It's well known on the left that if anything can be talked about on a national level, moral barriers come down.
It's why there's no talk of second amendment rights here or anywhere, anymore. And it's why there's much talk of homosexual rights. Here there and everywhere.
The more pedophilia is discussed, rather than shunned or condemned, the more it will become a part of the culture -- and the equivalent of a "he said - she said" twisted equivalence.
We live in sick times.
It's time to start discussing the death penalty for pedophiles.
"homosexual rights" "abortion rights"
If the South had merely asked for "slavery rights" they might have won over the northern newspapers of the day.
It's all in the semantics.