Social norms are ever-changing. Ancient Greece had very different views on pedophilia and rape (yes even rape) than many countries (especially Western) do now. Just 25 years ago we wouldn't even be having this discussion on gay rights because it was considered taboo, and still is in many countries.
Needless to say, denying human rights to someone who does an action you don't agree with does not make them less human. If you believe that than there's no difference in what these people are doing to gays. If a society has a rule, they break a rule, and are caught then they are punished according to the law nothing more, nothing less. I agree that pedophiles, rapists, and child killers should be punished to full extent of the law, but they are still humans.
I'm sorry but I don't really consider the standards of a society from several thousand years ago, I would hope, though it often doesn't seem like it, that society has come some way since then. Not everything can be viewed academically.
Paedophilia and rape are not a social taboo or a social norm, paedophilia is the coercion or forcing a child into a sexual situation, a child, who is not emotionally or physically mature, who has no way to defend themselves, who often doesn't even understand what is being done to them for some sickos own perverse gratification.
A gay person is a person that is attracted to someone of the same gender and who embarks in a love affair with someone of the same gender who is completely willing
There is a point where a person forfeits their humanity, their are rules to being a human being, some sickos would like to remove those rules so they don't have to feel guilty for their actions but their is a point when a human being is no longer a human being, paedophilia is as far over the line as anyone can go. To hurt a child, to kill a child, that forfeits your humanity.
An ordinary gay person, who is innocent of all crime being beat up is a world of difference, they are being beat up, not because they have defiled a child but because of who they are.
I don't care about other peoples opinions to be honest in the area of paedophilia, if I had my way, I would tie them all to poles, cover them in tar set them on fire and record their screams for prosperity. Maybe you can find it in your heart to give them mercy, I applaud you for that, you are a better person than I am. I am sorry but I can find little mercy in my heart
Some rules are not the rules of society, they are the rules of humanity
I can forgive a lot, a lot, but to hurt a child in any way, I am extremely maternal, I would give my life to save a child, hurting a child is the one thing I could never forgive