Say Anything Blog

Gosh, I wish someone had let me know earlier.

Last night, I did manage to make a brief speech on just this topic to about 200 Conservative activists.  Please consider spreading the word to your friends and co-workers.  And if you missed today, there is always tomorrow.

The American Family Association, Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, and other conservative activist groups are urging their supporters to call, e-mail, fax, or visit their senators today to express their disapproval of S. 909, the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act (Senate Bill 909). The bill would authorize the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute certain bias-motivated crimes based on the victim’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability.
Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., a member of the conservative coalition known as the Arlington Group, says the measure would have a chilling effect on the religious liberty of pastors.

“Back in 2006, [Democratic Representative] Artur Davis from Alabama, who will be running for governor by the way in that great state, made a statement to [Representative] Louie Gohmert [R-Texas] in a [House] subcommittee meeting that a pastor could be held liable or [as] a co-conspirator of sorts in a hate crime if we found out that his preaching and teaching incited—according to their thinking—someone to commit a violent act against someone that is gay,” Jackson explains.
In the previous Congress, Senate Democrats tried to add hate-crimes legislation as an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill. Many conservative activists expect that will be attempted again before the August recess.

(T)his bill would criminalize Christianity and turn those who disagree with the homosexual agenda into felons, but criminalizing Christianity is just the beginning of what this bill would do. It would also elevate pedophiles as a special protected class – since the term “sexual orientation,” which has been added to the “hate crimes” legislation, includes them in the American Psychiatric Association’s definition of various “sexual orientations” (30 of these APA “sexual orientations” are listed in a fact sheet provided by the Traditional Values Coalition).

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, offered this very simple amendment to H.R. 1913 in the House Judiciary Committee:

The term sexual orientation as used in this act or any amendments to this act does not include pedophilia.

It was rejected.

Rep King also spoke on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives and pointed to the American Psychiatric Association list of another 547 different “Paraphilias” that will be protected under the “hate crimes” bill. This, he said, would provide a mass of “sacred cows” in our society, which includes pedophiles who would be given elevated protection giving “the offender” an additional decade behind bars.

Then, shockingly, Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., agreed and admitted that this bill will protect all 547 forms of sexual deviancy or “Paraphilias” listed by the APA. Here’s what Hastings said on the House floor:

  This bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability or all of these ‘Philias’ and fetishes and ‘isms’ that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule.

Apparently, Hastings has absolutely no problem with sexual deviants, including pedophiles, getting an elevated level of protection.

So Dino and his butt-buddies’s new nomenclature is a Paraphiliac, not sexual deviant.

I dunno.

Sexual deviant seems so much more accurate.

“Paraphilias”(formerly called sexual deviations) listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (Washington: American Psychiatric Association, 2000).

This list includes both paraphilias coded by the APA and paraphilias (not otherwise specified – NOS).

This is not a complete list of paraphilias, but only a sample.* These are deviant sexual orientations or sexual attractions that are still considered abnormal.

1. Apotemnophilia - sexual arousal associated with the stump(s) of an amputee

2. Asphyxophilia - sexual gratification derived from activities that involve oxygen deprivation through hanging, strangulation, or other means

3. Autogynephilia - the sexual arousal of a man by his own perception of himself as a woman or dressed as a woman

(Would this be Buzzes’ particular kick?

4. Catheterophilia – sexual arousal by insertion of a catheter

5. Coprophilia - sexual arousal associated with feces

6. Exhibitionism - the act of exposing one’s genitals to an unwilling observer
to obtain sexual gratification (DSM code 302.4)

7. Fetishism/Sexual Fetishism - obtaining sexual excitement primarily or exclusively from an inanimate object or a particular part of the body (DSM Code 302.81)

8. Frotteurism - approaching an unknown woman from the rear and pressing or rubbing the penis against her buttocks (DSM Code 302.89)

9. Hypephilia – a sexual attraction to fabrics.

10. Hebephilia – sex with pubescent children

11. Gender Identity Disorder - a strong and persistent cross-gender identification, which is the desire to be, or the insistence that one is, or the other sex, “along with” persistent discomfort about one’s assigned sex or a sense of the inappropriateness in the gender role of that sex

12. Gerontosexuality - distinct preference for sexual relationships primarily or exclusively with an elderly partner

13. Incest - sex with a sibling or parent

14. Kleptophilia - obtaining sexual excitement from stealing

15. Klismaphilia - erotic pleasure derived from enemas

16. Necrophilia - sexual arousal and/or activity with a corpse

17. Partialism - A fetish in which a person is sexually attracted to a specific body part exclusive of the person

18. Pedophilia - Sexual activity with a prepubescent child (generally age 13 years or younger). The individual with pedophilia must be age 16 years or older and at least 5 years older than the child. For individuals in late adolescence with pedophilia, no precise age difference is specified, and clinical judgment must be used; both the sexual maturity of the child and the age difference must be taken into account; the adult may be sexually attracted to opposite sex, same sex, or prefer either (DSM Code 302.2)

19. Prostitution - the act or practice of offering sexual stimulation or intercourse for money

20. Sexual Masochism - obtaining sexual gratification by being subjected to pain or humiliation (DSM Code 302.83)

21. Sexual Sadism - the intentional infliction of pain or humiliation on another
person in order to achieve sexual excitement (DSM Code 302.82)

22. Telephone Scatalogia - sexual arousal associated with making or receiving obscene phone calls

23. Toucherism - characterized by a strong desire to touch the breast or genitals of an unknown woman without her consent; often occurs in
conjunction with other paraphilia

24. Transgenderism - an umbrella term referring to and/or covering transvestitism, drag queen/king, and transsexualism

25. Transsexual - a person whose gender identity is different from his or her anatomical gender

26. Transvestite - a person who is sexually stimulated or gratified by wearing
the clothes of the other gender

27. Transvestic Fetishism - intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving cross-dressing (DSM Code 302.3)

28. Urophilia - sexual arousal associated with urine

29. Voyeurism - obtaining sexual arousal by observing people without their consent when they are undressed or engaged in sexual activity (DSM Code 302.82)

30. Zoophilia/Bestiality - engaging in sexual activity with animals