"[L]et's take a child that isn't able to speak. Just like an animal -- even a baby is able to smile or to cry when it respectively doesn't like something or does like something," DeJonge said. "So the question is not whether an animal or a child can show its resent[ment] or give its consent. The question is whether the adult will notice the expression of the animal or the child and what its feelings are."Not surprisingly,
...The PNVD party treasurer, Ad Van den Berg, was convicted of molesting an 11-year-old boy in 1987.However, there may yet be hope for Holland:
He was reportedly chased from his home by neighbors in Oostvoorne when this became public knowledge last month.The party also argues for:
- the private possession of child pornography
- the right of children to smoke, drink, and vote at the age of 12
- and to use "soft" drugs like marijuana at 12 and "hard drugs" like cocaine and heroin at 16
DeJonge, who serves as PNVD secretary, also asserted that since sex can only be learned through experience it is best for an adult to teach a child how to have sex. "Sex is not something you learn by reading a book or by looking at pornography. Sex is something you learn by doing it ... If they choose to engage in this contact with an older person then this may be the best for them."Bill Saunders of the U.S.-based Family Research Council (FRC) countered
"...We are more than our sexual activities and there is psychological and spiritual and physical harm that endures long past some moment of physical pleasure."Bizarrely, DeJonge objects to killing animals for food, but supports bestiality.
Saunders said DeJonge's views about bestiality are ludicrous.
"...Where is consent involved with a non-rational animal?"
