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I've now read about Fortuyn's approval of pedophilia in three different places, so it's well confirmed. Yes, it's a condemnable depravity. BUT, just as the charisma of a leader doesn't confer any virtue on the ideas he promotes, the failings of a leader are irrelevant to the merits of those ideas as well. Remember that when the enemies of freedom start to argue that, because Fortuyn condoned pedophilia, therefore everything else he advocated was equally evil. You just know that's coming.

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I've now read about Fortuyn's approval of pedophilia in three different places, so it's well confirmed.

Nonsense. We've all heard more than three people say that Dubya stole the election -- I suppose you also consider that "well confirmed"?

This smells of an escalation of the smears against someone who is no longer able to defend itself.

just as the charisma of a leader doesn't confer any virtue on the ideas he promotes, the failings of a leader are irrelevant to the merits of those ideas as well

I think this is about the only sensible comment on this thread. If this story is true, it is now of interest only to Fortuyn and God, since Fortuyn is no longer involved in activities on this earth. If it could be shown that his fellow party members also promoted this idea, or that there is some necessary connection between this idea and the ideas of his party, that would be of interest, but there is no evidence of this.

The fact that an evil person supported a cause is not evidence of a problem with that cause. Benedict Arnold supported the American Revolution, but I do not think that this is an argument against the righteousness of that Revolution.