Normalizing pedophilia ultimately could lead to a major cultural change—elevating pedophilia to a protected class.
“They are going to push to have it recognized as a sexual orientation, which would grant it civil rights status,” Uhler said.
If that happens, employers could no longer discriminate against pedophiles in areas such as employment, he said.
And if teens are given the legal right to decide if they want to have a sex-change operation or take hormones to try to appear as the other sex, that could help make it legal for pedophiles to act on their sexual urges, he predicted.
If children legally can decide what they can do with their bodies, then pedophiles could argue that they should be able to consent to a sexual relationship, he said.
“They’re jackals that are feeding off the carcasses of these kids,” he said. “The predator’s interest is ultimately lowering the age of consent.”
The general public doesn’t understand what is happening, he said. It’s one of the defining issues of our time, he added.
Scott Clark, a minister who teaches church history and historical theology at Westminster Seminary in California, has called the destigmatization of pedophilia the last stage of the “neo-pagan sexual revolution.”
Clark hosts the Heidelcast podcast and writes The Heidelblog. Both tackle religious and moral issues facing modern society.
“There’s a pretty obvious move to normalize pedophilia,” he said. “This invariably comes from adults. It’s not coming from children.”
He feels researchers in academia are setting the final stage for a society in which there are no police, no prisons, and no stigma for being sexually attracted to children.