“I’ve been doing child abuse and sexual assault cases for 20 years and I have never seen anything like this,” Sgt. Dan Scott of the Santa Monica sheriff’s Special Victims Bureau told the Los Angeles Times recently.
“I’ve been doing child abuse and sexual assault cases for 20 years and I have never seen anything like this,” Sgt. Dan Scott of the Santa Monica sheriff’s Special Victims Bureau told the Los Angeles Times recently.
What is it that has so shocked the veteran California police officer? It is the behavior of a man by the name of Jack McClellan.
McClellan, according to the Times report, is a pedophile who is forthright and outspoken about his sexual attraction to little girls.
McCellan has appeared on news programs and talk shows to discuss his proclivity. He even had a website (now down) that listed the best places to watch little girls.
“Being a pedophile – an adult who is sexually interested in children – is not illegal,” the Times report stated. “Acting on that interest by touching a child for the adult’s sexual gratification is illegal.”
As far as authorities are concerned, there is no evidence that McClellan has ever acted upon his perverse desire. The Times reported he “has no arrest or conviction record in the United States” and is “not a registered sex offender.”
“On talk shows, McClellan appears unshaven and a bit dazed, but unapologetic about his attraction to little girls,” the Times reported. McClellan admits he might have sex with them if it were legal.
People in the Santa Monica area are right to be concerned about McClellan’s behavior. You should be, too. And not just because he might one day act upon his twisted urge.
Just the thought of McCellan molesting a little girl makes my stomach turn. And, as bad as that would be, it is his openness about his “sexual orientation” that could have an even more far-reaching and devastating effect.
Similar to the homosexual rights movement that began in the late 1960s, there is a growing effort to portray pedophiles as individuals who are misunderstood and unjustly persecuted.
The term “sexual orientation” in relation to pedophilia is being used more and more – and not just by whacked-out activists, but by so-called “respected” academicians and physicians.
Consider the following:
The Journal of American Medical Association published a paper in 2002 by Peter J. Fagan, Ph.D., et al. titled “Pedophilia.”
Consider the following quote from the article: “During psychosexual development, no one decides whether to be attracted to women, men, girls or boys. Rather, individuals discover the types of persons they are sexually attracted to, i.e., their sexual orientation.”
In an article titled “Mental Health’s Cold Shoulder Treatment of Pedophilia” that appeared in the periodical Behavioral Health Management, May-June, 2004, Douglas Edwards cites Fred Berlin of the Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry: “Dr. Berlin discounts the common view that pedophilia is a conscious choice. He regards pedophilia as a lifelong sexual orientation, just as hetero- and homosexuality, and he says patients can be terrified by the discovery of pedophilic cravings ….”
Richard Gardner, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University from 1963 until his death in 2003, argued that America’s attitude toward child sexual encounters was out of step with the cultures of the world.
In his book True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse, Gardner wrote: “Older children may be helped to appreciate that sexual encounters between an adult and a child are not universally considered to be reprehensible acts. The child might be told about other societies in which such behavior was and is considered normal …. In such discussions, the child has to be helped to appreciate that we have in our society an exaggeratedly punitive and moralistic attitude about adult-child sexual encounters.”
Gardner blamed the oppressive morality of the Bible for the American view of pedophilia, and in the same book cited above he wrote, “It is of interest that of all the ancient peoples it may very well be that the Jews were the only ones who were punitive toward pedophiles.”
If you don’t think pedophilia might one day be embraced as a normal part of life in America, you are naïve. You only have to examine how homosexual activists have turned society on its head regarding a behavior that was once viewed as immoral and perverse.
The exact same arguments homosexual activists have used to gain sympathy and acceptance for their behavior are the same arguments being used in an attempt to gain sympathy for pedophiles.
There is not yet an organ-ized movement stumping for the acceptance of pedophilia. However, it is just a matter of time before activists and academics coalesce and advocate that pedophilia is natural, normal and healthy.
There are currently two things – and only two things – that stand in the way of pedophilia being accepted in American society.
The first is that normal, decent people still view pedophilia as gross, criminal perversion – in the same way homosexuality once was viewed.
The other is that age of consent laws make it illegal for an adult to take advantage of a child sexually.
If American society ever degrades to the point that pedophilia is accepted as normal, age of consent laws will be challenged. If they fall, it will only be a matter of time until our nation will follow suit.