An academic book that suggests the moral status of pedophilia is unclear, has some prominent social conservatives saying that we are now on a familiar, troubling path toward normalization of things once considered unthinkable.
Prominent defenders of traditional marriage highlighted on their social media pages Sunday a book called Pedophilia and Adult-Child Sex: A Philosophical Analysis by Stephen Kershnar, who is a professor and chair the philosophy department at State University of New York at Fredonia. The 168-page work, which was released last year and recently came to the attention of conservatives, examines the moral status of sexual relationships between adults and children, explores whether those who engage in that kind of sex “have a disease, act wrongly, or are vicious,” and engages the surrounding legal issues.
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield describes the book on its website as thus: “This book provides a philosophical analysis of adult–child sex and pedophilia. This sex intuitively strikes many people as sick, disgusting, and wrong. The problem is that it is not clear whether these judgments are justified and whether they are aesthetic or moral. By analogy, many people find it disgusting to view images of obese people having sex, but it is hard to see what is morally undesirable about such sex: here the judgment is aesthetic.”
Social conservatives have long pointed that redefining marriage amounts to a “slippery slope” and will lead to other previously inconceivable cultural shifts, but are often told that they are being irrationally extreme.
In a Monday interview with The Christian Post, Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, said that while he does not believe that pedophilia will be mainstreamed in the next few years, since most American are still repulsed by it, books like Kershnar’s indicate yet another dark front in the Left’s strategic war on Judeo-Christian moral norms.
Particularly disturbing to LaBarbera and others was this line from Kershnar’s book: “Adult-child sex involving willing participants has an unclear moral status.”
“Kershnar is injecting nuance and situational ambiguity to chip away at the near-universal understanding that sex between adults and kids is always wrong,” LaBarbera said, adding that “Sex radicals have learned from the successful campaign by ‘gay’ militants to normalize once-taboo behaviors and concepts like same-sex ‘marriage.’ Now they are in the ‘study’ phase on pedophilia,” LaBarbera said.
Already the shift has been taking place, and central to understanding how this happens is observing how the language frames public discourse about sexuality issues. As noted by the The Independent (UK) in April, some psychologists are now referring to pedophilia as a “sexual orientation,” giving it a degree, however small, of seeming legitimacy even as laws forbidding adult-child sex and child porn remain on the books. Yet others are even proclaiming themselves to be pedophiles though they stipulate they are “virtuous” in that they never intend to act on their impulses, as Todd Nickerson did in a 2015 Salon essay.
“Social conservatives must sound the alarm on any effort to mainstream adult-child sex. For the sake of vulnerable children, we must take this seriously — and not be intimidated by charges of scare-mongering,” LaBarbera told CP.
But doing so presents a Catch-22, he continued, because even engaging Kershar’s work “legitimize[s] this as an issue worthy of debate — thus creating the notion that there are two legitimate opinions on pedophilia.”
“There are not. Sex with children is inherently exploitative and immoral; it corrupts and victimizes kids, who often grow up to have perverse desires toward children themselves. Those like Kershnar who seek to make a case for pedophilia — or certain types of pedophilia — must be exposed and rebutted,” he concluded.
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This indicates just how far mankind has sunken into the depths of deception and depravity, just as the bible says. There is no excuse for pedophilia under any so-called “modern interpretation”. None.
THAT even NAMBLA exist in U.S. or any Country SO, SO VERY SAD and ACLU will defend their constitutional rights! Sad item, is most people don’t even know what the movement is and so called Christians that have been brainwashed by the so-called church that cannot, will NOT and choose NOT to think for themselves. Some lady in public (christian no less) was adamant that there was “no orphanages here in the U.S., REALLY? That people are in DENIAL that child prostitution does not exist in U.S., tell that to the many in “sometime if God has/had a kids face by bruce ritter” and “runaway girl by c. phelps” and so many true stories like as in Brice Taylor’s book and those listed in Battle Hymn by Scura/Phillips and or Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian. Richard Ackerman did an article in Whistleblower Magazine about if church/christians didn’t take a stand regarding issues we would reap as a Nation and John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute did clarion call for the same and so MANY other items and the so-called church and it’s christians didn’t heed; “for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing”. “as the church goes, so goes the world”, if the world is corrupt it’s because the church is. Then SRA victims are NEVER discussed, or that approximately million children go missing go missing every year in U.S., that can’t be account for by so-called CPS (which consider a highly satanic organization; where is the dead/false church/pastor’s in all this, still playing dead church. Reader’s Digest year? did an article on child trafficking here in U.S., excellent article as well as child abuse another year. NEVER hear anything about items mentioned from any pulpit! Leonard Ravenhill covers it well in “Why Revival Tarries and America is Too Young to Die”.
I am an Adult in my 60’s and I was molested by my mother’s Father …a Grandfather that preyed up me and others. It did not stop for me until I was 13. I have been very successful in school and business, however, since I learned to be silent (in the 1950’s-60’s), I did not understand my body belonged to the LORD, until many decades latter. Sadly and with many more sorrows I continued to be violated as a woman, silent and never telling anyone. When I started to feed my heart and mind with God’s Truth, and about who I am in Christ, I was given boldness to speak up and out against offenses I saw happening to other children. While living in a small town in Texas, I reported a sex offender living in the apartments I lived in during the years of 2005-2006. The Manager would not do anything about it, so I contacted that towns police department. The cop tried to get fresh with me and I reported that. The pervert that lived in the apartments finally got evicted, however I had opened up a can of snakes so vicious, that it took me $50,000.00 dollars and 4 months to put a stop to Child Kidnapping and Children being sold for Sex , to include the dirty Law Officers, Sheriff, Bail Bondsmen, and their Attorneys. The Lord gave me the boldness to do this and as I went toe to toe with them, and with The LORD of Hosts on my side, we finally got 16 of them arrested. The LORD told me He would cause the “walls of Jericho” to fall down around that town as I obeyed His leading. I also lived an Esther season during all of that… “if I perish I shall perish.”… And yes, during those 4 months of court cases, those wicked people sent many to harass, intimidate and even try to kill me. I was under 24 hour protection living in Hotel rooms, in Houston, TX., my home town, until they all got caught and arrested. Immediately after the judgement was final and all were jailed, the LORD led me to 30 acres near the Gulf Coast, where I lived safely, with no TV, Internet, nor cell reception that could lead any of the left over creeps to where I moved to, or to try and track me. Within the first few weeks after I got settled, away from that small town, I purchased a News Paper in the closet City to where I was resting and refreshing. HEADLINES: Houston Police Department Investigating_______.TX Police Department. It has been 10 years since and I remain a hidden treasure that Obeyed and Stood Up for other Children. No One Stood UP For Me When I WAS A Child!!!. Ask the LORD for Boldness to use you,… in Jesus’s Name! Amen