Surely this particular point concerns about the use of the word "love", not the word "paedophile"
Its of course perfectly normal to like/love small children, without being sexually attracted to them, some people "love" their dogs and cats

I would say paedophiles were "sexually orientated" towards pre pubescent children and as such, could be said to suffer from a psychological abnormality.
We used to call such things "perversion" before we were overtaken by political correctness.