Posted on 02/05/2019 12:57:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The online community erupted in outrage after a German medical student gave a TEDxTalk arguing that pedophilia is an "unchangeable sexual orientation" just like heterosexuality and that society should become more accepting of pedophiles.
Mirjam Heine defended her claims before an audience at the University of Würtzberg in Germany during a presentation called, "Why our perception of pedophilia has to change." She makes the extremely controversial claim that pedophilia is simply another sexual orientation.
"According to current research pedophilia is an unchangeable sexual orientation just like, for example, heterosexuality. No one chooses to be a pedophile, no one can cease being one," Heine argued. "The difference between pedophilia and other sexual orientations is that living out this sexual orientation will end in a disaster."
However, experts say Heine is wrong on several levels. More about that in a minute.
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But first, the disaster Heine refers to is the sexual abuse of minors – which she strongly condemned. "Let me be very clear here. Abusing children is wrong without any doubt, but a pedophile who doesn't abuse children has done nothing wrong," Heine said, adding that pedophilia is just a preference to have sex with children.
Heine said society should help decrease the "suffering" of pedophiles by accepting them, encouraging them not to abuse children, and by not isolating them.
"We shouldn't increase the sufferings of pedophiles by excluding them, by blaming and mocking them. By doing that, WE increase their isolation and WE increase the chance of child sexual abuse," she said.
"We should accept that pedophiles are people who have not chosen their sexuality and who, unlike most of us, will never be able to live it out freely...Most of us feel discomfort when we think about pedophiles. But just like pedophiles, we are not responsible for our feelings. We do not choose them but we are responsible for our actions," Heine urged.
TEDx removed the video from YouTube after facing relentless backlash over the presentation, especially over the idea that pedophilia is just another sexual orientation.
One of those who took issue with that claim is therapist and behavioral psychology expert Dr. Linda Mintle.
"Pedophilic disorder is a mental disorder. It is one type of mental disorder in the category of paraphilias," she told CBN News.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth edition refers to pedophilia as a sexual orientation, but was later corrected by the American Psychiatric Association – a move Mintle applauds.
Psychiatrist and brain disorder specialist Dr. Daniel Amen told CBN News that pedophiles have different brains than the rest of the population – and their brain scans indicate mental illness.
"If we scan their brains they look more like people who have OCD and low frontal cortex," he said. This means that pedophiles tend to have less empathy.
Dr. Mintle believes the church can help pedophiles learn to empathize and change their behavior.
"They need treatment – understand, empathize, restrict, and intervene. The church could work on empathy training. It involves helping the offender take on the perspective of the victim and in identification with the victim, understand the harm that has been done," she said.
While both experts say pedophilia is very hard to treat, it is possible for a pedophile to change if they believe their behavior is wrong and truly desire transformation.
Wrong because I do know one man who struggled with that and God has freed from that obsession.
Defining deviancy down.
No, I think we should hang them by the neck until they are dead, dead, dead ... and leave the corpses to twist slowly in the wind.
That Homosexual Trojan Horse has led to the further cultural and societal rot of America. I firmly believe not all Homosexuals are too happy with the way things have gone either.
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“Romans 1 New International Version (NIV)
1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— 2 the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3 regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life[a] was a descendant of David, 4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power[b] by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. 5 Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from[c] faith for his name’s sake. 6 And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.
7 To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul’s Longing to Visit Rome
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. 9 God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you 10 in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you.
11 I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— 12 that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith. 13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,[d] that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.
14 I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. 15 That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,[e] just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”[f]
God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.”
Because of this....Jesus.
Cut and pasted from biblegateway.com
“no one can cease being one”
Oh, I can think of ways for them to “cease being”...
They seek to normalize their behavior to achieve easier access to MOLEST YOUR CHILDREN!
>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2009/06/05/a-major-study-of-child-abuse-and-homosexuality-revisited/<
On page 37, the other relevant result relates to men.
The 13th research question addressed, of homosexual men who have been molested, what percentage were molested before self-identification as homosexual men, and what percentage were molested after self-identification as homosexual? Of homosexual men who were molested, 68% were molested before self-identification as homosexual, and 32% were molested after self-identification as homosexual.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q6pDGNQw3I<
The Left's Push For Pedophile Acceptance
Why would we consider pedophilia as normal? We do not consider any other bad behaviors normal such as murder, kidnapping, robbery, etc. Forget trying to convert society to this kind of twisted thinking.
Take that same 9mm slug but put it in the back of the head and there will be more O2 for the rest of us and none of the maintenance fees that typically drag on for decades.
“We knew this was coming. We told everyone it was coming.”
It’s been around at least since Muhammad... :^(
Here it comes! First the gays came out of the closet. Next the polygamists, then pedophiles, and finally the animal lovers.
As an experiment, we should publicly hang the next five pedophiles who abuse any child before the age of puberty. Then we can measure to see if the rate and incidence of pedophila goes up or down. In the interest of science.
The freaks are itching to add another letter to the alphabet soup of perversion. Look for the entertainment industry to start the softening up process.
Another shot at changing our crime codes! This will be another failed policy!
It's NEVER the fault of the criminal, always the fault of the faceless "society". Soooo much delicious Virtue Signaling by blaming yourself without specifically taking on personal responsibility with these open declarations disdaining your own culture.
This "logic" also presupposes that the pedophile is imply lonely and looking for love and companionship, and increased loneliness is a significant cause for it. I don't think that this has ever been alleged or suggested before.
I told the Bible group I teach about 12 years ago this was next on the agenda.
Ten to one says this ‘scholar’ is a pedophile.
Mark it down. We will eventually normalize human sacrifice.
Should we propose that we will accept any pedophile that voluntarily has their genitals, hand, feet, eyes and tongues removed? Minimum requirements in my book.
Fine.
I’m turned on by putting bullet holes in the heads of pedophiles.
Let’s hold a parade, shall we?
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