The Normalization Of Pedophilia

This should make every normal person’s skin crawl.

The American Psychiatric Association is undertaking a process to remove pedophilia from its book of mental illnesses, a process which will lead to the decriminalization and normalization of pedophilia.

If a small group of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals have their way at a conference this week, pedophiles themselves could play a role in removing pedophilia from the American Psychiatric Association’s bible of mental illnesses — the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), set to undergo a significant revision by 2013. Critics warn that their success could lead to the decriminalization of pedophilia.

The August 17 Baltimore conference is sponsored by B4U-ACT, a group of pro-pedophile mental health professionals and sympathetic activists. According to the conference brochure, the event will examine “ways in which minor-attracted persons [pedophiles] can be involved in the DSM 5 revision process” and how the popular perceptions of pedophiles can be reframed to encourage tolerance.

That’s right. We are now being told by the holier-than-thou Left that we should be required to tolerate pedophiles, aka child molesters. They can’t help it. They were born that way. Same-sex relationships between adults and children/adolescents — the latter technically being called ephebophilia — is just another kind of love. We need to tolerate it in the name of “diversity.” Let’s hold hands and sing “Kum-Ba-Yah.”

We’ve pointed out here before that the end game of the radical homosexual movement — the Rainbow Mafia — was the normalization of such same-sex relationships. We will distinguish these thugs from other homosexuals who simply live their lives as other Americans, not wishing to push an agenda or a lifestyle on others but rather to live their lives as they choose. We respect that here.

The damage that is done to children and adolescents who are molested by adults — both trusted adults like stepparents, teachers, etc., and the random pervert in the raincoat — is untold and lasting. Those who are molested as children and adolescents tend to become molesters themselves.

Child advocate Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting professor at Liberty University’s School of Law, said the conference is part of a strategy to condition people into accepting pedophiles.

“The first thing they do is to get the public to divest from thinking of what the offender does criminally, to thinking of the offender’s emotional state, to think of him as thinking of his emotional state, [and] to empathize and sympathize,” Reisman said. “You don’t change the nation in one fell swoop; you have to change it by conditioning. The aim is to get them [pedophiles] out of prison.”

No, Dr. Reisman, you lock them up and keep them away from our children. Most people will never accept them, even though, as we’ve said before, this was the end goal: accepting pedophiles and ephebophiles as normal.

Here’s another gem:

Several speakers at the August 17 conference, including B4U-ACT director of operations Dr. Richard Kramer and conference keynote speaker Dr. Fred Berlin, of the Johns Hopkins University, have actively opposed sex offender notification laws.

“What purpose does calling someone a ‘pervert’ or ‘predator’ serve anyway, other than to express contempt and hatred?” Kramer wrote in a March 14, 2009 blog entry on the website ReformSexOffenderLaws.org. “How is this productive? It certainly doesn’t protect children. I would urge all SO [sex offender] activists to listen to their own message: Stop buying into and promoting false stereotypes. Stop demonizing a whole class of people, and start learning the facts.”

Dr. Kramer, we call them perverts and predators because that’s what they are: perverts and predators. Look, children and adolescents are not old enough physically, mentally and emotionally to make these kinds of decisions. That’s why society has laws protecting them. I have no problem with people who “demonize” child sex predators; they deserve it.

Folks, this is just another part of the Radical Left’s agenda.

Obama No Longer Getting Daily Economic Briefing

No surprise, since the deliberate and planned destruction of the U.S. economy is going just as Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama and His puppetmaster George Soros planned.

Seems Der Fuhrer Dear Leader no longer gets a daily economic briefing.

At some point during the first two years of his administration, President Obama stopped receiving the daily economic briefing that he requested when he took office.

Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced at his own first daily briefing reporters that Obama asked for the daily economic briefing, described then as comparable to the daily intelligence briefing the president gets every morning.

“The president asked that this be added every day to his schedule,” Gibbs said at the time. Gibbs added that Obama believed it is “important that each day he receive the most up to date information as it relates to the economy.”

But at some point, the daily economic briefings stopped showing up on Obama’s daily schedule.

Let’s see … Worst. Jobs President. Ever. Worst. Debt President. Ever. Let’s just summarize it as Worst. President. Ever. Yes, worse than Jimmy Carter James Buchanan. Wonder how many gummint-run skool ejookayted idjits will have to Google James Buchanan.

All those daily briefings takes time away from the really important activities of the Community Organizer-in-Chief. Like playing golf. Or basketball. Or going on vacation. Or turning the East Room or the White House lawn into a nightclub so He can partay. Or fundraising …making sure to play the class warfare card at every opportunity.

Says Ed Lasky at The American Thinker:

The president has zero real world business experience and his Cabinet has been characterized as one marked by a notable ignorance when it comes to free enterprise and economics. Is it some of that smart power that Obama and his minions boast about to skip daily economic briefings (that would serve to educated Barack Obama) while the economy is in  a non-stop tailspin?

I can see November 2012 from my house.

Perry, Bachmann Square Off In Iowa

After becoming the latest entrant in the 2012 Republican presidential race, Texas Gov. Rick Perry shared a stage with Rep. Michelle Bachmann, winner of the Iowa Straw Poll, at the Black Hawk County Lincoln Day Dinner.

It wasn’t even a close contest in comparison. Perry took it to Bachmann and out-shined her in every capacity.

But the contrast that may lift Perry, and undermine Bachmann, in their high-stakes battle for Iowa had less to do with what they said than how they said it — and what they did before and after speaking.

Perry arrived early, as did former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. The Texas governor let a media throng grow and dissolve before working his way across the room to sit at table after table, shake hand after hand, pose for photographs and listen politely to a windy Abraham Lincoln impersonator, paying respect to a state that expects candidates, no matter their fame, to be accessible.

But Bachmann campaigned like a celebrity. And the event highlighted the brittle, presidential-style cocoon that has become her campaign’s signature: a routine of late entries, unexplained absences, quick exits, sharp-elbowed handlers with matching lapel pins, and pre-selected questioners.

The stakes could not be higher for America’s future in 2012. The country cannot afford four more years of Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama. The last time we were at a crossroads like this was in 1980. Then we had President Malaise. Now we have President Downgrade. To rewrite the line from the theme from All In The Family … Mister, we could use a man like Ronald Reagan again.

Staying with paraphrasing … we will now paraphrase Lord Bentsen: I knew Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was my President. And Mitt Romney,you’re no Ronald Reagan.

But Rick Perry could have the same star power that can merge the Tea Party/Reagan Conservative wing of the Republican Party with the GOP Establishment.

There’s no way I could imagine Ronaldus Magnus campaigning in the Bachmann style. Pre-selected questioners? How Obamaesque. She came in late, didn’t eat dinner with the attendees and spent little time interacting with the people. Compare that with this description of Perry:

Perry, by contrast, didn’t have to explain to anyone that he knows to campaign in Iowa.

Making his debut in the first-in-the-nation state, the Texan parried questions from reporters in between chatting with attendees about topics ranging from Iowa farms to just how much Austin has grown in recent years.

Activists came away impressed both with his stump speech – which, unlike that of Bachmann, was followed by a question-and-answer session with the crowd – and his warmth.

Make no doubt about it: the outcome of the 2012 presidential election will come down to getting the GOP base and the Tea Party fired up. You know ACORN will be out in force with voter fraud. You know the unionistas and the Black Panthers — Eric Holder’s “people” — will be out beating up conservatives and practicing intimidation tactics.

There are only two candidates that can fire up the necessary people: Sarah Palin, obviously, is one. Rick Perry is the other. Both have star power. By contrast, Mitt Romney is a wet blanket. Romney is clearly the better-looking John McCain of 2012, the guy the media and the GOP Beltway Elite wants running against The Anointed One.

Unless Palin gets into the race — which I am beginning to doubt she will because she has bigger star power helping conservative candidates all over the country — Rick Perry is The Man.