ARE PSYCHOLOGISTS LOSING THEIR MINDS?

Here at my University we sometimes poke a little fun at our friends in the Psychology Dept. The running joke is,"You want apples? Look in an Apple Tree. You want nuts? Look in Psychology." The joke stems from the fact that some (but not all) of our Psychology faculty are, well, a little unusual. I always say, being too introspective is not healthy, psychologists seem to prove that point. Maybe it's just that a large percentage of them got into psychology to find out what's wrong with themselves, whatever the reason, a lot of them seem to be nuttier than the people they study.

This seems to be proving itself over and over in some of the stories that have been coming out lately about the antics of Psychology professors on behalf of the loony left.

I found this story some time ago and I think it well defines what I'm talking about here. It seems that back in 1999, two University psychology professors and a grad professor, (and I'll gladly call them out by name) Bruce Rind from Temple University, Philip Tromovitch from the University of Pennsylvania and Robert Bauserman from the University of (Gasp, my home state) Michigan, co-authored a study called, "A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples," in which they attempted to justify having child-adult sex by claiming that there was no measurable socio-emotional or psychological damage to the victim. (For those of you who put absolute faith in this kind of garbage, this is a classic example of the kind agenda-driven crap that is spewed by Universities). Further, I had an opportunity to listen to these Profs try to defend their study on-air. Their defense was typical of what you hear around our campus, that morality is Subjective and that other cultures (usually Stone-Age), have sex with their children and since it is accepted, the children and adults see no harm, and with the absence of condemnation and guilt, everyone lives a well adjusted, happy life. Most of these assumptions come from talking with the village elders who do most of the raping and the submissive victims who fear being punished once the outsiders leave. Having seen the result of children who were molested myself, this is either a complete perversion of the truth or the product of sick twisted minds to flat out lie to further their hopeful agenda of being able to have sex with not only college students that they can manipulate, but children as well. I usually try to be as fair as I can be to both sides of any argument, but these people make me sick to my stomach.

The second example I have for you is a little more recent. It comes from a Conference on World Affairs panel at Boulder High located in Boulder, Colorado. Boulder, Colorado has seen great change in it's culture over the last few decades with Liberalism becoming the norm in most of it's school systems. This example is rather typical of some of the changes the left sees as "Progressive". One of the scheduled speakers for that night was Joel Becker, a Los Angeles clinical psychologist, Dr. Becker started his speech to high school students with this sentence, "I'm going to encourage you to have sex, and I'm going to encourage you to use drugs appropriately," Joel went on to say, "And why I am going to take that position is because you're going to do it anyway." This is typical left-wing thought, agree or not, this is a left wing position, that some things are unavoidable, so therefore we should accept it and not even try to discourage it while doing our best to assure that the children do it safely. Dr. Becker went on to say that children should be encouraged to experiment with masturbation, homosexuality, group sex and drugs to enhance the experience. It should be noted here that the Conference was mandatory and that no opposing point of view was given. It should also be pointed out that some of the students were below the age of consent and that the drugs he was encouraging the students to use "appropriately" were illegal. The very worst part of all this was that it was defended by the school administration.

Now, there is an important lesson here that every one should be aware of. On University campuses, advocates are very proud of their efforts to represent oppressed groups. The problem is; as people become more and more accepting of different cultures, sexualities, and ethnic groups, it leaves these people looking harder and harder for anyone to represent. Advocacy groups and the people who lead them enjoy their power, should their goal be met, they certainly are not going to disband their groups and go about their business. A good example is MADD, (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), when it was originally formed, their goal was to toughen drunk driving law. The woman who originally formed the group left several years ago when she felt the group had met it's goal, but the people in MADD weren't about to give up their power, connections, and profitable positions, so they continued on without her to push for more and more drinking laws that can only have one conclusion; the outlawing of alcohol completely. It is the same with these people. As homosexuality becomes more accepted, these people will have no choice but to move on to the next taboo, and the next taboo will be child-adult sex. They will argue, as they already have, that it is our Judea-Christian upbringing that is the cause of us being morally against child-adult sex. They will argue that "Age of Consent" is debatable and they will push to have it lowered and lowered. They will position themselves as being "Progressive" and "Open minded" and those against it as intolerant and oppressive. They will, as they already have, use questionable data designed to further their agenda, and just as MADD's end result can only be the outlawing of alcohol, they're end result can only be the elimination of all judgment and morality. There is a fight over the morality of this country and it is being fought by the left through philosophy and psychology. I'm willing to have that debate because I know I'm on the side of protecting children and being the kind of responsible father, grandfather and citizen that this country needs. I will judge and I invite people to judge me. To the scum-bag people who are now pushing for the acceptance of Child-Adult sex through psychology I give this piece of advice; "Psychologist, heal thy self." H.C.