Posted on 08/24/2011 6:23:35 AM PDT by jimluke01
BALTIMORE, MD, August 23, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) Pro-family advocates who attended a controversial pro-pedophilia conference in Baltimore last week say they were profoundly shaken by what they saw and heard.
As a former law enforcement officer Ive dealt with situations involving suicide, homicide and other violence. That said, Ive never felt the level of spiritual oppression and evil that I felt in that room, Liberty Counsel Action Vice President Matt Barber told LifeSiteNews.
These mental health professionals, and self-described pedophile and gay activists were inexplicably able to cavalierly discuss, in an almost dismissive way, the idea of child rape, Barber said. They used flowery, euphemistic psychobabble to give quasi-scientific cover to a discussion about the worst kind of perversion.
The organization B4U-ACT sponsored the event in Baltimore last week, which was attended by pro-pedophile activists and mental health professionals. The conference examined the ways in which minor-attracted persons could be involved in a revision of the American Psychological Association (APA) classification of pedophilia.
Conference panelists included Fred Berlin of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Renee Sorentino of Harvard Medical School, John Sadler of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and John Breslow of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Speakers addressed the around 50 individuals in attendance on themes ranging from the notion that pedophiles are unfairly stigmatized and demonized by society to the idea that children are not inherently unable to consent to sex with an adult. Also discussed were arguments that an adults desire to have sex with children is normative and that the APAs Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) ignores the fact that pedophiles have feelings of love and romance for children in the same way adult heterosexuals and homosexuals have romantic feelings for one another.
In an interview with LifeSiteNews (LSN), Liberty University Visiting Professor of Law Judith Reisman, who attended the conference, said that post the landmark Lawrence v. Texas decision in 2003, paraphrasing Justice Antonin Scalia, everything goes.
I go into detail on this in my last book, Sexual Sabotage, she said. Following Alfred Kinsey sexologists began to occupy our schools, so that educated professionals have largely been trained to be a form of sexual anarchists.
Although the stupidity of advocating harmless amoral sexuality overwhelms us daily, our arrogant educated populations say morality has no place in our sexual lives, Reisman said. Just as AIDS is a natural outgrowth of amoral sexual education and media, so too is child sexual abuse. We are breeding a new human character and child sexual abuse is increasingly part of that character.
I, for one, have had enough, Barber told LifeSiteNews. These sexual anarchists, whatever their perverse stripe, need to leave our children alone and let kids be kids.
They know that to own the future, they must own the minds of our children, he said. Hence, groups like B4U-ACT, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, Planned Parenthood and the like, utilize academia, from pre-school to post-graduate, in order to brainwash and indoctrinate.
As previously reported by LSN, B4U-ACT classifies pedophilia as simply another sexual orientation and decries the stigma attached to pedophilia. B4U-ACT science director Howard Kline has criticized the definition of pedophilia by the American Psychological Association, describing its treatment of minor-attracted persons as inaccurate and misleading.
Similar lobbying, then by homosexual activists, led to the declassification of homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973 in the DSM. As a result of the DSM declassification, debate regarding homosexuality and the many documented harms associated with the homosexual lifestyle has been all but shut down in academic psychological circles.
It would be interesting to find out where this conference was held - an hotel, maybe? I’d sure like to send them a message. The article doesn’t mention it but it does say that only 50 people attended.
This is a perfect time for gay people to stand up against this. I know plenty of gay people who despise pedophilia. I’d like to hear them decry this.
Just makin the ABnormal normal.
These mental health professionals, and self-described pedophile and gay activists were inexplicably able to cavalierly discuss, in an almost dismissive way, the idea of child rape, Barber said. They used flowery, euphemistic psychobabble to give quasi-scientific cover to a discussion about the worst kind of perversion.
I’m sure they did the same thing back when they decided to re-classify homosexuality as normal.
Unfortunately this comes as no surprise. It is merely the next step in the deconstruction of civilization on the path to man’s destruction. Sin will continue to march on as weak minded/spirited persons give to the subtle suggestion that Satan does not exist.
To be sure, pedophelia will become the next token cause (or possibly plural marriage/polygamy) headed up by some group of celebrities, followed by calls for legal sanctions against those who are against it. Then it will become mainstream in the film/T.V. industry and accepted as just another lifestyle.
Who is paying for this abomination?
Conferences don’t just happen.
The descent into hell continues *ping*
Do you mean like "Abby Normal"?
Well, panel members are from some “hefty” colleges/universities. One way or another the government is putting $ into this...
Having been abused as a child, this makes me so angry! And, to think they could so cavalierly say that a child could give consent!
NEWSPEAK
The Left will love it! They love all things Orwellian! ESPECIALLY totalitarianism.
YES!
That a “conference” like this could be held without the doors being nailed shut and the hall burned to the ground bespeaks a rot in our society that goes soul deep.
It also confirms the incremental approach of the homosexual community, a strategy that is vehemently denied by the normalizers of homosexual behavior (including homo “marriage”).
...and they wondering why they’re getting hit with earthquakes and hurricanes in that part of the country.
There is no justification for this except that some overwrought academics have sanctioned among themselves in their twisted dysfunctional minds.
Really this shouldn’t be that shocking. As a society we condone killing our unborn for the most trivial of reasons and see nothing wrong with allowing homos to adopt children. This seems like the next logic perversion. Let’s be clear the gay agenda is about lust, sex and domination. That plays in well w/ the goals the conference is promoting. In the end if they have their way any children caught in their nasty business will become sex slaves w/ no one to help.
Double negatives are not the same as a positive.
This is like saying that a woman you've drugged, then raped, "didn't actually say no."
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