The Rantings of SpikeRants

Amen......sounds like this is coming from a open-minded person. I truly believe that Mr.Hornbuckle WAS NOT fairly judge by a group of peers. Hey can you believe what one of alleged vitims was on the news this evening....why don't she just pray and move forward....when she placed the lettter on the blog she should have known that comments would be flooding. Wait... I am not saying that she is the total blame for this mess. I know that I will get some unhappy readers. But let's be real......I end on that note. Remember Blogers you all agreed to disagree. Sorry I am just being open-minded and not judging.

You mention a jury of his peers, you are aware his lawyer has to ok each juror, aren't you? He can challenge some and they will be excused. Maybe he excused the men thinking women would be charmed by the snake.

FYI, this is not OUR spike.

Bah. Didn't know there was a cut-off point. Shoulda saved it... heh.

Anyhew, to continue...

potential jurors, but I don't know what all went on in the jury selection. Were they running out of jurors and had a majority of women left? I doubt that the Hornbuckle lawyer would be pulling for a female majority on the case. If a hate crime were being tried, I'd fire the lawyer if he was trying to gain a majority of jurors the same race as the victim.

Finally, before anybody says anything about "if your wife were raped or whatever, you'd want justice." We were denied that particular aspect of justice, as the man who raped my wife when she was thirteen never got tried. I wanted him locked up, because I saw what it did to my wife. And if I don't see that in women who charge rape, I have difficulty believing it.

Oh and just something else for you to know. I was molested by two women in the second grade. My stepfather tried to rape me when I was 13. I was date raped in high school.

None of these people were locked up either. I do know what it did to your wife and I am so sorry for her.

Grateful, I think I hurt myself laughing so hard. That was a good one.

Sorry, just had to give her that.

Breastfeeding debate? Somebody will have to give me some highlights on that one. I see no issues with either side, myself.

Justice, first of all, my issue is with the legal system, not with you. Just so you are aware, my strong feelings are due to a small minority I have allowed to clous my thinking on the issue, like the aforementioned Kobe Bryant case. I was in quite a tizzy when I heard that Hornbuckle was having to pay money, as I thought it was going to go to the victims (i.e. a lawsuit for "emotional damages"); however, when I heard it was a court imposed fine, I cooled down and respected everybody on the prosecution a bit more. TRUE victims only want to see justice, not get compensation.

Back to the legal system: we live in a society where all a woman has to do is say her man beat her, and he's in prison overnight. No questions asked. Kinda scary, eh? Where if a minor woman is either raped or has consensual sex with an adult male, he goes to prison for a long time, but if a minor male has sex with an adult woman, consensual or not, he gets laughed at, asked "why are you complaining," and she goes back to work.

The issue of the case that bothered me was the lack of the peer factor in the jury. That the females outnumbered the males three to one.

Are you a feminazi? Dunno. Never met you or read any of your postings. Do I believe you're one because of the situations in your past? No. I think you may, like my wife, have issues against men due to what happened (and, solely in your case [compared to my wife], women as well), and they may come out aggressively a

Understood SpikeRants. Thank you.

It is some what upsetting to hear that alot of hateful, and ungodly comments are being made.
If I could address and respond to every comment I will be here all night, but I want to make comment to those that really stuck out. I am not hear to call anyone names or judge anyone. I am here to understand the whole out come, there's got to be more to the story than what has been told, and what has been written.
Let me start off by saying, it doesn't matter what title or level we are in the church, it does not make us perfect or better than anyone else. We are all the same in God's eyes. This situation needs to be left in God's hands he is always incontroll of every situation. No matter how much you add to it or how much you take out of it, there will be that day that we will all have to face judgment day, and we will all have to account for our sins. We are all imperfect and commit sin on a day to day basis, but the beauty of it is that Christ died on the cross so we could be forgiven, God has given us the opportunity to repent and ask forgiveness, and to try our best to follow the path of our lord.
Have we all forgotten everything Jesus went threw, the pain and suffering, and let me say no where in the bible is it written that he prayed and wished death on anyone. We were called to be examples and walk as our Christ did.

We can not be blinded to the fact that lead upto this. It takes two to make a wrong, and according to this letter written by one of the victims I feel an invitation was made. How did he know where she lived? Why did she let him in not knowing why he

it was not reported right away. Me personally I would not be in the enter net close to midnight concerned about the comments being made or even worry about what other people may think, because I would trust in God and I would be in sooooo much pain that I would not even want to talk about it to people I do not know. You say you don't know if you can trust again, How do you know these people making comments are really on your side and feel your pain? I would say that is some what trust don't you think? Well as must say my prayers are with the families effected by all this, and with the church. May God pull you all together and help you all to love one another and support each other and allow the church to continue to serve and grow in number. May this be left alone and in the hands of our creator. May God bless you all.