A friend shared a post on fb by a man called Eliahi Priest who had put together a video about the following. Apparently he had to re-upload the video after fb deleted it. His video is here _https://www.facebook.com/eliahi/posts/10156200308254042?pnref=story
I’ve tracked down some of the links he mentions:
George Christensen links Safe Schools program to paedophilia advocate
_http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-16/george-christensen-links-safe-schools-program-to-paedophilia/7252476
A Federal Government MP has used parliamentary privilege to accuse the Safe Schools program of being linked to a "paedophilia advocate".
Liberal Nationals MP George Christensen said Professor Gary Dowsett from La Trobe University helped establish the anti-bullying campaign.
Mr Christensen, who has called for the Safe Schools program to be scrapped, quoted a report containing "controversial views" which he said was published by Professor Dowsett in 1982.
The Member for Dawson told Parliament Professor Dowsett was a "longtime advocate of intergenerational sex, otherwise known as paedophilia".
"He says: 'How different then is the gentle, tentative sexuality between parent and child from the love of a paedophile and his or her lover. That kind of love, warmth and nurture is an important part of the paedophilic relationship'," Mr Christensen told Parliament.
"He argued in that journal that paedophilia should be part of the gay movement, it must be legally recognised and depicts it as a wider sexual liberation.
"I think it would shock many parents to know that a paedophilia advocate was overseeing the organisation that came up with the Safe Schools program.
As alluded to at the beginning of this article, many believed that the Safe Schools program was to combat bullying in general, however from the Safe Schools website itself:
Safe Schools Coalition Australia is a national coalition of organisations and schools working together to create safe and inclusive school environments for same sex attracted, intersex and gender diverse students, staff and families.”
_http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org.au/who-we-are
The quotes attributed to Dowsett in the news article come from this piece written by him in 1982 “Boiled Lollies and Bandaids”:
_http://www.know-bull.com/files/Gay-Information-Spring-1982.pdf
Here are some of the low lights of the article:
“Many of my gay male friends are teachers working in perilous positions in secondary and primary schools. They do so as politically-committed teachers, recognising clearly the active part schools play in the construction of class, gender, and sexuality.”
“And I also have a friend, a paedophile, who is working very hard on making sense out of his relations with boys. These relations consist of, among other things, a large amount of nurture and support for these boys, a real caring for their welfare and growth”
“And a new political position is needed for there are significant political struggles at stake. First, we have three legal/social questions to win: custody rights for gay men and lesbians; the legal right of paedophiles and their young lovers; and finally the sexual rights of children as a whole.”
“How we win these kinds of fights is just as important as winning, and it is crucial that we don’t win by hiving off the issue of child/adult sexual relations from child/adult relations generally. Processes of sexual definition and delineation aren’t always in our own interests. So, to win custody rights, gay teachers’ rights or kids’ rights by doing in the paedophiles would be a pyrrhic victory.”
Many mothers and some fathers will agree that children are sexual and generate sexual responses in their parents. Cuddling, breast feeding, bathing together, playing, kissing and fondling kids are immensely pleasurable activities for them and for us. And it is not uncommon to feel sexually aroused by that closeness, that touch and that love. How different then is that gentle, tentative sexuality between parent and child from the love of a paedophile and his/her lover? From all their accounts and from many academic studies (some worse than others), that kind of love, warmth, support and nurture is an important part of the paedophilic relationship.
I’m not saying that mothering/fathering is paedophilic; but I am saying that they are not mutually exclusive. Nor is the social parent so different from the child-lover. A perfect example of the ambiguities and discontinuities of such a relationship is that of J.M. Barrie – the author of Peter Pan – and the boys he loved. To argue that such a relationship is paedophilic or non-paedophilic is irrelevant. The presence or absence of sex as a criterion is specious for it relies on a definition of sex as ‘f@%#ing’, and it acts again to constitute a sexuality as separate, a reactionary definition we should argue against strongly. We should argue for the re-introduction of sex, its re-integration into social life rather than its privatisation. The current paedophilia debate then is crucial to the political processes for the gay movement: paedophiles need our support, and we need to construct the child/adult sex issue on our terms.
THOSE GAINS MUST BE WON FOR KIDS too. We need to protect the youthful partners in paedophilia against the legal and social management systems which treat them as delinquents. But for all kids there are rights to be won, and struggles to be waged against institutions which deny them power and their sexual rights viz, schools, reformatories, churches, scouts and guides: and struggles also against the individual who would do the same – the abusive parent, the authoritarian teacher, the Minister of Youth Affairs who would deny an abortion for a state ward, and the child rapist. These use their power as adults to confine and restrict children’s lives.
Wayback Machine cashed Dowsetts’ 2016 curriculum vitae from the La Trobe University website. Dowsett lists the “Boiled Lollies and Bandaids” article as a refereed Journal article at point 64. He also claims to have received career totals of AU $7,345,677 and US $2,494, 898 in research grants.
_https://web.archive.org/web/20160316215802/http://www.latrobe.edu.au/staff-profiles/data/docs/gwdowsett.pdf
