Contempt or Compassion for Sexual Deviants?

Hardly a day goes by when we don’t see headlines about another public figure’s fall from grace. So many, it appears, are prone to the moral and ethical lapses underlying everything from political corruption to extramarital affairs to just plain lying to protect one’s reputation.

Most of the time such failings are dismissed as little more than background noise on an otherwise crowded news feed. But when it comes to something as reprehensible as sexual deviance, the public discourse tends to escalate and intensify, as witnessed by the continued chatter on social media regarding Subway restaurant’s former spokesman:

@YOUniversa1So1e: Usually when something/someone seems too good to be true they usually are....

@ChadLowe: There should be no plea deals… Lock him up, throw away the key.

As justified as these outbursts may seem, the hope is that somewhere beyond such ultimately unhelpful reactions there lies a purer, more enlightened desire in us to actually do something about this sort of behavior. Assuming this is the case, there’s no better time than the present to shift the focus of the conversation from retribution to reformation, even to a deeper consideration of what role we all have to play in achieving real and lasting change.

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Eric Nelson writes each week on the link between consciousness and health from his perspective as a practitioner of Christian Science. He also serves as the media and legislative spokesperson for Christian Science in Northern California. Follow him on Twitter @norcalcs.