Johns Hopkins Hospital Supports Pedophilia?

http://canadafreepress.com ^ | Agust 24, 2011 | Nathan Tabor

[Maelstorm]

The sexual molestation of children by adults is a serious issue. This is why I was appalled when I discovered a prestigious professor at Johns Hopkins University was an open advocate of—apologist for – pedophiles and pederasts (adults who have sexual relations with post-pubescent children).

His name is Dr. Fred Berlin and he is involved with the group B4U-ACT. On their website B4U-ACT talk about pedophilia being a mental disorder and that these people need help.

However, at their conference on August 17th in Baltimore, Maryland, where Dr. Berlin was the keynote speaker, it was a different story. The overall theme of the conference was pedophiles are “unfairly stigmatized and demonized” by society and “the majority of pedophiles are gentle and rational.”

[Maelstorm]

"gentle and rational"?

[Guenevere]

I heard this guy from Johns Hopkins yesterday on Fox....

...Johns Hopkins!!!!!!!!!.....they should fire him immediately!

[TSgt]

The Catholic church should also fire him...

Interview with Frederick S. Berlin, M.D., Ph.D.
http://www.diocesetucson.org/restore5.html
Dr. Berlin is Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Founder of the Sexual Disorders Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is Director of the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma. Dr. Berlin has written extensively on sexual disorders for numerous distinguished journals, including The American Journal of Psychiatry, The New England Journal of Medicine and The American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry. He has been a consultant to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse since its inception.

[Maelstorm]

The truth is that these organizations are filled with these types whether they are open about it or not. Liberal academia selects for this kind of individual.

[tarotsailor]

There should be protestors with “JOHNS HOPKINS CHILD RAPISTS” yesterday.

[Prokopton]

The Catholic church should also fire him...

Thankfully, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops’ is not the Catholic Church.

[Keith in Iowa]

They’re not pedophiles anymore - they’re “MAPs” - Minor-Attracted Persons... Really.

[Leofl]

People who molest children should be helped........to an early grave!!!

[Keith in Iowa]

http://nation.foxnews.com/pedophilia/2011/08/25/group-psychiatrists-advocating-change-definition-pedophilia

[TSgt]

Thankfully, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops’ is not the Catholic Church.

Episcopal conferences were first established as formal bodies by the Second Vatican Council (Christus Dominus, 38), and implemented by Pope Paul VI's 1966 motu proprio Ecclesiae sanctae. In order to fulfill the new requirements for national conferences of bishops, the American bishops established — in 1966 — the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and its secular arm, the United States Catholic Conference (USCC). As separate organizations with distinct responsibilities, the NCCB focused on internal ecclesiastical concerns while the USCC carried forward work in society at large. The NCCB enabled the bishops to deliberate and respond collectively on a broad range of issues, with work being carried out through various secretariats, standing committees, and ad hoc committees. On July 1, 2001, the NCCB and the USCC were combined to form the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The merger resulted in the continuation of all of the work formerly done by the NCCB and the USCC, with the same staff. The operation, authority, and responsibilities of episcopal conferences are currently governed by the 1983 Code of Canon Law (see especially canons 447–459). The nature of episcopal conferences, and their magisterial authority in particular, was subsequently clarified by Pope John Paul II's 1998 motu proprio Apostolos suos.

[concerned about politics]

“the majority of pedophiles are gentle and rational.”

It's the same thing they said about homosexuals when they let them out of the mental institutions. I've seen how gentle they are - when homo marriage was voted down. Those "gentle people" were rabid animals! How dare we deny them what ever they want? The same thing will happen with the baby rapers.

Molesting little children is rational?????? These "people" should get the death penalty!

[Keith in Iowa]

Source

Lynchburg, VA – On Wednesday, August 17, child advocates Matt Barber, Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action, and Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting law professor at Liberty University School of Law, attended a Baltimore, MD conference hosted by the pedophile group B4U-ACT. Around 50 individuals were in attendance including a number of admitted pedophiles – or “Minor-Attracted Persons” as they prefer to be identified (MAP “sexual orientation”) – as well as several supportive mental health professionals. World renowned “sexologist,” Dr. Fred Berlin of Johns Hopkins University gave the keynote address, saying: “I want to completely support the goal of B4U-ACT.”

Highlights of the conference:

• Pedophiles are “unfairly stigmatized and demonized” by society.
• There was concern about “vice-laden diagnostic criteria” and “cultural baggage of wrongfulness.”
• “We are not required to interfere with or inhibit our child's sexuality.”
• “Children are not inherently unable to consent” to sex with an adult.
• “In Western culture sex is taken too seriously.”
• “Anglo-American standard on age of consent is new [and ‘Puritanical']. In
• Europe it was always set at 10 or 12. Ages of consent beyond that are relatively new and very strange, especially for boys. They've always been able to have sex at any age.”
• An adult's desire to have sex with children is “normative.”
• Our society should “maximize individual liberty. … We have a highly moralistic society that is not consistent with liberty.”
• “Assuming children are unable to consent lends itself to criminalization and stigmatization.”
• “These things are not black and white; there are various shades of gray.”
• A consensus belief by both speakers and pedophiles in attendance was that, because it vilifies MAPs, pedophilia should be removed as a mental disorder from the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), in the same manner homosexuality was removed in 1973.
• Dr. Fred Berlin acknowledged that it was political activism, similar to that witnessed at the conference, rather than scientific considerations that successfully led to the declassification of homosexuality as a mental disorder:
• The reason “homosexuality was taken out of DSM is that people didn't want the government in the bedroom,” he said.
• Dr. Berlin appeared to endorse the politically maligned clinical practice of “reparative therapy” for homosexuals and pedophiles alike, saying, “If someone, for their own reasons, doesn't want to live a homosexual lifestyle, I tell them that it's hard but I'll try to help them.”
• The DSM ignores that pedophiles “have feelings of love and romance for children” in the same way adult heterosexuals and homosexuals have romantic feelings for one another.
• “The majority of pedophiles are gentle and rational.”
• The DSM should “focus on the needs” of the pedophile, and should have “a minimal focus on social control,” rather than obsessing about the “need to protect children.”
• Self-descried “gay activist” and speaker Jacob Breslow said that children can properly be “the object of our attraction.” He further objectified children, suggesting that pedophiles needn't gain consent from a child to have sex with “it” any more than we need consent from a shoe to wear it. He then used graphic, slang language to favorably describe the act of climaxing (ejaculating) “on or with” a child. No one in attendance objected to this explicit depiction of child sexual assault.

[Bikkuri]

But how can you explain that to non-Catholics wide-scale? People see Catholic, they think Catholic... btw, I am not Catholic, but I understand what you are saying.

[gimme1ibertee]

Can you say NAMBLA?

[Maverick68]

pedophiles.....tall tree, short rope....done....

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>>Can you say NAMBLA?

That’s exactly what it is. Matt Barber of Liberty University was there - and was interviewed on WHO radio this morning - exactly what he said this was - NAMBLA cover.

[concerned about politics]

exactly what he said this was - NAMBLA cover.

They never should have let the homosexuals out of the insane asylums. They were put there for a very, very good reason.

[13Sisters76]

When I first heard about this on Fox, I thought to myself, “Well. Here it is”. They have been pushing in this direction for a very long time. The desensitization and sexualizing of our children at earlier and earlier ages, the “normalization” of homosexuality, the destruction of the family, has always had a purpose. It was just a matter of time before THIS ugly end-game showed itself.

Is anyone really surprised?

[TSgt]

They are sanctioned by the Vatican and Canon Law.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2768923/posts?page=10#10

How are they not Catholic?

[Captain Peter Blood]

Typical Hypocrite, Liberal one at that. If this guy had a child molested I doubt he would have the same opinion.
I read just yesterday more details of the TV series “Torchwood” and this season's plot with the main character a pedophile and the other one a Bisexual or whatever and this passes for TV entertainment.
Well count me out I can't and will not watch such bilge with it's messages.