Ok I've seen there are plenty of threads on whether or not gay marriage is right/wrong, but I want a comparison of the gay marriage movement to pedophile advancement to be the topic here (if that's not what you want to talk about, find your appropriate thread). Tons of people have recently gone into increased defense/attack on the gay marriage debate, and various arguments have arisen, such as "We're Americans, we can do whatever we want" (quoted from an 11th-grader I personally know), or "They wouldn't have been born with that sexual attraction if they weren't supposed to have that kind of relationship" (I'd like to point out here that pedophiles only have the attraction, they don't necessarily act on it), so my question is why aren't there as many people saying that we should tolerate the desires of pedophiles, however strange they may seem from our one perspective? Is it--though many gay rights advocates will surely oppose the mentioning of this possibility--that the only thing that really makes more people in a society care about a group the number of members in that group? If a person moved into a neighborhood and introduced himself as a pedophile to a neighbor who was a parent, the parent would most likely say something along the lines of "Get away from my kids, you sick freak!" Most people would accept this as totally rational behavior on the parent's part. (Here I restate the fact that pedophiles have only an attraction, and aren't necessarily child rapists or anything.) If a similar scenario occured with a homosexual man to a woman who replied "Stay away from my husband/son, you sick freak," most bystanders would label the woman a homophobe and he could call up some gay rights organization to harass the woman until she gave him a full apology. I'm neither a pedophile nor a homosexual, but I honestly wonder how we've come to favor one deviation in sexual attraction over the other. I appreciate any intelligent discussion, anything else is strongly discouraged here.
