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Really, how many people that grow up homosexual go on to molest children?

Some studies show at least half of homosexuals were sexually abused as children, that is below the age of consent. And those are studies that surveyed them, it could well be higher. Some studies have shown 30% of child sexual abuse is perpetrated by homosexuals. Considering they are only 1-3% of the population that's astounding. Not liking the results leftist academics decided to redefine pedophile to exclude homosexuals. The point being, I don't trust the agenda of these researchers. And neither should you. So think long and hard on legislating crime based on this crap, whether it be homosexuals or animal abusers. People should be tried and sentenced on the crimes they commit not on crimes they may commit. Last point, animal cruelty as a crime gives animals rights they should not have.

Okay, so now I see where you are coming from. I still don't agree with you, because I don't believe that researchers needed to jerry-rig their results as far as animal cruelty translating to violent crime goes. There isn't an agenda there (at least, not a leftist one). Most people aren't too keen about protecting the rights of serial killers, after all. Some whack jobs, certainly, but the tin-foil hat crowd always needs a hero. And there are always lonely, unbalanced women who like to write them love letters. Does that mean they are any less violent, etc.?

With statistics like 1-3% of a population committing 30% of the crimes, that is certainly alarming. That being said, you said..."some studies". To the best of my knowledge, all studies on violent behavior have animal cruelty as a sign of future violent behavior. This, of course, leaves out people with organic brain diseases and people killing in self defense, etc. And with the homosexual thing...it's a chicken and egg scenario. Are they homosexuals because they are molested, or do they molest because they are homosexuals? I don't believe anyone has proved that homosexuals are pedophiles because they ARE homosexual. I would think that would have to do more with their personal history of being sexually abused. Many pedophiles who were molested are not choosing same sex victims.

I would imagine that the correlation of animal abuse to future homicides is much higher than the correlation of homosexuality to pedophilia. Besides, with pedophilia, you are dealing with human victims, not animals, so it's kind of an apples and oranges argument.