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Immoral relativity

Crusaders against paedophilia seem able to turn their outrage on and off

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

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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