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NY Times column says pedophiles deserve civil rights and should not be treated as criminals

Sure, The New York Times published it, but that doesn’t make it an official endorsement of pedophilia. This deserves to be parsed. It was published in the Op-Ed section, which is open to outside experts, such as Rutgers University law professor Margo Kaplen, for editorial opinions. According to Op-Ed author Margo Kaplan, pedophilia is defined by the (uh-oh) psychiatric Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) as an “intense and recurrent sexual interest in prepubescent children, and a disorder if it causes a person ‘marked distress or interpersonal difficulty’ or if the person acts on his interests.” Margo claims that around half… View Article