In a Saturday article, the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer told the Christian Post that he believes the Department of Housing and Urban Development should not expand discrimination rules to include sexual orientation and gender identity. His reasons: gays aren’t really discriminated against and even if they are, they can choose not be gay.
However, in a AFA column today, he adds some reasons which will make the Southern Poverty Law Center even more secure in their decision to place the AFA on their list of GLBT hate groups.
There are two more reasons why this is a perfectly bad idea. (I brought both of these up with the writer of the Christian Post article, but they did not make it into the published piece.) One, many young boys living in HUD housing are already in troubled domestic situations, many with no father presence in the home. The last thing they need is suddenly to be living next door to two males modeling a sexually abnormal lifestyle. Role models matter immensely to young boys, and they don’t need any more adults around them setting bad examples. They’ve already been exposed to enough of that.
And we know – despite the howls of protest to the contrary – that male homosexuals molest young boys at a hugely exaggerated rate. The Roman Catholic Church, for instance, did a study of its own priests who molested children, and found that 81% of the victims were boys.
The last thing in the world young males in troubled home settings need is to be put in a situation where there is a heightened chance they will be sexually molested by their next door neighbors. These HUD housing projects will become hunting grounds with easy prey for homosexual pedophiles.
Neither of these reasons has any merit. Somehow Fischer knows things that the rest of us don’t know. Conflating pedophilia with homosexuality is a categorical error made by many of the SPLC hate groups. While I can understand the impulse to keep pedophiles away from children, this concern does not apply to GLBT people who have no sexual desire for children. Fischer’s argument is ironic given the fact that ideological fellow traveler, Scott Lively, recently had a sex offender working around teens in his new coffee house.
Again, Fischer is talking out of his backside!
As for the Catholic Church in England and Wales:-
‘ Father Marcus Stock, general secretary of the Bishops’ Conference, said in a statement: “To the best of my knowledge there is no empirical data which concludes that sexual orientation is connected to child sexual abuse. The consensus among researchers is that the sexual abuse of children is not a question of sexual orientation, whether heterosexual or homosexual, but of a disordered attraction or fixation.” ‘
(Daily Telegraph, 14 Apr. 2010)
[You might recognise Fr. Stock’s words, Warren!]
Just because some believe that sexual molestation is not a cause per se – I do believe in some cases it does contribute to SSA.
Honestly, I do not care what a group or a person says about this issue. This is a personal story. It may not be that way for some and that’s fine. Another example of how we do not understand.
This guy is not making sense. What about the children of lesbians who need help getting a home, making ends meet etc..etc…
Ooops. My apologies.
Ooops. My apologies.
Mary – irrelevant. Fischer is saying that gays just by virtue of being attracted to the same sex are more likely to abuse children. Given his hyperbole, the effect is to say that if glbt people are protected from discrimination, then more children will be abused than if they are included in the HUD regs.
Just because some believe that sexual molestation is not a cause per se – I do believe in some cases it does contribute to SSA.
Honestly, I do not care what a group or a person says about this issue. This is a personal story. It may not be that way for some and that’s fine. Another example of how we do not understand.
Again, Fischer is talking out of his backside!
As for the Catholic Church in England and Wales:-
‘ Father Marcus Stock, general secretary of the Bishops’ Conference, said in a statement: “To the best of my knowledge there is no empirical data which concludes that sexual orientation is connected to child sexual abuse. The consensus among researchers is that the sexual abuse of children is not a question of sexual orientation, whether heterosexual or homosexual, but of a disordered attraction or fixation.” ‘
(Daily Telegraph, 14 Apr. 2010)
[You might recognise Fr. Stock’s words, Warren!]
Mary – irrelevant. Fischer is saying that gays just by virtue of being attracted to the same sex are more likely to abuse children. Given his hyperbole, the effect is to say that if glbt people are protected from discrimination, then more children will be abused than if they are included in the HUD regs.
This guy is not making sense. What about the children of lesbians who need help getting a home, making ends meet etc..etc…