Posted by Anne Ward on July 02, 19101 at 02:26:52:
This is NOT a pleasant post, but a vital one. Our children are at risk....as they have been for ages, but this takes the cake. When the APA starts mouthing that sex between an adult and a child may not always be so harmful and that such should just be retermed, adult-child sex, we are reaching the bottom of the sludge pit.
P{lease note: it was also the APA, during the late 60's or early 70's rewrote its thousands of years view re; homosexuality.....
Phil, I have never posted an article from another source before but this one is too important not to post. The erosion of morals is so blatant that I imagine it won't be long that the APA will deem sexual relations between humans and animals as just a personal preference or that one is 'born' with such a desire.
Don't snicker....for who would have ever thought that any organization with half a brain would now want to say that adult-child sex may be okay.
And yes, Charles Colson is protestant but he is highly respected and not one given to blowing things out of proportion.
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http://www.beliefnet.com/frameset.asp?pageLoc
=/story/62/story_6232_1.html&boardID=9991
Pedophilia Chic: The Normalization of Child
Abuse
Our culture's repugnance at the idea of the
sexual exploitation of children has gradually
weakened.
By Charles Colson Reprinted with
permission from Breakpoint, January 11, 2001.
How does the unthinkable become thinkable?
Through slow, persistent, and quiet change.
At a time when abortion, infanticide, and
euthanasia are becoming widely accepted, you
might wonder: What's left that could possibly
be called "unthinkable"? The answer:
pedophilia, the sexual exploitation of
children.
Most Americans view pedophilia as an
abomination. But gay activists are now openly
advocating it, calling it "inter-generational
intimacy." As Mary Eberstadt writes in a
provocative article in the Weekly Standard,
the "social consensus against the sexual
exploitation of children...is apparently
eroding."
The process of erosion began at least 15
years ago, when academics began questioning
the almost universal condemnation of
pedophilia. Soon, filmmakers and advertisers
joined in, giving us movies like "Lolita,"
depicting a sexual liaison between a
12-year-old girl and a 40-year-old man. More
recently, advertisers like Calvin Klein have
pushed the envelope, using child-like models
in sexually explicit poses in billboards and
advertising.
Most Americans didn't fully wake up to the
danger until 1998. That's when the journal of
the American Psychological Association
published the results of a study that argued
that sex between adults and children is not
always harmful, and that so-called "willing
encounters" should be relabeled as "adult-
child sex."
The public was outraged. But, shockingly,
mainline newspapers allowed homosexual
activists to use their pages to attack, not
the study, but people like Dr. Laura
Schlessinger, who criticized it.
As one example, in National Journal, Jonathan
Rauch wrote approvingly of the study and
called the vote by Congress condemning it
"faintly sinister."
Mainline publishers also helped lower the
deviancy bar, publishing trashy novels with
sympathetic portrayals of men having sex with
boys as young as seven--books, by the way,
that are available at your neighborhood
bookstores.
Well, the effort to make the unacceptable
acceptable was predicted some 20 years ago.
In their 1979 book, "Whatever Happened to the
Human Race?" Dr. C. Everett Koop and Dr.
Francis Schaeffer predicted that things
considered unthinkable in the 1970s would be
quite thinkable in the '90s--including things
like adult-child sex.
This would happen, they predicted, because
"the consensus of our society no longer rests
on a Judeo- Christian base, but rather on a
humanistic one."
Humanists, you see, view people as products
of chance, not creations of God. So, there
are no transcendent standards. Standards
fluctuate depending on what's viewed as
"necessary, expedient, or even fashionable."
Well, Christians don't live by what's
fashionable, and we need to let our voices be
heard on this issue.
To learn more, make sure to read Mary
Eberstadt's very important article.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_6_
16_01/eberstadt_feat_6_16_01.asp
And the next time you see an ad exploiting
children, speak out. Write the advertisers,
boycott their products, and inform your
congressman.
We can't afford to keep silent about this
issue. God help us if the barbarians in our
midst are able to convince the American
people that child molestation is just another
fashionable trend of the 21st century.