Carol Gnade, the executive director of the ACLU, states in her letter of Sept. 19 that defending the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is merely defending free speech. Just as the ACLU chooses to only deal with First Amendment issues, so could it choose to deny legal assistance to this heinous sex club if it wanted.
NAMBLA has a flagrantly wicked goal, and that is the legalization of grown men having sex with underage boys. Pedophilia plain and simple. I don't care how the ACLU tries to justify the legal defense of this organization as a free-speech issue; their legal assistance is nothing more than promoting child sex abuse.
J. Satinover, in his excellent book, "Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth," reports "The San Francisco Sentinel, a Bay Area gay-activist newspaper, published a piece arguing that pedophilia is central to the male homosexual life. Thus an advocacy group exists, the North American Man-Boy Love Association, which actively promotes homosexual pedophilia as an acceptable alternative form of sex. Their contentions as to the naturalness, normalcy and unchangeability of pedophilia mirror precisely the arguments used to support the naturalness, normalcy and so on of homosexuality, as does their claim that the social condemnation of pedophilia is arbitrary and prejudicial."
The ACLU needs to distance itself from this evil NAMBLA organization and instead take a stand to protect children from sexual child abuse. Has the ACLU lost the ability to possess common sense and public decency?
Les W. Larsen
Salt Lake City