No Link Between Homosexuality and Priest Sex Abuse, Study Says
During their annual meeting this week in Baltimore, the US Catholic Bishops reviewed a preliminary version of a study they commissioned on the reasons for clergy sexual abuse. The study by John Jay College of Criminal Justice researchers found that being gay had no correlation to the sex abuse scandal that has rocked the U.S. Catholic Church for decades.
“This report confirms many other studies that demonstrate that sexual orientation has nothing to do with the pattern of child abuse by Catholic priests,” said Marianne Duddy-Burke, Executive Director of DignityUSA. “We hope that the hierarchy of the Catholic Church will finally accept this finding, since it has been borne out through their own study.
"We urge the bishops to provide support and compensation to the victims/survivors of sexual abuse by clergy, identify perpetrators, press charges, and permanently remove them from contact with children. It is vital that the hierarchy atone for their own role in multiplying the abuse by moving known abusers from place to place.
We urge the entire Church to renew its commitment to preventing further abuse of children, and to obtaining justice for those who were abused. Finally, sexual orientation must no longer be used as a barrier to ordination for people called to official ministry."
DignityUSA is the nation’s oldest and foremost organization of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics, our families, friends, and allies. Founded in 1969, the organization has members and chapters throughout the United States.
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It is, of course, a given that not every same sex attracted person is a child abuser but according to the John Jay report:
The largest group of alleged victims (50.9%) was between the ages of 11 and 14,
27.3% were 15-17… [78% of victims were between 11 and 17 years of age]
Overall, 81%
of victims were male and 19% female.
[This is referred to as Ephebophilia]
http://www.usccb.org/nrb/johnjaystudy /
After Asceticism: Sex, Prayer and Deviant Priests authored by the Linacre Institute – Catholic Medical Association – says:
“Not all of the abuse
was homosexual; there was some abuse of minor females. However, the abuse
was very lopsided with approximately four out of five victims being male,
making the abuse homosexual in form.” [John Jay Report] P103
However, as concluded by the National Review Board, the pederasty crisis—a
striking manifestation of the loss of emotional and behavioral control—was
largely a homosexual phenomenon amongst priests. P104
Some homosexually inclined priests are chaste. However, as noted earlier,
the only published hospital or clinic census data on Catholic male pederast
clergy (and religious) ( Camargo & Loftus, 1992) show that the sexual problems
referral rate for homosexual patients was 2.3 times greater than for heterosexual
patients. P105
Not only were 80% of the victims male, but they clumped above age 10. Most boys start developing into men at about age 9. It is hard to understand how this could not be evidence to support that notion that the perpetrators were either gay or bi.
And, it is becoming increasingly apparent that, over the course of a 1000 years, the Roman Catholic priesthood (not to mention other religious orders) has become the refuge of pedophiles.
It's simply ingrained in those closed societies, I'm afraid.
gun control: the belief that a woman raped and strangled with her own hose is morally superior to one who defends herself with a firearm.
I can't really take one that they commissioned seriously.
There is excellent reason to take this study seriously. The Roman Catholic Church has been persecuting gays for several centuries, now, and, since the child-molesting-priests scandal broke, has been looking for ways to scapegoat those among its priesthood who appear or admit to being same-gender oriented, even when those men were faithfully celibate. The RCC has conducted a brutal purge of celibate gay priests instead of focusing their energies where they would be most helpful: getting rid of pedophiles from their ranks. They have slapped pedophiles on the hand and sent them off to greener pastures with more children to molest, while turning around and scapegoating celibate gay priests instead.
They have been looking for data which would support this witch-hunt, and when they failed to find any data which supported their stereotyped ideas of gays as being child-molesters, they commissioned their *own* study in hopes of drumming up evidence for their witch-hunt. Since their *own study* has come back in contradiction to their pet theory, it is, in fact, MORE believable, rather than less. This isn't how they wanted it to come out.
What part of male priests molesting boys is other than a homosexual act?
Maybe I'm missing something, but I've always understood boys and men to be of the same sex. And, I've always understood homosexuals to be persons who prefer partners of their own sex .
Male priests, who molest boys, are by definition homosexual.
I absolutely agree!!!!! it is the alter BOYS that are being molested..i dont care what they do with each other or other consenting adults but don't tell me it is not homosexuals who molest alther BOYS1!!!!!
Priests molest girls, too. Lots of the victims of these pedophile priests are girls, not just boys. Pedophiles are pedophiles, not gay. Gay people are no more likely to be pedophiles than straight people.
Is "male prisoners, who molest weaker male prisoners", by definition homosexual? NO!
It's a matter of OPPORTUNITY. As a former priest myself, I assure you that priests have been denied ACCESS to women for centuries, for fear that they would molest members of the opposite sex . They didn't figure out until the recent scandals that if you didn't allow male priests to vent their sexual appetite with FEMALES that they might take advantage of the only victims they had access to, i.e. BOYS - which makes their ACTS "homosexual" but doesn't make them or their passions "homosexual". See my http://LiberalslikeChrist.Org/God& gays .html .
RE: "Is "male prisoners, who molest weaker male prisoners", by definition homosexual?"
Well, yeah. Duh!
Do you own a dictionary? Is English your second language?
By the goofy arguments I've seen, a homosexual who's into S&M isn't really gay because he's into some other weird stuff along with it.
What you're basically trying to argue is that not all homosexuals are pedophiles, which is probably a valid argument. But you can't argue that homosexuals, who are also pedophiles, aren't homosexuals. The plain meaning of words eliminates the possibility of the argument being other than foolish.