10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS

"Homosexuals are dangero as teachers or youth lears bee they try to get sexually volved wh children" or that "Homosexuals try to play sexually wh children if they nnot get an adult partner.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

For the prent discsn, the important pot is that many child molters nnot be meangfully scribed as homosexuals, heterosexuals, or bisexuals ( the ual sense of those terms) bee they are not really pable of a relatnship wh an adult man or woman.

GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS

In summary, each of the studi failed to support the hypothis that homosexual mal are more likely than heterosexual men to molt children or to be sexually attracted to children or adolcents. Pediatrics noted that bat about gay people as molters "have ltle to do wh everyday child abe" and lamented that they distract lawmakers and the public om alg wh the real problem of children's sexual mistreatment (Kgman, 1994). Data om studi g a variety of psychologil measur do not dite that gay people are more likely than heterosexuals to posss any psychologil characteristics that would make them ls pable of ntrollg their sexual urg, reag om the abe of power, obeyg l and laws, teractg effectively wh others, or exercisg good judgment handlg thory.

As dited by workplace polici around the Uned Stat, a large and growg number of private and public employers do not perceive a problem wh hirg gay and bisexual people as employe or managers. Th, there is no factual basis for anizatns to avoid hirg homosexual or bisexual people, simply on the basis of their sexual orientatn, for posns that volve rponsibily for or supervisn of others, whether children, adolcents, or adults. On further examatn, however, s central argument – that "the evince dit that homosexual men molt boys at rat grossly disproportnate to the rat at which heterosexual men molt girls" – don't hold up.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

The abstract summariz the thors' ncln: "Fdgs dite that homosexual mal who preferred mature partners rpond no more to male children than heterosexual mal who preferred mature partners rpond to female children. Th, even if one accepts the qutnable assumptn that this study is relevant, don't support the FRC's ntentn that gay men are more likely than heterosexual men to be child molters for several reasons:.

The offenrs were not asked their sexual orientatn (gay, straight, bisexual) and the paper do not report any rmatn about the nature of the offenrs' adult sexual relatnships, or even if they had any such relatnships. " The victims of homosexual pedophil "were more likely to be strangers, that they were more likely to have engaged paraphiliac behavr separate om that volved the offence, and that they were more likely to have past nvictns for sexual offenc....

In the passage excerpted by the FRC, the thors were discsg published papers that ed a classifitn system focg entirely on the sex of victims (not whether the perpetrator is straight or gay). Only one study (Erickson et al., 1988) might be terpreted as supportg the FRC argument, and failed to tail s measurement procr and did not differentiate bisexual om homosexual offenrs. In a 1985 article published Psychologil Reports, Cameron purported to review published data to answer the qutn, "Do those who m homosexual acts disproportnately rporate children to their sexual practic?

It is also noteworthy that, although Cameron assumed that the perpetrators of male-male moltatns were all homosexual, he assumed that not all male-female moltatns were mted by heterosexuals. This rat is meangls bee no data were obtaed ncerng the actual sexual orientatn of the teachers volved; as before, Cameron assumed that male-male ntacts were perpetrated by homosexuals.

His fal choice of sourc appears to have slanted his fdgs toward what Cameron scribed as "the relative absence the scientific lerature of heterosexual teacher-pupil sexual events upled wh persistent, albe equent, homosexual teacher-pupil sexual teractns" (p. Charts were reviewed to terme the relatnships of the children to the alleged offenr, the sex of the offenr, and whether or not the alleged offenr was reported to be gay, lbian, or bisexual. A gay uple om Geia charged wh moltg their two adopted sons and g them to rerd child porn also allegedly pimped them out to members of a lol pedophile rg, acrdg to a disturbg new report.

Usg phallometric tt sensivi to lculate the proportn of te pedophil among var groups of sex offenrs agast children, and takg to nsiratn prevly reported mean numbers of victims per offenr group, the rat of heterosexual to homosexual pedophil was lculated to be approximately 11:1. Mark Foley (R-FL) to promote a falsehood about gay men -- that they are more likely than straight men to sexually abe children, based on the claim that homosexuals are overreprented child sex abe s. In fact, a 1995 study released by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn found that “gay men are no more likely than heterosexual men to perpetrate child sexual abe”; the argument that homosexuals are overreprented such s is based on what John Hopks Universy psychiatrist Frerick Berl has scribed as the “flawed assumptn” that men who abe young boys are also attracted to grown men.

On October 2, Perks issued a statement on what he claimed was “the real issue” the Foley sndal -- the purported “lk between homosexualy and child sexual abe”; the statement was uncrilly reported by the San Francis Chronicle an October 3 report on the sndal. Siarly, on the October 3 edn of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews failed to challenge the claim by Perks that “there's clear rearch that shows that homosexual men are more likely to abe children than straight men. Dailey, a senr rearch fellow at the FRC's Center for Marriage and Fay Studi, which asserts that there is a “disturbg nnectn” between homosexualy and pedophilia bee “homosexual pedophil m about one-third of the total number of child sex offens” whereas homosexuals make up only “1 to 3 percent of the populatn.

However, a July 2002 report, USA Today noted numero experts psychotherapy, psychiatry, and child sex abe who argued that figur showg “male pedophil are more likely to molt boys than girls” are not evince that gay men are more likely to abe children than straight men, bee they nflate men who abe boys wh gay men. For example, the article quoted David Fkelhor, director of the Crim Agast Children Rearch Center at the Universy of New Hampshire, as sayg that pedophilia is “kd of* a separate sexual orientatn" om homosexualy, and that pedophil “often*... " The article also reported that Berl, who is scribed the story as an expert on sexual disorrs, believ that pedophil are not “very* attracted to adults of eher genr, " and that a study by psychotherapist Richard Sipe found “no tie between sexual abe and homosexualy.

MATTHEWS: Do you thk this should be the Republin platform for you to ntue your allegiance to the Republin Party, that they stop nomatg gay men or women for a public office?