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Toronto's Globe and Mail recently ran an astonishing opinion piece from R.E. Lieb, a father of eight. Mr. Lieb reminisces fondly about his Newfoundland childhood, recalling that local gay men routinely accosted him and his pals looking for sex. He says many said yes, "out of a mixture of motives, such as a good-natured inability to say no, boredom, curiosity, sheer horniness, being taken somewhere interesting, [or] money.

"We regarded such incidents as simply adventures on the road of growing up," Lieb says. "There may, of course, have been one or two boys who became aware of nascent homosexuality within themselves."

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Lieb goes on to note that his sister was seduced ("certainly not against her will"), at age 13, by a 34-year-old seminarian, and that modern stories labeling youths who returning to their "molesters" for "abuse" again and again as "victims" strike him as "ridiculous and phony." He then tags journalists and other professionals for being ready to exploit inter-generational sex romps and play for their crass advantage, harming the very children they hypocritically claim to protect.

Thank God this sensible man didn't have a therapist to explain that what he thought was fun and play was actually akin to "soul murder" with "untold psychological consequences."