[The people have spoken]

Is he suggesting that there is a connection between homosexuality and pedophilia?

[trad_anglican]

Is he suggesting that there is a connection between homosexuality and pedophilia?

No. He is suggesting that the root problem is homosexuality (or probably more correctly pederasty) and not pedophilia, as a large majority of the abuses were committed on post-pubescent males.

[Tenacious 1]

Is he suggesting that there is a connection between homosexuality and pedophilia?

That's the way I read it too. Except, he seemed to be saying that this is NOT pedophilia, it's ONLY homosexuality because the boys are past the start of puberty? That gets sketchy. Priests don't tend to have consistent, unsupervised access to boys until they are about 12 years old (alter boys, servers, bible studies, CCD classes, etc.). Further, the article seems to suggest that one is worse than the other, as if there is a different level of consent. It's RAPE either way you cut it. And it should be punished as harshly.

[Jaded]

Referring to the 2004 John Jay study on the sexual abuse crisis in the United States, Donohue notes that “81 percent of the victims were male, 78 percent of whom were postpubescent.” Since all of the abusers were male and most of the victims were postpubescent males, “that is a problem called homosexuality,” Donohue stated.

[elpadre]

I have read of case studies within the psychology community that prove decisively a very close relationship between homosexuality and pedophilia. These studies were back in my younger years, so without a doubt the modern psychologists have rewritten the studies.

[wardaddy]

Or article

78% our post pubescent which means he really wanted for our Ophelia and three out of four or are pederasty

Technically

22% prepubescent is sickening

[windowdude]

Exactly what I was thinking. Perhaps transgenderism as well.

[enumerated]

“Is he suggesting that there is a connection between homosexuality and pedophilia?”

It does sound that way, and it’s about time someone dared to state the obvious.

Even if you exclude the argument that homosexuals are more prone to pedophilia than heterosexuals, there are still the logistical problems presented by homosexuality:

Many of our social firewalls against sexual abuse center around separating the genders during high risk situations. For example, the convention of providing seperate male and female bathrooms, the policy of having a woman nurse present when a male doctor or dentist administers anesthesia to a female patient, the practice of female prison guards for female inmates and visa versa - female scout leaders for Girl Scouts and male scout leaders for Boy Scouts.

Homosexuality obviously renders these conventions and firewalls completely ineffective, so it is logical to conclude that the risk of abuse rises in the presence of homosexuality.

[xelliott123]

A very small percentage is pedophilia. Almost all is in the the Seminary going back 70 years.

[Salvation]

I hope so.