He said it on Capitol Hill, and the clip is moving across every platform tonight. Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee, the Republican congressman representing the Knoxville area in the U.S. House, said this week that anyone found guilty of sexual crimes against children should be publicly hanged. The remark came during comments to reporters on Capitol Hill and has spread rapidly across social media in recent days. Burchett has followed up his initial comment with similar messaging on his own social channels, framing the issue in stark terms and saying that when it comes to leadership and child exploitation, you are either part of the solution or you are complicit. The statement comes at a moment when child protection is dominating headlines across the country. Just today, federal and California authorities announced the results of Operation Firewall, a multi-county sting that resulted in 341 arrests and the rescue of 40 children across Southern California. Last week, Riverside County concluded a yearlong operation that identified more than 500 suspected distributors of child sexual abuse material. The numbers are not abstract. They are children, in real cities, who were waiting to be found. “Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” Matthew 18:6. Scripture does not soften its language when it comes to those who harm children, and neither do most parents when the lights go out and they think about what could happen to their own. The debate over how a just society should respond to the worst crimes against the most defenseless among us is as old as civilization itself, and it is a debate worth having out loud. What do you think the proper response should be when someone is convicted of these kinds of crimes against a child? Defend the defenseless. #justice #accountability #america
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