{"id":8162,"date":"2010-04-20T10:15:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T14:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=8162"},"modified":"2010-04-20T10:15:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T14:15:25","slug":"homosexuality-a-major-cause-of-priestly-paedophilia-in-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/homosexuality-a-major-cause-of-priestly-paedophilia-in-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Homosexuality a major cause of priestly paedophilia in the church"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Lifesite News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A must-read paper <\/a>produced by Human Life International Research Director Brian Clowes has closed the book on the question of whether homosexuality in the priesthood is a root cause of the clerical sexual abuse crisis.\u00a0 Citing numerous research studies, Clowes demonstrates that homosexuality is strongly linked to sexual abuse of minors, and that celibacy is definitely not a cause of pedophilia.<\/p>\n

Clowes cites studies, including:<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Homosexual Alfred Kinsey, the USA\u2019s preeminent sexual researcher, found in 1948 that 37 percent of all male homosexuals admitted to having sex with children under 17 years old.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0A recent study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that “The best epidemiological evidence indicates that only 2.4% of men attracted to adults prefer men.\u00a0 In contrast, around 25-40% of men attracted to children prefer boys.\u00a0 Thus, the rate of homosexual attraction is 6-20 times higher among pedophiles.”<\/p>\n

–\u00a0A study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that, “Pedophilia appears to have a greater than chance association with two other statistically infrequent phenomena.\u00a0 The first of these is homosexuality \u2026 Recent surveys estimate the prevalence of homosexuality, among men attracted to adults, in the neighborhood of 2%.\u00a0 In contrast, the prevalence of homosexuality among pedophiles may be as high as 30-40%.”<\/p>\n

–\u00a0A study in the Journal of Sex Research noted that “\u2026 the proportion of sex offenders against male children among homosexual men is substantially larger than the proportion of sex offenders against female children among heterosexual men \u2026 the development of pedophilia is more closely linked with homosexuality than with heterosexuality.”<\/p>\n

–\u00a0A study of 229 convicted child molesters published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that \u201ceighty-six percent of [sexual] offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If the Roman Catholic church does weed out homosexual priests to protect children, will those howling for blood \u2013 the dripping with sanctimony Hitchens-Dawkins conglomerate \u2013 applaud or shriek \u201chomophobia\u201d. Let me guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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