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Topic: Pedophilia and homosexuality


  
  Ross Olson's Social Issues: Homosexuality
Homosexuals Need Love Genuine love is needed, not condemnation, yet love is not the same as approval of all behavior.
The Elephant In The Room by Ross Olson, Pediatric Annals published a study in which a 13 year old boy who is sexually active with males requests therapy to become a girl and a panel of experts does not comment on the obvious presence of child abuse.
Diversity, Homosexuality and Education by Ross Olson,We have been lead to believe that homosexuality, like race, is an innate quality that cannot change so that we must unconditionally accept gays and lesbians, as well as everything that they do.
rossolson.org /homosexuality   (250 words)

  
  Homosexuality Now, Pedophilia Next   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Homosexuality has jumped out of the closet and into social acceptance.
Erickson argues that the word pedophilia is too harsh and judgmental.
Understand that pedophilia is exactly where homosexuality was thirty-five years ago: in the classrooms of liberal college professors.
home.bluemarble.net /~heartcom/homosexualitynow.html   (363 words)

  
 pedophilia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Homosexuality was no longer a treatable illness, but to be considered normal and healthy.
Just in the last few months, pedophilia and the child pornography that fuels it has been turning up in an increasing number of headlines-- and often in a manner very similar to the way that homosexuality was mainstreamed 25 years ago.
The majority of homosexuals claim to be opposed to pedophilia, yet the very tactics used to normalize homosexuality have set the stage to normalize pedophilia.
www.harvestusa.org /articles/pedophilia.htm   (2157 words)

  
 Catholic Scandals: A Crisis for Celibacy? by Leon J. Podles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Dozens of cases involving clerical "pedophilia" have been tried in the courts, several priests have gone to jail, and various dioceses have had to pay out tens or perhaps even hundreds of millions of dollars (the exact sums are often in sealed settlements) to the victims.
Almost all the cases reported in the media as pedophilia actually involve an attraction (which a priest has acted on) to adolescent boys who are sexually mature but under the age of consent, which is 18 in civil law and 16 in canon law.
Most men are outraged by a homosexual advance to a youth, not only because it is wrong, but also because it encourages the youth to deviate from heterosexuality, a crucial constituent of masculinity.
www.touchstonemag.com /docs/issues/15.3docs/15-3pg25.html   (4500 words)

  
 Study shows link between homosexuality and pedophilia - Interim, September 2002
Dailey quotes David Thorstad, a homosexual activist and founding member of NAMBLA, to demonstrate that by 1985, pedophilia had gained acceptance within the homosexual movement, as it was in that year that NAMBLA was admitted as a member in New York's council of Lesbian and Gay Organizations and the International Gay Association.
The link between homosexuality and pedophilia is rejected by many mainstream research groups, which have even begun to view pedophilia in value-neutral terms.
Rushfeldt stresses that pedophiles come in both homosexual and heterosexual forms, but there are differences between the two that need to be understood.
www.theinterim.com /2002/sept/02study.html   (527 words)

  
 Pedophilia among catholic priests
First of all, with regard to homosexuality, it is clear that marriage is not at issue as the innumerable examples of married men engaging in homosexuality proves.
The perpetrator of pedophilia has allowed evil to enter into his heart - for how else could he wish even in part to corrupt the innocent - and the only cure of the heart is a genuine conversion.
To consider homosexual relationships with such individuals distinct from pedophilia is a matter of semantics (ephelbophilia) rather than reality.
www.wandea.org.pl /pedophilia-priests.html   (1159 words)

  
 Timothy J. Dailey, Ph.D. -- Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse
Homosexuals are overrepresented in child sex offenses: Individuals from the 1 to 3 percent of the population that is sexually attracted to the same sex are committing up to one-third of the sex crimes against children.
Some homosexual activists defend the historic connection between homosexuality and pedophilia: Such activists consider the defense of "boy-lovers" to be a legitimate gay rights issue.
Central to the attempts to separate homosexuality from pedophilia is the claim that pedophiles cannot, by definition, be considered homosexuals.
www.orthodoxytoday.org /articles/DaileyHomosexualAbuse.htm   (5474 words)

  
 The Clergy Abuse Scandal: Homosexuality or Pedophilia?
Part of this debate centers on whether men with the homosexual inclination should be ordained in the first place (orthodox Catholics say no), and the other part - which is the focus of this column - centers on the "Is this largely a 'homosexual' scandal or a 'pedophile' scandal?" issue.
Like sadomasochism, which is a combination of the disorders of sadism and masochism, homosexuality may or may not delve into pedophilia.
"Since the predilection of homosexuals for young victims is well-attested to in gay literature, the disorders of homosexuality and pedophilia are commonly found together, though this is not always the case."
www.michnews.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/164/5978/printer   (1329 words)

  
 The Blog from the Core - Mainstreaming Perversity
Homosexuality was considered a problem only when it was "ego-dystonic," causing unwanted and persistent stress for the individual.
The diagnostic criteria in the latest revision, DSM IV, specify that pedophilia is to be considered a paraphilia when the behavior causes "clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning." The same changes in DSM IV can be seen with regard to sexual sadism, sexual masochism and voyeurism.
The far-reaching ramifications of the APA’s reclassification of homosexuality have extended beyond medicine and law — where a proliferation of homosexual rights legislation has swept the country — to popular culture, where homosexuality is almost invariably portrayed as a positive and healthy, if misunderstood, lifestyle.
weblog.theviewfromthecore.com /2003_07/ind_002095.html   (1218 words)

  
 Homosexuality and Catholic Priests
The widespread exposure of pedophilia within the Catholic clergy has led the church to focus on homosexuality within the clergy as a source of the problem.
When it comes to homosexuality, however, a significant percentage of clergy, perhaps as high as 40 percent, might be labeled "homophile." This percentage may be even higher among seminary graduates since the 1960s and in the seminaries themselves.
Shanley, who denied the charges against him, said the real problem in the church was not pedophilia but homosexuality and threatened to go to the media with allegations of homosexuality in the archdiocesan seminary.
www.secularhumanism.org /library/fi/bullough_22_3_1.htm   (1035 words)

  
 Explaining Pedophilia
The biggest misunderstanding many people have is that pedophilia and homosexuality are one and the same.
For homosexuals, Hord says, sexual preference is "simply not linked to the age." If a man, for instance, is attracted to other adult males, he is a homosexual.
Homosexuality was, in fact, listed as a mental illness in psychiatry's main reference book, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, until the third edition came out in 1980.
www.webmd.com /sex-relationships/features/explaining-pedophilia   (731 words)

  
 Pedophilia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Pedophilia is a problem in both the heterosexual lifestyle as well as in the homosexual lifestyle.
The homosexual population should hold 1.1% of the total cases of pedophilia.
Even if 10% of the population was homosexual, this does not explain why the number of cases of pedophilia per population group is double.
www.gaymarriageno.org /pedophilia.htm   (355 words)

  
 Child Molestation and Homosexuality
It concluded that homosexual acts were involved in 25% to 40% of the cases of child molestation recorded in the scientific and forensic literature.
Because of this pattern, Judge J. Rees concluded that "the male homosexual naturally seeks the company of the male adolescent, or of the young male adult, in preference to that of the fully-grown man. [In 1947] 986 persons were convicted of homosexual and unnatural offences.
Note the phrases "oppression towards pedophilia" and "liberation of pedophilia." It is clear that those who advocate the legalization of sex between adults and children intend to argue that such conduct is a "civil right," deserving of the same legal protections afforded to other minorities.
www.familyresearchinst.org /FRI_EduPamphlet2.html   (1966 words)

  
 Genetic Origins of Homosexuality   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The practice translated as homosexuality from the Bible was actually referring to the patron system or the practice of wealthy men taking small children, girls and boys, for their sexual pleasure.
Homosexuality, the sexual acts of two consenting adults of the same sex, is not mentioned in the Bible; in fact the word homosexuality did not even come about until the 1800's.
Homosexuals are often alienated because of the belief that homosexuality is contagious.
webpages.marshall.edu /~woods18/homosexuality.htm   (1229 words)

  
 Legalized Pedophilia?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In the second version, DSM II, homosexuality was considered a sexual orientation disorder only for those who were disturbed by their orientation or wanted to change it.
Pedophilia was classified by the DSM I and DSM II as a sexual deviation, much like homosexuality was first classified.
Pedophilia is among the topics that a growing number of scholars wish to change.
theearthcenter.com /ff45earthtalk2.html   (890 words)

  
 Dr. Laura - Mental Health Demon
The diagnosis of pedophilia describes a "core" group of people who engage in sexual relationships with children for a specific group of reasons.
Second, Dr. Laura equates pedophilia with homosexuality, and comments that "deviance became redefined as diversity" and that pedophilia will soon be accepted as a "lifestyle choice." Dr. Laura is one of the most prejudice and homophobic media personalities around today.
Homosexuals have rewarding relationships with adult members of their own sex, and are not attracted to children.
www.psychpage.com /family/library/drlaura2.htm   (2369 words)

  
 Link between Homosexuality and Pedophilia - Refuting sophisms by Atila Sinke Guimaraes @ TraditionInAction.org
After completion of the book Vatican II, Homosexuality and Pedophilia, I thought it convenient to expound and refute some of the most common sophisms that surround the two-fold crisis of homosexuality and pedophilia that scourges the Catholic Church.
Homosexuality in the seminaries and clergy has nothing to do with the pedophile crimes of priests.
Some liberal scholars are producing elaborate studies trying to establish pedophilia as nothing more than a psychological illness.(1) According to one of these suspect interpretations, the pedophile priest would be nothing but an immature heterosexual who should not be considered infamous or incur the general horror of society for his behavior.
www.traditioninaction.org /HotTopics/a02liHomo&Clergy_SophismFour.html   (405 words)

  
 CovenantNews.com: Homosexuality and Pedophilia
In connection with media coverage of the Mark Foley sex scandal, the pro-homosexual media enforcers have been attempting to refute the idea that there is any connection between homosexuality and pedophilia.
Three kinds of scientific evidence point to the proportion of homosexual molestation: 1) survey reports of molestation in the general population, 2) surveys of those caught and convicted of molestation, and 3) what homosexuals themselves have reported.
These three lines of evidence suggest that the 1%-to-3% of adults who practice homosexuality (3) account for between a fifth and a third of all child molestation.
www.covenantnews.com /blog/archives/025390.html   (190 words)

  
 The Konformist - Priestly Pedophilia and Homosexuality
The suggestion is, of course, that Christ and his followers were alleged to have engaged in homosexual rites....
Because of the vicious mentality towards homosexuality, which is purported to originate from the Deity himself, homosexuals were driven to become monastics, in order to purify themselves of their overwhelming desires.
The orthodox Christian position has towards homosexuality has been that it is a seductive temptation to be resisted at all costs, an interesting attitude, because homosexuality would in truth be tempting only to those who are initially inclined thus.
www.konformist.com /2002/priestly-pedophilia.htm   (527 words)

  
 ON PEDOPHELIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
By Rama Coomaraswamy, MD It behooves the priest to be most vigilant, to live by the spirit, to excel all other leaders of men in solicitude and zeal, to guard by day and by night the army and the camp, to work unto exhaustion.
The perpetrator of pedophilia has allowed evil to enter into his heart – for how else could he wish even in part to corrupt the innocent – and the only cure of the heart is a genuine conversion.
It will be argued that prior to the liturgical changes there were cases of pedophilia, and this is certainly true – a case in point being that of Rousseau.
www.coomaraswamy-catholic-writings.com /Pedophilia.htm   (1158 words)

  
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At the same time, defenders of homosexuality argue that youth organizations such as the Boy Scouts should be forced to include homosexuals among their adult leaders.
GLSEN encourages homosexual teachers--even in the youngest grades--to be open about their sexuality, as a way of providing role models to "gay" students.
A male "homosexual pedophile," then, is defined as someone who is generally (but not exclusively, see below) sexually attracted to boys, while a female "homosexual pedophile" is sexually attracted to girls.
www.personal.psu.edu /faculty/g/l/glm7/m166.htm   (6036 words)

  
 Homosexuals admit: It's also about pedophilia - Sean Hannity Discussion
Many homosexual apologists attempt to proclaim a wedge between homosexuality and pedophilia that simply doesn't exist...as can be readily witnessed when reviewing the published opinions of homosexual activists.
Homosexual activists advocating for homosexual rights also extend their political acument to pedophilia.
Not quite...but if you can find a heterosexual activist group that defends pedophilia from a heterosexual standpoint, you might make statements that could be purposefully misconstrued that way (assuming you didn't intend it to be understood that way).
hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=55924   (634 words)

  
 Therapist Joe Kort - Homosexuality and Pedophilia: The False Link
Pedophilia can be viewed as a kind of sexual fetish, wherein the person requires the mental image of a child--not necessarily a flesh-and-blood child--to achieve sexual gratification.
To call child molestation of a boy by a man "homosexual” or of a girl by a man "heterosexual" is to misunderstand pedophilia.
Herek writes that because of our society's aversion to male homosexuality, and the attempts made by some to represent gay men as a danger to "family values," many in our society immediately think of male-male molestation as homosexuality.
www.joekort.com /articles50.htm   (1138 words)

  
 Ex-Gay Watch: Homosexuality and pedophilia: The false link   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Pedophilia may be involuntary, but that does not mean that acting upon it is right.
The overlap, such as it is, between "ordinary" (adult-preferring) homosexuals and homosexual paedophiles is no greater than the overlap between "ordinary" heterosexuals and heterosexual paedophiles.
Most "ordinary" homosexuals would not dream of having sex with a pre-pubertal boy, and most homosexual paedophiles would not dream of having sex with another adult male – in fact, they are more likely, if they have sex with adults at all, to have it with women.
www.exgaywatch.com /blog/archives/2004/10/homosexuality_a.html   (5650 words)

  
 Homosexuality Pedophilia and Lesbians Ungodly
Years ago homosexuality was considered a sin by the majority of people that lived in America.
I want it understood that fornication, adultery, drug addiction, pedophilia, and homosexuality are sins, and they are immoral acts that go against the will of Jesus Christ.
First homosexuality was considered a sin, then a sickness, and now by many a preference to another lifestyle.
www.thunderministries.net /Homo/homosexuality.htm   (514 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Because it leads to the inevitable conclusion that placing children in the care of homosexual couples is not in the best interest of the children.
Their conclusions were as simple as they were alarming: While only 3 percent of the adult population is homosexual, this segment of the population is responsible for one-third of all child sexual molestations.
In other words, homosexuals are more than 10 times as likely to commit an act of child sexual molestation as their straight counterparts.
www.bpnews.net /storydownload.asp?ID=17167   (823 words)

  
 Pedophilia
voice for the normalization of pedophilia, is pleased with this study.
homosexuals to achieve special protection under the law.
Space restrictions of the newspaper on May 11 led to the column, originally titled "The Pedophilia Controversy," being edited.
tanadineen.com /COLUMNIST/Columns/Pedophilia.htm   (500 words)

  
 Vatican II, Homosexuality and Pedophilia by Atila Sinke Guimaraes @ TraditionInAction.org
In the United States it is common to link the impunity of these priests to the cover-up of the Bishops.
Second, homosexuality and pedophilia infiltrated such high positions in the Catholic Hierarchy that for the present-day Vatican to punish the guilty parties would be tantamount to gravely damaging itself.
Sophisms 5 & 6: Married Priests and Homosexual Seminarians
www.traditioninaction.org /tiabkHomo.htm   (647 words)

  
 Pedophilia (child molestation) Information on MedicineNet.com
For homosexuals, Hord says, sexual preference is "simply not linked to the age." If a man, for instance, is attracted to other adult males, he is a homosexual.
Homosexuality was, in fact, listed as a mental illness in psychiatry's main reference book, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, until the third edition came out in 1980.
Mental health professionals agree that pedophilia should never be considered normal, because it is truly a disease.
www.medicinenet.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=51182   (1692 words)

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