This article reports on R-rated criminal behavior. The headline uses the term “minor-attracted persons” to avoid social media restrictions on the word “pedophile.”
After local outcry canceled a camp for “minor-attracted persons” set for last weekend in Vermont, several organizations are publicly defending those who declare a sexual attraction to children.
MAP Union, or MU, which represents itself as “an international organization representing the interests of minor-attracted people and their allies,” sent a statement to local reporter Guy Page protesting the camp cancelation as “bullying” and violence against “society’s most oppressed minority group.”
“While it is appropriate for law enforcement to investigate crimes when they occur, no-one should face legal sanctions for speaking freely about a sexual orientation they did not choose, nor for meeting up with others who have the same orientation,” a self-described MAP Union spokesperson, who called himself “Percy,” said in an email to Page he published Monday.
NEW: MAP Union, an organization dedicated to defending and destigmatizing MAPs (aka p*dophil*s), claimed that the cancellation of the recent MAP CAMP in Vermont was a form of “oppression” and that criticism of the event should be considered “hate speech.” pic.twitter.com/0t49NIRwhn
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Bean noted “Percy” is “likely a pseudonym based on the 19th century English author of Mathilda, a novel about incest between a father and daughter.”
The person calling himself “Percy” also told Bean, “We hope to provide a more balanced approach to MAP advocacy than groups like NAMBLA have
