pedophilia

Residents of a small town near Charleston, South Carolina, are hoping to keep a Christian halfway house from opening.

An English teacher in Texas may be fired after she seemingly told students to refer to pedophiles as "minor-attracted persons" in a teaching lesson caught on video.

In January, USA Today ran an article by Alia Dastagir titled, “The Complicated Research Behind Pedophilia.” The article summarizes a growing consensus among psychologists that pedophiles, like members of the LGBT community, are “born this way,” and that attraction to children is unchangeable. Understandably, Dastagir doesn’t call pedophilia a sexual orientation, but rather, “attraction.” Still, it isn’t hard to imagine a slippery slope here.

A Virginia college professor has resigned following widespread backlash for suggesting that being attracted to minors while also not desiring to act on it is not immoral.

A Virginia megachurch pastor was one of 17 people arrested in a recent 2-day sting operation set up by local law enforcement to identify individuals soliciting sexual relations from minors.

A Virginia mother recently criticized the Fairfax County Public Schools Board for including sexually explicit books in the high school library.

While the cultural indicators do point, I believe, to the further mainstreaming of pedophilia, a Christian worldview places even the most chaotic and distressing of moments within a larger Story. Christ has risen from the dead. He is Lord. And, He is making all things new. Thus, as Christian philosopher Alvin Pantinga reminds us, whenever we talk of evil, we are talking about a very real foe. But a defeated foe.

Growing up in families without married parents, their well-being sacrificed for the sake of adult happiness, the kids have been the primary victims of our sexual experimentation. To cover our tracks, we’ve resorted to indoctrination, attempting to convince them of other myths, such as the idea that biological sex and their physical bodies are fully malleable. Kids today are literally taught to be skeptical of how they were made.

More than 375,000 people have signed a petition urging Netflix to remove a provocative film featuring 11-year-old girls from its platform.

California lawmakers recently approved a new law that would loosen restrictions and sentencing of LGBTQ adults who have sexual relations with minors.