by JANE ROBBINS
As The Federalist has recently reported, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the left is pushing toward social and legal approval of pedophilia. A failed effort in the Minnesota legislature to extend state-law protection to pedophilia as a sexual orientation should remove any doubt about where we’re headed.
Predatory adults apparently recognize the political problem inherent in protecting the “rights” of pedophiles. So they also cloak their efforts in the language of “rights,” “needs,” and “health” of minor children.
The most recent evidence of this goal comes from the International Commission of Jurists, which joined two U.N. agencies to issue a report advocating that all “consensual” sex between adults and minors be decriminalized. From Principle 16 – Consensual Sexual Conduct:
Consensual sexual conduct, irrespective of the type of sexual activity, the sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression of the people involved or their marital status, may not be criminalized in any circumstances. … With respect to the enforcement of criminal law, any prescribed minimum age of consent to sex must be applied in a non-discriminatory manner. … Moreover, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual, in fact, if not in law. In this context, the enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacities of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them.
The end game of normalizing pedophilia has been hinted at for some time. A critical step, as always, is to distort language. “Pedophile” has become “minor-attracted person” (MAP), which certainly takes the edge off. TED talkers insist that MAPs should not be stigmatized for their attractions as long as they exercise self-control around children (a talent for which pedophiles are not famous). These and other “experts” (and Minnesota legislators) describe pedophilia as a sexual orientation to be protected under state nondiscrimination law.
The left always plays the long game, and this one is no exception. Acceptance of pedophilia can be traced to the monstrous Dr. Alfred Kinsey, an entomologist by training who branched out into the study of human sexuality supposedly in response to student questions about sex and marriage.
Actually, though, as his subsequent work proved, Kinsey had a special interest in perversion. His groundbreaking “research” on sexual behavior included extensive observation of infant responses to sexual stimuli. If not a pedophile himself (views differ), he collaborated for years with at least one pedophile who meticulously cataloged his abuse of hundreds of children from 1917 to 1948 — the infamous “children of Table 34.”
So Kinsey and his criminal collaborations laid the foundation for sexualizing children. Based on his pedophile studies, he famously concluded that children are sexual beings from birth and therefore not harmed by sexual activity even as infants. The only harm, he opined, comes from other adults’ revulsion at the practice, so we should remain calm and let adults fulfill babies’ sexual needs.
Organizations that advance the agenda of the global left soon adopted Kinsey’s sexual-from-birth vision. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) embraces the idea that all human beings are sexual and concludes from this that children have sexual rights that trump the rights of parents to protect their innocence.
Not to be outdone, the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (not ratified by the U.S., but give Biden time) holds that children have rights, regardless of parental consent, to access information and medical “services” concerning sexual and reproductive health. The globally influential International Planned Parenthood Foundation includes even prostitution among the concepts that should be taught to children under 10, since kids are sexual from birth: “Sexual activity may be part of different types of relationships, including dating, marriage or commercial sex work, among others.”
This kind of information, called “comprehensive sex education” (CSE), is an effective, widely used tool for obliterating childhood and, yes, grooming kids for increased and varied sexual activity. CSE advocates insist that practically any form of sexual activity can be normal and healthy if accompanied by the consent of the parties, contraception, and condoms. CSE, it is claimed, gives young people the tools they need to enjoy healthy sex lives.
Parents who object that there’s no such thing as a healthy sex life for a minor child are dismissed as non-experts who are failing to meet their children’s needs. But many pushers of this ideology aren’t interested in what’s good for kids, only what’s good for adults.
Consider the economic motive alone. Recalcitrant parents threaten the profits of organizations such as Planned Parenthood, “the nation’s largest provider of sex education” which, not coincidentally, also provides abortions and STD treatments to kids who take seriously the schools’ blessing of their sexual exploration.
But financial reward from the school-to-clinic pipeline is only one benefit for self-interested adults. Who else might favor having a pool of young people who learned in school that any and every sexual behavior is normal and acceptable? The left’s preeminent condition of “consent” is no obstacle to the smooth-talking predator who specializes in persuasion. A school curriculum that desensitizes a vulnerable child to aberrant sexual concepts does half the predator’s work for him.
Consider other situations that can only be described as grooming. In schools and other public places, children are made accessible to overweight men made up in a grotesque caricature of women, supposedly to offer “a platform for children to learn to be their boldest, brightest and most beautiful selves.” In reality, of course, exposing children to drag queens normalizes the fetish and attempts to overcome kids’ natural resistance to the deeply perverse (and demonic).
The same can be said of providing pornography to children in school libraries. As only one of many examples, a book such as It’s Perfectly Normal would prompt a jail sentence for any trench-coated creep who showed it to your child at the park. But school librarians apparently agree with the author’s argument that the book’s explicit images of a panoply of sexual practices are “what every child has a right to know.” It’s all about children’s rights, you see, not the adults who benefit from their desensitization.
Some CSE advocates push for “porn literacy” so that children can better evaluate the pornography they see either in their school libraries or on their school-provided digital devices. There seems to be little concern among sex-positive “educators” that pornography warps a child’s developing brain, and again, what adults potentially benefit from the damage?
So we come to the cause du jour, which is allowing children to choose their sex and (pretend to) change it at will. The trans industry insists that minor children — even as infants and toddlers, and even from the womb — know if their body is the wrong sex (misleadingly called “gender”) and that they must be allowed to dictate the world’s response to their secret knowledge.
i.e., Drag Queen performances. Let me remind you again of Obama’s first choice for a “Safe Schools Czar”. Obama was way ahead of the curve. He chose Kevin Jennings to be in charge of keeping our children safe in our schools. Turns out Kevin was a proponent of NAMBLA, the North American Men/Boys Love Association. Yeah, Obama wanted a rabid pedophile to be in charge of children’s safety. Maybe he meant it as a joke, but I think not. This also points to another factor: Obama was comfortable being around pedophiles. Yeah, I wonder who’s name was on Epstein’s list.
Well, there’s still bestiality. Hard to judge if that is sicker than sexual abuse of children, but I’ll bet there is a small minority that could get the Democrat’s attention and protect it as a “right”. If it’s sick and bad for the nation, Democrats will support it.
The right has bet all of their chips on normalizing disinformation, lies, and stupidity.
Such as? Did idiot Biden lie when he said:
… the Afghanistan withdrawal went perfectly?
… the southern border is secure?
… Border Patrol mounted agents whipped illegal immigrants?
… inflation is transient?
… gas was $5 a gallon when he took office?
… Putin caused all the inflation?
… there was no vaccine when he took office?
… he has traveled 17,000 miles with Xi?
… that there are no background checks at gun shows?
… that the Georgia election law suppresses the ability to vote?
… the “surge” of illegal immigrants he caused happens every year?
… that he would only serve one term?
… that the disaster at the border is Trump’s fault?
… that the information on Hunter’s laptop was “Russian disinformation”?
… that he had no knowledge of Hunter’s foreign business deals?
… the Supreme Court had decided election fraud cases?
… that he hasn’t taken lobbyist money?
… that he vaccinated (at the time) 70% of the population?
… he has driven an 18-wheeler?
… that the Georgia election integrity law would suppress votes?
… that he was a coal miner?
… he was a civil rights activist?
… he was arrested in the Capital?
… he was arrested in S. Africa?
… 350 million Americans had been vaccinated?
… no foreign leaders had criticized him?
… about nation building and putting soldiers in Afghanistan?
… about not leaving Afghanistan until all Americans were removed?
… that the collapse in Afghanistan “caught him by surprise”?
… he visited the Tree of Life synagogue after an attack on it?
… that he was going to end COVID?
… he was working “around the clock”?
… he had an opportunity to go to Annapolis and play football?
… that the 2nd Amendment banned weapons?
… the .223 and 9mm round were the most powerful rounds?
… told union members that since he took office, they have more money, more savings?
… that he was responsible for a planned Social Security cost of living increase?
… he would fire anyone on his staff that showed disrespect to anyone?
… there was no action on COVID19 “for months” under Trump?
… Officer Sicknick was murdered at the Capital?
… Republicans were defunding police, not Democrats?
… the economy was “in a tailspin” when he took office?
… the Capital riot was the worst incident of violence since the Civil War?
… the trillions of dollars Democrats were spending would cause inflation?
… Trump said white supremacists were “fine people”?
… there were Russian bounties?
… Democrat spending would not increase the deficit?
… no one making less that $400,000 would see tax increases?
… his infrastructure bill was “paid for”?
… the majority of illegal immigrant families are sent back?
… no family members of his or staff would get government jobs?
… the government was going to “buy American”?
… that he was a member of Ukraine and Polish secret service?
,,, that he didn’t know what Top Secret documents were illegally kept in his private office or how they got there?
… that inflation was bad when he took office?
… that the economy was in free-fall when he took office?
… that he was raised in a Puerto Rican neighborhood?
… that he was raised in a Polish neighborhood?
… that he was raised in an Italian neighborhood?
… that he went to synagogue before he went to mass?
… that the Suspicious Activity Reports do not show payments to the Biden family from China?
… that the Chinese spy balloon did not collect any military intelligence over the US?
… that the White House had no prior knowledge of the Mar a Lago raid?
… he was once a University of Pennsylvania professor?
… he said Hunter broke no laws?
… he said he reduced the national debt by $1.7 trillion?
PIZZAGATE is a conspiracy theory, totally debunked.
The finance guy for Trumps rape case visited Epsteins Island, revenge for wanting pedophiles to get the death penalty?
Is there any good sales on millstones?