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"Eliminating the age of consent has been a goal of gay activists since their published platform of goals in 1972. They have since changed their stated goal to "lowering" the age of consent, since eliminating it was too outrageous for us backwards primitives at the time."

I do not believe that. Certainly there will always be oddballs out there with strange causes, but that does not mean that all or even the majority of gays or "gay activists" want sex with children to be legal. You are making an unfair generalization.

I think you are reading too much into all of this. Just because some professor wrote a book and the ACLU is defending NAMBLA's rights does not mean that legalized sex with children is on the horizon. College professors are always writing stupid books and the ACLU is always standing up for the rights of unpopular organizations.

A "big push in academia," sheez, a couple of screwy professors publish some fringe element theoretical musings and you call it a "big push." I guarantee you that if you took a poll among college professors and asked how many are for sex between children and adults nearly all would say they are against that sort of thing. I have family members who are college professors who would be appalled at such a notion. I taught at a university for two years and I cannot imagine any of the people I worked with advocating such a thing.

I think you are wrong in your assessment. I wish you were right, but among psychologists there is a growing move to accept some child/adult sex.

You taught at a university - what school? (I mean that in the sense of was it psychology, engineering, etc.) The technical schools have fewer liberals than disciplines like history, psychology and the arts.

I have seen footage of "Gay Pride" parades with grown men dressed in black leather (here and there) holding chains, to which were attached little boys - with dog collars around their necks. And this was years ago.

I do think you are wrong, and I wish you weren't. Have you checked into scripter's links?
And as far as lowering the age of consent (and their previous goal to eliminate it) I have read their own publications and stated objectives. They aren't going to lie about their own goals.

I guarantee you that if you took a poll among college professors and asked how many are for sex between children and adults nearly all would say they are against that sort of thing.

It's late so I may not get this right, but I believe the APA recently (this year) stated pretty much the same thing DeCecco said. That is, adult/child sex may not be as harmful to children as first thought. After a public outcry, the APA responded and said something about how they didn't mean to endorse pedophilia. Still, damage was done and who knows what confused person is going to use that reasoning to molest a child.