Will Liberals Give Up 'Normalizing' Pedophilia?

By J. Edward Pawlick

The sexual molestation of more than 200 young boys is being revealed in the Salem Courthouse and everyone is revolted by the abuse ... or, at least, they say they are.

No one appears to have noticed, however, that the molestation of boys was carefully being "normalized" by the liberal intellectuals in the state until the crimes of Christopher Reardon suddenly became big news in June. His story has made the liberal intellectuals more cautious.

Consider the events we witnessed before the story broke:

• May 1999. City of Newton holds an official rally to campaign against the "hate" from Massachusetts News, which had informed the City that pedophiles would become more active because the American Psychological Association had published a study which said that sexual molestation can have a positive effect on children. The mayor and every important official was present at the rally.
• November 1999. A gay organization offers $25, plus free dinner and subway tokens, to boys who will come to their headquarters in Boston and discuss homosexual sex and other issues. The boys are also invited to a free, three-day, lakeside, weekend retreat in New Hampshire with other "boys" up to 25-years-old who are "attracted to or have sex with other men." None of the politicians or media is interested in this story - even though the organization receives money from the state and works closely with the public schools.
• March-April 2000. Channel 2 airs a program about a "romance" between a 29-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy which showed in graphic detail all of the nude scenes between them. It stated that the romance thrilled all of England and caused everyone to realize the "benefits" of sex between men and boys.
• March 2000. The Fistgate conference gives graphic instruction to teenagers on the practice of homosexual sex. This was done in sessions which mingled youth from 12-years-old to 21-years-old. It was sponsored by the homosexual organization, GLSEN, and the Department of Education. Complaints were made to Gov. Cellucci and his staff, but they ignored it until some parents went to Massachusetts News which printed the story in May and shocked the state. 
• May 2000. A Massachusetts judge, Allan van Gestel, attacks the parents who exposed what happened at Fistgate. He imposes an unconstitutional gag order against everyone, which he lifts after the national press ridicules him. But he leaves the order in place against the two parents who have no money or power. It is expected that their legal fees will be in excess of $200,000 as the result of the action of Judge van Gestel.
• May 2000. An Editorial in the Boston Globe says that what was discussed at Fistgate were "the sorts of things teenagers ask every day." The Globe said this even though "fisting" was discussed in detail at the conference, as well as the following: "Do lesbians rub their clits together?" "Should you spit after you suck another boy or man?" "Is oral sex better with tongue rings?" 
• July 6, 2000. The "At Home" section of the Boston Globe publishes an article which advised mothers to teach their children "the mechanics of sex," including homosexual sex, when their children are in fifth or sixth grade. They were told to expect 10- and 11-year-olds to ask, "What do gay men/lesbians do?" The parents were advised by the Globe to respond, "There are different ways people give each other pleasure, sometimes genital to genital, sometimes hand or mouth to genital." 

Even the Globe wrote the following about Reardon in one of its stories. "One by one, he brought those boys into his sordid world, court papers allege, gaining their trust while warning them not to share the secret of how he abused them. He left them with the bitterness of betrayal."

This is not the message that taxpayer-supported Channel 2 gave in its program which praised the activities of pedophiles. It did not say that this was a "sordid" world. It did not use words like "abused" or "betrayal." It portrayed sex with an older man as beneficial to the boy.

Many observers wonder how long the Boston Globe and the other members of the liberal establishment will portray man/boy love in terms of disapproval. Has the Reardon case changed the subject forever? Was it a watershed? Or once it passes, will the establishment attempt to normalize man/boy sex once again?

What effect will this scandal have upon the schools of Massachusetts? Will the citizens finally begin to see what has been happening under Governors Weld and Cellucci in the name of "tolerance" and "safe schools?" 

Observers wonder whether alarmed parents will revolt against the sacrifice of children's inocence by politicians who covet the political support of Massachusetts' powerful homosexual lobby. 

Will they begin to understand that it is not only the churches, the YMCA and the Boy Scouts which draw men who are attracted to boys? Will they begin to understand that it is just as impossible for Gay/Straight Alliances to totally banish those pedophiles as it is for the churches and the Boy Scouts? Or will they stay in denial?