{"id":522,"date":"2011-09-02T09:08:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/?p=522"},"modified":"2023-11-17T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T17:34:50","slug":"predators-with-phds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/predators-with-phds\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators with Ph.D.s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/B4U-ACT_Ban_01.gif\" alt=\"B4U-ACT evil abuse demonic predators\" title=\"B4U-ACT_Ban_01\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-801\" hspace=\"9\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/B4U-ACT_Ban_01.gif 200w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/B4U-ACT_Ban_01-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>by Chris Banescu &#8211;<br \/>\nThe  latest offensive against morality, decency, and sanity in America has  been launched by a pro-pedophilia group and several academics who openly advocate for the normalization and legalization of pedophilia.\u00a0 Referring to Judeo-Christian moral principles and values as &#8220;cultural  baggage of wrongfulness&#8221; and an adult&#8217;s desire to sexually molest a  child as &#8220;normative,&#8221; these predators with Ph.D.s are hell-bent on destroying key moral boundaries and critical societal norms that protect  innocent children from pathological and dangerous adults.<\/p>\n<p>On August 17 of this year, the pro-pedophilia group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b4uact.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B4U-ACT<\/a> sponsored an event in Baltimore attended by researchers, professors,  mental health professionals, and &#8220;minor-attracted persons&#8221; (MAP, a  euphemism for &#8220;adults who crave sex with children&#8221;).\u00a0 These individuals endorse the adult molestation of children, consider this sexual perversion as normal, and advocate for the declassification of  pedophilia as a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association  (APA). <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some of the academic panelists who presented at this \u201cpedophilia-friendly\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b4uact.org\/science\/symp\/2011\/program.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scientific symposium<\/a> included: Fred Berlin, M.D., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University), John Z. Sadler, M.D. (University of Texas), Nancy Nyquist Potter, Ph.D. (University of Louisville), Lisa J. Cohen, Ph.D. and Igor I. Galynker, M.D., Ph.D. (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Renee Sorrentino, M.D. (Harvard Medical School), Richard Kramer Ph.D. (Director of Operations B4U-ACT), and Jacob Breslow, B.A. (London School of Economics and Political Science).<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release issued by Matt Barber, vice president of Liberty Counsel Action, and Dr. Judith Reisman, visiting law professor at Liberty University School of Law, who attended the event, several admitted pedophiles were in attendance, in addition to many academics and university professors.\u00a0 The keynote address was given by Dr. Fred Berlin of Johns Hopkins University, who proclaimed that he wants to &#8220;completely support the goal of B4U-ACT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicleague.org\/images\/upload\/image_201108224601.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Key highlights<\/a> from the conference include these disturbing assertions (more disturbing excerpts available at the end of this article):<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Pedophiles are &#8220;unfairly stigmatized and demonized&#8221; by society.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 5px;\">&#8220;The majority of pedophiles are gentle and rational.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 5px;\">There was concern about &#8220;vice-laden diagnostic criteria&#8221; and &#8220;cultural baggage of wrongfulness.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 5px;\">&#8220;We are not required to interfere with or inhibit our child&#8217;s sexuality.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 5px;\">&#8220;Children are not inherently unable to consent&#8221; to sex with an adult.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 5px;\">An adult&#8217;s desire to have sex with children is &#8220;normative.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 5px;\">Our society should &#8220;maximize individual liberty. &#8230; We have a highly moralistic society that is not consistent with liberty.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 5px;\">&#8220;In Western culture sex is taken too seriously.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 5px;\">&#8220;Anglo-American  standard on age of consent is new [and &#8216;Puritanical&#8217;]. \u00a0In Europe it  was always set at 10 or 12. Ages of consent beyond that are relatively  new and very strange, especially for boys. They&#8217;ve always been able to  have sex at any age.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 5px;\"> &#8220;Assuming children are unable to consent lends itself to criminalization and stigmatization.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 5px;\">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&#8217;s (APA) Diagnostic  and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), in the same manner  homosexuality was removed in 1973.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>There is no greater moral imperative than the protection of the innocent, especially defenseless children.<\/strong>\u00a0 These timeless and universal truths  are embedded in the Judeo-Christian principles and moral precepts upon  which American society and legal system are based.\u00a0 Any adult &#8212;  especially a university professor or medical doctor &#8212; who cannot grasp such elementary morality has no business teaching, counseling, or treating anyone, especially dangerous predators with an appetite for  children.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplePullQuote right\"><p>There is no greater moral imperative than the protection of the innocent, especially defenseless children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What  these academics are doing &#8212; i.e., providing comfort and support for child-rapists and molesters\u00a0 &#8212; is unconscionable and unethical.\u00a0  Instead of helping to suppress these abusers&#8217; sick desires, correct their delusional attractions, and moderate (or hopefully cure) their mental illness, these professionals sympathize with these monsters and  minimize the evil they perpetrate.\u00a0 Rather than work to suppress the  abomination in these pedophiles&#8217; minds and souls, these academics stoke these warped passions with the fuel of justification, rationalization,  and normalization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And  their treachery doesn&#8217;t stop there.<\/strong>\u00a0 Academics like Fred Berlin, M.D., Ph.D.; Nancy Nyquist Potter, Ph.D.; and others are also attempting to  destroy societal protections of children by pushing to declassify this dangerous perversion as a mental illness and decriminalize the  behavior.\u00a0 In essence, they advocate the elimination of statutory rape  and sexual offender registration laws designed to protect minors from  being sexually exploited by adults, thus removing the ability of the  state to punish and incarcerate these monsters.\u00a0 How many other  potential predators &#8212; who previously suppressed their lusts for fear of  incarceration, societal rebuke, and sexual predator registration laws  &#8212; will now be encouraged to succumb to their perverse impulses, cheered  on and defended by credentialed academics and fully protected by a  neutered legal system?<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplePullQuote right\"><p>What  these academics are doing is unconscionable and unethical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What do the leadership of John Hopkins University, Harvard Medical School, and the University of  Louisville have to say about their professors attending a pro-pedophile conference and advocating for the &#8220;normalization&#8221; of adults having sex  with children?\u00a0 What about the donors, supporters, and alumni who support these institutions?\u00a0 Are they aware that their donations pay for these professors&#8217; salaries and help promote these kinds of &#8220;academic&#8221;  activities?\u00a0 Is this an indication of the level of &#8220;scholarship&#8221; and  &#8220;intellectual discourse&#8221; we expect to see in the future from these  acclaimed institutions?\u00a0 What&#8217;s next?\u00a0 A conference on how to de-stigmatize and normalize producers, distributors, and users of child  porn?<\/p>\n<p><em>Also posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2011\/09\/predators_with_phds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Thinker<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/predators-with-phds\/line_divider_02_270x20\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-525\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Line_Divider_02_270x20.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Line_Divider_02_270x20\" width=\"270\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-525\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicleague.org\/images\/upload\/image_201108224601.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Additional information<\/a> from the B4U-ACT sponsored pro-pedophile symposium, as reported by Matt Barber, VP of Liberty Counsel Action:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li> &#8220;These things are not black and white; there are various shades of gray.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 7px;\"> 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 &#8220;homosexuality was taken out of DSM is that people didn&#8217;t want the government in the bedroom,&#8221; he said.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 7px;\"> Dr. Berlin appeared to endorse the politically maligned clinical practice of &#8220;reparative therapy&#8221; for homosexuals and pedophiles alike, saying, &#8220;If someone, for their own reasons, doesn&#8217;t want to live a homosexual lifestyle, I tell them that it&#8217;s hard but I&#8217;ll try to help them.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 7px;\"> The DSM ignores that pedophiles &#8220;have feelings of love and romance for children&#8221; in the same way adult heterosexuals and homosexuals have romantic feelings for one another.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 7px;\"> The DSM should &#8220;focus on the needs&#8221; of the pedophile, and should have &#8220;a minimal focus on social control,&#8221; rather than obsessing about the &#8220;need to protect children.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 7px;\"> Self-described &#8220;gay activist&#8221; and speaker Jacob Breslow said that children can properly be &#8220;the object of our attraction.&#8221; He further objectified children, suggesting that pedophiles needn&#8217;t gain consent from a child to have sex with &#8220;it&#8221; 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) &#8220;on or with&#8221; a child. No one in attendance objected to this explicit depiction of child sexual assault.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chris Banescu &#8211; The latest offensive against morality, decency, and sanity in America has been launched by a pro-pedophilia group and several academics who openly advocate for the normalization and legalization of pedophilia.\u00a0 Referring to Judeo-Christian moral principles and values as &#8220;cultural baggage of wrongfulness&#8221; and an adult&#8217;s desire to sexually molest a child &#8230; <a title=\"Predators with Ph.D.s\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/predators-with-phds\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Predators with Ph.D.s\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,11,29,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-of-innocence","category-leftism","category-moral-issues","category-sanctity-of-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}