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."
“Speakers addressed themes ranging from the notion that pedophiles are unfairly stigmatized and demonized by society.”
Sick bastards.I am sure NAMBLA was there.
And Hollywood cheered.
I bet George Soros help pay for this !
> Who is paying for this abomination?
> Conferences dont just happen.
a huge stain on the City of Baltimore to even be hosting such a thing
Who would even admit to such a thing?
How can there even be such a group?
How can they get away with meeting anywhere other than in
a crack house basement?
What's next, renting a ballroom at the Sheraton for your human sacrifice event? or Having meetings and classes on how to properly behead infidels? (If you have seen any of the beheading videos, you understand how these training sessions are desperately needed).
Homosexuality has been normalized.
What is to stop the pedos? A “moral” line in the sand?
Too late for that.
They have been setting this up for years with all of the sexual imagery they’ve been shoving at kids.
Does anybody STILL believe that abortion and sexual “liberation” were not the top of a very steep and slippery slope?
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
Get a whole generation of kids hooked on sex and “sex talk” and they grow up with the idea that sex is completely ok at any age with anyone.
Their kids are now left completely defenseless. The gay agenda was just the first wave. Now the pedos will take their shot.
“I know plenty of gay people who despise pedophilia. Id like to hear them decry this.”
What they say has nothing to do with what they believe and seek. For years the “gay people” welcomed Nambla to march in their pride parades. This was common practice until the normal public openly objected to this deviance shoving it back in the closet. Molesting young boys is an obsession with male homosexuals and has been since ancient Rome.
hmmmmm...perverts & deviants condemning perversion & deviancy. Interesting...
Hmmmmm The case of the missing tag line.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2768070/posts?page=34#34
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This is the next “Liberation” movement. Get ready. Because of the imminent triumph of same-sex marriage these monsters are emboldened, and because of the 14th Amendment they will eventually triumph as well. All it takes is one state to len in their favor and all the dominoes will fall their way.
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Proof that either we have to take action to reverse the leap into the steaming abyss, or we have only ourselves to blame. These people are pure, unadulterated evil, and by saying and doing nothing, we partake of that evil. To say nothing is to speak, to do nothing is to act. These evil disgusting sick perverts are in our schools, our universities, board rooms, foundations, and every level of government. Just yesterday I pinged an article about how the Department of "Health and Human Services" is giving advice about how children and babies are sexual beings. Hand in hand with this disgusting perversion.
DSM = “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders.”
List of Symposium “Presentations”:
1. Understanding Pedophilia and Other Paraphilias from a Psychiatric Perspective
2. Decriminalizing Mental Disorder Concepts Pedophilia as an Example
3. Is Anybody Out There?: Testimony of Minor-Attracted Persons and Hearing versus Listening to their Voices
4. Identifying the Psychobiological Correlates of Pedophilic Desire and Behavior: How Can We Generalize Our Knowledge Beyond Forensic Samples?
5. The Forensic Implications of the DSM-Vs Pedohebephilia
6. Can the Medicalization of Sexual Deviance ever be Therapeutic?
7. Sexual Alignment: Critiquing Sexual Orientation, The Pedophile, and the DSM V
8. The DSM and the Stigmatization of People who Are Attracted to Minors
Oops - one minute apart. Good you did it because I forgot to add the H.A. list.
"an adults desire to have sex with children is 'normative'"Normative" (I had to look it up): creating standards. It appears that these people are attempting to do exactly that.
"pedophiles 'have feelings of love and romance for children' in the same way adult heterosexuals and homosexuals have romantic feelings for one another.Perhaps so. Perhaps not. However in either case this is beside the points that pedophilia is harmful to children and that pedophilia and homosexuality are diseases.
Both homosexuality and pedophilia are abnormal and pathological. Each is a disease caused by a lesion in the reproductive system.
A proclamation to the contrary--as by some organization such as the American Psychological Association--will not alter this.
Homosexuality and pedophilia are not the same.
As long as homosexuality involves only consenting adults in private, it is compensated and warrents no outside interference.
Pedophilia, on the other hand, involves an assault on children--who cannot give informed consent--and is likely to injure the reproductive system of the child in the manner of any other communicable disease. Therefore children must be protected from pedophiles.
The fact that many people can and sometimes do engage in homosexual activity does not change the fact that homsexuality is a disease any more than the fact that many people can and sometimes do drink alcohol changes the fact that alcoholism is a disease or that many people can be and sometimes are exposed to communicable diseases (e.g. tuberculosis) without becoming infected (i.e. without developing a lesion) changes the fact that tuberculosis is a disease.
God have mercy on me. The days of the US are drawing to a close.
Many libertarians have the same view on other things, and quite a few that I have met have a hard time saying pedophilia is wrong (morals and such).
The fall of great civilizations is preceded my moral debauchery of all forms.
Examine the fall of the Roman Empire. The liberal ruling class really developed a taste for young prepubescent boys.
Today the descendants of these same boys piss on the stones of a fallen empire.
History has a way of repeating itself.
Their kids are now left completely defenseless. The gay agenda was just the first wave. Now the pedos will take their shot.
Yes, but a major line would be crossed - one that's going to make a lot of people mightily uncomfortable, to put it mildly. I don't see how the pro-pedos can do it unless there's an outpouring of salesmanship pushing the notion that pedophiles have been victimized by society.
I remember, back in the good old days, when conservatives worried that sex ed would lead to teenagers and pubescents recklessly making it with each other! Those days seem innocent now.
They understand just fine. They just do not care.
in their minds it is far worse to be a traditional heterosexual in a stable marriage with a family.
Man.........You GOT THAT RIGHT! I don’t remember the exact quote but my recollection is that Jesus got a special bad punishment for people that mess with kids!
I am becoming convinced that the destroyers of our culture are watching conservative sites to get ideas about what to destroy next. They look for what bugs us the most and promote it. Call me paranoid. I don’t even care.
“To be sure, pedophelia will become the next token cause ... headed up by some group of celebrities,”
Let them try it. It will be a bridge to far for even today’s America. Someone could have gone to that pedophile conference with an “assault weapon” and mowed them all down, and I think the state would be hard pressed to find a jury to convict them.
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