I don't think it serves justice to put LGBT and pedos in the same bucket (semantic category as implied by the title). For starters LGBT might be annoying to some especially due to mentally ill woke activists and their Hollywood lackeys crapping on every movie or franchise they can put their hands on. But they're not illegal, like you can LGBT all you want if that's what you feel like. But pedophilia is illegal and practicing that will land you in jail if you get caught then further more it's guaranteed will land you a further many dicks up your ass, punches in the throat and possibly several stabbings as benefits of the state prison facilities. Now pedophilia is an excellent scapegoat for governments in their effort to ban encryption. They need to eavesdrop for the good of the children and watch for pedophiles. You got no counter-argument to that, what, you hate children? You wanna put children in danger? Pedophilia argument is the best in the history of mankind. You can justify any authoritarian-abusive action with it. Random searches by the police on the street. Maybe you carry pedophiliac material in your backpack. Surveillance cameras with face recognition so we know at all times who the pedophiles are. Signed statements after 10 PM. What are you doing outside? By chance wanna watch the children through windows and wank a little? You into hate speech (like make some comment on self-identified "woman" kicking the shit out of a biological one in sports competition or got something against chemically castrating children when they "identify" as trans)? Well Ireland made it illegal not just to perform hate speech yourself but to own any kind of hate speech content on your electronic devices, phone, computer a.s.o.: https://www.euronews.com/2023/05/03/new-hate-speech-laws-kick-up-a-storm-in-ireland . Someone sent you a joke with a Mexican transgender Jew entering a bar? Whether you laughed or not, you can be picked up by the police and thrown into jail. Now you do realize they aren't going to pick up citizens randomly for illegal memes, generally you got nothing to worry about. But start expressing anti-system opinions or protest against it. Suddenly you can hear the cops ringing your door, let's make a trip to the police station where we'll detain you a day or two and let's see what you have on your phone, hate speech material and pedophilia maybe. If they harass you enough you grow out of your desire to stand up against the good and moral police state.
Pedophiles occur in all religions, politicians of all branches, in all occupations, all genders, all sexual orientations, and even in law enforcement itself. Yet, statistically, the one occupation that pedophile arrests have been made the most...teachers in our education system especially those with religious backgrounds and/or church members. Another fact, most pedophiles describe themselves as being well-respected members of Christian congregations and are actively involved as church leaders. Sadly, when a Christian or church member is arrested as a pedophile...it's rare for church members from the same church to show up in court in support of the young victim (s). There are statistics about this too. In light of the above facts, it should not be a surprise that there's a backlash from those that consider themselves Christians to divert the truth from Christians to other groups of individuals whenever we head into a Presidential election year...we should see the rhetoric pick up more later this year even here at Elitetrader.com by certain individuals. That alone should make anyone conscious of the Political agenda, especially about those that attack other groups one day and then attack politicians the next day. Simply, Christianity has been under attack for a very long time and vice versa...long before our Parents. In my opinion, it's one of many reasons why Churches are losing money and losing members today. Like anything else in life, there are some bad apples out there...rotten apples...infested with worms. wrbtrader