On Monday, September 21, Salon.com published an article entitled, “I’m a pedophile, but not a monster.” The lede read,“I’m attracted to children but unwilling to act on it. Before judging me harshly, would you be willing to listen?”
The article prompted many to ask, justifiably, if this is the beginning of our culture accepting pedophilia – the last great frontier of sexual amorality and relativism.
Not so long ago, cultural acceptance of homosexual marriage was unimaginable, it’s now enshrined in a Supreme Court decision. In the last few years, two television shows have familiarized viewers with the idea of polygamy. The subjects of one of those shows is now arguing the constitutionality of these “plural marriages” using the Obergefell vs. Hodges decision that legalized homosexual marriage in a federal court.
There is no conceivable legal reason why the same logic applied to gay “marriage” should not also be applied to polygamous “marriages.”
There is also no reason why the logic for accepting homosexual activity should not be applied to pedophilia. Indeed, that is exactly the logic of the Salon article:
“Many gays begin to recognize their sexual preferences sometime around puberty, if not before. For me it was the same. I was about 12 when the first inklings of a sexual preference bubbled up in me, though at the time I thought little of it…”
And later in the article: “For every pedophile who was sexually abused as a child there’s another who wasn’t. Likewise, most abuse victims never manifest pedophilic desires. Some researchers surmise that pedophilia can be traced back to genetics…”
Add to that the sympathetic commenters on the article:
Example 1.) “… I understand where this article is going and I think if people who are homosexual have gained so much respect over the past decade than why can’t a pedophile who hasn’t and never intends to harm/molest a child…”
Example 2.) “There really is no difference between pedophilia and any other sexual orientation–in the way it is developed … and discovered, and in the fact that it cannot be changed …”
If this really is the final frontier for sexual “freedom,” surely its acceptance must be decades away?
Sadly, American government agents are already overlooking this egregious abuse, calling it a difference of culture.
A publication no less prestigious (and liberal) than the New York Times broke the story, citing, for one, the father of a deceased Lance Corporal’s father, who recalled his son’s account, “At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it.”
“My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture,” the soldier’s father said.
The Times described this expression of Afghan culture as “bacha bazi” or “boy play,” seemingly a status symbol among the powerful.
A 2002 article from the New York Times cites a money changer in Kandahar recalling a time when, “boys couldn’t come to the market because the commanders would come and take away any that they liked.”
The Lance Corporal mentioned above was gunned down by the sex slaves of an Afghani police commander on the American military base. That police commander is not only still on the police force, but holds a higher rank.
Four years ago, in a case that is still playing out today, a battered Afghani woman brought her son to an American base, explaining that a local Afghani police commander had forcibly taken him as a sex slave, even chaining him to the bed. When the woman begged for her son to be released, he beat her as well.
When two American Green Berets, Captain Quinn and Sergeant Martland, caught wind of the gut-wrenching story, they confronted the commander, who admitted it was true, but laughed it off.
According to Quinn, when he explained how serious it was, the Afghani just continued to laugh, and that’s when Quinn and Martland did what I would hope anyone defending my freedom would do and threw him to the ground and roughed him up, unfortunately without delivering serious injury.
That beating led to Quinn being relieved of his command and kicked out of Afghanistan. He has since left the military.
Martland, on the other hand, would like to stay in the Army, but because of his involvement in beating up the child rapist will soon be involuntarily discharged.
Not only then, are people starting to publicly argue for the acceptance of pedophilia, but government agents, specifically our military, are already being instructed by their superiors to view it as a matter of “culture,” not morality, and being punished when they do not comply.
President of the Family Research Council and former Marine, Tony Perkins, places the responsibility all the way at the top.
“No soldier should ever be told to turn a blind eye to child abuse. America needs a President that will put policies in place that when an American soldier or Marine protects an innocent child from those who would terrorize them in such a heinous way, they will be honored and not condemned and booted from the military.”
Will we as a nation turn a blind eye? Will we stand by as pedophilia becomes normalized?
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