California Congresswoman, Rep. Jackie Speier CA (D), wants to federalize a state law to prohibit counseling to change a person’s sexual orientation. That doesn’t sound that extreme, but pedophilia is a sexual orientation according to this bill as well.
Under the bill’s language, a mental health counselor could be sanctioned if there was an attempt to get a pedophile or gay individual to change his behavior or speak negatively about their behavior as it relates to sexuality.
The bill calls on states to prohibit efforts to change a minor’s sexual orientation, even if the minor requests it, saying that doing so is “dangerous and harmful.”
The text of the legislation doesn’t specifically ban “gay” conversion therapy. Instead, it prohibits attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation.
“Sexual orientation change efforts’ means any practices by mental health providers that seek to change an individual’s sexual orientation,” the bill says.
Republicans attempted to add an amendment specifying that, “pedophilia is not covered as an orientation.” However, the Democrats defeated the amendment. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) stated that all alternative sexual lifestyles should be protected under the law, and accordingly decided that pedophilia is a sexual orientation that should be equally as embraced as homosexuality.
“This language is so broad and vague, it arguably could include all forms of sexual orientation, including pedophilia,” said Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute. “It’s not just the orientation that is protected—the conduct associated with the orientation is protected as well.”
Who Cares If Pedophilia Is A Sexual Orientation?
It also means that, if pedophilia is a sexual orientation, that discrimination laws also apply to pedophiles. That means you cannot block a pedophile from being a preschool teacher or any other high-risk occupation.Recently, a United States District Court Judge, William Shubb, sided with Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) by granting their plaintiffs a preliminary injunction against the legislation, which is known as California SB 1172.
“Because the court finds that SB 1172 is subject to strict scrutiny and is unlikely to satisfy this standard, the court finds that plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their claims based on violations of their rights to freedom of speech under the First Amendment,” wrote Judge Shubb.
“This victory sends a clear signal to all those who feel they can stifle religious freedom, free speech, and the rights of parents without being contested,” said PJI President, Brad Dacus. “We at PJI are ready to fight this battle all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary.
“This will be a long, grueling battle with tremendous consequences for generations to come. We are grateful to those who are willing to support us in this critical time to preserve our freedoms and protect our children,” he continued.
Thankfully, for the time being, this legislation has been blocked, but many questions still remain.
This bill establishes a dangerous precedent for normalizing the behavior of pedophiles while stripping parents of their rights and peace of mind.
One can certainly make the argument that homosexuals are “born that way,” and we generally would not dispute that. However, when we have legislators that want to extend the “born that way” defense to pedophiles, this crosses a very dangerous line.
Whether a pedophile is born that way or not, it still does not make their behavior acceptable in any way.
If so, then you could declare rapists are “born that way.” They can’t help that they need to rape! Poor them!
Let’s be real.
Sex between an adult and a child too young to understand what is going on is not the same thing as sex between two consenting adults.
The operative word here is “consenting.” Children—by both law and basic common sense—cannot “consent.” If Jackie Spier had a son or daughter, and an adult “had consensual sex” with him or her, we do not believe that what she would be so adamant about protecting them.
What liberals conveniently ignore is the fact that all societies who participated in pedophilia—such as the Hittites, Canaanites, Greeks, and Romans—eventually caved in on themselves due to corruption and depravity.
Further, let’s not also forget that their favorite form of entertainment was watching people get torn to shreds by lions, hacked to death, and burned alive.
Recognizing sexual ‘orientation’ is walking a razor’s edge. Unlike gay-oriented legislation, pedophilia has victims who must be protected.
We don’t put pedophiles in prison to make them stop being pedophiles; we put them there because they threaten the safety of the most vulnerable people in a society.
And they can get married too in our new America !
ReplyDeleteA response to Rep. Alcee Hastings,
ReplyDeleteIs there ever a time when it is okay to discriminate against a person based on sexual orientation? Yes.
California Congresswoman, Rep. Jackie Speier has been actively seeking to broaden and federalize a CA state law that would include pedophilia as a sexual orientation. While Republicans stipulated her "anti-counseling" bill in general, they attempted to amend the bill's language to exclude pedophilia as a protected sexual orientation. Enter, Rep. Alcee Hastings, who argued that, "all alternative sexual lifestyles should be protected under the law," and accordingly, pedophilia is a sexual orientation that should be treated equally.
With brain-scan imagery, the most current neuroscience literature literally proves that each, individual brain is as unique as a fingerprint, or a snowflake. There have never been any two human brains alike in the history of our species, nor will there ever be. We are, all of us, wholly distinct. Should it come as any surprise then that something as biologically complex as sexual attraction would be just as diverse? No. Knowing this, some brains will have a chemical orientation towards being sexually attracted to children.
Yes, pedophilia is a sexual orientation. No, Alcee Hastings, all alternative lifestyles should not be protected under the law. Pedophilia is a crime. We cannot write laws vigilantly prosecuting a behavior on the one hand, and then protecting it on the other. Moreover, in my opinion, pedophilia is not just a crime. It is the crime that causes the longest-lasting, residual scars of any action a perpetrator can inflict on a victim (and the victim's family by extension). Prisoners, inmates, and convicted felons at every penitentiary in the world agree with me. I suggest, Alcee Hastings, that you take some time to sit with the family of John Walsh, Mark Klaas, and the mother and father of Megan Kanka (who helped bring about the anti-pedophile legislation, Megan's Law).
Which brings us to the topic of discrimination. Discrimination is defined as choosing, or selecting, one over another. Therein it inherently elicits a judgement that one thing is better than another. Discrimination is exactly what's required on the issue of pedophilia. It is not okay, permissible, or respectable. It might very well be natural per a given individual, but it is as unhealthy and damaging a behavior as any human can engage in. This topic is not localized within any worldview, either, whether theistic or atheistic, because both sides have children.
So what's the problem here?
The problem is that we all fear being labeled with the title of "bigot". We fear it so much that we now begin to flirt with cowardice. In short, we all care so much about what the group thinks that we are willing to even to embrace pedophilia.
"pedophilia is a crime"
ReplyDeleteprovide the law in which it states
it is illegal for a because to be sexually aroused by or sexually fantasize about minors please.
as molesting children is illegal and sex with a conesent age child when you are 20 is illegal but i have found no law stateing the attraction is illegal so please enlighten me
as it would give pedophiles a right to say homosexuals were never oppressed because it was never illegal to like the same sex in america
who cares if pedophilia is an oreiantation?
ReplyDeletewho cares if i am mentally abuseing a 16 year old because of his sexual oreiantation i know he can't change it i know if he does not act on it he will harm no one but who cares its my right to abuse him -i guess only fag kids lives matter eh