Pedophilia is not a “sexual orientation.” It’s sexual attraction to children who cannot consent. Framing it as just another preference we must accept is a deliberate attempt to normalize predation. The roots are French, of course. The Marquis de Sade turned the total rejection of moral law into a philosophy. His works treat the rape, torture, and murder of children as the ultimate expression of radical freedom. That spirit then resurfaced in the post-1968 sexual liberation movement. In 1977, leading French intellectuals, Sartre, Beauvoir, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze and others, signed petitions demanding the decriminalization of sex between adults and children under 15. One declared: “three years in prison for caresses and kisses? That is enough.” They claimed children have a sexual life and the capacity to consent. Their idea of “liberation” is a rejection of morality itself and its constraints on liberty, in servitude of the limitless natural desires of perverted adults. It has absolutely nothing to do with the American understanding of liberty rooted in natural rights. From Locke to the Founders, liberty is ordered freedom under law that protects the vulnerable, especially those who lack the capacity to consent. It is not license for the strong to prey on the weak. The French model dissolves moral order into appetite and power while the American model recognizes natural boundaries that preserve civilization. One defends children. The other sacrifices them. The Left have made their choice.