Just admit I have schooled your dumb ass and walk away in shame because if you dont, I am going to start posting links. And talk about partisan. You cannot even provide a link to this unreliable statement which was a lie when you said it, then say someone else is partisan. That make3s you a lying hypocrite to boot.
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Why is it that no other study besides ones done by partisan christian groups agree with you or this study?
Hey liar, show me links to a scientific study that proves this unreliable has you claim. You cant but cont to lie like the good liberal you are. Then back up your BS statement that hetero abuse children more than homo.
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.
Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation
With so many cases not being reported, we cannot know the true proportion of males versus female victims. Because official statistics are so unreliable, estimates are made from other sources. The best guesses and these are only guesses based on a large number of surveys generally go this way:
■As of July 2000, about 94% of all sexual predators against juveniles who were reported to police were male,14 although the proportion of female predators being reported has risen sharply in recent years.15
■Using the best estimates from multiple sources, males appear to make up somewhere between 15% and 30% of all child molestation victims, with females making up the remaining cases.16
So, as far as we know, it appears to be true that almost all sexual predators are men. But notice however, that the one-third figure that anti-gay activists cite for the ratio of male vs. female victims represents the very highest end of the estimated range which, of course, makes the problem of homosexual molestation appear worse than the data actually suggests.
The Statistical Breakdown Breaks Down
With this data in hand, lets go back to the arguments made by anti-gay activists.
■Almost all sex crimes against children are committed by men.
This appears to be true. According to reports to law enforcement, 92% of child sex abusers are men, although reports of women predators have been increasing in the past several years.
■Up to one-third of all sex crimes against children are committed against boys.
This appears to be at the very highest rates of the estimates. A more reasonable range appears to be between one-sixth and one-third. Experts generally agree however that the true scope of the problem is barely understood due to massive under-reporting.
■Gays make up a tiny minority of the population (i.e., somewhere between 1% and 3%).
This is a low-ball figure. The best estimates for out, self-identified gay men begin at about 3% and go up a little from there. But surveys which account for homosexual behavior regardless of identity range anywhere from 7% to 20%.
■Therefore, gay men are committing a disproportionate share of sexual crimes against children.
Due to the flaws in the highly-selected data that anti-gay activists cite, this conclusion simply cannot be supported. Whats more, there may even be a significant overlap between the range of men who behave homosexually and the percentage of men who abuse boys.
Regressed offenders are typically heterosexual in their adult relationships. Unlike our three percent sample, they date women and marry them. They often are parents, stepparents or extended family members of their victims. By all appearances and by their own self-identification they are straight. Drs. Groth and Birnbaum emphasized this point, saying:
In over 12 years of clinical experience working with child molesters, we have yet to see any example of a regression from an adult homosexual orientation. The child offender who is also attracted to and engaged in adult relationships is heterosexual.27
While Drs. Groth and Birnbaum were emphatic on this point, theres no reason to believe that theres no such thing as someone who is engaged in homosexual adult relationships while also molesting children. Surely theyre out there. I dont think any group of fallible human beings can claim perfect innocence on this. But the experts generally agree: the phenomenon is rare.
Testing The Premise: Are Gays A Threat To Our Children?
Earlier in the trial, a Cambridge University professor testified that there is no evidence to suggest that gays are more likely to molest children than heterosexuals. Boies pressed Tam to cite books, articles or authors he had read to substantiate the views, but Tam said he could not remember specifics
CNSNews.com - Proposition 8 Backer Says Homosexuals More Likely to Be Pedophiles
Gay priests are no more likely to molest children than heterosexual clergy, a preliminary report commissioned by U.S. Roman Catholic bishops on the roots of the clergy sex abuse scandal found.
No data indicating that homosexuality was a predictor of abuse was found by the report's authors at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
'What we are suggesting is that the idea of sexual identity be separated from the problem of sexual abuse,' said Margaret Smith, in a speech to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
'At this point, we do not find a connection between homosexual identity and the increased likelihood of subsequent abuse from the data that we have right now
Read more: Gay priests 'no more likely to molest children than straight ones', U.S. report finds | Mail Online
