The Pedophile Project: Your
7-Year-Old Is Next On The Sexual Revolution’s Hit Parade, By Stella Morabito, 2/21/19.
We cannot dismiss the campaign to legalize pedophilia
as fringy stuff that will get nowhere. It’s real and it’s here and it’s gaining
strength.
Activists for normalizing pedophilia are
on the move. Public acceptance of adult sex with children is the next domino
poised to fall in identity politics. It’s being sustained, among other things,
by the rapid sexualization of children in the media and in K-12 education.
We cannot dismiss the campaign to
legalize pedophilia as fringy stuff that will get nowhere. It’s real and it’s
here and it’s gaining strength. It’s a very logical outgrowth of the nihilism
inherent in the sexual revolution.
If you doubt this, just consider, for
example, how unthinkable to many Americans was the recent celebration of
infanticide (in the guise of abortion rights) by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Likewise, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam—supposedly a pediatrician—spoke
cavalierly about whether to dispose of a living infant who survives abortion.
They and governors of many other states
are betting that your shock will simply wear off and we’ll all eventually get
with the infanticide program. People do tend to settle into such shifts,
believing it won’t affect them. But the selective dehumanization of children
has been going on for a long time now. Why should we think it’ll be any
different when the time comes for legalizing pedophilia?
As with any propaganda campaign that
pushes outrageous changes on an unwary public, it’s all about timing. Academics
might refer to timing as the Overton
Window or
the Availability Cascade. But we should all be able to
understand the process of conditioning the public to accept the unacceptable.
First, the groundwork is laid through
carefully planned propaganda. There are various types of messaging for various
audiences: the medical establishment, the education establishment, legislators,
judges, the general public, and so forth. Then the agitation begins with poster
people who are “just like you.” And before you know it, it’s all over.
Unveiling pedophilia as “just fine” will
likely be an ambush if we aren’t prepared. It promises to be as swift as the
“transgender tipping point” campaign that shrewdly coincided with the Supreme
Court’s Obergefell decision in 2015. It will be
accompanied by a defiant campaign to paint any resistance as a relic of
outdated morality that oppresses the rights of an identity group and the civil
rights of any children caught in it.
So, when that inevitable time comes,
will we just sit back and cower in confusion? Or will ample voices be able to
break through the pressures of politicalcorrectness beforehand and shout “Enough!” Be prepared to make that happen,
because the pitcher is full and they are mixing the Kool-Aid.
Designating Pedophilia a Sexual Orientation - There are two main avenues to legalizing adult sexual relations with pre-pubescent children: 1) to designate it as a sexual orientation; and 2) to lower—or abolish—the age of consent for sexual activity. Both efforts are on track by pedophilia advocates, especially in academia and in the mass media. Take a look at this TED Talk released last year, in which the speaker chides us: “Let’s be mature about pedophilia.”
Born This Way Shouldn’t Seal the Deal
APA Will Ultimately Decide How to Classify Pedophilia
The Farce of a Child’s ‘Right to Choose’ - The other turning point in legalizing pedophilia would come with repeated claims in public discourse that prepubescent kids can enjoy and consent to sexual relationships with adults. Furthermore, denying children this avenue of expression with adults, the argument goes, violates their civil rights.
The ‘Equality Act’ Would Protect Pedophilia - Just about all of today’s so-called “anti-discrimination” laws include sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) classifications. Once pedophilia is classified as a sexual orientation, then it’s protected under that umbrella, which covers all areas of life: employment, education, medicine, housing, business, military, even the parish life of churches, family life, and much more.
You Bigoted Pedophobe! No person of conscience can allow this sinister pedophilia project to gain any more momentum. If we do, it will produce an unexpected avalanche of comings-out with an aggressive campaign complete with poster children (and their parents!) to support it. This is no more a conspiracy theory than to say the same thing about the transgender project in 2014. It’s pure logic, and it’s totally in keeping with our society’s trajectory.
Media outlets spread the idea. For
example, “Good Morning America” recently celebrated an
11-year-old drag queen who danced suggestively on the show and does the same at
adult night clubs. The studio audience looked groomed to be a picture of Middle
America. They cheered his gyrations on cue, and approvingly.
A majority of American parents are
already tacitly okay with sex “education” that pushes early sexual activity on
their kids, along with developmentally inappropriate teachings about various
sexual practices. They’re also getting on board with having the transgender
hoax imposed on their kids, with a bunch of cool moms modeling that behavior.
Most parents who are disturbed by all this are overwhelmed and keep their
concerns to themselves, which only perpetuates the trend.
Our public schools, with the backing of the highly politicized American Academy of
Pediatrics, are also now in the business of nudging any young child to get
injections of puberty blockers if he or she claims to be
transgender. Some states are now threatening to take away custody from any parent who is not on
board with that. K-12 classrooms are becoming labs in which kids are being
programmed to serve such agendas.
Your children have been defined by the
left’s sexual nihilists as totally sexual beings. So what next? The logical
answer: from sexual beings to sex objects. We may well see even more legalized
exploitation of children unimaginable to many Americans today. Let’s face it:
Pedophilia has been waiting in the wings, and is itching to come out. So let’s
not be blindsided when it hits full force.
The speaker, Madeleine
Van Der Bruggen, makes the case that pedophilia is simply a sexual orientation
that can be neither chosen nor changed. She appeals us to “stop with the hate!”
(sound familiar?). She argues that everybody probably knows someone with a
pedophilic interest. And, really, they’re just like you. Most don’t talk about
it because it’s illegal. Imagine, she asks, if you’re told you could never act
on your passion? She implores us to imagine “how lonely” that must be.
Yet another TED talk
from another young female pushed the same argument. But that talk was taken
down by TED, at the request of the speaker. You can still access it here.
The academic literature
is also getting much bolder by publishing increasing numbers of articles in
support of both avenues: designation as sexual orientation and re-considering
age of consent. Perhaps most shocking to people of conscience is the December 2018 article by convicted British child
molester Tom O’Carroll that was published in the peer-reviewed journal
Sexuality and Culture. More on that later.
You can find an extensive bibliography of such
articles in popular media. In arguments to push social acceptance of adult sex
with prepubescent children you will find nearly an exact parallel to all of the
arguments for all manner of “progressive” causes, including, of course, LGBT
preferences.
There has also been a
rash of publishing in popular magazines. The idea of the “virtuous pedophile”
was unveiled in Todd Nickerson’s Salon article “I’m a Pedophile, but not a
Monster.” Salon actually removed the article, although it’s still archived on
the internet. Nickerson says he would never act on his urge and never has. He
also has a website called “Virtuous Pedophile,” ostensibly for helping celibate
pedophiles resist their urges.
You can find an
extensive bibliography of such articles in popular media if you don’t mind
visiting the “virtuous pedophile” website. Typical titles include a 2016 New
York Magazine article, “What’s it like to be a celibate pedophile?” or a 2016 Vice articleentitled “Realizing You’re a Pedophile Can Make you Want to
Kill Yourself.” Then there’s the “born that way” defense, as discussed in
this BBC news item entitled “Are Paedophiles’ Brains
Wired Differently?”
I don’t question the
need for people to get the help they need to avoid engaging in destructive
behaviors. We should all have mercy for those who struggle, especially people
who feel utterly rejected and demonized by society, particularly if they want
to regulate any wild urges that would hurt others, especially kids.
The argument in all of the above is that
pedophilia is a sexual orientation that is not chosen. The sad irony is that
when people feel so marginalized and dehumanized, especially if they are
unnecessarily barraged with humiliations, when they finally get what they want
they tend to take revenge. They cannot distinguish between kind people of
goodwill who have legitimate critiques of their demands and the bullies who
embittered them in the past.
So be prepared: simply
having an opposite opinion will get you marked as an enemy, even if you always
treated every human being with compassion and dignity. If you cave to political
correctness, you are allowing your goodwill to be weaponized against all you
stand for.
So here we are. The
argument in all of the above is that pedophilia is a sexual orientation that is
not chosen. So if we accept it as such, wouldn’t any therapist who didn’t affirm
the orientation be accused of “conversion therapy?” Would pedophiles even be
permitted to get help?
Finally, whether or not
you want to believe the warnings of former child actor Corey Feldman, there can be no doubt that Hollywood
has a good share of pedophiles. “An Open Secret” is a 2015 documentary about it by Amy Berg. We should not be surprised in
the future when Hollywood gives pedophilia a final Caitlyn Jenner-styled
juggernaut to push it all over the top. Again, it’s all about the timing.
Just as the American
Psychiatric Association (APA) re-classified gender identity disorder to gender
identity dysphoria, it also tinkered with classifying pedophilia in its fifth
edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V.)
As the psycho-bible of mental disorders, the DSM has always been the go-to
source for making the sexual revolution the law of the land. Its
reclassifications of homosexuality and transgenderism are really just the
beginning. All that remains is for the medical establishment to officially
proclaim that pedophilia is a sexual orientation.
There is no reason other
than timing to think it won’t do the same for pedophilia. Currently, the DSM
makes a distinction between pedophilia as a paraphilia (a desire not acted
upon) versus “pedophilic disorder” (actual child molestation.) But the lines in
society sure feel like they’re blurring.
In 2013 the APA
“erroneously” referred to pedophilia as a sexual orientation on page 698 of the first printing of the DSM-V. After a public
outcry, the APA said it would correct the error in subsequent printings, changing
the term “sexual orientation” to “sexual interest.” Their public relations
folks also added for good measure that the APA still considers acts
of pedophilic disorder to be criminal.
Okay. But ask yourself
this: With all of the meticulous attention the APA applies to every
controversial aspect of the DSM, and the bated breath the news media holds for
any new edition, how exactly does a reference to pedophilia as a “sexual
orientation” end up in there by accident?
Sadly, the error smells
more like a trial balloon. Both the American Psychiatric Association and the
American Psychological Association have long been politicized to promote every
outgrowth of the sexual revolution. Groupthink is deeply embedded in both
organizations.
Bottom line here: if you
track the promotion of pedophilia in academia and the media, all that remains
is for the medical establishment to officially proclaim that pedophilia is a
sexual orientation. Then anti-discrimination laws kick in to protect it in its
entirety, and children are at the mercy of some judge’s interpretation of
“penumbras” to determine what constitutes harm.
Perhaps the biggest
bombshell recently is that December 2018 article mentioned above, written by
convicted child molester Tom O’Carroll in the peer reviewed journal Sexuality
and Culture. The title of the article is “Childhood ‘Innocence’ is not Ideal:
Virtue Ethics and Child-Adult Sex.” At the outset, he puts the word “innocence”
in scare quotes. If you don’t want too much of a soak in that sewer, you can
look over a good review of O’Carroll’s demented reasoning in Justin Lee’s
article written in Arc, “The Pedophile Apologist,” or see Rod Dreher’s commentary.
O’Carroll’s goal is to make the case that
pedophilia is simply a sexual orientation that should have all the protections
of anti-discrimination laws for other sexualities.
In his article,
O’Carroll masquerades as a philosopher. He takes on Kant and Aristotle. Like a
Chihuahua barking furiously at the ocean, O’Carroll also attempts to bash the
impeccable scholarship of Sir Roger Scruton.
O’Carroll’s goal is to
make the case that pedophilia is simply a sexual orientation that should have
all the protections of anti-discrimination laws for other sexualities. He tries
to appeal to the same litany of arguments that subjects children to early
sexualization and to the transgender curriculum: that kids can decide for
themselves how to express themselves and shouldn’t be denied a choice in how
they identify—no matter how young they are.
He lets loose a panoply
of arguments strongly suggesting we should lower or abolish the age of consent:
that children shouldn’t be denied any form of sexual expression; that allowing
them the full range of sexual expression actually promotes their flourishing
and development; and that stigmatizing pedophilia is in the same class as
stigmatizing people on the basis of their race, sex, religion, or, naturally,
their sexual orientation, which he argues pedophilia is. To object to any of
the above is, in a word, “hate.” (Sound familiar?)
So get used to it: the
goal is to frame pedophilia as a human right, redirecting your attention away
from the adult and reframing it as a child’s right to sexual expression. If the
child claims to consent, who are you to get in his or her way? Hence, every
child becomes fair game for child molesters, especially if the child can be
persuaded and influenced to say he or she consented. Undue influence is a
cult-like dynamic to which children are particularly vulnerable.
Worse is that there are
recent studies by Bruce Rind published in the academic journal The Archives of
Sexual Behavior, claiming there is no long-term harm to adult sex with
children. (As O’Carroll also claims, the positive effects on children is a
growing field of inquiry.) You can read about it in a 2017 Public Discourse article by Mark Regnerus. Otherwise, the
silence is deafening.
The issue of consent has
been made murky, especially when trying to clarify cases of he-said-she-said in
accusations of sexual harassment or assault. But if you accept the claim that
children can consent to sex with adults, then it seems we must now take their
word for it, and never question if that “consent” was coerced.
In addition, our society
seems increasingly ignorant about the causes and effects of undue influence
caused by a disparity in power between two actors in a relationship. Any
substantive discussion of this element in human dynamics is fading fast. Yet it
ought to be common knowledge. Undue influence is a cult-like dynamic to which children are particularly
vulnerable.
If pedophilia is ever classified as a sexual
orientation, wouldn’t the Equality Act afford it federal protection?
House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi has announced that a big priority for this Congress is to get the
“Equality Act” passed. So the big question is this: If pedophilia is ever
classified as a sexual orientation, wouldn’t the Equality Act afford it federal
protection? Seems logical. What am I missing here?
If that happens, then
any objection to a known pedophile teaching at any level in any school or
daycare center would have to be considered illegal discrimination on the basis
of sexual orientation.
There can be no doubt
pedophilia will eventually be officially classified as a “sexual orientation”
if more people don’t grow some spine. You don’t have to be a master of logic to
understand that once that happens, then expressions of disapproval will be
deemed illegal discrimination.So, are you going to be one of the folks in the
morning show audience applauding the sexualization of your child? Will you just
get used to it? Or will you take a stand? Time is running out.
This is no more a conspiracy theory than to say
the same thing about the transgender project in 2014. So if you’re not all in with pedophilia,
prepare for the smear campaign. Today “pedophobia” is defined simply as a fear
of children in the same sense that acrophobia means a fear of heights. But it
could easily take on a new meaning as our culture sinks ever lower.
Consider this: If
pedophilia is ever normalized, what are the chances that the word “pedophobia” and the term “pedophobe” will be used as slurs
against people who disapprove? Against churches that disapprove? Could they be
used in the same way the terms “homophobia” and “transphobia” are used as slurs
today?
Of course. In this
scenario, if you express reservations about sexual activity between
pre-pubescent children and adults, you will be publicly shamed and silenced as
a “pedophobe” for doing so. A bigot. A hater.
For those just waking
up, we’re not in Kansas anymore. We’re on a speeding train through the Twilight
Zone. And the hyper-suggestibility of most folks in this age of
internet-induced mass delusion will get us there even faster.
We’ve become a nation of complete squishes
because all that matters to most people is how they think they’re perceived in
social circles.
We’ve become a nation of
complete squishes because all that matters to most people is how they think
they’re perceived in social circles. The fear of the smear is in high gear
today, generating a pandemic of moral cowardice. It’s infecting state legislators
who ought to know better. It’s infecting judges who ought to know better—and
teachers, journalists, even parents. Sadly, there are many who really don’t
know better and simply try to maintain the social status they think they’re
afforded by political correctness.
It’s up to those who do
know better—those who have an active conscience—to speak up, and to stare down
the smear artists in propaganda journalism, pop culture, and academia who’ve
been stoking that cowardice. Too few people publicly take unpopular stances
anymore, and when they do they pay a highly inflated price for it only because
no one else joins them.
There are too many
cowards who apologize for being right, too many who self-censor out of fear of
social rejection. That’s exactly the dynamic that will fast-track trends like
the normalization of pedophilia.
We have no choice but to
stop accommodating political correctness, no matter the price. Its movement in
the shadows has all the hallmarks of an impending ambush. People of goodwill
must do all they can to stop the momentum of this pedophilia project in its
tracks. Otherwise, it will destroy children and childhood together.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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