Vatican under fire for linking gays to pedophilia

Reuters via The Vancoever Sun ^ | April 14, 2010 | Philip Pullella

[Leoni]

Politicians condemned Pope Benedict's number two man on Wednesday for calling homosexuality a "pathology" and linking it directly to sexual abuse of children.

Politicians condemned Pope Benedict's number two man on Wednesday for calling the ocean wet.

[vanilla swirl]

“calling homosexuality a “pathology” and linking it directly to sexual abuse of children.”

Well, doh!

[vanilla swirl]

“A pervert is a pervert.

The purpose of reproductive organs is to reproduce a species, not to get one’s rocks off on whatever one can find.”

That’s way too obvious and logical.

But so true!

[BenKenobi]

Man FReepers are sharp...

[PetroniusMaximus]

No word yet about gays being under fire for participating in pedophilia...

[lastchance]

Just as my sofa was saying to the dog the other day.

[rfreedom4u]

The majority of male children that are molested are molested by adult males. Male sex with a male is homosexuality. Therefore the link is accurate. Why is the word homosexual never used in the reports of a priest molesting a boy?

[TASMANIANRED]

It’s so un-pc to speak the truth.

[SkyPilot]

Every male homosexual friend I’ve ever met tells the same tale of their “first” experience being one of molestation by some older gay guy. That’s why they freak out so much when the actual truth is revealed this way. They are WAY too psychologically damaged to look at themselves.

II. SEXUAL ABUSE OF HOMOSEXUAL MEN A. Rate of abuse Given the above description of boys who are vulnerable to sexual child abuse, one might expect that homosexual males would be more likely to have been sexually molested as children. Several studies confirm this hypothesis. Shrier and Johnson interviewed 300 intercity boys as part of a general intake health history at an adolescent outpatient clinic. Forty of the adolescents disclosed an experience of being sexually assaulted by a male before puberty. These 40 were compared to an age-matched control group from the same sample of boys who do not report abuse. Shrier and Johnson found that while 90% of the control group reported they were heterosexual, only 42.5% of those reporting sexual victimization said they were heterosexual - 47.5% said they were homosexual, and 10% said they bisexual. Only 6 of the 40 victimized boys had revealed the molestation to anyone prior to participation in the study interview.(Johnson 1985) Shrier and Johnson feel that the 40 cases found may represent only a faction of the actual incidence, because although nearly half of the clinic patients are under 15, not one boy under 15 admitted molestation. In addition only 6 of the 40 who admitted being molested were under age 17. This suggests that younger adolescents may be extremely unwilling to admit previous molestation and may do only because they are suffering from some sexually related problem.(Johnson, 1985) In a study by Remafedi, 239 men aged 13 to 21 who identified themselves as homosexual or bisexual were queried. Of these 42% had been sexually abused or assaulted. In addition 30% had attempted suicide; 23% used cocaine; 66% used marijuana regularly; 29% had been arrested; 11% had accepted money for sex.. Based on the number of unprotected sexual acts and number of sexual partners, the author concluded that 63% of these young men were at extreme risk for HIV infection.(Remafedi, 1994) It was not clear from the study if the 42% who had been abused were among those who attempted suicide, used drugs, or engaged in unsafe sex. In 1992 Lynda Doll and associates published a study of "self-reported childhood and adolescent sexual abuse among adult homosexual and bisexual men." They identified 1,001 men who had engaged in sexual activity with another man in the previous five years and had attended a STD clinic. In the Doll study any sexual activity of a child under 6 with someone three or more years older was defined as a abuse. For children under 12 in addition to an age difference or use of force, any anal penetration was considered abusive. For adolescent males 16 to 18, the relationship was defined as abusive only if the partner was 10 years old or involved force. Among the 1,001 participants 360 (37%) reported sexual contact before the age of 19 with a partner whom they perceived as being older or more powerful than themselves (94% of these the first such contact was with a male). In 53% of the cases the abusers were over 19, in 43% of the cases they were family members. Force was used in 49% of all contacts.

_{A homosexual priest in the Gay Parade of Rome, 2000 Actualite des Religions, September 2000}