10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
• SODOMY LAWS THAT LABELED GAY PEOPLE SEX OFFENRS CHALLENGED URT
• NEWSOM THREATENS SCHOOL BOARD FOR REJECTG TEXTBOOK CELEBRATG GAY 'CHILD SEXUAL PREDATOR'
• GAY PREDATORS, TELLG THE TTH AND SPRG-CLEANG THE CHURCH.
• GAY FORMER WEATHERMAN SAYS ONLE 'PREDATORS' ARE EXPLOG HIM
• SSPX BISHOPS ORDAED KNOWN GAY PREDATOR
• OPENLY GAY PREDATORS PROSPECT LE PROKOP EXPRS 'DISAPPOTMENT' OVER NHL'S PRI NIGHT NTROVERSI
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS

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.

SODOMY LAWS THAT LABELED GAY PEOPLE SEX OFFENRS CHALLENGED URT

German Chavez was 14 years old when he first started g a gay datg app lled Grdr to fd adult men to pay him for need to help his troubled sgle mother pay the bills, he said, and had no trouble fdg men to purchase him on the popular lotn-based mobile 25 and years away om the sex tra, Chavez is warng other mors to stay away om Grdr, one of the most popular apps the untry for gay and bisexual men. The pany touts s mobile platform as “The World’s Largt Social Networkg App for Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer People” and says s ers have to be 18 years old and the app is teemg wh unrage gay, bisexual and qutng boys, acrdg to rearchers, child exploatn specialists and ers like Chavez who say they n easily lie about their age to ga accs to the LGBTQ teens are seekg nnectn a world that provis few safe spac, rearchers say.

the Journal of the Amerin Amy of Child and Adolcent Psychiatry timatg that about one quarter of all gay and bisexual adolcent mal are g Grdr and siar apps — likely hundreds of thoands of youth natnwi. He’s seen gay teens end up at an emergency room Boston — where he worked until last year — crisis after beg sexually exploed by men they met on Grdr yet too ashamed to seek help om other adults. A homosexual nnot tomatilly be nsired a child molter, said Judh Reisman, print of the Instute for Media Edutn suburban Louisville, wh 17-24 percent of boys beg abed by age 18, nearly as many as the 25 percent of girls, there is e for ncern, she heterosexuals outnumber the homosexual populatn about 44 to 1, as a group the cince of homosexuals moltg children is up to 40 tim greater than heterosexuals, she said.

“In fact, the largt database of child molters the untry shows that those who molt boys are over three tim more likely to be heterosexual their adult relatnships than homosexual, ” she Reisman pots to figur om a 1991 populatn study by the U.

NEWSOM THREATENS SCHOOL BOARD FOR REJECTG TEXTBOOK CELEBRATG GAY 'CHILD SEXUAL PREDATOR'

8 girls by heterosexual a study published 1987 the Journal of Interpersonal Vlence, Able said homosexuals sexually molt young boys wh an cince five tim greater than the moltatn of girls. Figur released last summer by the Jtice Department reveal that adults are not the primary victims of sexual asslt, she showed that 67 percent of all reported sex abe victims are children and 64 percent of forcible sodomy victims are boys unr analysts wh Washgton-based, pro-fay anizatns agree that homosexuals pose a greater risk to Daily of the Fay Rearch Council qutned “60 Mut” claim that adults who molt boys n even be lled heterosexual.

GAY PREDATORS, TELLG THE TTH AND SPRG-CLEANG THE CHURCH.

”Among the reasons Dailey ced for beg ncerned about the potential for homosexual moltatn of boys:— Almost all sex crim agast children are mted by men and signifint numbers of victims are mal. "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. 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.

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.

GAY FORMER WEATHERMAN SAYS ONLE 'PREDATORS' ARE EXPLOG HIM

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.

SSPX BISHOPS ORDAED KNOWN GAY PREDATOR

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. Michael Vorris, the Catholic journalist who ns the “Church Milant’ claims that one survey done by a New Jersey Francisn prit and rearcher revealed that 45% of 500 prits surveyed volunteered that they were gay and that one four of them had AIDS — implyg a rampant promiscuy.

OPENLY GAY PREDATORS PROSPECT LE PROKOP EXPRS 'DISAPPOTMENT' OVER NHL'S PRI NIGHT NTROVERSI

He claimed that Pope Benedict had forcibly retired him and that Pope Francis, knowg that he had been acced both of sexual abe and also promotg and protectg a gay prit mafia the Stat, restated him. ) Adame, an openly gay meteorologist who had worked at Spectm News NY1 sce 2007, admted an Instagram post shared September that he had secretly appeared and performed on an adult vio webse for other men while he was employed at the TV statn.

FCKH8 did not rpond to a requt for ment om USA Court grants feral job protectns to gay, lbian, transgenr workersRooted history of bigotryThe assertn that the LGBTQ muny ndon or supports pedophilia is not only false, but rooted a history of bigotry.

”Same-sex marriage lg at 5::Acceptance, advancement, but opposn remasAn old claim, prevly bunkedClaims like this have surfaced onle 2017, Snop traced the posts back to an anti-gay misrmatn mpaign that started on 4chan 2016, the hope of which was to trick the LGBTQ muny to exprsg support for May, Rters bunked siar posts that had begun to recirculate has reported the posts and had them removed by Facebook the past, Ferraro wrote.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

Such claims also draw on a history of unserved stigma and stereotyp toward the LGBTQ fact-check sourc:Rich Ferraro, Chief Communitns Officer, GLAADNick Morrow, Interim Communitns Director, Human Rights CampaignJoe Nellist, Communitns Coordator, LGBT FoundatnLGBT Foundatn, "Pedosexual Statement"PubMed, Natnal Library of Medice, "Are children at risk for sexual abe by homosexuals?

Father Andr Morello, rector om 1981–1988, oversaw the stunt durg his entire tenure there, eventually wantg to expel him after learng of numero acts of homosexual groomg and predatn wh fellow semarians. But even there, Urtigoy ed problems, where he evinced troublg behavr — which Galarreta aga overlooked, stead allowg the homosexual predator to "rehabilate" his image and receive a remendatn to study at the SSPX semary Wona, Mnota. "[It's] disputable that, om the early days of SSPX, there was an atmosphere of placency toward the vice of homosexualy wh the two mentned semari of the anizatn, " wrote thor Patrick Odou.

Acrdg to a report om The Athletic, there has been some ncern around the league that there uld be repercsns for Rsian players who wear pri-themed jerseys due to new anti-gay laws passed by the untry. In October 2016, viral entertament web s such as published articl posg that two burglars had been sodomized for five straight days after they broke to the hoe of a "notor gay sex predator" named Harry Harrgton:. As ual, hypocril straight, old whe men, guilty of nductg, aidg and abettg rampant pedophilia throughout the church, e the rultg sndal not to addrs their unrlyg rponsibily or the roots of the problem but to st blame on gay men ["For Gay Catholic Prits, New Scty, " Metro, June 24].