All those who scoffed at people who said going down the road of "normalizing" fudge packers was a slippery slope may now be swallowing hard trying to eat their words. I love it when the tolerant are made to eat crow.

As Rush said yesterday, try thinking back to the first time you heard someone suggest the concept of gay marriage and your gut reaction. As Ian Anderson sang, "The train keeps going and it wont slow down".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/20...-desires-light
Paedophilia: bringing dark desires to light

The Jimmy Savile scandal caused public revulsion, but experts disagree about what causes paedophilia - and even how much harm it causes

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This is radical stuff. But there is a growing conviction, notably in Canada, that paedophilia should probably be classified as a distinct sexual orientation, like heterosexuality or homosexuality. Two eminent researchers testified to that effect to a Canadian parliamentary commission last year, and the Harvard Mental Health Letter of July 2010 stated baldly that paedophilia "is a sexual orientation" and therefore "unlikely to change".