by Doug Mainwaring, LifeSite
To win sympathy, B4U-ACT states unequivocally that those who identify as ‘Minor-Attracted-Persons’ are victims, not perpetrators, treated unjustly not only by society at large but by healthcare professionals in particular.
A Maryland-based organization, which aims to mainstream pedophilia by treating it not as a psychiatric disorder but as yet another type of woke identity that must be affirmed, held a conference for mental health professionals this past weekend, hoping to change the way they treat their patients who are plagued by pedophilic impulses.
B4U-ACT — in existence since 2003 — has worked toward changing the way society treats pedophiles, going so far as to rebrand them as “Minor-Attracted-Persons,” or MAPs for short.
As it turns out, one of B4U-ACT’s two co-founders was a convicted child sex offender named Michael Melsheimer.
The group is following the playbook previously laid out by LGBTQ+ activists.
In the same way that homosexual and later transgender activists have been able to forge broader societal acceptance and secure additional legal rights by insisting that their same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria are immutable traits, pedophiles have banded together to replicate those successes.
To do so, they must first convince mental healthcare providers and researchers to join them in their quest.