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In the French National Assembly, deputies of La France Insoumise advanced an amendment to strip life sentences from those who serially rape children under fifteen. They did so while the Lyhanna case and Parisian school scandals still exposed the raw wounds of violated childhood.
The Egalitarian Desecrators framed their proposal as resistance to penal populism, insisting that severity of punishment mattered less than the number of convictions. Their memorandum placed the comfort of the convicted above the terror of the innocent, revealing a hierarchy that elevates the predator and diminishes the child.
This maneuver occurs within the long unraveling of Western Christendom that began with the revolutionary assemblies of 1789, when the old Christian order of household authority and retributive justice was first subordinated to abstract equality. The same spirit now animates the Insoumis, who treat the sexual despoiling of minors as a problem of insufficient rehabilitation rather than a crime that cries out for the ultimate sanction the civil sword can impose.
Scripture and the consensus of the undivided Church have always placed the protection of the vulnerable at the center of righteous rule. The Augustinian distinction between the City of God and the City of Man condemns any polity that inverts this order and shields the strong who prey upon the weak.
The Puritans and the Reformed tradition understood that covenant households stand or fall by the willingness of magistrates to execute justice without partiality. When parliamentarians refuse the maximum penalty for the serial violation of children, they declare themselves the enemies of that order.
The faithful remnant in France and across the West must therefore read this vote as the latest front in the war against the patriarchal household. No appeal to compassion or statistics can mask the act: the Insoumis have chosen to lighten the load of the rapist rather than strengthen the shield around the child.
Christian nations once inscribed the death penalty for such crimes in their law codes because they recognized the offense as an assault not only on the body but on the very architecture of ordered society. The present proposal reverses that inheritance and invites further desecration.
The remnant must therefore refuse every accommodation with these Desecrators. They must rebuild parallel structures of justice, education, and mutual defense that place the household first and treat the violation of children as an offense that demands the full weight of lawful retribution.
