Edited sentence: Quite apart from the pragmatic consideration that the issue of pedophilia was being used to attack the gay and lesbian rights movement, the great majority of gay and lesbian rights movement shared the general public abhorrence of pedophilia, rejected NAMBLA's claims that there was an analogy between the campaign for gay and lesbian equality and the abolition of age-of-consent laws, and took the view that NAMBLA's rhetoric about "the sexual rights of youth" was only a cover for its members' real agenda