Brethren, this, according to the Catholic League:
The mainstream media never tire of lambasting the Catholic Church for not responding strongly enough to allegations of the sexual abuse of minors, yet these very same people show absolutely no interest in reporting on attempts to legitimate pedophilia. Many in the mental health profession who seek to normalize pedophilia met last week in Baltimore, an event that was summarily ignored by the media. Fortunately, attorney Matt Barber, Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action, and Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting law professor at Liberty University School of Law, were in attendance. To read a summary of their findings, click here.
B4U-ACT is the driving force behind this movement. Its goal is to reconceptualize our thinking about what they politely call "Minor-Attracted Persons." If they had it their way, sex between adults and minors would no longer be taboo, and pedophilia would no longer be listed as a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association. So where is the outrage? To be specific, where is the outrage from those who are fixated on priestly sexual abuse?
Put this first-hand account of the B4U-ACT conference with the Catholic League's first-hand account of the SNAP conference (see today's earlier release), and what emerges is a two-pronged attack: the pedophilia-friendly psychiatrists want to undermine traditional standards of morality, and SNAP (and its allies) want to undermine its most prominent voice, namely the Catholic Church. To say they represent twin devils is to understate the issue.
And this is what Matt Barber and Dr. Judith Reisman’s heard at the conference:
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Pedophiles are “unfairly stigmatized and demonized” by society.
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There was concern about “vice-laden diagnostic criteria” and “cultural baggage of wrongfulness.”
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“We are not required to interfere with or inhibit our child‟s sexuality.”
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“Children are not inherently unable to consent” to sex with an adult.
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“In Western culture sex is taken too seriously.”
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“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.”
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An adult‟s desire to have sex with children is “normative.”
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Our society should “maximize individual liberty. … We have a highly moralistic society that is not consistent with liberty.”
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“Assuming children are unable to consent lends itself to criminalization and stigmatization.”
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“These things are not black and white; there are various shades of gray.”
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A consensus belief by both speakers and pedophiles in attendance was that, because it vilifies MAPs, pedophilia should be removed as a mental disorder from the American Psychiatric Association‟s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), in the same manner homosexuality was removed in 1973.
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Dr. Fred Berlin acknowledged that it was political activism, similar to that witnessed at the conference, rather than scientific considerations 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.
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Dr. Berlin appeared to endorse the politically 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.”
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The DSM ignores that pedophiles “have feelings of love and romance for children” in the same way adult heterosexuals and homosexuals have romantic feelings for one another.
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“The majority of pedophiles are gentle and rational.”
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The DSM should “focus on the needs” of the pedophile, and should have “a minimal focus on social control,” rather than obsessing about the “need to protect children.”
- Self-described “gay activist” and speaker Jacob Breslow said that children can properly be “the object of our attraction.” He further objectified children, suggesting that pedophiles needn‟t gain consent from a child to have sex with “it” any more than we need consent from a shoe to wear it. He then used graphic, slang language to favorably describe the act of climaxing (ejaculating) “on or with” a child. No one in attendance objected to this explicit depiction of child sexual assault.
Commentary. Pedophiles are justly “demonized by society” because what they do and advocate is exactly that: DEMONIC. Also, look at how they admit that homosexuality was dropped from the list of psychiatric disorders for political – not scientific – reasons and how they intend to emulate the homosexualist movement to gain recognition for poor, misunderstood “MAPs.” Also note how they take direct aim at Judeo-Christian morality under the euphemism “cultural baggage of wrongfulness.” Notice to the connection gay activist Jacob Breslow made between homosexuality and child sexual abuse.
Of course, you didn’t see this in the press because this wasn’t a conference of disaffected Catholic priests, but of voices representative of our social vanguards.
I hope the place was crawling with cops and that every affirmative attendant was photographed for future line-ups. And if one these predators were to hurt any of my babies, well, I’ll leave it there.