stonemountain - "I'm not defending them or their beliefs in any way, but I'll try to answer your question. It's legal to be in an association that advocates the changing of laws. Just as groups that would outlaw abortion or legalize marijuana have a right to exist and to advocate a change in the law, NAMBLA can exist and try to change age-of-consent laws. There are down sides of living in a free society, and this is clearly one of them, but I think the alternative would be worse..."
JFK_Lib - I am just curious as to whether or not you would defend the KKK ina similar vein.
NAMBLA is not simply a group that advocates changing the law. They have also published material for aiding and abetting the statutory rape of young teen aged males and how to get away with it.
Were they advocating such a thing with young teenage girls they would have been shut down a long time ago as sexual predators. But one can get away with almost anything that preys on men today.