Boy Scouts/Discrimination

Studies about pedophiles (adults who prey sexually on children) have not investigated the extent of this crime within the ministry, or whether the ratio of pedophiles in the ministry is higher than that of comparable high-risk professions. Experts agree that the molesting minister is a subset of the dangerous class of "respected members of the community" who betray their position of authority and trust by sexually assaulting children. Many warn that molesters are often "good Christians."

The social myth persists that a child molester is most apt to be of a low-class breed lurking in dark hallways, interested in abduction of children he does not know. In fact, most sexual abusers of children are respectable, otherwise law-abiding people who cultivate friendly relationships with their chosen prey, and may escape detection for precisely those reasons. Research agrees that the typical child molester is able to harm large numbers of children without being caught, in part, because he has already established a trusting relationship, playing on children's sense of loyalty, vulnerability, shame, and naivete, and fortifying his power to silence them through bribery, coercion and violent threats. In the case of a molesting man of the cloth, add to these threats the supernatural ones of God's wrath or hellfire.

The largest study of pedophiles was directed by researcher, physician and psychiatrist Gene G. Abel, M.D., of Emory University School of Medicine, for the Antisocial and Violent Behavior Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health. The landmark eight-year study revealed that, "Molesters often become youth ministers, day-care workers, Boy Scout leaders, teachers, Big Brothers and pediatricians" (Dr. Abel and Nora Harlow, "The Child Abuser," Redbook Magazine, August 1987). They add, "He is often an active Christian who is involved in his church."

Abel's study discovered that 403 pedophiles had molested more than 67,000 children! Pedophiles who targeted male victims averaged 282 victims, while pedophiles who targeted girls averaged 23 victims. Other studies have uncovered more traditional findings of higher incidences of abuse of girls.

Some figures are available about ministers who are child abusers. The Church Mutual Insurance Company, of Merrill, Wisconsin, which insures 46,000 churches, has seen about 200 claims against ministers for sexual abuse of children in the late eighties. The company estimated that in 1990 there were as many as 2,000 cases of sexual abuse by clergy in the courts.
Whole article here: http://ffrf.org/timely/pedo1992.php

I had hear it is as high as 50/50.

the incidents of sexual misconduct by heterosexual family men was virtually nil.

I do believe the statistics are squarely on my side, however.

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I do believe the statistics are squarely on my side, however.

this is not the first time we have heard this from foxfyre and won't be the last.
one thing she does have is determination in spite of facts.
A laudable characteristic i some cases.

the incidents of sexual misconduct by heterosexual family men was virtually nil.

An NBC report on celibacy and the clergy found that
"any where from 23 percent to 58 percent" of the Catholic clergy
have a homosexual orientation.
Other studies [???????] find that approximately
half of American priests and seminarians are homosexually oriented.
Sociologist James G. Wolf in his book Gay Priests concluded that
48.5 percent of priests and 55.1 percent of seminarians were gay.
The percentage appears to be [????]
highest among priests under forty years of age.
Moreover, the percentage of gay men among religious congregations
of priests is believed to be [????] even higher

Inmate interviews in 277 prisons in 45 states, conducted during 1991, revealed:
Of all prisoners convicted of rape or sexual assault, two-thirds victimized children;
Three out of four child victims were female;
Offenders typically preyed on children they knew, not strangers;
Eighty-eight percent had a prior relationship with their victims;
Prisoners convicted of attacking children were mostly male (97 percent);
Almost 70 were percent white;
Sixty-four percent were married or divorced;
Child victimizers were generally five years older than those who victimized adults;
About 22 percent of the child sex offenders reported having been sexually abused themselves during childhood; and
Three out of four prisoners who victimized a child reported the crime took place in their own home or in the victim's home. http://www.prevent-abuse-now.com/stats2.htm#Offenders

Dear friend I am not going for a PHD here and doing a reserch paper.
Time and life is way too short.

My statement in any case was I had read that the ratio of gay
to striaght in the clergy of the catholic church is far from
the ratio found in the general population and on being challenge
I had post some of the material that would seem to show that is indeed true.

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the incidents of sexual misconduct by heterosexual family men was virtually nil.

I call BULLSHIT.

Foxfyre,

You are the one who made up this claim. Can you back it up with facts (or are you just trying to pass your prejudice as "truth" with absolutely no facts to back it up)?

This is nuts... you make a claim and then you want other people to find evidence (which you ignore anyway).