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Friday, August 26, 2011

Fringe group out to mainstream pedophilia; stay calm and be prepare to protect children

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Don't confuse pedophilia with homosexuality.

Normally, it would seem a given that pedophiles who committ sex crimes against children couldn't possibly be considered in the same breath as homosexuals. Homosexuality isn't a crime, after all.

It seems that there is a move afoot to try to normalize pedophilia in the United States. It's too ridiculous, too heinous, to take really seriously. However, being a member of the Association of Liberal Bleeding Hearts leads me to acknowledge that the move to somehow mainstream pedophilia could actually gain support.

B4UAct is the name of the organization working to have pedophilia changed legally from a perversion to a syndrome -- an official mental health disorder.

See? If you're like me, you're already thinking, "I can see how pedophilia could be considered a mental health problem." In fact, I made that case earlier to a clear-thinker on the opposite side of the political spectrum from me. If pedophiles are getting more attention from a more helpful mental health community, we're all better off.

Right? Pedophiles are going to live among us, so we might as well identify them and help those who want help before they committ a crime against a helpless child

Go to B4UAct.com and read the outfit's goals and plans for yourself. I checked the website and it reads in a way that seems to make sense. It seems harmless. And, it is harmless until we consider what my conservative-thinking pal explained.

Homosexuality was long considered a perversion. Hey, don't kill the messenger. I'm absolutely supportive of the gay lifestyle in America. I support gay marriage. Still, for many years homosexuality was considered perverted.

It took decades of effort for homosexual groups and supportive heterosexual organizations to show that homosexuality isn't a threat to society. Again, don't rant on about how different religions view homosexuality. OK? There's nothing illegal or perverted about the gay lifestyle in a country where there's a difference between religious beliefs and the rule of law.

It took media campaigns, work with medical organizations and the support of the mental health community for homosexuals to begin the long, painful, ongoing process of being accepted in the United States.

My friend, who is someone I trust to have done the research necessary to support his claim, explained that pedophiles are trying to take the same path to acceptance as homosexuals did years ago.

It's actually an interesting approach. Pedophiles are hoping to make talk of pedophilia accepted. They're hoping to get me and other liberals with hearts that bleed without ceasing to stop wanting to have them punished harshly and start trying to see them as victims of a mental health syndrome.

B4UAct, folks who have some reason to support the mainstreaming of pedophiles, forget that they can't take the path that homosexuals took. They can try, but the path that B4UAct and similar groups are on hits an insurmountable obstacle when even a liberal who can find hope and reason to help almost anybody says, "Pedophiles commit crimes against children. Sex crimes. There's no room in mainstream America for pedophiles."

At some point on the path, too, B4UAct will run into gays and lesbian who are upstanding members of communities across the country who will point out that they want absolutely no connection to pedophiles. They are nothing alike. Nothing alike at all. Pedophiles hurt children.

So, it's important that you take a moment and remind yourself that homosexuality and pedophilia aren't at all alike. You might disagree with the homosexual lifestyle and oppose gay marriage, but you have to see the grave difference between a sexual perversion that threatens children and a sexual lifestyle that you either don't understand or just don't like.

We, liberals and conservatives, don't have to agree on gay marriage. Non-believers don't have to agree with members of any faith that doesn't acknowledge the gay and lesbian lifestyle. It's imperative that, for once, we agree to disagree and keep our eye out for the bigger, potentially growing problem.

We have to be prepared with a reasoned response to the attempt to get society to normalize and accept pedophilia as a mental health syndrome that will lead to the crimes that result from the syndrome being punished less severely.

B4UAct can work with medical professionals to inform, educate and help treat pedophilia. There are surely pedophiles who haven't committed a crime. If they come forward for medical help, it would help society if mental healthcare providers knew as much as possible about pedophilia.

B4UAct can work with the prison system to get pedophilia whatever help is necessary on the inside to help them live among us without threatening our children. Pedophiles do live among us, right? So, certainly we can support them using their time serving harsh prison sentences preparing to live among us without acting on their impulses again.

There's no reason for alarm, but we need to be ready to agree ... all of us. Church folks and non-believers have to be prepared to stop fighting and respond in unison if the path pedophiles are on reaches them. Conservatives and liberals need to be ready to join forces to say, "Pedophilia endangers our children and will never be accepted as normal in our country."

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