Traditional Values Coalition Opinion Editorial
For Immediate Release: January 9, 2001


Pedophilia: The Next Civil Right?
By Rev. Louis P. Sheldon
Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition
Washington, DC


-- In last week's Weekly Standard, author Mary Eberstadt
wrote an insightful article that should be required reading for parents,
social workers, law enforcement officers, and school officials. The article,
"'Pedophilia Chic' Reconsidered: The taboo against sex with children
continues to erode," describes an alarming social trend: The normalization of 
adult/child sex.  Historically, notes Eberstadt, the notion that adults should 
have free access to children for sexual purposes was considered as 
controversial as advocating cannibalism or bestiality. Those few who dared 
advocate child molestation as a civil right were rightly considered criminals. 
All that is changing, due to the efforts of opinion leaders in academia, in 
the media,and in psychiatry.
Fifteen years ago, noted researcher David Finkelhor could see a growing
movement to normalize child molestation. In Child Sexual Abuse, Finkelhor
noted that there is a "body of opinion and research [that] has emerged in
recent years which is trying hard to vindicate homosexual pedophilia."
According to Eberstadt, the effort to normalize pedophilia is only targeted
at boys, not girls. Why? Because the homosexual movement is behind the
effort. Eberstadt cites the existence of a book called Male
Inter-Generational Intimacy: Historical Socio-Psychological, and Legal
Perspectives, edited by Edward Brongersma (an admitted pedophile) and two
colleagues. This book is available in the "gay studies" section of stores
like Borders.This book actually grew out of two issues of the Journal of 
Homosexuality published in 1990. The Journal editor is John DeCecco, a 
psychologist at San Francisco State University. DeCecco is also on the board of 
Paidika, the Dutch journal that promotes pedophilia as normal sexual behavior.
Eberstadt failed to mention The Age Taboo: Gay Male Sexuality, Power and
Consent, published by Alyson Publications, one of the nation's largest
homosexual publishing companies. The Age Taboo contains numerous essays on
"man/boy love," including one written by NAMBLA (North American Man-Boy Love
Association) entitled, "The Case for Abolishing Age of Consent Laws."
In Europe, homosexual activists are openly lobbying for the abolition of age
of consent laws so they can freely sodomize children. The British homosexual
group OutRage! is one of many groups working to legalize adult/child sex.
The Dutch Association for the Integration of Homosexuality (DAIH) has
lobbied in Holland for an end to the prohibition against adult/child sex.
In the U.S. one of the homosexual movement's latest efforts to promote child
molestation is the launching of the magazine XY, which is targeted to 12-29
year old homosexual boys and men. In one recent issue, it advocated the
abolition of age of consent laws. In another, it presented a sympathetic
interview with a NAMBLA member. XY also provides "youth content" for
PlanetOut, a "mainstream" homosexual internet site.
So where is the homosexual movement taking us? Under the guise of wanting to
protect so-called "gay" children from harassment in the public schools,
homosexual activists tell us we must establish Gay Straight Alliances on
campus. We are told that the Boy Scouts must be forced to admit homosexuals.
Yet, the record is becoming clear: Homosexuals are joining forces with
NAMBLA to gain access to boys for sexual exploitation. Will parents have the
courage to say "no" to this effort? And will school and government officials
be willing to take the heat to stop homosexual activists from sodomizing the
next generation of children? The future has yet to be written, but each of
us has a part to play in seeing that our children are protected from sexual
predators. Are we up to the task?
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