Report: Gay Priests No More Likely to Abuse. So Will Bill Donohue Twist This or Simply Ignore It?
Bill Donohue, certified bigot, recently appeared on The 700 Club. Among other things he made the claim that gay priests sexually abuse others at a higher rate than do heterosexual priests. Nothing new, of course. We’re used to being told gay=pedophile even though countless legitimate studies say otherwise. But facts have no place in the minds or the propaganda of bigots.
So they lie about it in the Catholic Church, they say “oh, we had a pedophilia problem.” It’s been a homosexual problem all along. It’s not my opinion, it’s the actual data from the John Jay Criminal Justice System College [sic] here in New York City which looked at the data. I’m not saying homosexuality causes predatory behavior; I’m saying that most of the priests who have been predators have been homosexuals.
Now that the preliminary report is out, how is Donohue going to react? Is he going to try to spin it as some vast, Leftist conspiracy against the Catholic Church? Is he going to claim John Jay College has been infiltrated by Homosexuals who want to destroy America? Or will he simply ignore reality in favor of his version of “The Truth”?
A preliminary report commissioned by the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops to investigate the clergy sex abuse scandal has found no evidence that gay priests are more likely than heterosexual clergy to molest children, the lead authors of the study said Tuesday.
The full report by researchers at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice won’t be completed until the end of next year. But the authors said their evidence to date found no data indicating that homosexuality was a predictor of abuse.
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Yet, many experts on sex offenders reject any link between sexual orientation and committing abuse. Karen Terry, a John Jay researcher, said it was important to distinguish between sexual identity and behavior, and to look at who the offender had access to when seeking victims.
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