Here, here! Maybe it's payback for me spamming Freds Phelps site with emails. They all in the same basket, Fred Phelps, the "Puritans", and self righteous mental vacumn chambers who are probably afraid of their own genitalia..

When the politically correct rule the legal system, as they do today, no one is safe.

Our legal system is a whorehouse, abetted by halfwit social workers who get bonuses for every conviction.

Logic and common sense have been thrown out the window, and feminist victimology is instead used to make decisions.

Pathetic.

This is truly amazing. I could see if this were some moralistic church's website, but not Salon. Someone must have alerted the posse, to bring them out in such force.

What I got from most of the letters is: (1) naked human bodies are are sure sign of moral depravity; (2) human bodies must never be exposed to outside air; (3) adult human males must never be exposed to nude human bodies; (4) adult human males should become hypervigilant and downright sneaky when photographing nude human bodies or the consequences are entirely their fault.

Some of these people are bizarre. I wonder how they ever manage to procreate, if indeed they do.

But terror is our national dogma now; "Pedophiles and terrorists and gays, Oh My!" Innocent until proven guilty, my ass. Eckerds should be sued out of business, that police department should be restocked as well.

This just proves that "common sense" is extremely uncommon

I have never seen a normal family photo album that showed anyone other than babies nude. It also strikes me as deeply inappropriate for a 3 year old girl to be the lone female out in the woods with two adult men and several older boys, all nude, especially in an environment where alcohol is being consumed. Although none of that is illegal, maybe it should be. The L/W had a wakeup call. He should thank his lucky stars the outcome wasn't worse.

I agree 100%. It's interesting that the knee-jerks so passionately defending this guy's one-sided story are trying pass this off as a nude-bashing act of prudery.

What nonsense - the nudity is not being condemned it's the PHOTOGRAPHY OF pediatric aged children running around naked in the woods along with other real eye-raisers (to normal people) such as a family act of everyone standing their naked and pissing out a fire.

Then there's the minor detail of grown men around naked little girls. the matter of alcohol being involved. You'd have to be morally bankrupt or a complete idiot to think this was acceptable.

Thank God someone thought to get the authorities involved. People like this have no business being parents.

The hysteria is typical of "those people" who see evil behind every door, want to run our lives and are bitter, nasty cretins.

Conservatism is a disease of the soul.

You are quite right. The Catholic Church has

always harbored pedophiles. It's unbelievable

that people aren't marching in the streets to

try and close down the Catholic Church - it's

that bad. And we have only heard about a small

number of the abuse and rape cases. Innocent

little boys -- and families at home that wouldn't

believe them even if they had the courage to

reveal what was happening to them, which most

of them don't because the offending priests

have them so terrified.

The best advice I can give anyone about the

Catholic Church is to leave it. I did. But

it hangs over you for the rest of your life.

There are so many levels of bizarre and inhuman

behavior, both within the church itself; and

in the psyches of many of its followers. My

own parents abhor homosexuals. But when their

obviously gay priest is anywhere in sight, they

gush with joy at the sight of him. Really, it's

too sick for words.

And the Pope wears Gucci shoes and has more

jewels than the Queen of England, thanks to

the hard-earned dollars of people who barely

have enough to eat; and are told explicity that

they will burn in hell if they use birth control.

My parents have photos of my sister and me at a young age skinnydipping. But I would never send similar photos of my kids to a photo lab. Why? I watch the Lifetime Channel. I know how easily allegations of abuse can snowball and destroy a family. As exaggerated as those movies are, many are based on real life incidents. Unlike when I was growing up, people are hyper vigilant about spotting signs of child abuse, particularly sexual. Sending nude photos of your youngsters to a lab today is like running with scissors.

I do think it's perverted to take a photo of your child urinating. Why would a healthy adult want such a photo in their treasured album? Would you follow little Johnny into the bathroom at home to lovingly memorialize his bodily functions? I would hope not. If you ask me, the clerk was right to notify the authorities. Just because little boys are intrigued by their penises is no reason for you, the parent, to be.

I do think the author is very lucky. Other families have had their kids removed from the house and traumatized for much less. He should stop feeling so abused and put upon and maybe next time choose a photo of his son doing something other than peeing.

moral of story...use a digital camera. There's absolutely no reason anyone needs to develop film anymore. Put Eckerds photo processing department out of business, please...

what are all the pederast and pedophile Catholic priests up to right now? Bouncing from parish to parish? You want to talk about a systemic and systematic pedophelia machine?

Why isn't that a huge outrage worldwide?

I'm glad pedophelia is on the radar, indeed I am, but it's sickening to me that the Catholic church has been virtually unscathed by this problem--perhaps a few dents have been made in their vast coffers, but their numbers are still strong and their homophobic Pope is still a rock star.

Yes, Jody, digital...but the government will probably find a way to get their mitts on those too.