June 14, 1999 at 12:00 am #27467
Normand O. L.
Participant
The way in which homosexuality was declared normal was by a vote of professional psychiatrists in 1972, I believe. Presumably, pederastry could also be declared normative via a vote. Part of the reason this sort of behavior has become accepted lies in the increasing reluctance of more and more Americans to say forthrightly “this is wrong” and “that is right.” To do so is to invite charges of intolerance, homophobia, mean-spiritedness, etc.