Yes, the headline is just a bit hyperbolic, but only a bit. Pedophilia will remain illegal in Connecticut, but non-practicing pedophiles (do such people actually exist, or are they simply not-yet-arrested pedophiles?) may soon become a protected class in the state.

I’ve written about the battle over changing human rights laws in Connecticut before, in two separate articles. The first is on the law itself, and the second is on a gay rights activist who has joined the battle to defeat the law.

Well, the law has moved forward despite a significant battle in which even some Republicans have joined the radical Democrats to promote alphabet ideology. In a socially liberal state, too many politicians are unwilling to stand up for children.

What does the law do, specifically? It changes the definition of legally protected classes. Previously the definition of LGBT rights was based on biological sex; the new version changes the definition to sexual orientation and perceived gender.

Peter Wolfgang, President of Family Institute of Connecticut Action along with Major Jeffery Cleghorn, long time gay activist and attorney, and Christine Rebstock, a Connecticut-based transsexual rights advocate, jointly express concern that HB 6638, An Act Revising the State’s Anti-Discrimination Statutes, passed the Connecticut Senate just before midnight on Wednesday, June 7, 2023.

The bill displaces homosexuality, heterosexuality and bisexuality as protected sexual orientations in favor of a rubric based on sexual attraction. “Our concern is that self-professed pedophiles, not practicing and unconvicted, who also consider themselves to be a ‘sexual orientation’, will be protected from reasonable discrimination by Connecticut employers that serve children. Employers such as bus companies, day cares, schools, nurseries and hospitals, may find themselves hauled in front of the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities for refusing to hire or for firing a professed pedophile,” stated Peter Wolfgang. “Did our legislators intend to protect pedophiles specifically? Probably not. But minor attracted people consider themselves to be a protected orientation and the good intentions of the bill’s supporters won’t matter to a judge years from now” he added.

Sexual orientation is a much broader category and includes every paraphilia not strictly excluded, as pedophiles normally were. I go more into the details in my profile of Jeff Cleghorn, who has been a gay rights advocate for decades, and who helped open up the military to openly practicing homosexuals. Pedophilia is one such paraphilia, as are all sorts of other deviant but somewhat less obviously offensive “orientations.”

If you prefer not to house somebody who has an S&M dungeon, well good luck now. An avowed but unconvicted pedophile? Almost certainly not. If you can’t discriminate based upon whom you want to bang, it will be an offense against Human Rights now.

This depressing notion has brought together the most unlikely of allies: a socially conservative group called the Family Institute of Connecticut, gay rights advocates, and even a transgender activist who cannot abide pedophiles. In other words, people who would overlap not much in the great Venn Diagram of social attitudes, but who share a horror at exploiting children.

Unfortunately, such horror is not apparently shared by Connecticut legislators, who have joined the growing group of people who either embrace or at least shrug at the worst sort of perversion. As I wrote earlier today, the taboo against exploiting children has simply disappeared in vast swathes of society.

People should be horrified by pedophilia; many are no longer. This is a social change that not only accompanies alphabet ideology but is at its core. Many of the original proponents of sexual liberation explicitly approved of pedophilia, and the activists who embraced their ideology have consciously laid the groundwork for the change in social attitudes.

They pervade our schools, academia, and now politics and the MSM. Some are consciously doing this, while others are simply going along and have softened their attitudes over the years.

All of it is vile.

“This trend started in Minnesota and is in danger of spreading to other states, as it has in Connecticut” stated Major Jeffery Cleghorn, a long time gay rights activist.  “I’m disappointed that legislators, particularly those who claim to speak on behalf of transgender and gay people, ignored my written testimony. Other states must be made aware of the challenge to long-standing and long fought-for protections for established orientations. Erasing homosexual and bisexual identities in favor of endlessly expanding and elusive definitions of” gender” is deeply concerning to gays and lesbians.”

Christine Rebstock, a Connecticut-based transsexual also against gender ideology, stated “I oppose provisions in HB 6638 that have any possible future protections for ‘minor attracted persons’ from being fired from jobs that work with children, being denied housing near schools, etc. The safety of children must have the strongest safeguards and never be compromised. I’m also against the sexualization and medical transition for children under age eighteen.” 

I expect the backlash against alphabet ideology to continue, and as I outlined earlier today polling shows that attitudes are hardening against it. But hardly enough. Nearly half the country is either firmly or softly behind it because their political and cultural leaders have embraced it.

Men, gay rights activists, and social conservatives need to band together to push the opposition, but the only people who can actually defeat this movement are moms. As long as moms don’t rise up as one there will be a continued eroding of the social norms and laws that protect families and children.

This is one of the highest priorities for the alphabet people and their allies. Make no mistake, until they pay an intolerable price they will continue. And they have paid very little for their progress so far. Even unpopularity will not be enough; we need to hit them at the ballot box and the pocketbook.

They understand no other language than loss of power.