’est la vie

Alan

That is one of the reasons I stopped going to church. I did not walk away from my faith, I walked away from the hypocrites. Am I judging? No because I am not perfect. But the same people who hug me in church, if they knew I was on the registry, would ask me to be removed from the church.

Going to church does not determine if you go to Heaven or not. And yes, generally speaking being around other Christians builds you up, strengthens your faith, and gives you encouragement. But the verses about taking in the homless, the downcast etc. is just words in a book to some.

I am far from perfect. I did not get saved in prison, I got saved when I was 11 and never stopped believing. Did I mess up my life? I did. Should I pay for it forever? Well it looks like most of us will with lifetime registration. (Which by the way did not even exist when I was charged)

According to the Oxford dictionary he word inalienable means, “unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor.” Apparently for SOs, the word is just a scribble on a 200-year-old document.

Veritas.

Regardless, I’ll give him a little credit for exercising his right to move rather than try to block registrants from moving there.

Organized religion has strayed so far, I am amazed they still use a bible. Here are a few versus for the preacher.

Ephesians 4:32 – “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”

Matthew 6:14 – “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.”

Luke 6:37 – “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”

Matthew 6:15 – “But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.”

ROMANS 3:23 – “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”

Mark

Or maybe use the term “Ex offender”?

We have been so programed to be called sex offender (one who is actively offending) that we ourselves use it ourselves.

Ex-offender, ex-felon

Or better yet, “Hi, I am Jack, nice to meet you” as opposed to “Hi, I am Jack, I am required to tell you I committed a sex offense 30 years ago, want to hang out sometime?”