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I wonder if this is the kind of dignity that Justice Kennedy assures the Constitution is all about?

So it begins....

...well, actually...

...so it continues.

'We can't prove sex with children does them harm' says Labour-linked NCCL

I'm going to be ill.

Pretty soon the US Supreme Court will have more European precedents to pick and choose from.

An Italian high court has overturned the conviction of a 60-year-old man for having sex with an 11-year-old girl, because the verdict failed to take into account their "amorous relationship".

Pietro Lamberti, a social services worker in Catanzaro in southern Italy, was convicted in February 2011 and sentenced to five years in prison for sexual acts with a minor.
The verdict was later upheld by an appeals court.

But the Italian supreme court ruled that the verdict did not sufficiently consider "the 'consensus', the existence of an amorous relationship, the absence of physical force, the girl's feelings of love".

The court's October 15 decision to order a retrial was made public this month by Il Quotidiano della Calabria and slowly spread to social media networks, where it sparked heated reactions against the Italian justice system.//

Defining Deviancy Down.

The Guardian takes a shot at normalizing pedophilia.

Mark Shea summarizes:

But the fact remains that our Manufacturers of Culture, like the Assyrian, are enemies of God, not people who care about children. The proof of this was seen a couple of years ago, when our elites made abundantly clear that molestation was just ducky–if you are the right sort of Roman.

Now it’s being made even clearer as the Manufacturers of Culture in the Country that Used to be England try to walk the tightrope of figuring out how to go on pretending to be outraged about Jimmy Savile (a big powerful media perv who was a Catholic–and therefore useful for attacking the Church–but also shielded by the BBC and an an awful lot of the Manufacturers of UK Culture–and therefore somebody who needs to be “explained”).

Result: The Guardian publishes a puff piece trying to argue that pedophiles are just one more “orientation”, doncha know. So the normalization campaign appears to be under way now that the fake dudgeon has passed its sell by date.

The good part: It appears the Church–though not the world–has learned its lesson and profited from the lesson of the Assyrian’s rod. Judgment, as is the way with our Lord, begins with the House of God. It does not, however, end there. Woe to that culture that tries to normalize this monstrous evil. God brought the Assyrian against Israel for chastisement, not to destroy Israel, but to save her. The Assyrians trusted in raw power. Israel trusted in God. How well did it work? Well, have you seen any Assyrians lately?

They are just born that way; is it wrong to say that they can't love whoever nature programmed to love?

Born This Way: Sympathy and Science for Those Who Want to Have Sex with Children.

Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic observes:

A vague rape apologia runs through this piece--the implication of "men who have sex with children" as an oppressed group, the equation of pedophilia with other sexual orientations, and little to no consideration of victims. What bugs me is this is a topic that could use some mature journalism and thinking that goes beyond "hang them all." (The talented Jennifer Gonnerman does it here.) But this isn't it. It's poor journalism, and an insensitive attempt at being edgy.

First, it's not a "vague rape apologia," it is an outright clear rape apologia for anyone who can see the same eddying and stirring that brought gay marriage to acceptability.

Second, Ta-Nehisi Coates says what he says now. What will he say when "inter-generational love" becomes the issue du jour in the future?