Amazon Sells Pedophile Books

WORLDNETDAILY.COM, Oct. 2 — Columnist Art Moore has revealed on the Web site WorldNetDaily.com that the online bookseller Amazon.com openly and knowingly sells books advocating sex between adult men and boys.

Two such books it sells are Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers by David Riegel, and “another book apparently published by the North American Man-Boy Love Association called Loving Boys,” according to Moore. In that book the author admits that he “eschews both the common Judeo-Christian belief that man-boy contacts are morally wrong and the traditional psychiatric premise (never honestly tested) that they are unnatural, perverted and harmful for boys.”

The U.S. Justice Foundation, a conservative think tank, has threatened to sue Amazon.com for “contributing to the potential rape and molestation of children,” by selling these books.

In response to threatened lawsuits, boycotts and prosecution, Amazon.com released a statement saying it did not endorse the ideas contained in such books but believed “people have the right to choose their own reading material. … 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.”

Bush Gives Green Light to Condom Cash

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, Oct. 2 — Under pressure from Democrats in the Senate and from Republican New York Gov. George Pataki, President George W. Bush has approved the expansion of a New York state program that employs federal Medicaid money to distribute free birth control and condoms to the poor.

Some 800,000 more New Yorkers will now be eligible for the expanded program, according to The New York Daily News.

“It's an enormous breakthrough,” crowed Joanne Smith, a lobbyist for contraceptive services.

Bush administration officials claimed they had never been opposed in principle to the expansion of such services, as contraceptive advocates had claimed.

Pro-Abortion ‘Catholics’ Grab Abuse Issue

DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE (Rochester, N.Y.), Oct. 2 — Abortion and population-control advocate Catholics for a Free Choice has continued its campaign against the Holy See at the United Nations, this time bringing in a victim of alleged sexual abuse by a priest to testify against at the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child.

The testimony will take place in Geneva next week, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

The witness, Mark Furnish, 31, is an attorney based in Albany. He has accused Father Robert O'Neill, now a suspended priest, of abusing him in the early 1980s. Furnish will also speak at a Rome news conference.

According to Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for Free Choice: “We want to talk about the problem of clergy sexual abuse, which is a worldwide problem. We want the committee to engage the Vatican in a conversation regarding this problem and to ask the Vatican what it is doing about it.”