Edited sentence: Despite NAMBLA's claims to be legitimate activists and their demand to be legally classified a sexual orientation, the majority of the public including the LGBT community overwhelmingly opposed their agenda as nothing more than only immoral, pathological and criminal.In 1979, the Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth in New York City which later became the Hetrick-Martin Institute was most likely the first LGBT group to oppose NAMBLA.Mike Phelps and only the church members are his family of 11 members, continues onto the early 2010's.The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children founded in 1983 by grieving father turned crime activist John Walsh after his son Adam Walsh's disappearance and death in a Florida marsh, does not endorse anti-gay rhetoric, but focuses on the dangers of pedophiles luring children and some of these child abductions are from NAMBLA members involved in the worst forms of pedophiliac behavior, and the NCMEC are deeply involved in child victim advocacy activism and their own declaration of NAMBLA as criminal.Throughout the 1980's and 1990's, the LGBT community esp.gay men fought against an ugly stereotype perpertrated by anti-gay and homophobe groups used the anti-pedophile/child safety activist movements (whom are strongly against discrimination and prejudice onto the LGBT community) that gay men are involved in the recruitment of teen boys which was purely a false mythological statement created by members in the far right in the late 1970s and these anti-gay/comparison to NAMBLA/pedophilia theory was a controversial fallacy used by hate groups and small non-mainstream religious groups, like the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas ran by Rev