Objective Morality?

[toro]

First: studies conducted in the 1990’s and earlier were conducted in a time where homosexuality was considered deviant behavior and equated with pedophilia by both society at large and the psychiatric community. This has changed. Therefore, quoting articles from this time period may be similar to me quoting articles about the ether and the speed of light.

The journal of homosexuality has an impact factor of 0.59, indicating the only 59% of all journal articles published in it are ever cited once. Further, the special issue you quote was published in 1990 and recently reissued. That is not recent, that is nearly 22 years ago. This journal issue was guest edited by three members of the Journal of Pedophaelia, a journal published by pedophiles, not scholars. The articles were discussions, not studies. The list goes on.

In 1995 the homosexual magazine "Guide" said, "We can be proud that the gay movement has been home to the few voices who have had the courage to say out loud that children are naturally sexual" and "deserve the right to sexual expression with whoever they choose. …" The article went on to say: "Instead of fearing being labeled pedophiles, we must proudly proclaim that sex is good, including children's sexuality … we must do it for the children's sake."

OK… “Christian Boy-love Forum” exists. Ergo, all Christians are pedophiles?

Larry Kramer, the founder of ACT-UP, a noted homosexual activist group, wrote in his book, "Report from the Holocaust: The Making of an AIDS Activist": "In those instances where children do have sex with their homosexual elders, be they teachers or anyone else, I submit that often, very often, the child desires the activity, and perhaps even solicits it."

OK, just to get rid of all the other pieces of evidence similar to this. How many priests have had sexual relations with children and pubescents? How many ministers have been found having sex with hookers and doing drugs? This is an opinion, and should not be equated with factual relationships as no evidence is given.

In a study of advertisements in the influential homosexual newspaper, The Advocate, Reisman found ads for a "Penetrable Boy Doll … available in three provocative positions. She also found that the number of erotic boy images in each issue of The Advocate averaged 14.

Your Reisman citation was not limited to the Advocate, it also included something called the gay yellow pages. The analysis was done on issues between 1967 and 1988 and published in 1995, see above. Further, this study is from a Ph.D. which I will point out as someone who is just receiving his, is much easier to finish than it is to publish articles in peer reviewed journals. Also, it has been heavily criticized by members of the psychological community as lacking any significant numerical analysis. Further, she is not a published author in academic journals, but rather a book author that belongs to a religious organization. She also based much of her analysis on sexual behavior correlation statistics in the Kinsey report, a survey which has since been discredited as improperly conducted and misleading regarding sexual orientations by APA.

While certain statistics and points she brings up are important, much of her points in her dissertation and books are simply opinions she has and misleading information (i.e. not giving proper definitions of the locations within the magazines where these were found, including only partial definitions of laws, etc.).

Homosexual newspapers and travel publications advertise prominently for countries where boy prostitution is heavy, such as Burma, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

So do other magazines.

Before I end, I would like to point out that you have simply cut and paste this very post, word-for-word from some website, as have numerous other posters on the internet, without conducting any critical analysis of it on your own.

While there may indeed be an increased correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia, the difficult point that needs to be addressed is: is this due to a real connection or do to a social connection formed in the mind of the individual because they feel repressed by society and see other repressed groups as equal, thereby feeling a sense of belonging?

This is the same issue with an increased prevalence of homosexuals and pedophiles in the Catholic church compared to the general population. Are catholic priests inherently homosexual and attracted to children, or do those who are feel repression and confusion by society and see joining the clergy as a chance to deal with their internal desires?