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Anonymous:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape

Warning signs
It is very difficult to predict who may or may not be a potential rapist. Considering rapists have many personality types and use many different methods, it might seem impossible. However, certain behavioral characteristics have been observed in some rapists. These should be used cautiously as "warning signs", since non-rapists and other innocent people may also show similar behaviours.

Extreme emotional insensitivity and egotism.
Habitual degradation and verbal devaluation of others.
Tries to tell others what they are feeling and thinking as though it is his decision and not theirs. "She said no, but she meant yes".
Consistently uses intimidation in language or threatening behavior to get his way. Uses words like "bitch" and "whore" to describe women.
Excessive, chronic, or brooding anger.
Becomes obsessed with the object of his romantic affections long after his advances have been rejected.
Extreme mood swings.
Violent outbursts; lack of impulse control.
Aggressive and violent.
Under the influence of alcohol or drugs, cruel behavior is seen.




External links
Pandora's Aquarium - Message board for victims of sexual assault (http://www.pandys.org)
RAINN - The leading resource in rape and incest information (http://www.rainn.org)
Rape Crisis Information Pathfinder - Find journal articles, statistics and online resources on rape and sexual assault (http://members.tripod.com/rape_pathfind ... index.html)
AARDVARC - An Abuse, Rape, and Domestic Violence Aid and Resource Collection (http://www.aardvarc.org/rape/about.shtml)
Sexual Violence Facts from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/svfacts.htm)
Probability statistics compiled by NCPA from US Department of Justice statistics. (http://www.ncpa.org/studies/s229/s229.html)
British Sexual Offences Act 2003 (http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2003/20030042.htm#aofs)
Victim Blame: A Bibliography (http://members.tripod.com/rape_pathfind ... /id36.html)
False Rape Allegations by Dr. Eugene Kanin (http://www.menweb.org/throop/falsereport/kanin.html)
Findlaw article on false rape allegations (http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary ... ilbor.html)
Groliers Online Encyclopedia- entry on rape (http://www.ncwiseowl.org/)
SCCADVASA - "What is Sexual Assault?" (http://www.sccadvasa.org/wissa.htm)
"The Legal Bias Against Rape Victims (The Rape of Mr. Smith)" (http://www.crisiscentersyr.org/mr_smith.html) - excerpt from an April 1975 American Bar Association Journal article
The History of Rape : A Bibliography (http://de.geocities.com/history_guide/horb/index.html)
Male rape survivor information (http://www.alltheseyears.net/male.htm)
Drink spiking - a reality or urban myth? (http://www.abc.net.au/centralvic/stories/s907377.htm)
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape"

Anonymous:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Roloff

Roloff's Legacy
Roloff is cited as a major influence on both the homeschooling and youth boot camp movements. Many of the Christian reform schools that came after have also been accused of using TORTURE and brainwashing techniques.



Roloff's show continues on the air to this day with recordings of his sermons aired in both 15 and 30 minute programs. Roloff was posthumously inducted into the National Religious Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1993. After breaking with the Southern Baptists in 1956 over a speech criticizing denominationalism, Roloff became a King James Only Independent Baptist. His use of the KJV did not prevent Roloff from reading the stories of the Bible in the style of a modern storyteller, ad libing voices and additional dialog for the Biblical characters. Roloff employed a finely honed sense of drama and his fire and brimstone style was punctuated with sudden shifts in modulation.

Roloff Dies
Roloff had always had a fascination with flight. He purchased his first airplane in 1954, and used it to travel between his various homes throughout the country. His sermons were often filled with details of near-disasters in the air. On November 2, 1982, Roloff's plane crashed in a storm outside Normangee, Texas, killing Roloff and four female staff members. The legal battles and allegations of abuse at Roloff homes continue to this day


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External Links
Roloff Evangelistic Enterprises (http://www.roloff.org/)

Detailed Biography of Lester Roloff (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/onl ... froar.html)

Sermons by Roloff (http://www.gotothebible.com/HTML/RoloffLester.html)

Account of DeAnne Dawsey, former resident of the Rebekah Home (http://www.nospank.net/colloff.htm)

2001 Report of abuse at Roloff Homes (http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/texas2.htm)

Anonymous:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenile_delinquent

Juvenile delinquency refers to antisocial or criminal acts performed by juveniles. It is an important social issue because juveniles are capable of committing serious crimes, but society must also recognize that responsibility for juvenile behavior goes beyond the juveniles themselves.



TRULY NOW HOW MANY OF US YOUNG GIRLS WERE ANTISOCIAL OR PERFORMING 'CRIMINAL' ACTS? IT IS SAID OF ROLOFF THAT HE TOOK IN "JUVENILE DELIQUENTS" , SO IT SOUNDS LIKE HE WAS INTO TAKING IN "SERIOUS CRIMINALS WHO WERE TO BE FEARED IN SOCIETY"????

OH COME ON!! MOST OF US WERE ABUSED ADN PARENTS WANTED TO HIDE US AS WE WERE THIER SHAME. MOST OF US WERE KIDS IN NEED OF SOME COUNSELING AND HELP TO COPE WITH THE SHATTERING AFFECTS OF COMING FROM HOMES WHERE WE WERE ABUSED.

Anonymous:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separatism




Religious separatism
Religious groups whose members believe they should not interact with anyone except co-religionists tend to break into plethoras of sects. Religious separatism has become a particular feature of those Protestant churches in which ecclesiatical government and theological authority resides at the local, congregational level. Compare the religious landscape of 15th-century Europe with that of 21st-century North America. And see shunning as a potential tool of separation.

Those who advocate a strict separation of church and state often term themselves "separationists" (with "accommodationists" as the converse).





Separation of Church n State:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation ... _and_state

Separation of church and state
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The separation of church and state is a concept in law whereby the structures of state or national government are kept separate from those of religious institutions. The concept has long been a topic of political debate. The term "church" is associated with Christianity, but the phrase is usually used to refer to religion and religious institutions in general. In countries where other religions are dominant, the words mosque, temple, or synagogue are often substituted.

There are a variety of views regarding the degree of separation that should exist between church and state. Some, often referred to as secularists, assert that state should be kept entirely separate from religion. Others assert that the state ought to be permitted to become involved with religion (such as by giving financial support), but ought not establish one religion as the state religion, require religious observance, or legislate dogma. Others, sometimes known as theocrats, assert that the state should be inseparable from religion, and advocate an established church; this position is otherwise known as antidisestablishmentarianism. A related topic is civil religion.

The separation of church and state is related to freedom of religion, but the two concepts are different and one should not infer hastily that countries with a state church do not necessarily have freedom of religion, nor should one infer that a country without a state church necessarily enjoys freedom of religion. The strongest form of established church, where religious law and authority are used to set state policy, is known as a theocracy.

While there are many states that permit freedom of religious belief, none allow unrestricted freedom of religious practice. Laws against bigamy, sex with children, human sacrifice, or any crime are enforced even if such practices are part of a group's religious beliefs.

Religious arguments for separation
Many religious believers, including Jews, Christians and Muslims, support the separation of church and state in the belief that it protects their religion from the coercive power of government.

The Puritans, early settlers to the United States, emigrated from Britain in order to worship in accord with their conscience, free from the oppressive and coercive power of the state religion. Some then created state churches to their liking in the colonies.

Many Baptists support separation also, and hold the assertion that separation of church and state does not mean separation of God and state.

Thomas Jefferson reflected this same religious basis for belief in the separation of church and state: "Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either . . . ." [6] (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/g ... &page=1#12)

While there are many states that permit freedom of religious belief, none allow unrestricted freedom of religious practice. Laws against bigamy, sex with children, human sacrifice, or any crime are enforced even if such practices are part of a group's religious beliefs.





While there are many states that permit freedom of religious belief, none allow unrestricted freedom of religious practice. Laws against bigamy, sex with children, human sacrifice, or any crime are enforced even if such practices are part of a group's religious beliefs.

I THINK THE DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN BELIEF AND PRACTICE HERE IS A VERY GOOD ONE.

 :exclaim:

Anonymous:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/g ... &page=1#12


the famous 'Virginia Bill for Religious Liberty' originally written by Thomas Jefferson. 13 The preamble to that Bill stated among other things that

'Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are [330 U.S. 1, 13]   a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either . . .; that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor, whose morals he would make his pattern ...'
And the statute itself enacted

'That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief. . . .'14




The 'establishment of religion' clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will or force him to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion. No person can be punished for entertain- [330 U.S. 1, 16]   ing or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance. No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever from they may adopt to teach or practice religion. Neither a state nor the Federal Government can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups and vice versa. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect 'a wall of separation between Church and State.' Reynolds v. United States, supra, 98 U.S. at page 164.


the purpose of the First Amendment. That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and non-believers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions, than it is to favor them.



Could we sustain an Act that said police shall protect pupils on the way to or from public schools and Catholic schools but not [330 U.S. 1, 26]   while going to and coming from other schools, and firemen shall extinguish a blaze in public or Catholic school buildings but shall not put out a blaze in Protestant Church schools or private schools operated for profit? That is the true analogy to the case we have before us and I should think it pretty plain that such a scheme would not be valid.

[ COULD POLICE/FIREMAN BE REQUIRED TO PUT OUT A FIRE IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL AND RESCUE KIDS FROM A PUBLIC SCHOOL, YET, ROLOFF WOULD DENY THEM THIS KIND OF RESCUE, BY INSISTING HE REPORTED THE STABBING OF A YOUNG GIRL TO GOD AND DID NOT NEED IT TO BE BOTHERED BY POLICE ?]



'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. ....' U.S.Const.Am. Art. I.
'Well aware that Almighty God hath created the mind free; ... that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical; ...
'We, the General Assembly, do enact, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief. ...'1 [330 U.S. 1, 29]   I cannot believe that the great author of those words, or the men who made them law, could have joined in this decision. Neither so high nor so impregnable today as yesterday is the wall raised between church and state by Virginia's great statute of religious freedom and the First Amendment, now made applicable to all the states by the Fourteenth. 2 New Jersey's statute sustained is the first, if indeed it is not the second breach to be made by this Court's action. That a third, and a fourth, and still others will be attempted, we may be sure. For just as Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of Education, 281 U.S. 370 , 50 S.Ct. 335, has opened the way by oblique ruling3 for this decision, so will the two make wider the breach for a third. Thus with time the most solid freedom steadily gives way before continuing corrosive decision.

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