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\"Milo_Yiannopoulos,_Journalist,_Broadcaster_and_Entrepreneur-1441_(8961808556)_cropped\"<\/a>Conservatives used to have moral qualms about\u00a0homosexuality, but Milo Yiannopoulos had become a right wing celebrity. \u00a0A strong supporter of Donald Trump and defender of the alt.right, Yiannopoulos enflamed college campuses with politically-incorrect mockery of feminists, leftists, and speech codes.<\/p>\n

The militantly gay Yiannapoulos was an editor for Breitbart News and was invited to give a keynote address at CPAC, the big conference and pep rally for conservative activists.<\/p>\n

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But a tape turned up in which Yiannapoulos defended sex between adult men and 13-year-old \u201cboys.\u201d \u00a0He later insisted that he was opposed to pedophilia, but in the tape he defines pedophilia as sex with young children. \u00a0He considers sex with adolescents who have reached puberty as fair game. \u00a0(The law doesn\u2019t consider it that way.)<\/p>\n

So CPAC cancelled his appearance, his publisher cancelled a book deal, and he has resigned from Breitbart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From Eliza Collins,\u00a0CPAC boots Milo Yiannopoulos over pedophilia comments<\/a>, USA Today:<\/em><\/p>\n

Organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference announced Monday that they have withdrawn a speaking invitation to Milo Yiannopoulos, a gay conservative Breitbart editor, after video surfaced of him defending sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and grown men. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference announced Monday that they have withdrawn a speaking invitation to Milo Yiannopoulos, a gay conservative Breitbart editor, after video surfaced of him defending sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and grown men. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At another point in the video, Yiannopoulos said\u00a0that all sexual relationships between young boys and older men are not categorized as pedophilia. He said\u00a0it depends on how \u201csexually mature\u201d the young men are.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re misunderstanding what pedophilia means, pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody who is 13 years old \u2014 who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Keep reading. . .]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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