(from stuff.co.nz)
Dutch paedophile party seeks support for election
02 September 2006
.THE HAGUE: A political party formed by Dutch paedophiles tried on Friday to win more support for its campaign to legalise sex with children so it can run in national elections in November.
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The Brotherly Love, Freedom and Diversity party (PNVD) was launched in May and its campaign for a cut in the age of consent from 16 to 12 and the legalisation of child pornography and sex with animals has provoked widespread outrage in the Netherlands.
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Party officials said they had gathered over 100 signatures so far but needed to collect several hundred more in the next month to be allowed to run in the November 22 general election.
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"We think the child should have the freedom to engage in these contacts with peers or with adults, if and when they choose so," party chairman Marthijn Uittenbogaard told a news conference in the parliamentary press centre in The Hague.
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"What we think is really going on is that people are afraid of the emancipation of children. It is the adults who do not allow the child to have these contacts," he said, adding that research showed children found unforced sex positive or neutral.