Posted on 08/26/2011 3:31:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
Many Americans have been shocked by reports about a recent pro-pedophilia conference in Baltimore in which psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, representing institutions like Harvard and Johns Hopkins, sought to present pedophilia in a sympathetic and even positive light. But why should this surprise us?
Academic articles in scholarly journals have been presenting pedophilia in a sympathetic light for years, and, as Matthew Cullinan Hoffman noted, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released a report in 1998 “claiming that the ‘negative potential’ of adult sex with children was ‘overstated’ and that ‘the vast majority of both men and women reported no negative sexual effects from their child sexual abuse experiences.’ It even claimed that large numbers of the victims reported that their experiences were ‘positive,’ and suggested that the phrase ‘child sex abuse’ be replaced with ‘adult-child sex.’” Others have coined the more disgusting term “intergenerational intimacy.”
The APA’s report was so disturbing that it drew an official rebuke from Congress, yet the pro-pedophile (or, pro-pederast) push continues. In fact, some psychiatric leaders, like Dr. Richard Green, who were instrumental in removing homosexuality from the APA’s list of mental disorders in 1973, have been fighting to remove pedophilia as well.
Consider, for example, this statement from the late John Hopkins professor John Money: “Pedophilia and ephebophilia [referring to sexual attraction felt by an adult toward an adolescent] are no more a matter of voluntary choice than are left-handedness or color blindness. There is no known method of treatment by which they may be effectively and permanently altered, suppressed, or replaced. Punishment is useless. There is no satisfactory hypothesis, evolutionary or otherwise, as to why they exist in nature’s overall scheme of things. One must simply accept the fact that they do exist, and then, with optimum enlightenment, formulate a policy of what to do about it.”
Now, go back and reread that paragraph, substituting the word “homosexuality” for “pedophilia” and “ephebophilia.” How interesting!
To help flesh this out, let’s picture a homosexual man making his case to a heterosexual man:
1) My homosexuality is not a sexual preference but a sexual orientation, just as much as your heterosexuality is not a sexual preference but a sexual orientation.
2) My homosexuality is just as normal as your heterosexuality.
3) Since my behavior is genetically determined and is not a choice, it is intolerant and hateful to suggest that it is wrong. And to call my sexual behavior illegal or immoral, or to refuse to legitimize same-sex relationships, is to be a moral bigot of the highest order.
4) I deeply resent your attempts to identify areas of my upbringing and environment as alleged causes for my homosexuality.
5) I categorically reject the myth that someone can change his or her sexual orientation. Rather, such statements only add to the anguish and suffering of gays and lesbians, and attempts to change us often lead to catastrophic consequences, including depression and suicide.
Now, let’s turn this around and have a pederast making his case to a homosexual, substituting the words accordingly (thus, “My pederasty is not a sexual preference but a sexual orientation, just as much as your homosexuality is not a sexual preference but a sexual orientation.”)
In point of fact, all the principle arguments commonly used to normalize homosexuality have been used to normalize pedophilia and pederasty, as I documented in painstaking (and painful) detail in A Queer Thing Happened to America, where I also made clear that I was not equating homosexuality with pedophilia but was instead comparing the arguments used to normalize both.
Here are the eight principle arguments, all of which (in modified form) are commonly used in support of homosexuality:
1) Pedophilia is innate and immutable.
2) Pederasty is richly attested in many different cultures throughout history.
3) The claim that adult-child sexual relationships cause harm is greatly overstated and often completely inaccurate.
4) Consensual adult-child sex can actually be beneficial to the child.
5) Pederasty should not be classified as a mental disorder, since it does not cause distress to the pederast to have these desires and since the pederast can function as a normal, contributing member of society.
6) Many of the illustrious homosexuals of the past were actually pedophiles.
7) People are against intergenerational intimacy because of antiquated social standards and puritanical sexual phobias.
8) This is all about love and equality and liberation.
But none of these arguments should surprise us. After all, the age of increasing sexual anarchy in which we live is a fruit of the sexual revolution of the 1960’s, and the seeds of sexual anarchy were sown already by Alfred Kinsey in the late 1940’s, as Prof. Judith Reisman has tirelessly documented. And it was Kinsey, after all, who relied on the research of pedophiles to document the sexual responses of infants and children.
All this, to be sure, is utterly unspeakable. But it should certainly come as no surprise. In fact, we should expect this and more.
As Rep. Lewis said: “they coming for the children”
He just had the “they” wrong. They be his own party.
I’m not surprised. This is not your grandfather’s Democrat party.
Terribly sad. Our whole nation owes an apology to Anita Bryant.
I can’t wait until they happen!
“....in their wisdom, they became as fools.”
Pedophilia is the caboose on the gay agenda train. Not really even that hard to predict.
I’m not shocked. Any country that would bend over backwards to give faggots, ragheads and messycan crimigrants a big sloppy kiss is capable of anything.
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The Communist Takeover Of
America - 45 Declared Goals
http://www.rense.com/general32/americ.htm
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
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A standard leftist debating tactic is to use a word or phrase to mean one thing, assert things that are true of that meaning, redefine the word, and then assert that those same things are applicable to the new definition. For example, the term “gay” might be used to refer to a man who feels a stronger sexual attraction toward another man than to a woman. Leftists might then reasonably argue that it’s not right to discriminate against people on the basis of feelings which they are biologically predisposed to have. Indeed, they would be correct in that. After having made such an assertion, however, leftists would then redefine “gay” to refer to people who engage in open sodomy on park benches, and use the fact that it’s not proper to discriminate against “gay” people (by the former definition) it’s not proper to discriminate against “gay” people (by the latter).
Forced acceptance of pedophiles in the military will be the next step.
Legally, a minor child cannot consent to sexual intercourse, either with an adult or another minor (regardless of gender). That's why sex with a minor is considered RAPE and will get you put in prison.
Is that the next step in the Pederast's campaign - to lower the age of consent so that anyone out of diapers can legally have sex? Maybe Whoopie will come up with a hairsplitting legal way to differentiate between "RAPE" and "RAPE RAPE"?
So if minors have the maturity to have sex, then how come they can't drive? Or drink alcohol? Or vote?
Prepare yourself for the “discovery” of a “pedophile gene”
and a chorus of pervs chanting that they were “born that way.”
We had to figure this and other things like this would be coming. Once the barn door was opened......
People will be allowed to marry and have sex with ashtrays in public before long, but it will be a crime to use them for their original intent.
While Rome burns......
(Sigh) A revelation that I STILL don’t have enough ammunition.
That’s not the end of the moral road.
We still have room for human sacrifice.
the right to death, to destruction of good growth and words, the right to euthanasia, abortion, homosexuality... and now wanting to commit suicide is not going to be considered a mental disease... watch em.
the right to death, to destruction of good growth and words, the right to euthanasia, abortion, homosexuality... and now wanting to commit suicide is not going to be considered a mental disease... watch em.
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And it is so convenient to demoralize and destroy a country economicaly, and then make suicide not a mentaly treatable disease... Liberals want us to feel a pain, like the devil, so we can worship the power of the pain inflictor, when we can feel much more pain voluntarily for loved ones... so, whatever.
Indeed, just like sex with a cop in uniform, so to speak, is not consensual because of the obvious power and intimidation coming with the jacket. This is an extention of government giving itself the right to rape people, calling it consensual, when there obviously no force, maturity or experience equality, but only exploitation in the end.
“I am a woman and not a little girl asking for dad for money”, is the common “liberation” mantra now brought to minors who are handled by pimps.
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