By Aaron Warner
Last week’s pedophile M.A.P. Camp incident raised the ire of Vermonters concerned on behalf of children. This story has led to even more disturbing discoveries. The pro-pedophilia MAP Union website lays out a 2025 agenda they say they are V.E.R.Y. serious about:
- Visibility – aiming to “combat stigma”, create “value-neutral language” and “hold public education campaigns”
- Equality – requiring “the same protected status other communities benefit from including freedom of association”
- Reform – changing laws to allow “fictional sexual content” and “abolish sex offender registries”
- Youth – intending to “broaden rights for Minors and Youth in line with their evolving capacities”, “opposing ageism”, “increase youth agency and autonomy”, and “ensuring youth are heard at every stage of the social/political process”
What should be done to fight this agenda of encroaching pedophilia here in Vermont? Rather than remain in stunned recoil at the thought, the very obvious strategy is to aim for the exact opposite of their stated goals.
If their aim is visibility by combating stigma, creating value neutral language and holding public education campaigns, then Vermonters should unabashedly continue to rightfully stigmatize it for the criminal, harmful behavior it is, refuse to adopt neutralizing language like MAPs when the proper term is pedophiles and educate the public on the harm they cause and will always cause because they want to have sex with children – one of the most traumatizing things one can do to a child.
Equality is not something to be obtained when the goal is criminality. We are not criminals, therefore we are not equal. Also, attempting to adopt the title “community” implies a holistic acceptance in society. This manipulation of vocabulary wants to manufacture acceptance and imply harmlessness when the reality is and will always be a community who wants adults to be able to have sexual access to children. Citing “freedom of association” implies they don’t already enjoy the basic rights of others – they do. The right they don’t enjoy, and never should, is that of acting out their stated sexual attraction to minors.
Of course they must reform existing laws and opinions in order to gain ground toward their ultimate goal – access to children. They will try to win any small victory they can by using America’s liberalist values against her. Constitutional laws, rights, and representation intended for, as John Adams stated, “a moral and religious people and suitable for no other” will be targeted to include an immoral and irreligious people such as pedophiles. This tactic will succeed without the voice of We The People publicly denouncing it to our representatives and calling for laws that stiffen public sentiment against pedophilia, which is our right. Do not be silent and wait for others to do your talking for you.
If they can get sexual images of children and/or dolls approved as their necessary “outlet” pretending it will lead to less incidence rather than more, while also eliminating sex offender registries intended to help parents and neighbors guard their children, you will see an explosion in child sex offenses.
Their final vector of change is to use youth themselves to open the door to this invasion. Citing rights of consent by youth and imaginary terms like “evolving capacities” they move the goalposts closer together.
At one end of the political playing field, they push the boundary by stating MAPs are teens attracted to younger teens or adolescents – what’s the big deal? At the other they say children have evolving capacities so the immature ten or twelve year old of yester-year has magically developed new powers of reasoning, responsibility and thus consent. Call this what it is – linguistic legerdemain wishing to, again, allow pedophiles into polite society to have sex with your children. Period.
How far have they come? Shockingly a number of studies are listed on the B4U-ACT website. B4U-ACT likewise portrays itself as rehabilitative in messaging however the net effect is to sympathize, and thus normalize, child predators. Just two studies say as much:
| Dates | Investigator | Institution | Purpose of Study | Resulting Publication |
| 2020-2021 | Maggie Ingram, Doctoral student | Johns Hopkins U. Bloomberg School | We are interested in learning about the mental health, self-esteem, and social support of individuals who are attracted to children | Forthcoming |
| 2020-2022 | Maria Sklavou, Doctoral student | University of Sheffield, UK | To examine conceptualizations of pedophilia, child sexual abuse, and relevant implications for policy-making in the USA, UK and Germany. The study hopes to challenge the stigmatizing narratives about pedophilia and child sexual abuse on a comparative level | Forthcoming |
The page lists twenty-four studies in all, most of which seem to violate scientific ethics by stating explicitly the goal of the study is to create research that supports pedophilia as non-criminal behavior.
Here again counter-activism is critical. Reach out to these institutions and excoriate their soft-pedaling child sexual abuse in hopes of making it socially acceptable by telling them it’s unacceptable. Research funds should not be put into finding ways to make pedophiles feel comfortable with their predilection. Ever.
A modicum of sympathy is needed for these people as most of them were likely abused as children. But the redeeming arc that leads to healing is not through de-criminalizing, reform and de-stigmatizing. It’s through helping them work through their own trauma in a concrete way that serves to keep them from traumatizing children who then go on to continue the cycle of abuse.
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