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Although he has not actually said this in so many words, I am happy to clarify that A C Grayling does not now advocate sex at as early an age as possible, nor view sex as part of a happy childhood, nor decry those who treat it as so dangerous that only adults are allowed to do it, nor charge Christianity with having overthrown a superior Classical civilisation. That last, in particular, demands to be as widely known as possible, since the other points follow from it.

So, over to Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt, to recant unconditionally the old National Council for Civil Liberties's resolutions in support of the Paedophile Information Exchange and Paedophile Action for Liberation, and its publication of calls to legalise and destigmatise sex between adults and children.

Over to Stephen Fry, to withdraw The Liar and The Hippopotamus, and to express his heartfelt sorrow and contrition at ever having written them.

Over to Channel Four, to repent of its dramatic output's relentless, publicly owned campaign in favour of sex between men and teenage boys, and to give an absolute assurance that no such programmes will ever again be commissioned or broadcast.

Over to Peter Tatchell, to end his campaign to lower the age of consent to 14, and to affirm that such is no longer his view.

Over to Germaine Greer, to do with The Boy as Fry is to do with The Liar and The Hippopotamus.

Over to Johann Hari, either to indicate that Attitude does not publish descriptions of sexual acts between men and teenage boys, or pictures of suspiciously young-looking male persons in states of undress but nevertheless accompanied by indications of status associated with adolescence, or advertisements for DVDs with such themes, or calls for further lowering of the age of consent; or else to cut all ties with that publication.

Over to Richard Dawkins, to withdraw his description of having been sexually abused as a child as "an embarrassing but otherwise harmless experience", and to give the absolute assurance that future editions of The God Delusion will not include that statement.

Over to Philip Pullman, really to withdraw his trilogy completely in view of the indispensability of the offending passage, as well as to donate all his earnings from it to child protection charities, and to withdraw in full his repeated denunciations of the absence of sexual content in the Narnia novels.

Over to numerous Social Services Departments, to express their utter regret at having run homes in which, at the same time as the Church was hushing up sex between men and teenage boys on the part of a small number of priests - and thus, however imperfectly, indicating disapproval of it - such behaviour was absolutely endemic, with major figures in that world publishing academic studies, used for many years in the training of social workers, which presented it as positively beneficial to both parties and therefore actively to be encouraged.

And over to the Police, to repent of having long ago stopped enforcing the age of consent from 13 upwards, to start doing so again, and perhaps even to explain for exactly whose benefit they adopted the present approach, a question also hanging over their non-enforcement of the drugs laws.

Among many, many, many others.

Christians, simply as such, are now being sacked from their jobs in this country. None of the three Party Leaders was willing to take on, and probably none was even capable of taking on, outrageous allegations against the Pope live on television last night. There is a widespread expectation that there will be an assassination attempt when he visits this country, such is the mood that has been created by Peter Tatchell, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Geoffrey Robertson, Libby Purves, Johann Hari, Stephen Fry, the BBC, The Times, the National Secular Society and others. Have they created that mood on purpose?

Well, enough is enough. Next time, these people might consider attacking the Quakers or the Amish, although they could expect a lot less public sympathy if they did go after those who were absolutely bound not to fight back. But hunting season on us is closed.