Katherine Lester Speaks on GMA
The Lesters went on Good Morning America and told Katherine’s story about running away from her parents to go to Jordan to meet a Palestinian man that she fell in love with on MySpace.
The divorced parents of Katherine are letting her continue to chat with Abdullah Psycho on MySpace. When asked if Katherine was still planning to convert to Islam, she stammered, “Uh… I’d rather not answer that question.”
Well, the parents are stupid for letting her continue to chat. Katherine is stupid if she thinks she can go to Jericho where the only thing that grows is dirt. And as Trench is fond of pointing out, ” How many of us that are in our 30’s can look back and say we were honestly in love at 17? I can’t. How about you?”
Maybe the counselling will work. What the Lesters really need to do is get that girl out of the house. Let her meet boys in real life in her hometown, and she will be just fine. She says that she plans on Abdullah coming to America instead of her going over to Palestine. That might take a while, unless she plans on marrying him abroad and bringing him in as her spouse?
Click the photo to see the video of Katherine Lester on GMA. Its about 9 minutes long.
She can definitely do better than a dirt-farming Muslim deliverman.
Unfortunatly for those of us who have a slight bitter taste in the mouth for sappy stories like this, the point of counselling in the Lester family case is not to enforce a particular political viewpoint, but to educate both Katherine and her family on the importance of decision making. As the parents and media strongly suggest that she has never given any reason to worry or suspect anything rempotely foul, there was nothing the Lester family had done to bring this upon their family besides for being behind in understanding the use of technological ways of communicating. It’s not only in teens, virtually anyone who doesn’t refuse to hold or doesn’t stay in check with online communicating has an account.
Counselling in which opposes anything lawful in the Constitution, especially i it is Government imposed, woul be unconstitutional, wouldn’t you think? It would be irrational for a government ordered program to support anything other than what is in Katherine’s direct case and her situation. There is absolutely nothing wrong in wanting to relocate to adhere to the spouse’s upbringing or country’s laws. I do agree with most, however, that doing so in this situation is a big risk especially because of the freedoms we have now living in America would be lost. I highly doubt that the purpose of counselling for Katherine would be to try to convince her to stay in America, when she herself and Abdullah have both stated that Katherine would rather life for them both to be lived in America.
The idea of running off to meet a distant lover in his or her own habitat are exciting enough to a 17 year old girl, but most definetly not a smart idea without careful planning. Falling in love at an age where most of society says is a silly age to be considering anything important by themselves is not silly at all. Marriage and love are two completely different things, two completely different commitments, but only one is considered in law. For now, Katherine’s parents are allowing her to do one of those things under supervision, which I think, is a very smart idea. It would be a bad idea to retaliate by such ignorance they have placed in computers beforehand. What you would have then would be a bitter, selfish, rebellous teenager who’s decision making skills will be prone to making worse because of an easy cop-out to eliminate the problem. Again, Katherine’s parents problem is in leaving the countr without tellin anyone where you are, and in marrying at the age of consent with parental permission without their permission. It is under no ones jurisdiction to declare someone’s love for another as underdeveloped.
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You make some really good points, especially about the need to enhance the communication between the parents. I may disagree with you however, about the constitutionality of government imposed counselling in as far that educating on differences of religions and cultures may be a violation of constitutional pricipals… After all, judges are very prone to sentencing people to AA and other religious based counselling services.
One thing for sure is that the feelings and emotions are running very hot right now, and it doesnt seem that there is going to be a cooling off period anytime soon.