 THREE pillars of liberalism - moral relativity, the sexual "revolution" and the obsession with "rights" - are on a collision course with reality in Ohio's Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. In a recent pre-trail motion, Phillip Distasio - accused of sexually assaulting nine boys with physical or mental disabilities - claimed that having sex with children "is a sacred ritual protected by civil-rights laws."
"I've been a pedophile for 20 years. The only reason I'm charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex. The role of my ministry [Distasio claims he is the leader of a church] is to get these cases out of the courtrooms," said Distasio. Shocking? Certainly not - if one takes the aforementioned pillars to their "logical" conclusions: Right and wrong are relative, sexual taboos are anachronistic and individual rights are paramount.
| This is actually a non-story, at least given a semirational world — not a given anymore, thanks to the "liberalism" the author references. You can claim you're a religion all you want, but statutory rape laws still apply, the assumption being that a child under the age of consent is incapable of agreeing to sex, an adult act. The age of consent may vary from place to place, but the principle is rooted in a thousand years of common law. Add in the fact that the children were autistic and any case he might think he has is even further out the window. He may as well claim a right to necrophilia or bestiality or to marry his sister. |
| Beastiality is now legal in some parts of Scandanavia. Cue SCOTUS reference to "international norms". |
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