'Dignity USA and other homosexual groups strenuously deny any connection whatever between a homosexual orientation and child sexual molestation. They repeatedly claim, as Dignity USA does, that 'All credible evidence discounts any link between the molestation of children and homosexuality.'

'Yet these groups never cite any of this 'credible evidence,' nor do they quote any studies to buttress their claims that there is no such connection.

'In fact, a number of studies performed over a period spanning more than half a century — many of which were performed by homosexuals or their sympathizers — have shown that an extremely large percentage of sexually active homosexuals also participate in child sexual molestation.

'This is not 'homophobia' or 'hatred,' this is simple scientific fact.

'For example;

• Homosexual Alfred Kinsey, the preeminent sexual researcher in the history of sexual research, found in 1948 that 37 percent of all male homosexuals admitted to having sex with children under 17 years old.
  
  
• A very recent (2000) study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that 'The best epidemiological evidence indicates that only 2-4% of men attracted to adults prefer men. In contrast, around 25-40% of men attracted to children prefer boys. Thus, the rate of homosexual attraction is 620 times higher among pedophiles.'
  
  
• Another 2000 study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that '. . . all but 9 of the 48 homosexual men preferred the youngest two male age categories' for sexual activity; These age categories were fifteen and twenty years old.
  
  
• Yet another recent study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that 'Pedophilia appears to have a greater than chance association with two other statistically infrequent phenomena. The first of these is homosexuality . . . Recent surveys estimate the prevalence of homosexuality, among men attracted to adults, in the neighborhood of 2%. In contrast, the prevalence of homosexuality among pedophiles may be as high as 30-40%.'
  
  
• A 1989 study in the Journal of Sex Research noted that '. . . the proportion of sex offenders against male children among homosexual men is substantially larger than the proportion of sex offenders against female children among heterosexual men . . . the development of pedophilia is more closely linked with homosexuality than with heterosexuality.'
  
  
• A 1988 study of 229 convicted child molesters published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that 86% of pedophiles described themselves as homosexual or bisexual.
  
  
• In a 1984 Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy article, sex researchers found that 'The proportional prevalence of [male] offenders against male children in this group of 457 offenders against children was 36 percent.'
  
  
• Homosexual activists Karla Jay and I Allen Young revealed in their 1979 Gay Report that 73% of all homosexuals I have acted as 'chicken hawks' — that is, they have preyed on adolescent or younger boys.
  
  
• In a 1992 study published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, sex researchers K. Freud and R. I. Watson found that homosexual males are three times more likely than straight men to engage in pedophilia, and that the average pedophile victimizes between 20 and 150 boys before being arrested.
  
  
• A study by sex researchers Alan Bell and Martin Weinberg found that 25% of white homosexual men have had sex with boys sixteen years and younger.'
  
  

'There has been an international media saturation of news stories focusing on the pope since the New York Times published its error-riddled hit piece against Pope Benedict's supposed personal negligence regarding two clergy abuse cases. Some of the articles that followed have been among the most biased, reckless and hateful of the Church that we have ever seen since LSN began.

'Deal Hudson of InsideCatholic.com asked Bill Donohue of the Catholic League, 'Why do media like the New York Times and the Washington Post hate the Catholic Church and the pope? What's the source of the animus?'

'Donohue replied, 'it stems from three issues: abortion, gay marriage, and women's ordination. So, when they can nail the Church on promiscuity, they love it. The goal is to weaken the moral authority of the Church so it won't be as persuasive on issues like health care.'

'Our several news reports have made it clear that Pope Benedict has been the victim of unjust accusations and that almost all the new revelations are about incidents that occurred decades ago, during the same time period that was the focus of the 2002 U.S. clergy sex abuse blow-up — the 1960s to early 1980s. The rate of clergy abuse incidents has continuously and dramatically decreased since John Paul II became pope in October 1978.

'However, we must also report that evidence reveals the Church leadership has in many ways brought this current catastrophe upon itself. Unless it rapidly makes crucial changes still called for, there is certain to be a devastating reckoning — if not this time around, then in the years not far ahead.

'Although there have been many positive changes in the Church in the U.S. and Canada and in Vatican policies since the horrific 2002 revelations, LSN has continuously warned that the fundamental problems that led to the abuses and subsequent crippling of the Catholic Church have still been far from fully resolved.