Sunday, October 5, 2014

The Logical Outcome

Critics of same-sex "marriage" have long pointed out that if you redefine marriage to include 2 men or 2 women, that serves as a precedent for arguing that polygamy, incest, pedophilia, and bestiality should also be recognised as valid forms of "love."  How accurate their predictions were!

Speakers addressed the around 50 individuals in attendance on themes ranging from the notion that pedophiles are “unfairly stigmatized and demonized” by society to the idea that “children are not inherently unable to consent” to sex with an adult. Also discussed were arguments that an adult’s desire to have sex with children is “normative” and that the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) ignores the fact that pedophiles “have feelings of love and romance for children” in the same way adult heterosexuals and homosexuals have romantic feelings for one another.  (Read more here.)