Who wrote this, comparing paedophilia favourably with parental love?
How different then is that gentle, tentative sexuality between parent and child from the love of a paedophile and his/her lover?
Some serial abuser in a Catholic school? Gerald Ridsdale? George Pell? Wrong, wrong, wrong.
As we now know, thanks to an intervention in federal parliament a week ago, the author of this ardent tribute to the beauty of ‘intergenerational love’ is one Gary Dowsett, a professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne.
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