Two ‘gay and lesbian child daycare centers,’ both of which will seek to “educate” children five years old and up about homosexuality and LGBTQ lifestyles, are set to open in Berlin, one of Europe’s most radically left-liberal capital cities, at the beginning of next year.
Perhaps more surprising than the development itself, however, is the fact that Rüdiger Lautman, a sociologist who has been accused of advocating for pedophilia for decades, sits on the board of directors of the organization responsible for the new child daycare centers, the German news outlet FOCUS Online reports.
“It should be easier for the little ones to come out later if they are not heterosexual. In itself, our concept is the same as that of other daycare centers. The LGBTI* way of life should simply be a little more visible,” said Marcel de Root, the managing director of the Berlin gay counseling center who oversees the project said. The term used by the centers is LSBTI*, or in English, LGBTI*, meaning lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans- and inter-sex. The asterisk at the end is, according to de Root, intended to include “all other gender identities and is an integral part of the abbreviation.”
De Root explained to the German press that the daycare centers will endeavor to set an example of what it is like to be gay or lesbian. In practical terms, he continued, children at the daycare centers will be read books where both heterosexual and homosexual couples are the protagonists.
For example, “there are ten ordinary children’s books and just three in which the prince marries a prince,” De Root said.
Controversially, sitting on the board of the gay and lesbian child daycare centers’ parent organization, is retired sociology professor Rüdiger Lautman, who in 1979 was involved in an attempt to abolish the German law which criminalizes sexual acts on children under the age of 14.
Some years later, in 1994, Lautman published a book titled: Die Lust am Kind: Porträt eines Pädophilen (Desire for a Child: Portrait of a Pedophile). In 1997, he contributed to a pamphlet titled “Childhood and Sexuality” which claimed that sexuality between adults and children is “basically affirmed.”
When faced with accusations of advocating for promoting pedophilia, Lautman has insisted that he has merely attempted “to understand the pedophile perpetrators and to describe their modus operandi.”
The managing director of the daycare centers emphasized to the press that Lautman is not involved in the business’s day-to-day operations, adding that it would be “too problematic” if he were. De Root also underscored that the “idea for the daycare centers” did not come from Lautman. As a result of a Bild inquiry, the Senate Department for Education says it now wants a detailed organizational chart outlining the responsibilities for the daycares.
This coming spring, when their doors are opened to the public, the pair of daycare centers plan to enroll a total of 93 children.
