Protest Over "Boylove" Book on Amazon-Truth!

A Book Favorable to Men and Boys Being Lovers is Being Sold on Amazon.com -Truth!

Summary of the eRumor
The message is a forward of a letter from television minister the Rev. Jerry Falwell protesting that Amazon.com is displaying and selling.

The Truth
This story is true. The book is real and is being carried by Amazon.com.

David Riegel, the author of the book, is described as the principal moderator on an Internet site about the issues covered in the book. He says that men who want man-boy love relationships 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."

The publisher is SafeHaven Foundation Press, which says this is its first book. It describes the volume by saying that "Many researchers in the fields of Psychology and Human Sexuality have been taking a fresh look at the "conventional" wisdom which has been the basis for evaluation of intergenerational male/male sexual activities. The long assumed "harm" of such activities has failed to be supported by research, and the sociocultural "wrongness" based on this "harm" is therefore left without any rational basis."

SafeHaven Foundation Press is promoted on the same website as the SafeHaven bookstore, which features books that are a "...compendium of articles, commentaries, rebuttals, and reviews of diverse aspects of boy love by various authors."

Falwell and others opposed to the book are encouraging a protest aimed at Amazon.com.

Amazon.com has issued a statement saying it does not endorse the book and has posted a review of the volume by one of their editors who is highly critical of it. The statement says the book is not a "how to" on molesting boys and that Amazon.com does not censure titles from its website and carries a lot of books with which it does not agree.

A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:

WHAT'S GOING ON AT AMAZON.COM?

I could hardly believe what I was reading on the WorldNetDaily website: Amazon.com is accused of "contributing to the potential rape and molestation of children" by offering a book on adult-on-child sexual relationships.

But upon visiting the Amazon.com site to investigate for myself, I found that the book is indeed there. It is titled, "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers." In fact, on the Amazon.com site, self-described boy lovers and pedophiles offer positive reviews of the book, saying it "attempt[s] to shed the positive aspects of a healthy boy/male relationship."

Yeah, it's creepy, all right. But there's more.

"By explaining what 'pedophiles' really are," writes one pedophile, "it may help parents to understand that there may actually be benefits to such relationships."

This is absolutely shameful. These fiends are attempting to convince parents that there is no harm if they should target their children to satisfy their sinister urges.

Amazon.com should immediately ban this dangerous book (and any similar books) from its website and apologize for allowing such material to be there in the first place.

Thankfully, the organization that uncovered the book's availability at Amazon.com - the Escondido, Calif.-based United States Justice Foundation - has written a letter to Amazon.com President Jeffrey Bezos, saying that offering the book amounts to "an unfair and unethical business practice." The USJF has given Amazon 30 days to withdraw the book or face "protracted litigation."

As reported by WorldNetDaily, the book states: "Men who sexually pursue young boys are not monsters, but sincere, concerned, loving human beings who simply have a sexual orientation that is neither understood nor accepted by most others."

As a veteran pastor, I can report that I have worked with families that have been shattered because an adult has sexually abused a child. One need look no further than the recent Catholic Church fiasco to see the emotional anguish that is brought on by the abuse by an adult of a child. Years later, the deep scars of the abuse remain.

And yet Amazon's initial response to this controversy has been to defend the sale of the dreadful book, unbelievably saying freedom of expression must be protected.

LOCK THEM UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY

My good friend, Bedford, Virginia Sheriff Mike Brown, who spearheads an undercover operation to apprehend child molesters, has recounted to me how destructive these individuals are. Many pedophiles (called "travelers") will voyage across the country in hopes of meeting up with a youngster they have befriended on the Internet. Upon their meeting, these gullible and often lonely children, thinking they have discovered a friend, eventually realize they have been duped by an individual who is fixated on sexually misusing them.

Thankfully, Sheriff Brown's team routinely poses as teenagers in Internet chat rooms in order to meet these pedophiles. These undercover agents, after convincing the pedophiles that they are forlorn teens or pre-teens, frequently set up meetings with these pedophiles who are subsequently arrested and prosecuted.

These are the types of individuals Amazon.com is promoting and protecting by offering this dangerous book.

I am encouraging people to send an e-mail to Amazon.com (feedback@amazon.com) in order to complain about the availability of "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers" on their website.

After telling a couple of friends about this outrage today, these friends told me they were going to immediately send e-mails to Amazon to say they would not order again from the company until it ceased offering the book. This is the type of action Amazon.com (and any other retail company) will understand.

Please write to Amazon.com today (feedback@amazon.com) to considerately request that they immediately drop the book "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers."