jamesrage said:
Do you really think that if you try to feed people that garbage that eventually they will be dumb enough to buy it?
You must have learned that from liberal brainwashing 101.
Sounds like you know better than doctors, psychologists, and criminologists
who have studied these matters for many years.
The American Psychological Association, National Association of Social
Workers, the American Academy of Child Psychiatrists and the Child Welfare
League of America all have policy statements that say there is no correlation
between homosexuality and child abuse.
When asked about this question, the American Psychiatric Association wrote
to the Senate stating: “While we are all concerned by the issue of sexual
abuse, there is no credible evidence that lesbians and gay men are more
likely to commit such offenses than others. Gay men and lesbians do not pose
any particular threat to youth and should not be singled out or discriminated
against in any manner.
Groth, A. Nicholas, and H. Jean Birnbaum, 1978 "Adult Sexual Orientation and
Attraction to Underage Persons", Archives of Sexual Behavior, 7, 175.
"Suggests that homosexuality and homosexual pedophilia may be mutually
exclusive and that the adult heterosexual male constitutes a greater risk to
the underage child than does the adult homosexual male." [p 609]
Newton, David E., 1978 "Homosexual Behavior and Child Molestation: A
Review of the Evidence", Adolescence, 13, 29.
"Existing studies provide no reason to believe that anything other than a
random connection exists between homosexual behavior and child
molestation. The typical offender is a heterosexual male." [p 610]
"Stigma, Prejudice, and violence against Lesbians and Gay Men" (pp. 60-80 in
John Gonsiorek and James Weinrich (eds) "Homosexuality: Research
Implications for Public Policy" Sage Publications, 1992). Herek says: "Since
1978, no credible new data have been published that contradict the
conclusions" [that pedophilia is a crime committed almost exclusively by
heterosexuals].
Conflicting views come almost exclusively from groups with purely religious
reasons for wanting to slander homosexuals.
The point vergiss makes it valid, although not what you want to hear.