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I have to disagree. This is not about homosexuals. This is about HOMOSEXUAL ACTS, which are not necessarily committed by homosexuals. Aren't we agreed that Kinsey was in error and that only 1-2 percent of Americans are homosexual? Yet more than 1-2 percent of sexual acts on underage persons are homosexual ones. Therefore there are many heterosexuals (including married men and priests) who like to perform sexual acts with persons of the same sex. It is HOMOSEXUAL ACTS, not homosexual people, that we should be focussing on.

There are many ways to misunderstand statistics. The first time I went to college, I got a degree in mathematics and we studied statistics for an entire semester. I've watched as the Left -- particularly environmentalists and the gay lobby -- lie with statistics for decades. A lot of people don't even realize they're being lied to.

Suppose you have a community of 10,000 people with 100 gay men. Suppose that during the year 2001, two of the gay men had sexual relations with a total of four 15-year-old boys. There are 4,000 heterosexual men in the community, and three of them had sexual relations with a total of six 15-year-old girls during the year 2001.

Here we have a situation in which no homosexual contact with minors by any heterosexual occurred. But even though gay men make up only 1% of the community's population, 40% of the sexual contact with minors was homosexual. (In this hypothetical example, 0.75% of the heterosexual men, but 2% of the gay men, had sex with minors in 2001. So this example would indicate that gay men are more than twice as likely to have sex with minors.)

By definition, anyone who has sexual relations with a person of the same sex is either homosexual or bisexual -- even if he claims to be heterosexual. If he (or she) has sexual relations exclusively with persons of the same sex, he (or she) is homosexual; if he does it with persons of both gendedrs, he is bisexual.

The Kinsey investigators indexed sex with the underaged two ways, neither of which was completely satisfactory in my opinion. First, 171 (26.5%) of 646 male homosexuals and 4 (1.8%) of 222 female homosexuals reported having had homosexual sex with someone aged 15 or less and 91 (14.1%) of the 646 male homosexuals and none of the 222 female homosexuals reported having had homosexual sex with someone aged 13 or less since they were aged 18 or older (Gebhard PH & Johnson AB. The Kinsey Data. New York: Saunders, 1979, p. 512).

Heterosexual respondents were not asked the same question, but for a rough comparison, 79 (3.3%) of 2393 heterosexual men and 2 (0.1%) of 1840 heterosexual women reported coitus with someone aged 15 or less and 10 (0.4%) of the 2393 male heterosexuals and 1 (0.05%) of the 1840 female heterosexuals reported coitus with someone aged 13 or under since they were aged 18 or older. (Gebhard & Johnson, supra, p. 289). The questions don't appear to be perfectly parallel, but they do suggest a far greater incidence of sexual involvement with the underaged by homosexuals.