Child Abuse, Child Molestation, And Gays

News today comes of the arrest of a Delaware pediatrician accused of raping, sexually assaulting and molesting over one hundred young girls since 1998.

Yes, yet another case of heterosexual child molestation.

Joe.My.God put it well today.  On the Delaware pediatrician story, he sarcastically wrote,

“Delaware pediatrician Dr. Earl Bradley has been charged with 471 counts of molesting over 100 girls in his practice, providing blatant proof that heterosexual men are all inherent molesters who should not be trusted around children.”

And yet we constantly have anti-gay groups spreading lies about homosexuals wanting to indoctrinate children into the “gay lifestyle.” NOM’s Brian Brown, as I reported a few weeks ago, actually had to audacity to claim that gay marriage poses a greater threat of child abuse, and that children are only safe with their only married biological parents.

Meanwhile, in reality world, it turns out that, according to the same study Brian quoted,

“The majority of all [abused or neglected] children … were maltreated by their biological parents.” In fact, the study says that “92% were neglected by biological parents” and “64% were abused by biological parents.”

“Biological parents were the most closely related perpetrators for 71% of physically abused children and for 73% of emotionally abused children.”

And yet, the National Organization For Marriage would have you believe that gays and gay marriage are direct threats to the safety and welfare of children, when in fact, sadly, their own biological parents are the greatest threat to them. Sad, but true.

Same story with child molestation. The common “wisdom” in the anti-gay world is that gays are child molesters, not straights. And yet, we know that the majority of child molestation incidents are heterosexual, not homosexual. And those numbers even include all the reported child molestation cases by the Church.

Via University Of California/Davis:

“The empirical research does not show that gay or bisexual men are any more likely than heterosexual men to molest children. This is not to argue that homosexual and bisexual men never molest children. But there is no scientific basis for asserting that they are more likely than heterosexual men to do so.”

When do we say, enough?

When do we get to set the facts straight on who’s more often the abuser, who’s more often the molester, and who’s not?

(image: CNN)