Family First National Director Lyle Shelton says a taxpayer-funded website that affirms paedophiles in their sexual attraction towards children must come down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Shelton today condemned the Albanese government for launching and defending the website that advises people with sexual attraction to children not to \u201cbeat yourself up,\u201d treats child sexual fantasies as something to \u201cmanage like a wave,\u201d and suggests the attraction cannot or should not be changed \u2013 comparing efforts to change it with historical attempts regarding homosexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is no place in civil society for justifying paedophilia or for holding feelings of sexual attraction towards children,\u201d Mr Shelton said.
\u201cPeople with those feelings should be required to get immediate professional help, not told their condition is like homosexuality and cannot be changed.\u201d
Mr Shelton said he has met many people who had feelings of unwanted same-sex attraction who were able to overcome this with professional support, the support of friends and community, and from asking for prayers \u2013 something so-called conversion therapy laws make illegal in states like Victoria.
He commended Liberal Senator Matt O\u2019Sullivan for bringing the material to attention in Senate estimates hearings this week.
\u201cIt was disappointing to see the Attorney General Michelle Rowland defend the taxpayer-funded advice to paedophiles that affirms their perverse thinking as if it is something natural,\u201d Mr Shelton said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis might have been a recommendation of the Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse but that doesn\u2019t mean it should be implemented.
\u201cMums and dads don\u2019t want paedophiles being told they can\u2019t change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDealing with perversion is always difficult but to say there no pathway to healing is to leave someone in a horrible addiction without hope. That is bad for the individual and poses unacceptable risks to society.
\u201cThe Albanese government must immediately remove this content from the internet. Protecting children must come first.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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