Slippery slope – Pedophilia is protected sexual orientation under CA bill – UPDATED!

I think this may be being stretched below, but I have absolutely no doubt polygamy and pedophilia are coming down the pike within 5-10 years.  If they become legal in this country, I honestly believe one ought to at least explore the possibility of living elsewhere:

California Congresswoman, Rep. Jackie Speier CA (D), wants to federalize a state law to prohibit counseling to change a person’s sexual orientation. That doesn’t sound that extreme, but pedophilia is a sexual orientation according to this bill as well. [maybe…..read on…..]

Under the bill’s language, a mental health counselor could be sanctioned if there was an attempt to get a pedophile or gay individual to change his behavior or speak negatively about their behavior as it relates to sexuality.

The bill calls on states to prohibit efforts to change a minor’s sexual orientation, even if the minor requests it, saying that doing so is “dangerous and harmful.”

The text of the legislation doesn’t specifically ban “gay” conversion therapy. Instead, it prohibits attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation.

“Sexual orientation change efforts’ means any practices by mental health providers that seek to change an individual’s sexual orientation,” the bill says.

Republicans attempted to add an amendment specifying that, “pedophilia is not covered as an orientation.” However, the Democrats defeated the amendment. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) stated that all alternative sexual lifestyles should be protected under the law, and accordingly decided that pedophilia is a sexual orientation that should be equally as embraced as homosexuality.

“This language is so broad and vague, it arguably could include all forms of sexual orientation, including pedophilia,” said Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute. “It’s not just the orientation that is protected—the conduct associated with the orientation is protected as well.” [OK, so the bill doesn’t specifically protect pedophilia, but is written so broadly that such maybe could be implied.]

It also means that, if pedophilia is a sexual orientation, that discrimination laws also apply to pedophiles. That means you cannot block a pedophile from being a preschool teacher or any other high-risk occupation. [It would also make the persecution of the Church over so-called pedophile priests rather non-operative, wouldn’t it?  Wouldn’t, then, they too be a protected class?  Has the left thought about that at all?  They would lose their favorite club. But I guess perversion trumps even Catholic bashing, to them]

Recently, a United States District Court Judge, William Shubb, sided with Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) by granting their plaintiffs a preliminary injunction against the legislation, which is known as California SB 1172.

“Because the court finds that SB 1172 is subject to strict scrutiny and is unlikely to satisfy this standard, the court finds that plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their claims based on violations of their rights to freedom of speech under the First Amendment,” wrote Judge Shubb.

“This victory sends a clear signal to all those who feel they can stifle religious freedom, free speech, and the rights of parents without being contested,” said PJI President, Brad Dacus. “We at PJI are ready to fight this battle all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary.

Can you imagine, pedophilia, which I was raised to believe and have always held to be a crime only exceeded – maybe – by murder in its awfulness, could conceivably become a protected “right” in this country?  This is entirely, ENTIRELY due to the moral relativism that is so rampant and the radical homosexual lobby which has used it to push their own agenda (which is not entirely separate from the pedophile agenda).

Good grief.  What aren’t we willing to destroy for increasingly tiny minorities?  Homosexuals make up maybe 1-2% of the population – let’s destroy marriage for them!  Pedophiles make up probably an even smaller percentage – the very highest estimates range to 5% of adult males (which would be about 1.5% of overall population), but most are much lower than that.  So, let’s destroy childhood and innocence and untold numbers of souls (because, my limited experience shows that those sexually abused as children are never right) for the sake of that tiny minority’s so-called rights!  But with the extreme pagan sexularists, logic never enters in.  It’s all about developing beholden constituencies, no matter how small or extreme.  And since liberals hardly have children anymore, what’s the loss to the political left?

As I said yesterday, stop the world, I want to get off.

UPDATE: A commenter is crying foul over my “endorsing” this post I linked to. I’m not endorsing anything, I’m reporting what seemed an interesting story. The commenter is claiming the linked post is very off base. It seems it may be, at least as far as the bill itself is concerned. The article makes many claims and is rather weak on links, so it’s difficult to verify many of the details. I will say the language regarding “protection” for therapies that are involved in dealing with currently criminal activities like pedophilia are weak – I can think of several ways around that very brief language in the bill off the top of my head.  But, make of it what you will, one or two persons at the original link and one here are utterly convinced and very emotional about this post being completely off base. Duly noted.