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‘TIME TO NORMALIZE PEDOPHILIA': Firsthand Report on B4U-ACT Conference
Dakota Voice ^ | 08/22/2011 | Matt Barber

Posted on 08/23/2011 7:10:06 AM PDT by jimluke01

Lynchburg, VA – On Wednesday, August 17, Matt Barber, Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action, and Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting law professor with 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 – 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 a child 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 pedophilia should be removed as a mental disorder from the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), in much the same way homosexuality was removed in 1973. • Dr. Fred Berlin acknowledged that it was political activism, similar to that witnessed at the conference, rather than scientific conclusions 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 much 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 heterosexual and same-sex couples 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” and the “need to protect children.” • Self-descried “gay activist” and speaker Jacob Breslow said children can be “the object of our attraction,” referred to a child as “it,” compared the child to a shoe, and used graphic, slang language to approvingly describe the act of climaxing “on or with” the child. No one in attendance objected to this explicit description of child sexual assault.

To schedule an interview with Matt Barber or Dr. Judith Reisman, send an email request to jmattbarber@comcast.net.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apa; homosexualagenda; judithreisman; moralabsolutes; nukethesitefromorbit; pedophilia
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1 posted on 08/23/2011 7:10:10 AM PDT by jimluke01
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Conservatives knew this would be coming with the push for gay rights. It was only a matter of time before pedophiles and their special interest groups followed the lead of gay rights activists. Perhaps the liberals will get the message when they see these vultures eying their children as they nestle up to them to gain support. I predict liberals will suddenly find themselves not so liberal after all.
2 posted on 08/23/2011 7:18:32 AM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: jimluke01
Jacob Breslow


Jacob, come near my child, and I'll kill you.

TSgt
3 posted on 08/23/2011 7:22:37 AM PDT by TSgt (When in the Course of human events...)
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To: jimluke01

There is a little problem here

No one under the age of 18 can consent.

So unless they are willing to “normalize” rape, they can keep whistling Dixie.


4 posted on 08/23/2011 7:25:07 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: jimluke01

I’d love to make pedophiles normally dead.


5 posted on 08/23/2011 7:26:02 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

I’m about to get on Cafe Press and create a shirt that says, “I kill pedophiles for fun.”


6 posted on 08/23/2011 7:27:27 AM PDT by TSgt (When in the Course of human events...)
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To: jimluke01

I have always thought that the ultimate goal of the ‘gay rights’ movement was to attack the ‘age of consent’ laws and to create a complete immorality in regards to sexuality throughout our society whereas anything goes and those who call for laws to prevent such moral decay are demonized and attacked in the Courts. The ACLU has always pursued an agenda of this sort whereas they act like the 1st Amendment protects ‘sexual perversions’ in public specifically and condemns ‘religious expression’ to be hidden behind closed doors.

We are now very quickly on this path and this group is not a fringe group at all but an absolute harbinger of what is near. In today’s society already so many things once considered taboo or perversion are now being pushed as totally normative. It is absolutely sickening to see such moral decay today and the way it is already ruining the lives of children, families and our entire country.

I really pray that people will wake up and see the left-wing for what they truly are. They hate children and they hate morality. The forces behind left-wing ideology are pure evil. This group is an example of that.


7 posted on 08/23/2011 7:29:11 AM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: yldstrk

The ‘age of consent’ laws are made by the people through their representation state by state. The left-wing are already attacking this right with their ‘gay marriage’ agenda rather successfully and chipping away at the people’s right to have representation on issues dealing with how sexuality is dealt with publically.

“Why should you be able to tell another family what age their children are ready for sexual relationships?” “Why do you want to control other people’s children with your bigoted ideals?” “Why should it be better for them to have sneak in order to have sex with whom they choose, they are going to do it anyway.”

This or things similar is what you will be hearing soon enough.


8 posted on 08/23/2011 7:33:02 AM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: yldstrk

Think of it this way:

If as a people we are not allowed to have representation on defining what marriage is or what is normal in regards to gender sexuality then why do you think the left-wing will let us have representation on what is normal in regards to age and sexuality?

The real left-wing agenda is to dictate ALL rights in regards to sexuality.


9 posted on 08/23/2011 7:35:41 AM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: jimluke01

If America becomes likeSodom & Gomorrah, it will fare as Sodom & Gomorrah.


10 posted on 08/23/2011 7:36:10 AM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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To: liberalh8ter

It appears the Diocese of Tucson had an in-depth discussion with Frederick S. Berlin in an attempt to soften concerns about sex abuse by Catholic clergy.

Some resource they got there considering what this guy said about embracing this pedophile group.

Interview with Frederick S. Berlin, M.D., Ph.D.
http://www.diocesetucson.org/restore5.html


11 posted on 08/23/2011 7:36:42 AM PDT by TSgt (When in the Course of human events...)
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To: TSgt

What Americans need to relearn is that there is no “live and let live” with sodomites. Sodomites and their lifestyle must be recriminalized. and the culture must show no tolerance for them.

Given their influence in the media and the universities and government, that is a tall order, but it must be done.


12 posted on 08/23/2011 7:37:11 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: TSgt

What Americans need to relearn is that there is no “live and let live” with sodomites. Sodomites and their lifestyle must be recriminalized. and the culture must show no tolerance for them.

Given their influence in the media and the universities and government, that is a tall order, but it must be done.


13 posted on 08/23/2011 7:37:19 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: achilles2000

It needs to be described for what it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euXQbZDwV0w


14 posted on 08/23/2011 7:39:34 AM PDT by TSgt (When in the Course of human events...)
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To: TSgt

It kind of makes me wonder if the Diocese did any due diligence on Berlin before deciding to trust his opinion on the matter. Hate to say it but, were they looking for a more sympathetic view? I shudder at that thought.


15 posted on 08/23/2011 7:42:08 AM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: jimluke01

Oh my gosh! I mean, soon they will be insisting it’s time to normalize parental revenge killings. /s


16 posted on 08/23/2011 7:42:08 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

They can all assume room temperature.....


17 posted on 08/23/2011 7:47:38 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: yldstrk
No one under the age of 18 can consent.

Those laws are easily changed. It's already been attempted in CA, NY and of all places, KS. Perhaps other states as well.

18 posted on 08/23/2011 7:48:19 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: jimluke01

How many parents of victims of pedophile attacks were invited to the “conference?”


19 posted on 08/23/2011 7:50:03 AM PDT by immadashell
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To: yldstrk
There is a little problem here

No one under the age of 18 can consent.

Only because the law says so.

Next step is change the law 'legal fiction'.

After all in some states they can marry (with parental permission) as young as 14...

20 posted on 08/23/2011 7:50:34 AM PDT by null and void (Day 941 of America's holiday from reality...)
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