Is a Camera Click the Answer?
I read this article tonight and immediately a couple thoughts came to mind.
The “Camera Phone Predator Alert Act” had been introduced to Congress. Essentially the writers of this law are in hopes that Congress would require all phone cameras to have an audible sound while taking pictures. So as to reduce the risk of “voyeur’ style photos.
From a technical standpoint, I don’t know how this is possible to regulate. Why wouldn’t someone just mute the phone? Would phone manufacturers be required to keep camera tones unaffected from the mute button? I just don’t know how this would happen.
From a political standpoint, this makes me sick. We are now going to waste time, money and resources trying to make this law, and then trying to enforce the law. You’ve got to be kidding me! Don’t get me wrong. I understand why the lawmakers want to do this, I just think they are missing the point.
Which brings me too…
From a spiritual standpoint, I am saddened. I don’t believe the answer is to create another law to try and legislate morality. We continue, as a people, to go after the effects of an issue and we do not tackle the issue itself. How are we as a church reaching out to our communities? Is there an impact going on, that is showing a reduction in crime, divorce, suicide? Can we even hope for this kind of change?
I am optimistic that change can happen. Not because I am capable, but because I know God is capable of changing anyone’s life. Change doesn’t come by adding a sound to sin. Change comes when God challenges sin head on and exposes it Himself. But that only takes place when we, as the church, are willing to get face to face with those struggling and show them the God that has that power. Because He has demonstrated in power in each of us.
So, if we ever have a chance to vote on a law like this. I’ll pass. I’m not interested in masking the sin. I am interested in dealing with it. Face to face.
Today, I look around the blog world and I see lots of thoughts, arguments and pictures.
