XPost: alt.astrology, alt.gossip.celebrities, alt.checkmate   
   XPost: uk.politics.misc   
   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..   
                      
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)