Nope, No Slippery Slope Here

The people who want to rape or molest your minor children without legal or social consequences are at it again. They have supported every effort to confuse and sexualize your children. They have supported every erosion of sexual morality and have deliberately worked to remove boundaries in law, public policy, and media standards so as to make sexual perversion socially acceptable and to silence those who would dare proclaim the importance and benefits of sexual morality, or even a mere difference between adult, heterosexual, monogamous marital sex and any other behaviors.

Tracy Clark-Flory reported at Salon on the latest effort to take one of the end-game steps of making pedophiles a legally protected group with rights as a minority, which would no doubt lead to power through identity politics and a right to rape your children. The pedophiles are following in the footsteps of those who came before them. Will those earlier pioneers welcome them to the destination with open arms (or perhaps something else open)? Notice the euphemism "minor-attracted".

Understandably, the idea of pedophiles helping to define their own mental illness has some unnerved. Earlier this week, the Daily Caller wrote about the event in a piece headlined, "Conference aims to normalize pedophilia." It's true that many in the community believe that attraction to pubescent or pre-pubescent children isn't a mental illness at all, but the symposium itself has the stated aim of raising awareness about fundamental problems with the proposed revision to the DSM's entry on pedophilia.

All it takes is a vote to make any change. And then the judges and politicians and news reporters and activist groups will say "Scientists say this isn't a problem. You're not an anti-science bigot who is against equality, are you?"

Such claims seem rather dubious when visiting a message board like Boy Chat, where it's easy to find men discussing how society just doesn't understand that many "young friends" enjoy having a friendship with a "boy lover." There are no mentions of sexual activity with children, as such posts are forbidden, and posters are effusive about how they would never think of "hurting" a child -- but one gets the sense that they're operating under a different understanding of "hurt."

There are psychiatrists (medical doctors) and psychologists who are child molesters. There have been criminal convictions demonstrating this. Personally, I have every reason, short of a criminal case, to believe that a child psychiatrist I knew as a child was molesting children. He probably still is. He never got to me, thankfully. If I had a way to stop him, I would.

Will activists who have so loudly scoffed at slippery slope suggestions be just as loud now in denouncing any attempt to make pedophilia and child molestation more acceptable? If not, we'll have good reason to conclude that their scoffing and professed disgust was an insincere political tactic.

Perhaps it is time to start a movement to decriminalize parents shooting child molesters? We can call it "Lead Donation Therapy".