We don't?
Posted on 01/29/2005 4:48:38 PM PST by bikepacker67
A new study by Dr. Timothy J. Dailey and the Washington D.C.-based Family Research Council recently confirmed what police and psychiatrists have known for decades: a definitive link exists between male homosexuality and pedophilia.
The report entitled Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse, shows that while homosexual men make up less than three per cent of the adult male population, they commit a disproportionate number (one third or more) of child sexual molestations. Dailey's report is being sent to parents, youth groups, school administrators, Catholic bishops, and religious organizations.
Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse presents a number of controversial findings. The first is that a significant percentage of child sexual abuse victims are boys. The second finding of Dailey's report contradicts the "inaccurate but widely accepted claims of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey" that homosexuals comprise at least 10 per cent of the population. Based upon a study of three large data sets, the General Social Survey, the National Health and Social Life Survey, and the U.S. Census, "a recent study in demography estimates the number of exclusive male homosexuals in the general population at 2.5 per cent, and the number of exclusive lesbians at 1.4 per cent," writes Dailey.
The FRC study also demonstrates, with a wealth of anecdotal evidence, that pedophile themes can be found throughout "mainstream" gay literature, including fiction anthologies such as: The Penguin Book on International Gay Writing, The Gay Canon: What Every Gay Man Should Read, and A History of Gay Literature:The Male Tradition. Interestingly, the late gay Beat poet Allen Ginsberg was a pedophile, and wrote articles for publications associated with the North American Man-Boy Love Association. "I reread Collected Poems and Ginsberg's two subsequent collections, surprised by the pattern of reference to anal intercourse and to pederasty that emerged," writes Dailey.
According to Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse, pedophiles have long existed as a subculture within the gay rights movement. Dailey quotes David Thorstad, a homosexual activist and founding member of NAMBLA, to demonstrate that by 1985, pedophilia had gained acceptance within the homosexual movement, as it was in that year that NAMBLA was admitted as a member in New York's council of Lesbian and Gay Organizations and the International Gay Association. In the words of Jim Kepner, at one time the curator of the International Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles: "A point I've been trying to make is that if we reject the boylovers in our midst today, we'd better stop waving the banner of the ancient Greeks, of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Horatio Alger, and Shakespeare. We'd better stop claiming them as part of our history unless we are broadening our concept of what it means to be gay."
The link between homosexuality and pedophilia is rejected by many mainstream research groups, which have even begun to view pedophilia in value-neutral terms. The American Psychiatric Association removed pedophilia from its list of sexual perversions in 1994, while in 1999 the American Psychological Association published a report, "A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples," which "claimed child sexual abuse could be harmless and beneficial," according to a 1999 WorldNetDaily column by noted researcher Dr. Judith Reisman.
"None of this is news in the sense that this information (the link between pedophilia and homosexuality) was fundamentally proven a long time ago," Canada Family Action head Brian Rushfeldt told The Interim, "but I'm glad to see the FRC reiterating it, especially at a time when the Catholic church is struggling with the pedophile priest issue."
Rushfeldt stresses that pedophiles come in both homosexual and heterosexual forms, but there are differences between the two that need to be understood. "Do you treat the cocaine addict the same way you treat the alcoholic? If a priest abuses young boys, that's a homosexual act, and we have to recognize it as such if we want to help him."
Asked why the link exists in the first place, Rushfeldt, a former addiction counsellor, says part of the answer lies in the availability of sex. "Sex addicts generally need instant gratification. They have a very low threshold for delaying gratification, and it's much easier to manipulate a young boy into having sex than it is to manipulate another man." He adds that homosexual pedophilia is influenced by other factors as well.
"There's a distinct quality about male homosexuality that gay men tend to be attracted to young, good-looking guys. Another part of pedophilia's appeal is the power the pedophile feels in manipulating the boy. It's a combination of things."
Him who? The boy deserves help; the priest (or any pedophile) deserves a horsewhipping and a castration.
Ahhh come on this does not move any cause forwward. Eventually there will be a backlash and watch out when it happens.
We can all sit here and say that Homosexuality is not acceptable to us as individuals but link it with pedophillia (sp)??????????
This, somwaht like the spongebob case, makes the right wing look like nutcases.
Just think about all of that "nuance shi+" that you're missing when you make sweeping generalizations like these.
Aberrant indeed!
We don't?
Yes, for too long this has been seen as abuse by a Catholic, not abuse by a homosexual.
Which is still an exaggerated number. Even the plaintiffs in Lawrence v. Texas admitted that less than 3% of the population is homosexual. The number rises slightly if a loose definition of a homosexual is used (such as counting anyone who maybe did something once in high school as a homosexual/bisexual) a but the actual number of homosexuals/bisexuals in the U.S. is at most around 3%.
I nearly bit my tongue off as I planted it in my cheek.
No it is abuse by a child molestor. Homosexuality plays little or no part in a child molestors choice of victim.
Lesbians gay?
Most lesbians I've seen/met are thoroughly unhappy, grim people.
Let's reclaim the word gay - it's only three letters, but it's a start!
Because once you accept one perversion into your life, accepting another one creates no new moral conflicts.
--Boot Hill
When imprisoned a pedophile has an approximate life expectancy of 3 years if exposed to the general prison population.
Read that about 10 years ago, not sure how factual the study was but sounds about right.
The homosexual child molesters took advantage of the Catholic Church. They saw a target of opportunity to become teachers of young boys. The seminaries allowed it to happen and the Church sought to pretend the problem did not exist.
Did you read the article?
In one case the guy is simply a queer. In the other instance he's a queer pedophile. Big difference there!
No more of an agenda than the homosexual rights degenerates.
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