\u201cAs a former law enforcement officer I\u2019ve dealt with situations involving suicide, homicide and other violence. That said, I\u2019ve never felt the level of spiritual oppression and evil that I felt in that room,\u201d says Liberty Counsel\u00a0attorney Matt Barber.<\/p>\n
Barber is describing attending a pro-pedophilia conference in Baltimore last week.<\/p>\n
A group of academics\u00a0called “B4U-ACT” classifies pedophilia as simply another sexual orientation and decries the \u201cstigma\u201d attached to adults having sex with children.<\/p>\n
B4U-ACT science director Howard Kline challenged supporters to pressure\u00a0the American Psychological Association\u00a0to stop\u00a0defining\u00a0the sexual\u00a0compulsions\u00a0of \u201cminor-attracted persons\u201d as a mental disorder.<\/p>\n
Similar lobbying in 1973 by homosexual activists led to the APA’s declassification of homosexuality as a mental disorder. As a result, debate regarding homosexuality and the many documented harms associated with the homosexual lifestyle\u00a0were all but shut down in academic psychological circles.<\/p>\n
That’s the goal of B4U-ACT — normalizing pedophilia and changing the public discussion away from protecting children and instead to giving rights to pedophiles since they were “born that way” and can do nothing about their sexual orientation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThese mental health \u2018professionals,\u2019 and self-described pedophile and \u2018gay\u2019 activists were inexplicably able to cavalierly discuss, in an almost dismissive way, the idea of child rape,\u201d Barber told LifeSiteNews. \u201cThey used flowery, euphemistic psychobabble to give quasi-scientific cover to a discussion about the worst kind of perversion.\u201d<\/p>\n
The event, attended by pro-pedophile activists and mental health professionals, examined the ways in which \u201cminor-attracted persons\u201d could be involved in pressuring the APA to revise its\u00a0classification of pedophilia.<\/p>\n
LifeSiteNews reports:<\/p>\n
Conference panelists included Fred Berlin of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Renee Sorentino of Harvard Medical School, John Sadler of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and John Breslow of the London School of Economics and Political Science.<\/p>\n
Speakers addressed the around 50 individuals in attendance on themes ranging from the notion that pedophiles are \u201cunfairly stigmatized and demonized\u201d by society to the idea that \u201cchildren are not inherently unable to consent\u201d to sex with an adult. Also discussed were arguments that an adult\u2019s desire to have sex with children is \u201cnormative\u201d and that the APA\u2019s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) ignores the fact that pedophiles \u201chave feelings of love and romance for children\u201d in the same way adult heterosexuals and homosexuals have romantic feelings for one another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Liberty University Visiting Professor of Law Judith Reisman, who attended the conference,\u00a0noted\u00a0“that educated professionals have largely been trained to be a form of sexual anarchists.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough the stupidity of advocating harmless amoral sexuality overwhelms us daily, our arrogant \u2018educated\u2019 populations say morality has no place in our sexual lives,\u201d Reisman said. \u201cJust as AIDS is a natural outgrowth of amoral sexual education and media, so too is child sexual abuse. We are breeding a new human character and child sexual abuse is increasingly part of that character.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cI, for one, have had enough,\u201d Barber told LifeSiteNews. \u201cThese sexual anarchists, whatever their perverse stripe, need to leave our children alone and let kids be kids.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, she noted, that’s not likely to happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey know that to own the future, they must own the minds of our children,\u201d he said. \u201cHence, groups like B4U-ACT, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, Planned Parenthood and the like, utilize academia, from pre-school to post-graduate, in order to brainwash and indoctrinate.\u201d<\/p>\n