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To: madg
I don’t have the time to see if there was any actual “evidence” in there.

In other words, what you're doing is what's known here at Free Republic as a "drive-by shooting." You're more than happy to sling mud, but you can't back it up with any facts.

Then again, that was sort of your purpose in dumping so much on us… wasn’t it? To “overwhelm?”

Okay, tell you what. I'll give you the results of just one study, and you tell me how it's been misrepresented or distorted, or how the researcher's methodology was flawed. Surely you have enough time in your busy schedule for that:

A recent study of Canadians imprisoned for pedophilia reveals the truth: (1) 30% of the offenders studied admitted to having engaged in homosexual acts as adults, and (2) 91% of molesters of non-familial boys admitted to no lifetime sexual contact other than homosexual. In other words, their sexual orientation was clearly homosexual. (Marshall WL et al. "Early Onset and Deviant Sexuality in Child Molesters." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 1991, 6: 323-336.)

Similarly, PAUS et al. misrepresent Bell and Weinberg's study as supporting its claim that young teenagers are “recruited” through affairs with older homosexuals. PAUS Br. at 25. Although the study found that 60% of white homosexual respondents identified their first partner in an affair as older than they were, the same paragraph makes clear that the vast majority of the respondents were at least 20 years old at the time.

The trouble with this claim is that I didn't cite that part of the Bell & Weinberg study, because it doesn't prove anything. Below is one of the parts that I cited. If you can find the time in your busy schedule, please explain to me how it's been misrepresented.

In 1970, the Kinsey Institute interviewed 565 white male homosexuals in San Francisco: 25% of them admitted to having had sex with boys aged 16 or younger while they themselves were at least 21. (Bell AP & Weinberg MS. Homosexualities: A Study In Diversity Among Men and Women. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.)

In my opinion, any sexual relationship between someone 21 years of age or older, and someone 16 years of age or younger, is far more likely to be about exploitation than true love. I'm sure any parent of a 15-year-old would be inclined to agree. Besides, the 21-year-old would be guilty of a felony in most states -- and it doesn't matter whether the relationship is gay or straight.

Just because you found lots of stuff doesn’t mean that any of it is valid.

Well, if you're claiming that any of it is invalid, the burden of proof is on you to prove your claim. It appears that you have plenty of time to post lengthy screeds on this thread, with HTML tags and all that. But when I ask for some proof to back up all the mud you're slinging, you suddenly don't have the time.

93 posted on 08/31/2002 11:35:40 AM PDT by Bryan
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