CPAC Slams Milo Yiannopoulos For Pedophilia: Keynote Address Invite Rescinded By Conservative Political Action Conference

UPDATED: 2:09 p.m. EST -- Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos offered an explanation of sorts for his apparent defending of pedophilia. The comments from an old podcast were brought to light Sunday, prompting the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to rescind its invitation for Yiannopoulos to deliver the event's keynote address.

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has rescinded its invitation to an "alt-right" journalist to deliver the keynote address as the annual gathering in suburban Washington, D.C., next week. Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos was disinvited Monday after "an offensive video" featured him "condoning pedophilia" surfaced, CPAC said in a brief statement Monday afternoon.

The full statement follows:

Shortly after it was announced that CPAC would be extending the invitation to Yiannopoulos, a video emerged on social media showing the alt-right leader appearing to defend pedophilia, which Merriam Webster has defined as "sexual perversion in which children are the preferred sexual object; specifically : a psychological disorder in which an adult has sexual fantasies about or engages in sexual acts with a prepubescent child."

The video, which was from a 2016 episode of "The Drunken Peasants" podcast, showed Yiannopoulos being asked if there were "some 13-year-olds out there capable of giving informed consent to have sex with an adult..."

Yiannopoulos was detailed in his multi-pronged answer.

"The law is probably about right, that’s probably roughly the right age. I think it’s probably about okay, but there are certainly people who are capable of giving consent at a younger age, I certainly consider myself to be one of them, people who are sexually active younger. I think it particularly happens in the gay world by the way," he said. "This is a controversial point of view I accept. We get hung up on this kind of child abuse stuff to the point where we’re heavily policing even relationships between consenting adults, you know grad students and professors at universities."

He continued: "In the homosexual world, particularly, some of those relationships between younger boys and older men — the sort of 'coming of age' relationship — those relationships in which those older men help those young boys discover who they are and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable, sort of rock, where they can’t speak to their parents."