NAMBLA Updates & Comments (North American Man/Boy Love Association) August 31, 2000 ACLU to Defend Pedophile Group. Associated Press. BOSTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union will represent a group that advocates sex between men and boys in a lawsuit brought by the family of a slain 10-year-old. The family of Jeffrey Curley of Cambridge said the North American Man/Boy Love Association and its website which is now offline incited the attempted molestation and murder of the boy on Oct. 1, 1997. One of two men convicted in the killing, Charles Jaynes, 25, reportedly viewed the group's website shortly before the killing, and also had in his possession some of NAMBLA's publications. Also convicted in the killing was 24-year-old Salvatore Sicari. The ACLU said the case, filed in federal court in mid-May, involves issues of freedom of speech and association. "For us, it is a fundamental First Amendment case," John Roberts, executive director of the Massachusetts branch of the ACLU, told Boston Globe Wednesday. "It has to do with communications on a website, and material that does not promote any kind of criminal behavior whatsoever." ACLU officials said NAMBLA members deny encouraging coercion, rape or violence. Attorney Lawrence Frisoli, who represents the Curleys, said he is glad the ACLU is defending NAMBLA, because he has had trouble locating the group's members. Harvey Silverglate, an ACLU board member, said Wednesday that the group's attorneys will try to block any attempt by the Curleys to get NAMBLA's membership lists, or other materials identifying members. The ACLU also will act as a surrogate for NAMBLA, allowing its members to defend themselves in court while remaining anonymous. According to the Globe, NAMBLA officials in the past have said their main goal is the abolition of age-of-consent laws that classify sex with children as rape. At two separate trials last year, prosecutors said Jaynes and Sicari were sexually obsessed with the boy, lured him from his Cambridge neighborhood with the promise of a new bike, and then smothered him with a gasoline-soaked rag when he resisted their sexual advances. They then stuffed him into a concrete-filled container and dumped it into a Maine river. Sicari, convicted of first-degree murder, is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Jaynes' second-degree murder and kidnapping convictions enable him to seek parole in 23 years. The Curleys last week were awarded $328 million by a superior court jury in a civil suit against Jaynes and Sicari. Response from SOC-UM's Founder: Having had a child victimized by a member of NAMBLA I must admit to being totally outraged by the ACLU and it's reasoning for their defense of NAMBLA. NAMBLA is hiding very carefully under the first amendment, while at the same time offering comfort and support to those men who are convicted sex offenders. The reading of NAMBLA's position papers are very telling.... they don't call for lowing the age of consent, they call for abolishment of consent laws. They use words like sexual abuse in terms of force, but allow for adults to have "consensual" sexual relationships with children, knowing full well that children are manipulated and coerced into silence by adults during sexual abuse. A quote from NAMBLA's Official Position Papers, Oct. 12, 1996. "NAMBLA'S first position was adopted at its third General Membership Meeting in June, 1980. It focused on the hated "statutory rape" laws which confuse rape and violence with consensual sex. "Statutory rape" laws vilify, persecute, and arrest the development of the love which men have for boys and which boys have for men. These laws are used in a discriminatory way to give long prison sentences to boy lovers and hinder the development of the gentleness, wisdom, and creative contribution of boy lovers as a minority group. The resolution proposed by Tom Reeves states: (1) The North American Man/Boy Love Association calls for the abolition of age-of- consent and all other laws which prevent men and boys from freely enjoying their bodies. (2) We call for the release of all men and boys imprisoned by such laws." How nice of NAMBLA to think of children (boys) and their sexual freedom in relationship to men, and how telling. NAMBLA helping boys find their sexual freedom, is like snakes helping their prey. That the ACLU is getting into the battle is an outrage. Offering assistance to a group that advocates the sexual abuse of children (oops, "consensual" sex with children), and whom many members are convicted child molesters is beyond the pale. I'm sadden as a Country we have people who don't understand that helping NAMBLA helps them promote sexual abuse of our boy children. A truly dark day in history for children. SOC-UM SOC-UM, Safeguarding Our Children-United Mothers | Back |