The legacy of mark foley....The truth about gay pedophilia

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:38:42 -0400, solarsell wrote:

Hate mongers are experts at perverting, twisting & inventing "facts" to
fit
their bigotry. If you look at credible OBJECTIVE studies the FACT is
heterosexuals are not more likely to be child molestors than homosexuals.

http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbo...lestation.html

I think you meant to say "homosexuals are not more likely to be child
molestors than heterosexuals."

But in fact, it seems likely that heterosexuals _do_ molest children at
(at least) a slightly higher rate than homosexuals, according to these:

"Researchers estimate that between 96 to 100 percent of accused abusers
are recognizably heterosexual." --"Are Children at Risk for Sexual Abuse
by Homosexuals?" Pediatrics. vol. 94, no. 1

"The belief that homosexuals are particularly attracted to children is
completely unsupported by our data. The child offenders who engaged in
adult
relationships as well, were heterosexuals. There were no homosexual adult
oriented offenders in our samples who turned to children." --A. Nicholas
Groth, Ph.D., Director of the Sex Offender Program, Connecticut Department
of Corrections, and Co-Director of the St. Joseph College Institute for
the Treatment and Control of Child Sexual Abuse

Some conservative groups have argued that scientific research strongly
supports their claims that homosexuality and pedophilia are linked. The
Family Research Council has produced what is perhaps the most extensive
attempt to document this claim. It is an article by Timothy J. Dailey
titled
Homosexuality and Child Abuse.

With 76 footnotes, many of them referring to papers in scientific
journals,
it appears at first glance to be a thorough and scholarly discussion of
the
issue. On further examination, however, its central argument - that "the
evidence indicates that homosexual men molest boys at rates grossly
disproportionate to the rates at which heterosexual men molest girls" -
doesn't hold up.



Conclusion

The empirical research does not show that gay or bisexual men are any
more
likely than heterosexual men to molest children. This is not to argue
that
homosexual and bisexual men never molest children. But there is no
scientific basis for asserting that they are more likely than
heterosexual
men to do so. And, as explained above, many child molesters cannot be
characterized as having an adult sexual orientation at all; they are
fixated
on children.





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