By Robin Sam
Friends, do you know pedophiles in the US have started calling themselves as ‘minor-attracted people’? Do you know they have started using the same tactics that homosexuals used years ago in the US and in the west to gain legitimacy to their sinful and repugnant behavior? They have picked up the same tools that worked so well for gays.
Like homosexuals, pedophiles also started demanding equal rights sometime ago. To buttress their demand, they are claiming equal standing with homosexuals and gays. They claim their sexual behavior is simply an ‘alternative lifestyle’. Sometime ago, the world threw out morals to accommodate LGBTs. Now, in some more time it will accept pedophiles also.
Of course, believers saw this coming. Jesus said the last days will be like the days of Lot (Luke 17:28-30).
In such a scenario, what can we do? Well, all’s not lost. We can pray! We can sensitize churches, ministry leaders, thinkers, writers, journalists, doctors, teachers and our own children about the need to be aware of the danger and act swiftly even as prayer groups will have to pray with a greater zeal against these abhorrent trends. Above all, pray!
If you think this is a danger concerning the western world and turn a blind eye to it, tomorrow this will be at our doorstep. There will be activists who will go to the Supreme Court seeking the Government to amend the law, urge Parliament to pass a resolution in their favor. They’d hold rallies, protest meetings, workshops – anything to whip up a favorable public opinion.
In September, 2015, Salon carried an article by someone named Todd Nickerson, titled ‘I’m a pedophile, but not a monster’. The writer goes on to explain why although he’s a pedophile he’s not a monster. He says he’s not a monster (meaning an aggressor against children) because he simply a ‘non-offending pedophile’. Nickerson writes: ‘…at base, a pedophile is someone who’s sexually attracted to children. That’s it. There’s no inherent reason he must act on those desires with real children. Some pedophiles certainly do, but many of us don’t. Because the powerful taboo keeps us in hiding…’
I wonder what would Nickerson choose to do if pedophilia suddenly became an accepted form of behavior, an ‘alternative lifestyle’ as they’re happy to call it? If pedophilia is not a taboo any more, all these ‘molesters’ out there (yes, even the non-offending pedophile!) would turn into ‘monsters’ and pounce on the first child they find in their path. The sexual predators would come out of the woodwork and devour children. The pedophiles are lying low because child molestation is still taboo. Once the restraint is gone, heaven knows what will happen to our children!
While I was reading the Salon article, another thought came to my mind. It was about how a deviant behavior grains ground and acceptability. The practitioners begin approaching media houses with a ‘Please, hear us out’ appeal. The idea is an innocuous sounding ‘We’re only airing our views.’ The media is also willing to play out this game because they think they ought to be fair to a ‘minority’ community. Slowly, an article or an interview ostensibly planned to put a viewpoint across deftly gives room to many such well-worded and well thought-out pieces to gain public sympathy. In time, more such orchestrated campaigns get what they want and lead to public approval of the repulsive behavior. This is how LGBTs began too, if you remember.
Friends, this is our time to tell the world how horribly wrong it was in supporting gays and lesbians. This is what it has led us to.
Use all your spheres of influence – online and offline to condemn pedophilia. Above all, church pray!
Jesus Christ said in Matthew 18:6, “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!” (Matthew 18:6,7). He may well have been speaking to pedophiles!
