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Richard Dawkins: There’s nothing wrong with a little ‘mild pedophilia’

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CANTERBURY, UK, September 12, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – When Richard Dawkins was 11 years old, his art teacher pulled him onto his lap, reached into his shorts, and fondled his genitals. When he told his schoolmates, he learned he wasn’t alone – the man had abused some of his friends, too. But 60 years later, the famed atheist author of  The God Delusion  can’t bring himself to condemn the teacher’s actions. Dawkins told  The Times  magazine last week that abuse like he and his classmates suffered causes “no lasting harm,” and that “mild pedophilia” or “touching up” shouldn’t be judged as harshly as rape or other crimes. “I am very conscious that you can’t condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours,” Dawkins said. “Just as we don’t look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can

Northern Ireland legislature rejects ‘gay marriage’…again

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For the second time in a year, the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland has rejected attempts to install “gay marriage” in the province, in a vote of 53 to 42. A similar motion was defeated by 50 votes to 45  last October . Mike Judge, communications director for the Christian Institute said the motion was introduced by Sinn Fein following a decision by the Republic of Ireland to have a referendum on redefining marriage. Northern Ireland's Legislative Assembly “But the proposal in the Assembly did not give the people of Northern Ireland any say in the matter – and that spoke volumes.” But Judge said that the active opposition of Christians both in Northern Ireland and in Britain had a decisive impact. “It just shows that the plans to redefine marriage can be defeated when people are prepared to take action,” he said. The vote against same-sex “marriage” will likely cause tension between Northern Irish MPs at Westminster and the efforts by the David Cameron g

Socialist political parties seek removal of Spanish bishop for ‘homophobia’

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May 17, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - A trio of socialist political parties in the government of Alcalá de Henares, Spain , has passed a resolution demanding the exclusion of the local bishop from all local government functions for preaching the Catholic Church’s doctrines on homosexual behavior, which it characterizes as “homophobic.” The resolution also asks that the Spanish Episcopal Conference remove the bishop from his position as head of the diocese. Bishop Juan Antonio Reig Plà incurred the ire of socialists and homosexual groups in Spain when he gave a sermon  on Good Friday in early April that included homosexual behavior in a list of destructive vices. With regard to homosexual behavior, Reig Plà said: “One must not corrupt people, not even with false messages. I would like to say a word to those people carried away by so many ideologies that end up failing to properly guide human sexuality. They think that since their childhood they have had an attraction to peop

Glenn Close: people who value gender differences will have to ‘die off’

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Image via Wikipedia Discussing her gender-bending role in the new movie  Albert Nobbs , American actress Glenn Close has said that gender “doesn’t matter” and all those too outdated to reject natural gender and gender roles will just have to “die off.” Albert Nobbs, screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival , features Close as a cross-dressing woman working as a butler in 19th-century Ireland . The idea behind the film, a pet project of Close’s for fifteen years, is to help scuttle conventional ideas of gender - or any idea of gender. “Gender is irrelevant. It basically should be irrelevant,” Close told the National Post . The actress says she hopes her performance as a woman passing as a convincing-looking man “engenders a lot of conversation, because I believe there are a lot of people who put on faces.” “I am not gay … but I feel very comfortable in the company of everybody, not just gay people. But I honestly believe that gay rights of [sic] the rights of peop

Gay Irish presidential frontrunner’s campaign hurt by support for ‘classical pedophilia’

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Image via Wikipedia Homosexual Irish Senator David Norris , a front-running candidate in the upcoming presidential campaign, has complained in the homosexualist press that he is the victim of a “smear campaign” after past comments in which he expressed support for pederasty were dug up and republished by Irish media. In an interview with Magill magazine in 2002, Norris was quoted as saying that while he had not the “slightest interest in children, or in people who are considerably younger than me,” he did not outright condemn the idea of an older man “introducing” a “younger man” into “adult life.” “I think there is complete and utter hysteria about this subject, and there is also confusion between ... paedophilia and pederasty,” he said. “I cannot understand how anybody could find children of either sex in the slightest bit attractive sexually ... but in terms of classic paedophilia, as practised by the Greeks, for example, where it is an older man introducing a younger man to ad