Normalizing Pedophilia

 

Why is our culture, even the world, so determined to destroy the lives of our children by the obsessive focus on sex? There seems to be no end to grooming our children to experience their lives primarily through sexuality, and although we haven’t legalized pedophilia in the United States, we are definitely moving in that direction. Much has been said about legislation that was passed in Minnesota to supposedly clarify the definition of pedophilia, but there are some who believe that the Minnesota legislators will eventually move to legalize it.

Unfortunately, the U.N. and the International Commission of Jurists have stepped in with specific efforts to decriminalize pedophilia:

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.

UNESCO decided to develop a Comprehensive Sexuality Education. This document expands on the explanation given above.

So, we supposedly have an international organization that will insist we follow their criteria for education, especially for the sake of our children, to protect them from incomplete, distorted, or cultural limitations on the current sexual agendas being offered.

The obsession with gender and sexuality has permeated our culture and the lives of our children:

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.

The outrageous assumptions in many discussions of gender and sexuality insist that children are capable of making consensual decisions. How is this possible? Depending on the age, children would consent to many things that could damage their lives, such as smoking, drinking, bungee jumping, taking drugs—the list is endless. Aren’t parents supposed to intervene with their children when they are able, if for no other reason than to save them from themselves, from their insatiable curiosity and their limited maturity?

Beyond the practical advice and limitations to experimentation and the need to provide guidance and safety, how do we protect our children in these times? How do we convince them that they are more than sexual beings? That they are beings of creativity, of souls, of value beyond their having sexual choices?

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  1. Red Herring Coolidge
    Red Herring
    @EHerring

    Susan Quinn (View Comment):

    Robert E. Lee (View Comment):

    As far as biblical teaching, keep your bible (whichever holy book you espouse) to yourself. I don’t need your god, thank you, I have my own. Freedom to practice your religion also means I’m free from your religion. There is a reason for the separation of church and state.

    As for the age of majority at 18, I was old enough to die for my country, I’m old enough to be charged as an adult for a crime, then I’m old enough for the full benefits of adulthood.

    Robert, was this a general statement or in reference to something I wrote or a comment in the post? I don’t disagree with your comments, but they sound angry and reactive and I’m curious if my writing is the source of your reaction.

    Atheists always sound angry. 

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  2. Red Herring Coolidge
    Red Herring
    @EHerring

    Robert E. Lee (View Comment):

    Susan Quinn (View Comment):

    Robert E. Lee (View Comment):

    As far as biblical teaching, keep your bible (whichever holy book you espouse) to yourself. I don’t need your god, thank you, I have my own. Freedom to practice your religion also means I’m free from your religion. There is a reason for the separation of church and state.

    As for the age of majority at 18, I was old enough to die for my country, I’m old enough to be charged as an adult for a crime, then I’m old enough for the full benefits of adulthood.

    Robert, was this a general statement or in reference to something I wrote or a comment in the post? I don’t disagree with your comments, but they sound angry and reactive and I’m curious if my writing is the source of your reaction.

    It’s more of a general reaction to a lot of commentary I’ve been hearing from various sources lately. One the one hand people claiming we need more god and one the other constant news of yet another holy man arrested for molesting children. The whole thing has me fed up, but I didn’t intend to spill my bile on you. Your’s is a voice I respect here.

    Religion didn’t turn him into a child molester. They migrate to where the children are. The problem is worse in the public schools. 

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  3. Red Herring Coolidge
    Red Herring
    @EHerring

    Robert E. Lee (View Comment):

    Folks decry democrats for causing this problem but a list of noted republicans is readily available, if widely ignored here. In fact, a Missouri republican claims adults marrying 12 year olds is good thing.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-moon-gop-missouri-lawmaker-defends-childs-right-to-marry-2023-4?op=1

    I find it interesting that both Epstein and Maxwell were jailed for heinous crimes commited by…nobody. No person has been charged with molesting those children. Isn’t that strange?

     

    Amazing what morality becomes acceptable as the country becomes more secular.

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  4. CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill Coolidge
    CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill
    @CarolJoy

    Red Herring (View Comment):

    Robert E. Lee (View Comment):

    As far as biblical teaching, keep your bible (whichever holy book you espouse) to yourself. I don’t need your god, thank you, I have my own. Freedom to practice your religion also means I’m free from your religion. There is a reason for the separation of church and state.

    As for the age of majority at 18, I was old enough to die for my country, I’m old enough to be charged as an adult for a crime, then I’m old enough for the full benefits of adulthood.

    Even the military supervises 18 year olds closely. Too bad young people don’t realize our Constitution and Declaration of Independence were sprung from the western tradition, started by the Greeks and matured into what our founders delivered, rooted deeply in the Judeo-Christian values. History is important. Without the study of the classics and the Bible, young people today have no concept of what the country is about and why it is “exceptional.” Separation of church and state doesn’t mean what you think it means. Separate the state from its western, Judeo-Christian values and you will no longer have an exceptional country. As secularism grows, we are watching the republic crumble. You do you but you better hope the rest of us don’t follow.

    The Republic is crumbling on account of how so many believe the official narrative on everything:

    The rest follows off the above belief.

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  5. Henry Castaigne Member
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    Red Herring (View Comment):

    Robert E. Lee (View Comment):

    Folks decry democrats for causing this problem but a list of noted republicans is readily available, if widely ignored here. In fact, a Missouri republican claims adults marrying 12 year olds is good thing.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-moon-gop-missouri-lawmaker-defends-childs-right-to-marry-2023-4?op=1

    I find it interesting that both Epstein and Maxwell were jailed for heinous crimes commited by…nobody. No person has been charged with molesting those children. Isn’t that strange?

     

    Amazing what morality becomes acceptable as the country becomes more secular.

    I don’t think the Missouri Republican is an example of secularism Red Herring. That’s the Catholics trying to blame the blue-haired antifa on Protestantism. I am ain’t buying it.

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  6. Red Herring Coolidge
    Red Herring
    @EHerring

    Henry Castaigne (View Comment):

    Red Herring (View Comment):

    Robert E. Lee (View Comment):

    Folks decry democrats for causing this problem but a list of noted republicans is readily available, if widely ignored here. In fact, a Missouri republican claims adults marrying 12 year olds is good thing.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-moon-gop-missouri-lawmaker-defends-childs-right-to-marry-2023-4?op=1

    I find it interesting that both Epstein and Maxwell were jailed for heinous crimes commited by…nobody. No person has been charged with molesting those children. Isn’t that strange?

     

    Amazing what morality becomes acceptable as the country becomes more secular.

    I don’t think the Missouri Republican is an example of secularism Red Herring. That’s the Catholics trying to blame the blue-haired antifa on Protestantism. I am ain’t buying it.

    You have a point. The age women needed or wanted to marry has risen a lot the last 100 years.

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  7. Modus Ponens Inactive
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    In short, we decided as a society, that we don’t really want to follow those old mythical texts about some Sky Daddy who grants our wishes. So we decided to mutilate and groom little kids instead. Much more sane.

    In all seriousness, the reason we’re progressing to this is that we’re actually regressing to pre-christian, pagan civilization. The regressives hide this with a flurry of scientific sounding jargon. We don’t have Nature Worship, we have environmentalism. We don’t practice infant exposure, but we guarantee a women’s right to “Terminate her pregnancy”. We don’t have pedophiles, we have “Minor Attracted Persons”.

    It turns out removing Judeo-Christian values doesn’t give us better science or a more rational society, it gives us paganism and insanity.

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  8. Henry Castaigne Member
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    Modus Ponens (View Comment):

    In short, we decided as a society, that we don’t really want to follow those old mythical texts about some Sky Daddy who grants our wishes. So we decided to mutilate and groom little kids instead. Much more sane.

    In all seriousness, the reason we’re progressing to this is that we’re actually regressing to pre-christian, pagan civilization. The regressives hide this with a flurry of scientific sounding jargon. We don’t have Nature Worship, we have environmentalism. We don’t practice infant exposure, but we guarantee a women’s right to “Terminate her pregnancy”. We don’t have pedophiles, we have “Minor Attracted Persons”.

    It turns out removing Judeo-Christian values doesn’t give us better science or a more rational society, it gives us paganism and insanity.

    As a a maltheist Lockean Platonist. I agree with you. Humans are fundamentally religious. If they don’t worship Jesus they will worship something else.

    You gotta serve someone. 

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  9. Percival Thatcher
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    @Percival

    Modus Ponens (View Comment):

    In short, we decided as a society, that we don’t really want to follow those old mythical texts about some Sky Daddy who grants our wishes. So we decided to mutilate and groom little kids instead. Much more sane.

    In all seriousness, the reason we’re progressing to this is that we’re actually regressing to pre-christian, pagan civilization. The regressives hide this with a flurry of scientific sounding jargon. We don’t have Nature Worship, we have environmentalism. We don’t practice infant exposure, but we guarantee a women’s right to “Terminate her pregnancy”. We don’t have pedophiles, we have “Minor Attracted Persons”.

    It turns out removing Judeo-Christian values doesn’t give us better science or a more rational society, it gives us paganism and insanity.

    At least the original worshippers of Moloch killed the children straight out. They didn’t mutilate them and abandon them to commit suicide later on in life, like this new batch.

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  10. TBA Coolidge
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    @RobtGilsdorf

    We really need to reconsider what the UN – a monster we created, are a part of, and house and fund – is for and not for. 

    fwiw, they are mostly a toothless platitude machine. Honestly I am surprised that the nations that we used to consider ‘backwards’ are so chill about many of the speeches and resolutions that are antithetical to self-rule and nearly all theology. 

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  11. CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill Coolidge
    CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill
    @CarolJoy

    Robert E. Lee (View Comment):

    Folks decry democrats for causing this problem but a list of noted republicans is readily available, if widely ignored here. In fact, a Missouri republican claims adults marrying 12 year olds is good thing.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-moon-gop-missouri-lawmaker-defends-childs-right-to-marry-2023-4?op=1

    I find it interesting that both Epstein and Maxwell were jailed for heinous crimes commited by…nobody. No person has been charged with molesting those children. Isn’t that strange?

     

    The situation with Epstein and Maxwell seems to insinuate that maybe some of the top people in our justice system have been seriously compromised by some program or other.

    Like a program that involved top people being invited to hang out at Epstein’s Island. (Like SCOTUS member Roberts being one such person.)

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