Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
For those of you who were shocked by our recent article about the pro-pedophilia conference being held in Baltimore this week, you’ll be even more appalled to learn how the mainstream media, who never misses a story about the priest sex abuse scandal, provided almost no coverage of this story!
From what I saw, only one major news source, The Daily Caller, carried the story about the conference which is sponsored by the pro-pedophilia group, B4U-ACT. The day-long conference, which is being held in Baltimore today, will be attended by many prominent practitioners in the field of mental health who believe that society unfairly stigmatizes “minor-attracted persons” – the new and more politically correct term for pedophile.
Surely the public should know about an organization that publishes this kind of advice on its website:
“If I seek mental health services, does that mean I’m saying that my attraction to minors is a sickness?” Here’s the answer: “No. We are trying to make services available to minor-attracted people who want them to work through issues unrelated to their sexuality, to deal with society’s response to their sexual feelings…. We are not advocating treatment to change sexual feelings.”
In other words, the problem isn’t their sexual attraction to children, it’s the way the public regards their sexual attraction to children.
According to Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, just last week ABC’s Primetime Live did an interview with actor Corey Feldman, who exclaimed, “I can tell you that the number-one problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be, pedophilia.” He said that when he was 14, he was “surrounded” by child molesters who acted like “vultures.” Feldman blames “a Hollywood mogul” for the premature death of one of his friends, Corey Haim, who died last year.
“Know how many newspapers in the United States carried a story on the nest of child abusers in Hollywood?” Donohue asks. “One—the International Business Times. The others were too busy looking for cases where a priest ‘inappropriately touched’ a male adolescent in the 1950s.”
Another case in point occurred during Holy Week of this year, at the same time that PBS’ Frontline broadcast a scathing report about the sexual abuse of Native Americans and Alaskans that occurred decades ago in the Church. During the same week, a psychiatrist who served as a consultant for SNAP (Survivors Network for Those Abused by Priests) was sentenced to two years in prison for possession of child pornography. Guess how many mainstream newspapers covered the story? One – Louisiana’s Times Picayune, the paper that originally broke the story back in 2008. A subsequent article explains how SNAP’s founder, Barbara Blaine, bent over backward to defend the doctor, even asking the court to consider his many years of service to the public when determining his sentence – something her organization never requests for an accused priest.
Contrast this deafening silence with the regular headlines that scream from the front page of The New York Times about every priest accused of abusing children. They just can’t seem to get enough of pedophile stories – except when they don’t involve priests. Then no one cares.
As Donohue so aptly points out: “So we have professionals who seek to normalize pedophilia, and a Hollywood milieu in which it thrives, and few seem to care. In other words, when the secular elite promote, or otherwise engage in, child molestation, it really doesn’t matter. It only matters if the sicko is Fr. Murphy.”
The media likes to say they’re reporting on these stories for the sake of the children, but if that was really true, they’d report on all of them – not just those that support their ideological agendas.
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