SEX CRIMES, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPES: III

The Rev. Dana Prom Smith, S.T.D., Ph.D. (4/07/06)

While predatory homosexual sodomized rape may not be a felony in Yavapai County according to the Yavapai County Attorney, Sheila Polk, one wonders what she would do if female counselors at a summer camp on youth leadership sodomized 18 girls with foreign objects against their will. She would be tarred and feathered and run out of office and the county on a rail if she didn’t file rape charges. She surely would not have dismissed them as hazing and youthful pranks.

What would she do with a heterosexual sodomized rape of an adult on a child? She would cry war and lead the charge. Sadly, in Republican circles it all depends upon whose ox is gored or sodomized. For them the issue is not law and order. It’s privilege. For Sheila Polk to maintain her position she must lie, claiming that sodomy is hazing, apparently unaware that sodomy is a vicious personal form of revenge amongst criminals in prisons. Next she must believe her own lie, calling sodomy “brooming” rather than homosexual sodomized rape. Andre Gide once pointed out that anyone who lies and believes his or her own lie is guilty of bad faith. Sheila Polk, as an administrator of justice, is guilty of bad faith.

Of course, the boys, 11-15, were from Tucson in Pima County. If they had come from Yavapai County, that would’ve been a horse of a different color. She couldn’t have so easily dismissed harm to her own constituents by slapping the wrists of the sociopathic perpetrators.

Eventually, there will be the court of public opinion. Those who’ve had a hand in this corruption of justice might not fare too well politically in the future. The Republican Party, as the party of corruption, is not doing too well right now, especially with Dubya betraying his secret agents in time of war. In Sheila Polk’s case the corruption isn’t venal, as in taking bribes, but mortal, as in the corruption of justice.

Amos, the 8th century Hebrew prophet, dealt with the corruption of justice. In Israel at the time the vulnerable were “turned aside” while the powerful gained favors. His answer was, “Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Unless their righteousness is, as Saint Paul said, “filthy rags,” all people of faith should cry out for justice.