<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>David,</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thank you for writing to members of the Libertarian National Committee. I just wrote a reply to several others who emailed today with concerns about our vice-chair's posting(s), and forwarded separately to you my response to them.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>As noted in that response, I have not seen the post(s) in question. However it seems to me that your letter may be inaccurately conflating different things. The Wiktionary definition of <i>pedophilia</i> states:</div><div><p></p><blockquote type="cite"><p><strong class="Latn headword" xml:lang="en" lang="en">pedophilia</strong> (<i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#countable" title="Appendix:Glossary">countable</a> and <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable" title="Appendix:Glossary">uncountable</a></i>, <i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en plural-form-of" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pedophilias#English" title="pedophilias">pedophilias</a></b>)</p>
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<li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sexual" title="sexual">Sexual</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/attraction" title="attraction">attraction</a> to <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/children" title="children">children</a> by <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adult" title="adult">adults</a>.
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<li>Sexual <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/activity" title="activity">activity</a> between adults and children.
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<li>Many psychologists recommend against using the term <i>pedophilia</i>
to denote sexual activities with children, because not all people with a
primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children (i.e.,
pedophilia) commit such acts, and child molesters often lack a strong
sexual interest in prepubescent children.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pedophilia#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pedophilia#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> Furthermore, psychological texts define <i>pedophilia</i> as a primary or exclusive attraction towards specifically <i>prepubescent</i> children;<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pedophilia#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> primary or exclusive attraction towards pubescent children is known as <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hebephilia" title="hebephilia">hebephilia</a></i> and towards post-pubescent adolescents as <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ephebophilia" title="ephebophilia">ephebophilia</a></i>.</li></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>When you call pedophiles "monsters" and "predators of the worst kind", I presume you are talking about <i>people who actually initiate force against pre-pubescent children for purposes of personal sexual gratification</i>. If that is what you mean, I am inclined to agree with you. But I would be quite shocked, to put it mildly, if Arvin Vohra defended any such thing! Neither you nor others who have written have yet shown any evidence of this.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I've noticed that many members of the public confuse (or in some cases, I fear, deliberately conflate) the sexual attraction toward young children with which some individuals are apparently born, with<i> inappropriately acting</i> on such an attraction. People generally do not choose and cannot control their sexual preferences or desires, and so it would be wrong to punish or blame them for such attractions – but they can control their actions.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>If you believe Arvin Vohra posted something that <i>actually defends the initiation of force or fraud </i>in regards to sexual relations with young people, please present your evidence. Mind you, I'm not saying that whatever he posted was necessarily smart communication on behalf of the party – which again I have yet to actually see – but you are accusing him of violating the Non-Aggression Principle. That charge deserves to be either better supported, or retracted.</div><div><br></div><div>Love & Liberty,</div><div> </div><div> ((( starchild )))</div><div>At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee</div><div> <a href="mailto:RealReform@earthlink.net">RealReform@earthlink.net</a></div><div> (415) 625-FREE </div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jan 12, 2018, at 4:03 PM, David Stewart wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div>Members of the LNC:</div><div><br></div><div>Attached please find a letter regarding LP Vice Chair Arvin Vorha's latest comments which directly harm the LP and its affiliates.</div><div><br></div><div>Yours in Liberty,</div><div><br></div><div>David M. Stewart</div><div>Communications Director, Rex Lawhorn for Governor</div><div>Chair Emeritus, North-Central Oklahoma Libertarian Party</div></div></div><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote></body></html>