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 From: kacannon@tsbearings.nat 
  
 There is a saying the goes €There are lies. There are damned 
 lies. And there are statistics.€ The point is that people can 
 use numbers to advance a point when, the real facts support a 
 different conclusion altogether. To illustrate this principle in 
 action consider the claim of virtually all homosexual advocacy 
 groups when defending themselves against the charge that there 
 is a link between homosexual behavior and child molestation. 
 Here is how they wage their defense. 
  
 Homosexual activists routinely claim that most child molesters 
 are €heterosexual€ males. Now this is a real statistical fact. 
 But does it reflect a reliable truth. Since the overwhelming 
 percentage of the population (98-99% according to the National 
 Opinion Research Center) is heterosexual it is only logical that 
 they would commit the highest number of molestations. However, a 
 true examination of the facts indicate that homosexuals pose a 
 far more serious threat to children than do heterosexuals. 
  
 For example: Dr. Stephen Rubin of Whitman College conducted a 
 ten-state study of sex abuse cases involving school teachers. 
 The study involved 199 cases. Of those, 122 male teachers had 
 molested girls, while 14 female teachers had molested boys. He 
 also discovered that 59 homosexual male teachers had molested 
 boys and four female homosexual teachers had molested girls. In 
 other words, 32 percent of those child molestation cases 
 involved homosexuals. Nearly a third of these cases come from 
 only 1-2% of the population. 
  
 In her book, Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences, Dr. Judith Reisman 
 describes a very telling study involving molestation rates of 
 self-confessed sexual predators. The study compared the 
 molestation rates of self-confessed homosexual and heterosexual 
 child molesters. In a sample of 153 homosexual molesters, they 
 confessed to a total of 22,981 molestations. This is equivalent 
 to 150 children per molester. Self-admitted heterosexual 
 molesters admitted to 4,435 molestations. This comes to 19.8 
 victims per molester. One prominent researcher concluded that 
 homosexuals €sexually molest young boys at an incidence that is 
 occurring at five times greater than that committed by 
 heterosexual predators. 
  
 This high rate of molestations by homosexuals is consistent with 
 other studies conducted during the past several decades. Here 
 are just a few studies that show homosexuals molesting children 
 at epidemic rates: 
  
 The Los Angeles Times conducted a survey in 1985 of 2,628 adults 
 across the U.S. Of those, 27% of the women and 16% of the men 
 had been sexually molested. Seven percent of the girls and 93% 
 of the men had been molested by adults of the same sex. This 
 means that 40% of child molestations were by homosexuals. (Los 
 Angeles Times, August 25-6, 1985) 
  
 In 1984, a Vermont survey of 161 adolescents who were sex 
 offenders found that 35 of them (22%) were homosexuals. 
 (Wasserman, J., €Adolescent Sex Offenders€Vermont, 1984€ Journal 
 American Medical Association, 1986; 255:181-2) 
  
 In 1991, of the 100 child molesters at the Massachusetts 
 Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons, a third were 
 heterosexual, a third were bisexual, and a third were 
 homosexual. (Dr. Raymond Knight, €Differential Prevalence of 
 Personality Disorders in Rapists and Child Molesters,€ Eastern 
 Psychological Association Conference, New York, April 12, 1991) 
  
 In 2000 Drs. Freund and Heasman of the Clark Institute of 
 Psychiatry in Toronto reviewed two studies on child molesters 
 and calculated that 34% and 32% of the sex offenders were 
 homosexual. In cases these doctors had handled, 36% of the 
 molesters were homosexuals. (Freund, K. €Pedophilia and 
 Heterosexuality vs. Homosexuality,€ Journal of Sex & Marital 
 Therapy, 1984; 10:193-200 
  
 The point to this is that while homosexual advocacy 
 organizations claim the greater risk of child molestation comes 
 from heterosexuals, the statistics indicate that as a percent of 
 the population the risk of being molested by a homosexual is 
 remarkably higher. While homosexuals comprise only 1-2% of the 
 population, they are responsible for one third of all child 
 molestations. 
   € 
  
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