Posted on 10/06/2014 9:36:17 AM PDT by markomalley
THINK back to your first childhood crush. Maybe it was a classmate or a friend next door. Most likely, through school and into adulthood, your affections continued to focus on others in your approximate age group. But imagine if they did not.
By some estimates, 1 percent of the male population continues, long after puberty, to find themselves attracted to prepubescent children. These people are living with pedophilia, a sexual attraction to prepubescents that often constitutes a mental illness. Unfortunately, our laws are failing them and, consequently, ignoring opportunities to prevent child abuse.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines pedophilia as an intense and recurrent sexual interest in prepubescent children, and a disorder if it causes a person “marked distress or interpersonal difficulty” or if the person acts on his interests. Yet our laws ignore pedophilia until after the commission of a sexual offense, emphasizing punishment, not prevention.
Part of this failure stems from the misconception that pedophilia is the same as child molestation. One can live with pedophilia and not act on it...
A second misconception is that pedophilia is a choice...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Legalized sodomy. Can legalized pedophilia be far behind?
It is a disorder BEFORE it is acted upon, after it is acted upon it is an UNFORGIVABLE SIN.
So, the so-called Prophet of Allah, Mohammad had a disorder?
Normalization 1.1. Wait till version 2 comes along! Pretty soon we’ll be paying disability to pedophiles the way we pay it to drug abusers and street alcoholics now.
Shocked that they’re calling it a disorder and not a lifestyle choice.
Imagine if a tomboy did not stop being a tomboy.
Why is that not a "mental illness". These leftist sure are choosy with their "science", aren't they?
There is only one unforgivable sin, that being blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Once any sin remains unrepented of by anyone who has received the Holy Spirit, it goes into that category.
It’s just one step toward normalization. Isaiah 5:20.
That’s the next step, i.e. once the activist judges get involved.
The NYT takes the view from the perspective of the deviant.
Then gives little to no weight to the victims of the deviant.
This view is so abhorent that I can only conclude that the author and the author’s editor are perverts.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders …. . . is an ever-changing joke that the left tries to convince everyone is the be-all-and-end-all of human mentality.
“Your honor, I raped the child because I have a disorder! You can’t blame me!”
It sucks to see a lawyer talk about how the LAW is not serving pedophiles - the LAW is supposed to PREVENT pedophiles from attacking children.
a classic tactic by the immoral left. legitimize first by removing immoral acts from the catagory of sin and putting them into the category of disease (i.e., something that is not voluntary). they probably did that with pornography, too. first make it a “disorder” then make it a necessary treatment tool and then finally start lauding it as a virtue.
Serial murder: A Disorder, Not a Crime
But they were BORN that way.
They had no choice.
Who are we to criticize? (Until following CW-II, of course.)
ACLU Lawyer....
To the braindead Left, all crime should be treated as an affliction, not punished like a crime. One can only hope that they themselves are the primary victims of the crimes that they consider to be merely acts requiring therapy.
Freeper Correct Prediction ALERT! we’ll be hailed as the sagely prophets who saw it all coming in the fast approaching dystopian age.
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