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New York Times: Protect Pedophiles as Disabled Americans
frontpagemag.com ^ | 10-6-2014 | Daniel Greenfield

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: childrape; disability; greenfield; homosexualagenda; legalchildrape; legalpedophilia; moralabsolutes; nyslimes; nyt; pedophile; pedophiles; pedophilia; slipperyslope
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To: servo1969

We should protect pedophiles. I’d prefer to give them a seat in Old Sparky, and then no one would ever be able to hurt them. What better protection could there be?

Alternatively, we could protect them with life behind bars, no parole. Put them in solitary forever, and again they will be protected from ever being harmed by another person.

Or we could consider the pedophile part of the family - put him in a home with the victim’s family (so long as the family includes at least one good old boy or armed American). Give them a bullet and a shovel, and let them protect the pervert from any future problems.


21 posted on 10/06/2014 7:48:26 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: RayChuang88
The New York Times has to be kidding about this. Not when most people still have the infamous Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State fresh in their minds.... >

And the whole Catholic Church thing....

22 posted on 10/06/2014 7:48:31 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: servo1969

Underage children do not have ‘free will’. They are not just little adults. Is there no shame?


23 posted on 10/06/2014 7:50:24 AM PDT by firebasecody (Orthodoxy, proclaiming the Truth since AD 33)
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To: massgopguy
They can call it “Freddie’s Law”. In memory of Freddie Kruger who was murdered by vigilante parents......

That's pretty good.....

So why don't we apply the same logic to muslims who seem to have a propensity for cutting peoples heads off? Are they disabled as well?

24 posted on 10/06/2014 7:50:34 AM PDT by Envisioning (My desire to be well informed is at odds with my desire to remain sane....)
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To: servo1969

NYT staff must be made up of inmates.


25 posted on 10/06/2014 7:51:33 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: ansel12

“It doesn’t help when the NAMBLA spokesman describes himself as a Libertarian in an interview with Spy magazine.”

That’s par for the course for Libtardians, anything goes.


26 posted on 10/06/2014 7:52:05 AM PDT by Beagle8U (If illegal aliens are undocumented immigrants, then shoplifters are undocumented customers.)
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To: servo1969

In before any Penn State alumni can get here and tell us how pedophilia isn’t as important as sports.


27 posted on 10/06/2014 8:00:23 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: RIghtwardHo

While I agree with you, this is the sort of dangerous idiocy that one expects from the NYT these days and there are no depths to which they will not sink.


28 posted on 10/06/2014 8:05:15 AM PDT by darkangel82
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To: RIghtwardHo

Even a liberal social worker I’ve known for years was fully in agreement that pedos can’t be treated and they can’t be “redirected”.

If you’re against execution, then lock them up forever. Forever means forever. Not 10 years and they’ve learned their lesson or some crap like that.

The purpose of locking pedos up is to protect society. They can’t be fixed, hence the *forever*.

I could say more, but it would get me banned.


29 posted on 10/06/2014 8:05:15 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: servo1969
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World predicted it all in the early 1930's..............
30 posted on 10/06/2014 8:06:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: servo1969
I will protect my children with my life if necessary.

I would prefer to protect my children with the pedophile/pederast/queer's life ...

31 posted on 10/06/2014 8:08:57 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: MrEdd

Poor Joe Pa. When he said he wished he would have done more; the Pedobears take that to mean...

Hell, I don’t know WHAT they mean. They try and explain it away as if to say Paterno had no idea for more than a decade, but they are fools and are lying to themselves.


32 posted on 10/06/2014 8:09:08 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: servo1969
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.

33 posted on 10/06/2014 8:10:01 AM PDT by GOPJ ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert Camus)
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To: servo1969
Gay marriage and pedophilia are a bonanza for liberals, producing lots of jobs to deal with the social dysfunction resulting therefrom: shrinks, psychologists, counselors, consultants, prison guards, cops, judges and lawyers, remedial educators, social workers, grief counselors...

The list is endless.

34 posted on 10/06/2014 8:11:09 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Democrats: the Party of slavery to the immensely wealthy for over 200 years.)
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To: servo1969

How about”Protecting”our children form”Pedo-Philes”?How about”One In The Ear”???


35 posted on 10/06/2014 8:14:56 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: RIghtwardHo

They are like snakes that come from a filthy cesspool. The type of people who make you want to take a shower after spending five minutes in the same room with them. They are sneaky scumbags who are always scheming to come up with ways to hurt innocent children.


36 posted on 10/06/2014 8:16:11 AM PDT by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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To: servo1969

Maybe, just maybe they should change the name of the party to the Republicats. That way they can honestly represent the fact that they have more in common with the democrats than differences. A tip of the hat to Larry Elder for the name.


37 posted on 10/06/2014 8:26:44 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: NorthMountain

See Post #7.


38 posted on 10/06/2014 8:36:01 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: servo1969

Hey, I’m left handed!!!!


39 posted on 10/06/2014 8:37:31 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: DuncanWaring

Yeah ... several variants on that comment.

Pedophiles are expendable ... my kids aren’t.


40 posted on 10/06/2014 8:41:36 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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