And because I can't resist

Let me point out a particularly odious flaw in your rhetoric:

"why is it that almost all of the MAPs I've encountered here and at other boards are all about giving kids all this freedom? The sheer percentages stink of ulterior motives."

Not that this will make any difference to you, because you're just making shit up to justify being an asshole, but it's not inconceivable that being a pedophile is likely to make a person notice children and their social status. In other words, the reason MAAs are going to be disproportionately interested in youth rights is the same reason that white girls with black boyfriends would have been disproportionately into ending racial segregation. Yes, partially because they want to have sex with their boyfriends, but also because its the right thing to do.

Of course we have a vested interest in children being liberated. But that doesn't change the fact that its the right thing to do. And as you've heard, and ignored, hundreds of times before, the age of consent is not going to be eliminated in our lifetimes, and most of us have accepted that.

(* Incidentally, some of the longitudinal studies you mention *have* been done, *even* in this environment (Rind, Okami, Lamb, Bancroft, Laumann et al., just to name a few), and pretending they haven't isn't going to change that.)

(* And yes, you clearly are making moral judgments, and attempting to discredit you opponents, when you call GC a cult. Here's a clue -- cults don't operate solely on public internet bulletin boards. It just doesn't happen. You're only doing it as a bad-faith debate tactic, and its one of the many reasons why you're not as smart, educated, or as good at debating, as you think you are.)