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.
This is the next “civil rights” issue. Now that gay marriage is checked off, the next issue will be pediphile rights and marriage. Hey, it’s freedom of religion issue for muslims, right? First step — start setting them up as victims in the mainstream.
And that's just the NYT editorial staff...
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....
...also not to leave out the numerous transgressions from the ‘separated brethren’ bunch, right...?
In before any Penn State alumni can get here and tell us how pedophilia isn’t as important as sports.
...the more audacious of them now are taking the tack that Sandusky did nothing whatsoever, and that the victims are ‘dissembling’ in their testimonies...
...then, of course, when you bring that up, they call you a fool and a know nothing, and rant that nobody, but nobody, is saying anything like that...
...except, well, some are...
True, but the Sandusky scandal made it front page news because it was related to one of the supposedly most revered college football coaches of all time, the late Joe Paterno. And that’s something most Americans can easily relate to.
It’s called brain-washing.
Like trying to convince us that homosexuality is the norm. They think that all they have to do is “indoctrinate” us with homosexual activity in movies, television, commercials and ads, and over time that will convince us that they are right.
Whoever wrote the editorial is probably a child rapist; it needs to be identified and investigated, and following that most likely arrested and put in prison for a long time.
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