THE SLIPPERY SLOPE TO LEGALIZING PEDOPHILIA
Those Catholic priests who made man-love to all those little boys made one big mistake: The committed their crimes too soon. What they did--manipulating trusting boys, lying to those boys' parents, having various forms of sex with those boys in and around the churches entrusted to them--may soon be legal if one Supreme Court Justice, the American Psychiatric Association and the odious North American Man-Boy Love Association get their way. And they may, since last month's SCOTUS decision in the Lawrence case has made it easy for them. That's the case that struck down sodomy laws, which were likely to become extinct the democratic way in a few years if the court hadn't unilaterally struck them down. As a side piece, Lawrence may have opened the door for pedophiles to claim that they're just another repressed minority with the same rights to sexual gratification as anyone else.Critics of the US Supreme Court's logic in the Lawrence sodomy case feared that the decision would lead to legalized pedophilia, via the lowering of the age of consent. One of those critics happened to be Sen. Rick Santorum, who was roundly castigated for merely stating case law as it existed prior to Lawrence.
Well, it seems that the ink hasn't even dried up on that ruling, and we're slip-sliding down the road to our worst fears.
On its website, NAMBLA Director David Thorstad claims: "Pederasty, like homosexuality, has existed, and exists, in all societies that have ever been studied. Homoeroticism is a ubiquitous feature of human experience, as even efforts to repress it confirm. Men and youths have always been attracted to each other, and, like homosexuality in general, their love is irrepressible."
Murder has also existed as long as humans have been around--want to legalize that too? Wait--they already have--it's called "abortion!" NAMBLA probably already knows, but you may not, that it already has an ally on the Supreme Court:
Given that homosexual advocates are in a full court press to lower the age of consent as low as it can go, and pro-pedophile sitting Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 's documented advocacy of lowering the age of consent to 12 years old, parents should be horrified that there are so few politicians, like Sen. Santorum, actually defending the family," Timothy Chichester, CFAA president, said April 23.
Chichester was referring to a paper authored by Ginsburg entitled "Sex Bias in the U.S. Code," which was prepared for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in April 1977
The allegation was further substantiated by Robert Knight, director of CWA's Culture Institute, in "Homosexual Behavior and Pedophilia," an article he co-authored with the Family Research Council's Frank York.
"When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an attorney for the ACLU, she co-authored a report recommending that the age of consent for sexual acts be lowered to 12 years of age," the article points out.
Knight and York's footnoted documentation on this is as follows: "Sex Bias in the U.S. Code," Report for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, April 1977, p. 102, quoted in "Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Feminist World View," The Phyllis Schlafly Report, Vol. 26, No. 12, Section 1, p. 3. The paragraph (from the Ginsburg report) reads as follows: "'Eliminate the phrase "carnal knowledge of any female, not his wife, who has not attained the age of 16 years" and substitute a federal, sex-neutral definition of the offense. ... A person is guilty of an offense if he engages in a sexual act with another person. ... [and] the other person is, in fact, less than 12 years old.'"
LaRue said pedophiles may co-opt language used in the Lawrence decision regarding homosexuals; that laws against their behavior are a discriminatory attempt to harm them as a persecuted minority. And they will be supported, she claimed, by academia.
Didn't that noted radical lefty, Sen. Orin Hatch, recommend President Clinton put Ginsberg on the Supreme Court? Yet another horrid SCOTUS appointment with GOP fingerprints. But while Ginsberg sits happily on the Supreme Court, the Democrats continue to block Miguel Estrada's nomination to the federal bench for....? Because he's Hispanic but not liberal, apparently.
As for academia, they're way ahead of the courts. The American Psychiatric Association may drop pedophilia as a mental illness:
During its annual convention in May, the American Psychiatric Association hosted a symposium discussing the removal of pedophilia along with other categories of mental illness (collectively known as paraphilia) from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
After much criticism following CNSNews.com coverage of the symposium, the APA issued a statement reiterating its position on pedophilia.
But in his 1999 article "Harming the Little Ones: The Effects of Pedophilia on Children," Timothy Dailey, senior analyst for cultural studies with the Family Research Council, chronicled the APA's treatment of pedophilia in the DSM and compares it to the APA evolution of homosexuality.
In DSM revisions, Dailey explained that APA "adds a subjective qualification similar to that which appeared with regard to homosexuality: The individual must be 'markedly distressed' by his own pedophilic activity to be considered needful of therapy," Dailey wrote, adding that in the latest revision, pedophilia "is to be considered a paraphilia when the behavior causes 'clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning.'"
The child, the victim, never gets a mention. Just the perp and his "distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning." How compassionate. It gets worse, folks. The APA published a study in 1998 on child abuse. Among other things, the study proffered renaming "consensual" acts of pedophilia simply "adult-child sex." Not only would pedophilia not be a mental illness, but it would no longer constitute child abuse either. No more jailtime for 44 year-old men who have sex with their twelve-year-old neighbor, so long as it's "consensual."
Liberals in this country are always going on about how everything they do is for The Children. Here's one thing they can do that really is for The Children--stop this pedophilia madness in their ranks right now. But they won't. The left doesn't function as a self-criticizing body--all it can do is strike out at anyone to its right.
Is this worth worrying about? Could pedophilia really get the legal stamp of approval? You bet. The APA once regarded homosexuality as a mental illness--dropping that classification made all the difference in the world, opening up the debates we're now having on gay marriage and adoption. NAMBLA already has at least one Supreme Court Justice already in their corner.