TX-MOTSS DIGEST is the Sole Authorized Global Archive for AOA .............................................................. ANDREW OF AMERICA on HOW and WHY NAMBLA hurts us. © 1994, 1996 The Author :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: BRENT PAYTON, helpful not hurtful Archivist ANDREW OF AMERICA here, I have been amused at the persistant and insistant postings on how NAMBLA "supports the gay agenda" (whatever that is) and how it is helping us toward our goals. One member even claimed they protested the Vietnam Draft. I am sure you'll get Bill Clinton and Dan Quayle's support for denouncing the draft but PLEASE don't think you had any impact on the *realpolitik* of that situation. NAMBLA's support of the GAY MOVEMENT is like KKK and American Nazi support of Ronald Reagan: (1) It couldn't hurt the Klan, it couldn't help Reagan. (2) Reagan won despite them, not because of them. (3) Nobody voted for Reagan because these bastards endorsed him. (4) They gained no support from Reagan in turn. NAMBLA's parasitic attachment to the gay movement is cited by every group opposed to civil rights for homosexuals. And not just the Jesse Helms, Jerry Fallwell, Patty Buchanan hatemongers. Exodus International includes it in their literature, the Episcopal National Convention brought it up, the New York Times highlighted a NAMBLA banner behind Mayor David Dinkins' head in a gay rights parade in New York. NAMBLA not only fuels our sworn mortal enemies, but it also gives open-minded, moderate people pause when they hear about gay rights. Look at ANY public opinion poll ever taken in America about gay civil rights. Whatever percentage say they would approve of equal rights, employment protection, gays in the military, the number is ALWAYS smaller when it comes to approval of GayLesBi adoptions, teachers, youth ministers, scout leaders. WHY? Because there is a link in many people's minds between PEDOPHILIA/PEDERASTY/CHILD MOLESTATION and homosexual persons. Period, the end. WHY? Because groups like NAMBLA--and I don't know of any other groups like them--continue to self-identify as being gay. They attach themselves to our parades and say "We stand for gay rights." The public sees this and says "Gay rights stands for child molestors." Allowing NAMBLA to ride on our coattails only drags us down and slows our march to justice. It is my choice NOT to associate myself with NAMBLA or its goals. Not just because I believe them to be unpopular (any surveys showing more than a single digit approval rating for "no age of consent?") but because I believe them to be indefensibly wrong! My guess is what annoys a growing number of netters is despite its tiny numbers, low support, denunciation by every major GayLesBi group of prominence and credi-bility, NAMBLA advocates continue to flood the bandwidth with their redundant, unsubstantiated propaganda over a over again. When they cannot prove their points logically and coherently, they flame their opponents with catch-all labels of "ignorance, intolerance and phobias." We have every reason to distrust pedophiles, no reason to support them. They are parasites who could not survive without us or get anywhere without our work. It is time to cut the leeches free before the drain us of anymore energy on the net or in our progress. I have worked with too many victims of pedophiles SOME OF WHOM WERE VICTIMIZED BY CARD-CARRYING NAMBLA MEMBERS to any any sympathy for their rhetoric or tol- erance for their feigned social concern. I'll try to be more amusing in my next post. ANDREW OF AMERICA Using youth rights as an alleged goal is some of the biggest Youth exploitation NAMBLA perpetrates! ------------------------------ (C) 1994 The Author