[Travis McGee]

Link to the full-text Free Republic thread.

[Dilbert San Diego]

so now we want to normalize pedophilia.

I disagree with the entire premise of this stuff.

They are saying that people have certain “urges” or “orientations” or “desires”. We may all feel things which we don’t act on.

A good example would be men’s desires towards women. A man may have desire towards women other than his wife, but, a moral man who respects his wife and others, will not act on this. Even Jimmy Carter once addressed this issue, saying he committed adultery in his heart. But not in reality.

But bear with me. We all may feel desires of various types, but, and this is a big but, it doesn’t mean we should act on those desires, or have some constitutional right to do so.

In this case, the impacts of child molestation, rape, etc. and the fact that these are not cases of consenting adults doing things, should override all attempts to normalize/legalize pedophilia. Just my opinion. I’m sure NAMBLA types take strong issue with that.

[Linda Frances]

Father place your angels throughout this world to protect all children. Hope those who are being harmed today. Jesus come soon and take us out of this evil perverted world. Amen.

[Linda Frances]

Correction.

Father place your angels throughout this world to protect all children. Help those who are being harmed today. Jesus come soon and take us out of this evil perverted world. Amen.

[demshateGod]

Who are the people who’ll support the movement in the future. The emancipation of children is what they’ll call it. Today, a kid’s right to choose their gender is protected. They’re right to assisted suicide is protected in Belgium. It’s only a matter of time before their right to choose who they have sex with will be heralded. Who will oppose it? The people saying “I have nothing against gays, I just don’t want to you in my face about it” oppose pedophilia? Will the people who want to legalize gambling, prostitution, heroine, meth, “gay marriage”, etc take a stand on emancipating children? They probably will, for a while.

[2banana]

No wonder the liberals love muslims - both groups like to bugger children..

[Pollster1]

Billy Joel mentioned this 25 years ago - perversion has an extensive history within the inbred ranks of Britain's ruling class.

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician Sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

[tophat9000]

From the people that brought you gay marriage....

So how soon will progressive twist libertarian in to buying in the this.

With abortion they just had to twist a human being was not a human being till we want it to be a human being.

With gay marring they just had to twist that if you do not provide it your denied it .. (Same as the lefts hobby lobby logic)

So if you can just put the age of consent down..first to the same age as you can get an abortion... then down to that point we say a human being is a human being..

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Ideas rule the world, not politicians or generals.

Cultural change begins with an intellectual hatching an idea. The idea is picked up by academia. The idea is then passed on to the students and disseminatd through the media, and eventually becomes conventional wisdom about 40 years later.

Consider that the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a disorder in 1973. 40 yyears later homosexual marriage is commonplace —something unimaginable 40 years earlier.

The same thing can happen with pedophilia. The fact that it has entered the colleges is alarming.

[Prolixus]

You’ve got to wonder, is having “skeletons in one’s closet” a pre-requisite to getting elected to political office?

It does make sense, though, that big money campaign donors (and other types of campaign support such as media and “grass roots”) would want to have some guaranteed way of getting their puppets to do their bidding. The threat of being exposed can be a very powerful influence.

[353FMG]

“....as many as 20 prominent politicians, judges and other members of the British establishment are suspected of having abused children....”

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With all that power these people have, why do they want sex with children when they can get plenty of it with all those many British foxes?

Something sick there.

[just me]

If America ever legalizes pedophilia, we will find out what is worse then a millstone tied around our neck and cast to the bottom of the sea..

[Count of Monte Fisto]

What do you expect from the sodomite EU? You have to be suspicious of everything the EUSSR supports.

Pictured: The face of the EU

[unlearner]

The subtle lie of “consenting adults” becoming the standard of sexual morality in our society began in the late 1800’s with the feminist movement. Christian clergymen went along because setting the age of consent to 18 would supposedly curb the sexual abuse of teenage girls who were living and working away from home in factories, etc.

Once “consenting adults” replaced monogamous, heterosexual marriage as the basis for sexual morality, all hell broke loose. It just took more than a century for those seeds sown to become the harvest of perversion that they became.

Before consenting adults was made the standard, generally getting married meant a young man, capable of supporting a family, had to earn the approval of the girl’s parents before having a shot at winning her heart. It meant work, time and effort as opposed to instant gratification.

[afsnco]

Not surprising at all. It’s the slippery slope. Homosexuals want to molest children as young as possible. That’s how they recruit new homosexuals.

Once the moral underpinning is removed, child molesting, incest, bestiality, and all other forms of depravity will be embraced.

Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

[Sherman Logan]

One can correctly say pedophilia was not invented in Western countries in our times. But what differentiates the current climate concerning this once very taboo practice from earlier decades is the equally reprehensible movement underway in the West involving some academics, among others, to minimize its devastating effects on children, garner sympathy for the perpetrators and make the practice acceptable to the public. All of which is allowing pedophilia to creep into the cultural debate.

Some historical perspective might be useful.

The notion that pedophilia is a uniquely awful crime is a quite recent one, though one I should point out I agree with 100%.

Till the later 19th century, the legal age of consent in UK and in American states was generally set at 10 or 12. In one state, DE, it was 7!

Sex with children, while not openly engaged in, was in our society not paid much attention to. Possibly that is because it was extremely rare. Or possibly it's because nobody cared that much.

In the later 19th century people did become concerned, and the age of consent laws began going down.

But for a long time, and until quite recently, the attitude was not one of the horror with which most people react today. I remember one Woody Allen movie where a "wise old sage" say, "I have lived many years, and, after many trials and tribulations, I have come to the conclusion that the best thing is... blond 12-year-old girls. Two of them, whenever possible."

I doubt that line would fly today.

[PA Engineer]

Nevertheless, the Green Party, despite the revelations’ shock to the German public, still received eight percent of the national vote. In the past, despite its small size, it has played an important part in German politics, having been the junior partner in a federal coalition government with Gerhard Schroeder’s Socialist Party between 1998 and 2005 as well as serving as a coalition partner in several state governments.

And some Greens not only supported their party’s outrageous position, but acted on it. An openly pedophile member of the Green Party’s executive committee for Germany’s most populous state, North Rhineland-Westphalia, formed a commune in the 1980s, visited by prominent Greens, where he and others molested minors living or visiting there. He justified his abuse of the children by saying the Greek philosophers also had their “lust-boys” and sexual contact with their pupils.

The political war machine called Nazism may have been vanquished, but the evil underpinnings of it were not. They have infested western society at all levels because of the big government movement. Socialism by it's very definition is moral relativism and usurpation of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Pederasty was more than a symptom of cultural decline and evil. Pederasty is what gave Nazism it's sadism and fanaticism. The Pink Swastika is a good reference for this. There is an effort underway by the online pederast gestapo to have it removed. In the meantime you can see their ongoing efforts to direct internet traffic away by online ratings such as the Web Of Trust (WOT).

There is no escaping the civil war that is coming.

[Jaded]

Ah, when depravity is normalized.