There’s Always A New Frontier

     At least, there is for those determined to break down every remaining norm of conduct.

     I didn’t think we’d ever see this. But it’s here.

     In a country fanatically dedicated to the protection of the innocent, especially those who can’t protect themselves, we’re seeing a new, surprisingly energetic campaign to normalize sex between adults and young children. How can this be? Who is propelling it? Why is it getting the smallest scintilla of respect?

     Have Americans become so inured to the dismantling of barriers that once protected us that we’ll allow this to roll over us with only token resistance? Or are we just taking a moment to get over our astonishment before slapping down this new demand with all the fury our society can muster?

     Some of the “arguments” being advanced in defense of pedophilia are mind-blowing:

• “Love is love.”
• “It’s nobody else’s business.”
• “It’s not as harmful as was once claimed.”
• “We allow children to consent to abortions, don’t we?”
• “It’s just a sexual preference, no different from homosexuality.”

     I hope and pray most fervently that the reaction against this new “movement for liberty and equality” is smashed flat. In particular, I hope the political Left, for all its lunacy, isn’t quite insane enough to embrace it. But why it’s arising now is worth some thought.

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     Supposedly, a small but measurable fraction of the U.S. population feels the pedophilic impulse. That fraction has been estimated – God only knows how – as somewhere from 0.5% to 3%. Even at the low end, that would make it probable that each of us has known someone who occasionally feels a desire to have sex with a minor. It would also imply that the great majority of those persons either never act on the impulse or are clever enough not to get caught.

     Note that the current estimate of the homosexual fraction of our populace is also around 3%. But is the prevalence of a desire any sort of rationale for legitimizing it?

     The last five decades have seen a convulsive loosening of norms and constraints applicable to sex. We’ve serially decided to tolerate:

• Divorce and remarriage;
• Premarital and extramarital sex;
• Homosexuality and bisexuality;
• Various sexual fetishes;
• Sadism and masochism.

     In the matter of sexual conduct, few barriers remain to be broken. But why pedophilia? Haven’t we agreed that below a certain age – I think most states put it at 16 years of age – an individual is not competent to make the weighty decisions that go along with sexual activity? I could understand there being some differences of opinion about what the age should be. I can’t understand the claim that there’s no appropriate minimum age of consent.

     Is this a consequence of allowing Muslims into our society? Or does it spring from the latitude our society has granted to talking about sex and fooling around with its peripherals (e.g., child beauty pageants)? Were we fated to come to this pass from the moment we separated sex from the marital bond?

     Would any non-pedophiles like to argue in favor of legitimizing pedophilia?

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     Everywhere around the world, horrors proliferate. Third World countries are aflame with wars and insurrections. Much of South America is strangling on socialism. The nations of Europe are dying demographically. Some are trying to stave off the end by importing Muslim savages. Africans who’ve contracted the AIDS virus routinely rape young children in the belief that sex with a virgin would cure them. Several nations have legalized assisted suicide. I’ve written before about the incomprehensible Groningen Protocol. Only here in the United States does there remain some measure of public order and respect for human life.

     Yes, I said “some measure.” No nation in which a million babies are aborted yearly can claim to be wholly respectful toward the miracle of life. Even so, we’re doing better than most of the world, in most of the respects that matter. But no nation, as far as I’m aware, has baldly legalized sex between adults and children of any age.

     What are we doing on this ledge? How did we get up here in the first place? Can’t we see how far there is to fall? What will it take to dismount without incident?

     Is what I’ve vented about here merely a transient, a blip soon to vanish permanently from the national radar, or are we genuinely threatened by it?

     Pray.

Quickies: The Camel Is Inching Forward

     Perhaps you thought once the Supreme Court had recognized a “right” to same-sex marriage, the Sturm und Drang would be over. But within hours, polygamists were demanding the legal recognition of their “marriages.” And why not, after all? A man married himself shortly before that. If you can have zero or one spouses, why not two or more? And of course, the pedophiles are waiting for their day in court.

     (Note: The publication Miss Valente’s article mentions cannot currently be found at Amazon. Apparently, Amazon has delisted it. Too much blowback? Or was it some sort of sick joke?)

     Say, remember when Senator Rick Santorum said publicly that if there’s a “right” to same-sex marriage, then you have “a right to anything” -- ? He was roundly condemned for that blatant sin against the PC Code. Here’s a sample just in case you’ve forgotten:

     Santorum wants a a ban on gay marriages. He would likely bring back antiquated anti-sodomy laws as well. “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have a right to bigamy, you have a right to polygamy, you have a right to incest, you have a right to adultery. You have a right to anything.”

     When Santorum gets on the subject of homosexuality, one can’t help noting a tinge of hysteria, along with a generous helping of illogic and exaggeration. Santorum would probably try to ban other related activities, such as the use of contraceptives to prevent pregnancy. He certainly wants to get rid of Planned Parenthood.

     What this adds up to is that when Santorum says religious values should play a greater role in government policy, he means that there should be lots of laws regulating your personal life, particularly your sex life. This is pretty typical of religious fundamentalists, particularly American Christian ones. They just can’t leave other people’s bedrooms alone.

     Is Lawrence Davidson, the author of the above article, a “fudge packer,” a “meat smoker,” a faggot? I wouldn’t know. But he’s definitely pro-sodomy, pro-infanticide, and a religious bigot, as you can see from his words above.

     Which brings us to this obscenity:

     A homosexual man has filed a $70 million lawsuit against Bible publishers Zondervan and Thomas Nelson, alleging that their version of the Bible that refers to homosexuality as a sin violates his constitutional rights and has caused him emotional distress....

     [Litigant Bradley LaShawn] Fowler, who is representing himself in both cases, claims that Zondervan manipulated Scripture by using the term “homosexuals” in 1 Corinthians 6:9 of their 1982 and 1987 revised edition Bibles. He also contends that the reference to homosexuality were deleted by the publisher in later versions without informing the public.

     He alleges that since the older Kings James Version containing the term “homosexuals” is used by his family pastor, he has been outcast by his family.

     The 39-year-old is suing the Grand Rapids publisher for compensation of 20 years of “emotional duress and mental instability,” he told WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids.

     “But what harm could it do to let them marry one another?” far too many good-hearted conservatives argued. Now you know.