Posted on 10/06/2014 7:24:04 AM PDT by servo1969
Hey remember when crazy right wingers predicted that gay marriage would lead to legalizing polygamy? Well that happened. Also they predicted that the next step would be to seek the same civil rights protections for pedophiles.
And that’s happening in no less a forum than the New York Times which couldn’t find any terrorists to slot into its op-ed page and went with pedophilia instead.
How can you possibly make child rape sympathetic? Liberals always find a way.
Think back to your first childhood crush. Maybe it was a classmate or a friend next door. Most likely, through school and into adulthood, your affections continued to focus on others in your approximate age group. But imagine if they did not.
By some estimates, 1 percent of the male population continues, long after puberty, to find themselves attracted to prepubescent children. These people are living with pedophilia, a sexual attraction to prepubescents that often constitutes a mental illness.
This is so dishonest on so many levels that if boggles the mind. Pedophilia isn’t some sort of delayed development. Like rape, it’s about power. It’s not a mental illness. No more than homosexuality is. Framing it this way suggests that it’s something everyone grows out of.
But this is the liberal playbook.
1. Make evil seem relatable and sympathetic
2. Project its actions as uncontrollable due to persecution
3. Suggest that understanding evil will prevent it from committing more abuses
All three are present here.
A second misconception is that pedophilia is a choice. Recent research, while often limited to sex offenders — because of the stigma of pedophilia — suggests that the disorder may have neurological origins.
Well if it’s not a choice, then it’s not a crime.
Men with pedophilia are three times more likely to be left-handed or ambidextrous, a finding that strongly suggests a neurological cause.
Gays are also more likely to be left-handed. But assuming that there’s a neurological cause confuses correlation with causation at best.
Without legal protection, a pedophile cannot risk seeking treatment or disclosing his status to anyone for support. He could lose his job, and future job prospects
We should make a sitcom to teach people to accept them.
There’s no question that the extension of civil rights protections to people with pedophilia must be weighed against the health and safety needs of others, especially kids. It stands to reason that a pedophile should not be hired as a grade-school teacher.
Oh you kidders. Ten years from now they’ll have to hire them or be sued for discrimination. Twenty years later, Disney will punish employees who work in the boy scouts because they won’t let pedophiles become Scoutmasters.
We already saw this movie. We know how it ends.
The direct-threat analysis rejects the idea that employers can rely on generalizations; they must assess the specific case and rely on evidence, not presuppositions. Those who worry that employers would be compelled to hire dangerous pedophiles should look to H.I.V. case law, where for years courts were highly conservative, erring on the side of finding a direct threat, even into the late 1990s, when medical authorities were in agreement that people with H.I.V. could work safely in, for example, food services.
So we shouldn’t worry that courts will force schools to hire pedophiles as teachers because they forced cafeterias to hire workers with HIV?
Arguing for the rights of scorned and misunderstood groups is never popular, particularly when they are associated with real harm.
It’s always popular when you’re a liberal. Unlike arguing for the rights of children abused by the liberal victim of the month.
The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibit discrimination against otherwise qualified individuals with mental disabilities, in areas such as employment, education and medical care. Congress, however, explicitly excluded pedophilia from protection under these two crucial laws.
Okay I’m done. Will the last one still subscribing to the New York Times please use it to clean this up.
Now the New York Times chose to run this, but censored McCain’s op-ed when he was running against Obama. That says it all.
I will protect my children with my life if necessary.
They can call it “Freddie’s Law”. In memory of Freddie Kruger who was murdered by vigilante parents......
screen shot / capture it while you can. once they get hit with the backlash, they’ll pull it.
it should never be forgotten where the NYTimes and the left stands on child rape
Well it’s like this, emotion aside.
I prosecuted my fair share of pedophiles. There is not a soul in my office who didn’t think the desire arose from mental illness about 95% of the time. There was even a case recently where it was proven, without a doubt, that a man who suddenly developed pedophile desires did so due to a brain tumor. When the tumor was removed, it went away. (He didn’t act on it. He was so upset by the desire he told his wife, went to the doctor, and they discovered the tumor.)
HOWEVER ... and I mean HOWEVER ... they need to be in prison for a VERY long time if not til the end of time. If it’s physiological (like the tumor) that is one thing. But pedophiles are wired so horrifically that they can not be permitted in society. Period.
Why the bigotry of labeling pederasts, pedophiles, etc., as “disabled?”
The expression of love and natural erotic feelings should not be unnaturally restricted, or discriminated against on the basis of race, gender, or age.
</barf sarc>
Also, I’ll protect my children with someone else’s life, if that someone else is a pedophile.
Yep, the liberals knew that United they stand means liberals, in order to defeat America, must divide them so they fall and divide us the liberals did. Any democrat being returned to office by that state returning that democrat will be marked with the mark of the beast. Yes, America has entered the Trial Phase as the Tribulation cannot be far behind.
Do their victims get "special rights, money from the taxpayers, their own parking placards, etc. for the devastation to their entire lives and mental health because some pedophile decided they needed their daily "fix?"
An outrageous and offensive insult to disabled people.
“Why the bigotry of labeling pederasts, pedophiles, etc., as “disabled?””
Maybe because after you give them a going over with a pick ax handle they are reduced to eating baby food through a straw.
Sounds good to me.
I would suspect most professional prosecutors would agree, maybe even the Democrats.
Would I be right?
I'm sick and tired of the modern trend to normalize deviancy and make normalcy deviant.
The registered (violent) sex offender in the neighborhood is on disability. He is a manipulator in the extreme which probably helped him survive five years in prison. The disability system is fairly easy pickings for him and he got a work-related injury to exempt him from driving trucks and therefore working for a living although he has no problem driving around in his car.
It doesn’t help when the NAMBLA spokesman describes himself as a Libertarian in an interview with Spy magazine.
This 2008 Time article may explain more on that.
“The fracas started with Mary J. Ruwart, the candidate with perhaps the deepest, purest libertarian roots”
“In April, a rival called her out for her thoughts in a 1999 book called Short Answers to the Tough Questions. “Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it’s distasteful to us personally,” Ruwart wrote. “When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.”
“Ruwart’s is a classic libertarian take — a defense of free will (even for “child performers”) and an attack on government prohibitions of any kind.””
Yes. You would be correct. We certainly had some Liberals in our office. But as I have thought about it this morning, I can’t think of anyone who didn’t hold the opinion on this I stated above.
And as for your sentence: “I’m sick and tired of the modern trend to normalize deviancy and make normalcy deviant.” I just can’t type enough “Amen”s on that one. ; )
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“There is not a soul in my office who didn’t think the desire arose from mental illness about 95% of the time. “
Interesting post.
Homosexuality was classified as a psychological disorder years ago and now is accepted main stream. Do you think a sympathetic acceptance or a mainstreaming of a behavior increases its prevalence? Personally, I do not think all that many people are homosexual or bisexual, but it seems to be the behavior de jour, hence it is more public and more engaged in by border elements who think it is cool or a source of identity. Will the same happen with pedophilia?
The real problem is people straying away from Aristotle’s idea of ethic with Aquinas expanded on; that we are in control of who we are and need to practice who we are, to seek the mean. Aquinas wrote quite a bit about wrong doing and punishment and I think his writings should be heeded. It is the anything goes mentality combined with a moral relativism that is a sure fire recipe to disaster.
I understand what you are saying, but to some degree every crime, particularly crimes against humanity, one can argue are acts of insanity. Surely OJ is a taco short of a platter, Ted Bundy was missing on a cylinder, and Chuckie Manson is in need of a complete overhaul. It is a tough call on where to draw the line as to what gets you institutionalized and what gets you prison.
Liberalism is predatory and goes after the weakest members of society. The old and the young.
Most queers were molested as a child, more queers are child molesters.
Since no queers are born and they can’t reproduce, queers recruit children into their ranks by molesting them.
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