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FYI, Matt Barber <[email protected]> is Director of Cultural Affairs
with both Liberty Counsel <http://www.lc.org/> and Liberty Alliance Action.
He also serves as Associate Dean of Liberty University School of Law and
co-hosts the nationally syndicated "Liberty Live" talk radio program on AFR
Talk <http://www.afr.net/>. Send comments to Matt at [email protected].
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Press Release
*Contact: **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* *
DATE: August 22, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
*‘Time to Normalize Pedophilia’: Firsthand Report on B4U-ACT Conference *
Lynchburg, VA – On Wednesday, August 17, child advocates Matt Barber, Vice
President of Liberty Counsel Action, and Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting law
professor at Liberty University School of Law, attended a Baltimore, MD
conference hosted by the pedophile group B4U-ACT. Around 50 individuals were
in attendance including a number of admitted pedophiles – or
“Minor-Attracted Persons” as they prefer to be identified (MAP “sexual
orientation”) – as well as several supportive mental health professionals.
World renowned “sexologist,” Dr. Fred Berlin of Johns Hopkins University
gave the keynote address, saying: “I want to completely support the goal of
B4U-ACT.”
Highlights of the conference:
- Pedophiles are “unfairly stigmatized and demonized” by society.
- There was concern about “vice-laden diagnostic criteria” and “cultural
baggage of wrongfulness.”
- “We are not required to interfere with or inhibit our child’s
sexuality.”
- “Children are not inherently unable to consent” to sex with an adult.
- “In Western culture sex is taken too seriously.”
- “Anglo-American standard on age of consent is new [and ‘Puritanical’].
In Europe it was always set at 10 or 12. Ages of consent beyond that are
relatively new and very strange, especially for boys. They’ve always been
able to have sex at any age.”
- An adult’s desire to have sex with children is “normative.”
- Our society should “maximize individual liberty. … We have a highly
moralistic society that is not consistent with liberty.”
- “Assuming children are unable to consent lends itself to
criminalization and stigmatization.”
- “These things are not black and white; there are various shades of
gray.”
- A consensus belief by both speakers and pedophiles in attendance was
that, because it vilifies MAPs, pedophilia should be removed as a mental
disorder from the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) *Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders* (DSM), in the same manner
homosexuality was removed in 1973.
- Dr. Fred Berlin acknowledged that it was political activism, similar to
that witnessed at the conference, rather than scientific considerations that
successfully led to the declassification of homosexuality as a mental
disorder: The reason “homosexuality was taken out of DSM is that people
didn’t want the government in the bedroom,” he said.
- Dr. Berlin appeared to endorse the politically maligned clinical
practice of “reparative therapy” for homosexuals and pedophiles alike,
saying, “If someone, for their own reasons, doesn’t want to live a
homosexual lifestyle, I tell them that it’s hard but I’ll try to help them.”
- The DSM ignores that pedophiles “have feelings of love and romance for
children” in the same way adult heterosexuals and homosexuals have romantic
feelings for one another.
- “The majority of pedophiles are gentle and rational.”
- The DSM should “focus on the needs” of the pedophile, and should have
“a minimal focus on social control,” rather than obsessing about the “need
to protect children.”
- Self-descried “gay activist” and speaker Jacob Breslow said that
children can properly be “the object of our attraction.” He further
objectified children, suggesting that pedophiles needn’t gain consent from a
child to have sex with “it” any more than we need consent from a shoe to
wear it. He then used graphic, slang language to favorably describe the act
of climaxing (ejaculating) “on or with” a child. No one in attendance
objected to this explicit depiction of child sexual assault.
To schedule an interview with Matt Barber or Dr. Judith Reisman, send an
email request to [email protected].
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