Gay group drive draws fire

Gulf-DailyNews.com ^ | July 23, 2003

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

"Birgitta, six-year-old, lesbian," reads the advert with a photograph of a little girl in a swimsuit and armbands, alongside some childish drawings. "Not all princesses choose a prince," it adds.

A campaign by a Swedish gay group to promote awareness that non-heterosexual orientation can start from an early age caused a backlash yesterday from a child protection group that said the sexual depiction of children could encourage paedophiles.

Stockholm Pride, a volunteer group that organises an annual gay, lesbian and transsexual festival, launched the campaign on its website and plans advertisements in the mainstream and gay press. Pride's chairman Anders Selin stressed all the children depicted are now adult gays, lesbians or transsexuals between the ages of 24 and 40.

"We're not telling people that every youngster is homosexual but that it should be as respectable as being heterosexual," he said. Selin said he wanted to provoke debate about how adults' sexual orientation is influenced in childhood by "how our parents raise us and how we're influenced by toy shops etc". But conservative member of parliament Rosita Runegrund, who works for Ecpat, an international network of organisations that combat the sexual exploitation of children, objected to the fact the campaign gives young children a sexual identity. "Paedophiles use the argument that children have a sexual identity. For me it was a shock to find the pictures on their website because Pride is a respectable organisation," she said. "There is a strong reaction from the public who don't understand these pictures.

It's not necessary. Children must have their own experience and it takes time for them to find their own sexual identity," Runegrund said. Selin, a 36-year-old youth worker who features in one of the adverts as "Anders, seven years old, gay", said: "As soon as you talk about homosexuality and children everyone starts yelling about paedophiles." Sweden has a tolerant attitude towards gays and lesbians who can enter into legal partnerships, but not same-sex marriages. The country has a low incidence of crimes against children.

[longtermmemmory]

sick, nothing more than recruiting. Pigeon hole children as early as possible to trap them into deviancy. Nothing more than Nazi's redux.

[max_rpf]

Vile

[El Conservador]

"Birgitta, six-year-old, lesbian"

"Anders, seven years old, gay"

Holy $#!t, talk about early indoctrination!!!

Man, that's beyond sick!!!

Instead of letting children play with toy soldiers and Barbie dolls, now sickos want them to play with strap-ons and gerbils. I have 5- and 9-year-old sisters. That makes me not wanting them to grow up.(/rant off)

[nwrep]

ping

[Paul Atreides]

The drive to legalize pedophilia marches on.

[kstewskis]

This is just plain disgusting.

Evil does exist.

[Loyalist]

Pride's chairman Anders Selin stressed all the children depicted are now adult gays, lesbians or transsexuals between the ages of 24 and 40.

And somehow that's supposed to make it all right, pink boy?

[joesnuffy]

If a six yr old is a lesbian then someone is guilty of pedophilia...
Brainwashig children into a life of the homosexual is a crime
And they openly brag about their crime

[Sloth]

"We're not telling people that every youngster is homosexual but that it should be as respectable as being heterosexual," he said.

Yeah. So we should be just as accepting of this as we would a poster of a little girl in a swimsuit with the caption "Brigitta, six years old, man-hungry hetero slut."

[Atchafalaya]

Coming soon to a country you live in!!!1

[JoJo Gunn]

Sounds like something GLSEN/NAMBLA would approve of....

[ChocChipCookie]

Luke 17:2 - It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

[ChocChipCookie]

The country has a low incidence of crimes against children.

I somehow doubt this. The Netherlands, also a very "tolerant" country, has one of the highest rates of incest in Europe.

[First Amendment]

"We're not telling people that every youngster is homosexual but that it should be as respectable as being heterosexual," he said. Selin said he wanted to provoke debate about how adults' sexual orientation is influenced in childhood by "how our parents raise us and how we're influenced by toy shops etc".

And, I might add, homosexual promotion and ads such as these. Oh yes - indoctrination in schools helps, too.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

...but that it (homosexuality) should be as respectable as being heterosexual...

What type of debate can one possibly have against someone who honestly believes this?

...he wanted to provoke debate about how adults' sexual orientation is influenced... by "how our parents raise us and how we're influenced by toy shops etc".

Toy shops?!? Oh for heavens sakes...now there's a far-reaching attempt at rationalization for you.

[longtermmemmory]

Ironically the netherland often refuses to return parental kidnapped children to the USA because the USA is "not a good place to raise children".

With members like this, the EU is on its way to ending before it starts.

[First Amendment]

It's poetic irony that "Netherlands" means "Low Country". They certainly are racing for the bottom what with drug addiction, homosexual promotion, huge prostitution industry, euthanasia and big pedophile movement. Were they always like that? I wonder what happened.... Maybe the whole country will get washed clean one day.

[John O]

The rules of 'homosexuality':

1. To the mentally healthy person (heterosexual) sex is something they do
To the mentally ill person ('homosexual') sex is everything they are

2. 'Homosexuals' do not reproduce, they recruit

3. Any exposure of children to homosexual behavior is child abuse

[EdReform]

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