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Google hosts 'boy love' siteFamily counselor presses Web giant to dump it

Posted: April 11, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A marriage and family therapist intern is trying to convince Google to drop a website from its popular, free blog host that promotes "boy love," sexual relationships between men and adolescents.

Stacy L. Harp of Orange, Calif., told WorldNetDaily one of the readers of her weblog pointed out the site, called "Paiderastia: The Boy Love Revival."
At the top of its homepage, the site explains it's all about "erotic/mentor/spiritual love between adolescents and adults."

Harp said, however, that not long after she exposed it yesterday morning, the "Paiderastia" site removed its most recent posts, including one dated April 9.

Also removed, according to Harp, was a podcast – a file with a radio-style report – that mocked the FBI. It was created through the podcast provider Liberated Syndication.

The site now begins with a Feb. 15 post that outlines the "Boylove Code of Ethics," which includes this rule: "Intimacy with a boy should never develop into a sexual relationship without the boy fully consenting and understanding the social, legal, and health implications of the relationship."

Harp, who also has a company called Active Christian Media, said that as "somebody who has recovered from child sexual abuse and has been working for four years as a therapist" she got "ticked off" when she saw the "boy love" website.

Harp spoke with a secretary at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., but was told she must go to the company's help-desk page online and fill out a complaint.

Harp had done that before with another complaint – when homosexual activists slandered her online – and got no response.

Google's Mountain View, Calif., office has not responded to WND's request for comment.
U.S. officials hunting child predators have considered websites like "Paiderastia" low priority because they are not explicit. But Harp fears such sites could lure children.
"It plays into the normalization of it," she said. "The more you have it out there the more it's available for children to see. Children are easily influenced."


As WND reported in 2003, Amazon.com sold subscriptions to the North American Man/Boy Love Association's official magazine, a periodical entered as evidence in a lawsuit involving the murder of a 10-year-old boy. The online book-seller later dropped the magazine.

The publication figured prominently in a $200-million federal lawsuit alleging NAMBLA incites members to "rape male children" and "serves as a conduit for an underground network of pedophiles in the U.S." The group was defended by the American Civil Liberties Union.

In 1999, in response to an organized protest, the company dropped a book published by NAMBLA called "Varieties of Man/Boy Love." However, it continues to sell a similar title, "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers," by David L. Riegel, a retiree who operates a chat forum for pedophiles.

Amazon.com sells "boy lovers" book.

Amazon has stated it does not endorse "Understanding Boys and Boylovers," but insists "people have the right to choose their own reading material."

The bookseller says, "Our goal is to support freedom of expression and to provide customers with the broadest selection possible so they can find, discover, and buy any title they might be seeking."

Nevertheless, Amazon decided to drop a book called "Varieties of Man/Boy Love," pointing out it had an image on the cover that bordered on "kiddie porn." The bookseller argued further that Riegel's book, in contrast, is not a "how to."

The previous month, a WorldNetDaily inquiry into Wal-Mart's sale of NAMBLA's "Varieties of Man/Boy Love," on its website prompted the retail giant to drop the title and others of a similar nature. WalMart.com spokeswoman Cynthia Lin said the book slipped through the company's screening process, noting it sells more than 500,000 books.

As WorldNetDaily reported in 2002, Riegel's book says men who become involved in sexual relationships with boys "are sincere, concerned, loving human beings who simply have – and were probably born with – a sexual orientation that is neither understood nor accepted by most others."

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Google hosts 'boy love' siteFamily counselor presses Web giant to dump it
Posted: April 11, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
A marriage and family therapist intern is trying to convince Google to drop a website from its popular, free blog host that promotes "boy love," sexual relationships between men and adolescents.
Stacy L. Harp of Orange, Calif., told WorldNetDaily one of the readers of her weblog pointed out the site, called "Paiderastia: The Boy Love Revival."
At the top of its homepage, the site explains it's all about "erotic/mentor/spiritual love between adolescents and adults."
Harp said, however, that not long after she exposed it yesterday morning, the "Paiderastia" site removed its most recent posts, including one dated April 9.
Also removed, according to Harp, was a podcast – a file with a radio-style report – that mocked the FBI. It was created through the podcast provider Liberated Syndication.
The site now begins with a Feb. 15 post that outlines the "Boylove Code of Ethics," which includes this rule: "Intimacy with a boy should never develop into a sexual relationship without the boy fully consenting and understanding the social, legal, and health implications of the relationship."
Harp, who also has a company called Active Christian Media, said that as "somebody who has recovered from child sexual abuse and has been working for four years as a therapist" she got "ticked off" when she saw the "boy love" website.
Harp spoke with a secretary at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., but was told she must go to the company's help-desk page online and fill out a complaint.
Harp had done that before with another complaint – when homosexual activists slandered her online – and got no response.
Google's Mountain View, Calif., office has not responded to WND's request for comment.
U.S. officials hunting child predators have considered websites like "Paiderastia" low priority because they are not explicit. But Harp fears such sites could lure children.
"It plays into the normalization of it," she said. "The more you have it out there the more it's available for children to see. Children are easily influenced.

As WND reported in 2003, Amazon.com sold subscriptions to the North American Man/Boy Love Association's official magazine, a periodical entered as evidence in a lawsuit involving the murder of a 10-year-old boy. The online book-seller later dropped the magazine.
The publication figured prominently in a $200-million federal lawsuit alleging NAMBLA incites members to "rape male children" and "serves as a conduit for an underground network of pedophiles in the U.S." The group was defended by the American Civil Liberties Union.
In 1999, in response to an organized protest, the company dropped a book published by NAMBLA called "Varieties of Man/Boy Love." However, it continues to sell a similar title, "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers," by David L. Riegel, a retiree who operates a chat forum for pedophiles.
Amazon.com sells "boy lovers" book.
Amazon has stated it does not endorse "Understanding Boys and Boylovers," but insists "people have the right to choose their own reading material."
The bookseller says, "Our goal is to support freedom of expression and to provide customers with the broadest selection possible so they can find, discover, and buy any title they might be seeking."
Nevertheless, Amazon decided to drop a book called "Varieties of Man/Boy Love," pointing out it had an image on the cover that bordered on "kiddie porn." The bookseller argued further that Riegel's book, in contrast, is not a "how to."
The previous month, a WorldNetDaily inquiry into Wal-Mart's sale of NAMBLA's "Varieties of Man/Boy Love," on its website prompted the retail giant to drop the title and others of a similar nature. WalMart.com spokeswoman Cynthia Lin said the book slipped through the company's screening process, noting it sells more than 500,000 books.
As WorldNetDaily reported in 2002, Riegel's book says men who become involved in sexual relationships with boys "are sincere, concerned, loving human beings who simply have – and were probably born with – a sexual orientation that is neither understood nor accepted by most others."
SPECIAL OFFER: To understand the ever-expanding sexual revolution in America, get one of the most-talked-about books of the year, David Kupelian's "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom."
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Amazon.com accused of aiding molesters
Amazon offers pedophile handbook
Pedophile advocate featured at university
'Nothing new' in book condoning child sex
Google map says Taiwan part of China
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Google blocks ad for anti-Clinton book
Google still runs anti-DeLay ads
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Google censoring conservative ads?
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JAMES SCOTT BELL: A MASTER OF LEGAL SUSPENSE

JAMES SCOTT BELL:


A MASTER OF LEGAL SUSPENSE




BY FORREST W. SCHULTZ



A Review of James Scott Bell, Presumed Guilty (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006)
$12.99 316 pp ISBN-13: 978-0-310-25331-0



Let me begin by making two confessions. First, in my title of this review I shamelessly stole the designation of Bell as “A Master of Legal Suspense” from the Library Journal. Secondly, the book under review here is the only one by Bell which I have read and so it is “presumed representative” of the rest of his novels. Two things, though, which I can say for sure is that (1). Presumed Guilty is excellent legal suspense and an excellent literary embodiment of the Christian world-view; and, therefore, (2). I intend to read the rest of Bell’s novels based upon my favorable experience with this one, and I would encourage you to do likewise.

If the rest of Bell’s novels are as good as this one, which would appear to be the case, then it can be said with certainty that he is one of the new breed of writers which began appearing about a decade ago writing good quality Christian fiction, thereby ending the 30 years of desert in Christian fiction which began after Lewis and Tolkien had completed their writings and no one of their stature was on the horizon to take their place.

The story of Presumed Guilty begins when Pastor Ron Hamilton foolishly agrees to counsel a porn actress with the predictable result occurring. Prior to that, and preparing the scene for that, was the deterioration of Hamilton’s fellowship with God and His love for his wife and children as he got caught up in the ego trip of building a large ministry. Now both of these pastoral foibles -- ego-tripping and falling into sexual sin, are, of course, quite common today both in life and in novels, but Bell uses them in his story in a fresh way that is both edifying and exciting to read about.



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Another important plot element is one that is new – at least I had never heard of it before. This pertains to Hamilton’s son Jared, who returns as a soldier from the Iraqi war suffering from what is usually called “post traumatic stress disorder”, a syndrome similar to the one found in many veterans of the Vietnam War. Now the suffering of the Vietnam War veterans is widely known but this is the first time I heard that anything comparable was happening to the Iraqi War veterans. And, that is not all. Jared, like others, is also suffering from a severe spiritual oppression issuing from a demonic stronghold in Babylon. This also is something I never heard before and which I intend to investigate. Although Jared Hamilton is a fictional character, the particular demonic oppression Bell uses in the story is presented as something which is really happening to many soldiers today.

Entwined in the story are the struggles in the minds of the various characters, esp. those of Ron Hamilton, his son Jared, and his wife Dallas. These also are realistically portrayed. After Hamilton is arrested and imprisoned as the suspect in the murder of the porn actress, the focus of the action switches to Dallas, who goes on a crusade to find the truth and nearly ends up being killed as she gets close to learning the true murderer. The other struggle Dallas faces is dealing with Ron’s adultery. She first is embittered by a vengeful spirit but later repents and decides to forgive Ron and seek reconciliation with him. And Ron uses his time in prison to examine his life, which leads him to see how his priorities had shifted away from God and onto “success”. He then vows to return to his first love, which he does. Jared too finds his way back to God after some very harrowing experiences. The story ends on a happy note without being unrealistic.

Bell is part of the new wave of excellent Christian fictional authors not only with respect to the fine craftsmanship of the story itself but also in regard to its language, which is realistic without resorting to debased phraseology. And God is never dragged in to the story but always appears in a natural way, and in such a way as to enhance the story, not smother it.

Information on James Scott Bell is available on his website www.jamesscottbell.com, where a list of his novels can be found as well as information about the writing seminars he teaches and his handbook on fiction writing. If this handbook teaches what he practices it should be good.



Forrest Wayne Schultz has degrees in engineering and theology. He has been a lifelong avid reader of fiction, the founder and leader of a book discussion group in Philadelphia in the mid 1960s, the President of two literary societies (the C.S.Lewis/J.R.R. Tolkien Society of Philadelphia in the late 1960s and Alternate Dimensions in Riverdale, GA in the late 1980s), and an active member of the Coweta Writers Group (in Coweta County, GA) since 2000. He has had book reviews published in The Chalcedon Report and other publications and he has been a reviewer for Active Christian Media (formerly called Mind and Media) ever since its founding last year.

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