Big News: More irrelevant ‘research’ from the Families Commission

 Source:  http://big-news.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-irrelevant-research-from-families.html 27/09/09

Family First has alerted the media – unfortunately embargoed till Friday – about the latest research from the Families Commission. It has labelled a report on gay and lesbian parenting as unnecessary, advocacy research, a complete waste of taxpayer money, and reveals nothing new that isn’t faced by other blended families.

They ‘re right on one thing. It is advocacy research. So who are the two researchers who compiled this report?

One lesbian researches queer theory from Canterbury University, the other has published many journal articles on challenging heteronormativity and is doing a thesis on experiences of lesbians and gay men who create family through assisted reproductive technologies – no doubt this tax-payer funded research has helped with her research towards her PhD, despite the Blues Skies Fund that funded the research noting that grants do “not fund degrees”.

So this is not unbiased research – it is insider advocacy research, conducted by those who say they live lives “outside the norms of heterosexuality” [what's wrong with the word "lesbian"?] with a pre-determined agenda – to normalise gay relationships and to advocate for a change in adoption laws, and laws surrounding how many parents can be on birth certificates. Nothing wrong with that, but some people would not be happy with their taxpayers dollars being spent on this. [For more go to...]

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Gay Rights Political Platform and its Pyrrhic Victory in attempted ‘Hate Speech’ Put Down

On 15th January 1998 Craig Young, a gay-rights activist, had his news report entitled “Hate Propaganda Victory” published on-line by QNA – Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender News. He boasted about a “victory” that “marks the culmination of a long-term political strategy” on the part of “lesbian and gay” activists like Wellington gay man Calum Bennachie (formerly known as Calum Sawyers). However, it proved to be a pyrrhic victory – well and truly negated and consigned to the trash can of history.

Why? Because in August 2000 the full bench of the Court of Appeal (five members), effectively overturned (in a unanimous decision) what Young was claiming as a “victory” – a decision of the Film and Literature Board of Review (the Board) that had banned two Christian videos that dealt with the insidious nature of the gay-rights political movement and the tragedy of the growing AIDS world-wide epidemic. That ban by the nine-member Board – now widely recognised by the legal community and the informed general public as a direct attack on free speech – driven by the liberal PC-gay-rights agenda – was put together by former law lecturer Bill Hastings, in his role as Deputy President of the Board (he later became Chief Censor, a position he now holds).

Calum Bennachie, representing an aggrieved gay-rights group Human Rights Action Group (HRAG), had earlier successfully applied to the Board to have the two Christian videos banned. In March 2000, gay activists as well as Mr Hastings, were delighted when the High Court upheld the Board’s banning order, following an unsuccessful appeal to the Court by the videos’ distributor – Hamilton-based Living Word Distributors.

Craig Young. who continues to write for a gay website, wrote in 1998:

“After a substantial period of time and diligent work, a long standing Wellington lesbian and gay community initiate finally paid off in late December 1997, when the Office of Film and Literature Classification [sic] ruled that two US Christian Right homophobic hate videos, “Gay Rights/Special Rights” and AIDS: What You Haven’t Been Told” were objectionable, and therefore should be prohibited.”

Young, got his facts wrong. It was the OFLC that classified both videos R18 in 1997 and then, following an appeal by HRAG against the OFLC decision, made to the Board, they were classified (by the Board) as “objectionable” (i.e. banned) in 1998.

Craig Young continued his boasting in 1998:

“The victory [the Board's banning order] marks the culmination of a long-term political strategy, which began with the passage of the Human Rights Act-inclusive clause into the Films, [Videos and] Publications Act 1993, and followed by a test case before the then-Indecent Publications Tribunal over Paul Cameron’s “Exposing the AIDS Scandal” in 1994. As a consequence of that precedent, the Wellington-based Human Rights Action Group [HRAG] brought a case before the Office of Film and Literature Classification over the aforementioned two US hate videos.

“HRAG hopes to have other US hate propaganda videos, such as the notorious “Gay Agenda” prohibited, following OFLC submissions from community organisations. At this point, a fortnight after the decision, no NZ Christian Right organisation has commented on their most significant defeat to date.”

Two years later……

As the Dominion reported on Thursday 31 August 2000 under the headline “Court quashes ban on anti-homosexual films”…..

“The Court of Appeal has issued a landmark decision defending free expression and the ‘free flow of information and ideas’ from censorship. The court has quashed a High Court ban of two fundamentalist, anti-homosexuality videos, saying the Film and Literature Board of Review and the High Court had misdirected themselves….in law as to the impact of the Bill of Rights in this case. A majority decision, delivered by Court of Appeal president Sir Ivor Richardson, in response to an appeal by Christian organisation Living Word Distributors, refers the issue to the board for reassessment.”

To the chagrin of gay activists who had boasted “victory”, and the biter disappointment of Bill Hastings, the Board of Review reclassified both videos as “unrestricted”. Any child, pre-teen, teen, young person or adult can now watch the videos and learn of the real agenda behind the extremist gay activist movement as it has presented itself in North America.

References: http://www.christian-apologetics.org/html/Reports_on_Court.htm

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0509/S00077.htm

30 South Australian lesbian mums ‘impregnated by same man’

Adelaide Advertiser Story. October 08, 2008

by Tory Shepherd , Health Reporter

UNREGULATED sperm donation is leading to unusual situations in which the children of lesbians in Adelaide are mixing socially – creating a risk of incest.

One of South Australia’s foremost experts in reproductive technology – Reverend Dr Andrew Dutney – says that in one reported case, about 30 lesbians were impregnated by sperm from one man.

The mothers then organised picnics with all the children, raising the fear they might socialise with their half-siblings without realising they are related.

In another case, a man’s sperm was used to produce 29 children, most of whom are living in Adelaide. They do not know who their half-siblings are, raising concerns that in a “big country town” like Adelaide, they could accidentally commit incest.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24465265-5006301,00.html

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Judith A. Reisman Ph.D. challenges Alfred Kinsey’s research findings.

   

Dr. Reisman’s study supports the conclusion that Alfred Kinsey’s research was contrived, ideologically driven and misleading. Any judge, legislator or other public official who gives credence to that research is guilty of malpractice and dereliction of duty.” Charles E. Rice, Professor, Notre Dame Law School

“Dr. Reisman: You can be very proud that you are included in Who’s Who in America, the directory The New York Times just recently hailed as “…that venerable guide to American achievement…” Once again, we’d like to congratulate you on your accomplishments.”  Who’s Who in America

Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894 – 1956), was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology who in 1947 founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. Kinsey’s research on human sexuality profoundly influenced social and cultural values in the United States and many other countries which went through the sexual revolution starting in the 1960s.

He is best known for his two controversial, very popular and widely influential publications Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948, reprinted 1998) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953, reprinted 1998).

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Danny Velasco, drug addict and former gay hairdresser to the stars, finds Christ.

HIV epidemic and NZAF – a flawed crock

Press Release 5/11/07

The Society is concerned that despite millions of dollars of taxpayer funds having been poured into the NZ AIDS Foundation (NZAF) each year, the numbers of new HIV infections diagnosed each year among “men-who-have-sex-with-men” (homosexuals and bisexuals) is continuing to rocket upwards, along with other nasty sexually transmitted diseases – syphilis, gonorrhoea, genital clamydia and genital herpes. It is highly critical of the way Ministry of Health officials and politicians have allowed this absolute crock – the tiny fringe self-serving gay lobby group NZAF – to have access to so much public money to run such a flawed and largely ineffective “men’s health programme”[1]. Read more

Society says HIV must be classified as "Notifiable Disease"

Media Report 31 October 2007

The Society belives that HIV (the ‘pre-cursor’ of the “scourge of AIDS”) should be classified as a “notifiable disease” under the Health (Infections and Notifiable Diseases) Regulations 1966. AIDS is currently a “notifiable disease” and the Society challenges the NZ Aids Foundation (NZAF) and Gay political lobby groups like GayNZ.com to support its call. Sadly, despite significant taxpayer funding, NZAF, which has been plagued by ongoing political, financial and leadership strife and instability, has failed to avert the rapid rise in HIV infections in New Zealand (infections are overwhelmingly among the homosexual community whose lifestyle it and GayNZ.com succour and champion). Read more

HIV infections in gay ‘bareback’ porn shoots

Media Release 29/10/07

The Society has highlighted criticisms of the Chief Censor’s Office by Steve Crow, the leading distributor of straight porn in New Zealand, regarding its “double standards” in the classification of hardcore gay porn compared to straight porn [1]. Why, asks Crow, has Chief Censor Bill Hastings, an “openly gay man,” gone so soft on gay porn – particularly so-called ‘bareback porn’ – that has been linked with the rise in HIV infection and STIs among the promiscuous homosexual community? The Society, a staunch opponent of Crow’s porn business, believes his concerns do deserve serious investigation by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. Rick Barker. Crow states that “perhaps this ["double-standards"] is a direct reflection of the personal attitudes of the Chief and Deputy Chief Censor [Ms Nicola McCully], both of whom are gay.” [2]

The proliferation of bareback DVDs and videos available for viewing in steamy gay bathhouses, saunas, cruise clubs and sordid S&M clubs, is of serious concern to health experts such as New Zealand AIDS Foundation’s National Campaign Co-ordinator Douglas Jenkin. He says ready access by promiscuous homosexuals to these publications – featuring high risk (condomless-bareback) explicit sex acts – is one of the many factors cited as a reason behind recent increases in HIV infection and the return of the STIs (e.g. syphilis, gonorrhoea) among the homosexual community. [3] Bill Hastings claims he shares these concerns but has done nothing.

According to a recent report [4] in UK magazine Boyz, three young male performers aged 18, 21 and 26, were infected with HIV whilst they were making a British bareback gay porn film. Read more

From Lesbian and Gay Right Activist to Christ

AIDS/HIV crisis linked to “unsafe” gay porn: Censors attacked for “double standards”

 

Press Release 26/10/07

 

A fierce debate is raging in the homosexual community over the impact of “unsafe sex” DVDs and videos on gay men’s sexual practices (sodomy), and the appropriate censorship of this ‘bareback porn’ material [featuring condomless anal sex] that some gay researchers cite as one of the factors helping to fuel the pandemic of HIV/AIDS (as well as STIs such as syphyllis) that has been ravaging the promiscuous homosexual communities. “The debate over its morality and dangers is heating up … over bareback porn both within the American porn industry and without,” says Douglas Jenkin of the NZ Aids Foundation’s Gay Men’s Health Unit [1]. “Today there is little outcry amongst gay and bisexual men protesting its existence [i.e. risky bareback porn], “and it’s easily dismissed [by gay users] as “fantasy” or “a choice”, says Jenkin [2].

Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, an “openly gay man,” has been accused by New Zealand’s leading pornographer Steve Crow of “double standards” when it comes to classifying this hardcore gay porn compared to straight (heterosexual porn). Hastings and his lesbian deputy, says Crow, because they are both homosexuals, are soft on gay hardcore as compared to the straight variety which he promotes for a living [3].

Hastings has called on the gay community to send their opinions to his office on the influence that explicit “bareback” sex DVDs, gay and straight, have on viewers and society; about what they think the Classification Office should do about them within existing law; and on whether and how they think the law should be changed [4]. The Society is concerned at suggestions that the censorship laws are not being even-handedly applied to hardcore publications by Mr Hasting’s Office because of the “sexual orientation” of its two statutory office holders. Read more

Chief Censor hardly fussed if “his kids” were caught watching hard-core gay porn.

“MR CLEAN: Chief Censor Bill Hastings on freedom, family and the filthiest thing he’s ever seen”.

This was the front page headline of Canvas Magazine, an insert in this weekend’s NZ Herald Herald (13/10/07), advertising a three page Cover Story entitled “The Taste Master” by Derek Cheng on “a man who daily wades through horrific scenes of [hard-core] pornography and violence – for the public good”.

The Society believes that most decent New Zealand parents who care for the moral well-being of their children and young persons would be appalled that our “openly gay” [see ref. 1] Chief Censor has admitted that “he can’t see himself kicking up much of a fuss” if he catches “his kids” with hard-core porn or hardcore gay porn “so long as the material is legal.” (Canvas, pp. 13-14. i.e. not banned. Note: illegal material has been banned).

Most parents with a sincere and informed concern for their child’s moral welfare are aware of the morally corrupting impact, and addictive nature of hardcore pornography classified R18 as well as other porn classified R16. They would be outraged, deeply grieved and offended to have their children socialising in another family’s home (like that of Hasting’s) where the supervising adults took the same lassez-faire attitude towards hardcore porn, as he has expressed. Most want their children to have nothing whatsoever to do with porn for good reason and want their children growing up with a healthy view of sex, not the morally corrosive garbage promoted in hardcore sex videos featuring promiscuity and unhealthy sexual practices (e.g. sodomy), regularly passed by Hastings for teenagers and young adults to watch. Read more

Are Gays and Lesbians Demanding "Special Rights" in Seeking Same-Sex Marriage?

This question is addressed in the Video Documentary Gay Rights / Special Rights: Inside the Homosexual Agenda marketed in New Zealand by Living Word Distributors (Hamilton).

The Society is most grateful to the Wellington-based gay rights activist, Calum Bennachie, for producing a full transcript of the video – excerpts of which are reproduced below to address the question under consideration. Mr Bennachie prepared the transcript (in the public domain) as part of a voluminous submission to Film and Literature Board of Review (“the Board”), in which he successfully sought, on behalf of Human Rights Action Group (Wellington), to have this video banned.

Excerpts from Living Word Video Gay Rights/Special Rights

(Note: The video has now been classified “unrestricted” by the Board following a unanimous Court of Appeal decision to quash the flawed High Court decision that had upheld the ban by the Board).

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What is Wrong with Gay Marriage?

Stanley Kurtz examines the social dangers of sanctioning gay marriage.

"A clear majority of the American public opposes same-sex marriage," says Stanley Kurtz of the Hudson Institute. "And yet this opposition, though real, is by-and-large silent. So striking is this general silence, that one cannot help but wonder about the reasons for it."

To read complete article go to:

http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/KurGayM.htm

Also see:

Gay Marriage — and Marriage
Sam Shulman

"…In a gay marriage, one of two men must play the woman, or one of two women must play the man. "Play" here means travesty–burlesque. Not that their love is a travesty; but their participation in a ceremony that apes the marriage bond, with all that goes into it, is a travesty. Their taking-over of the form of this crucial and fragile connection of opposites is a travesty of marriage’s purpose of protecting, actually and symbolically, the woman who enters into marriage with a man. To burlesque that purpose weakens those protections, and is essentially and profoundly anti-female."

To read complete article go to:

http://orthodoxytoday.org/articles2/SchulmanGayMarriage.php

‘Homophobia’, Same-sex ‘Marriage’ and the Aggressive Lesbian Political Agenda

"Homophobia alive and well on [the Kapiti] Coast" was the headline of a recent letter to the editor written by a couple who criticised the Kapiti Observer Newspaper for publishing an article in which mayoralty candidate Jenny Rowan’s "sexual orientation" was briefly referred to. What the article did not disclose to readers was that this "openly lesbian" candidate and her lesbian partner of 20 years, Jools Joslin, have spent years crusading for the New Zealand Marriage Act to be radically changed so that same-sex couples like themselves can get married. Rowan has helped force the issue of her identification as an "openly lesbian" person and her claimed "gay rights" into a national political debate, at significant cost to the tax-payers through legal aid pay-outs involving High Court and Court of Appeal litigation, and yet now she seeks to downplay the relevance of her "sexual orientation" in the political sphere.

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The term ‘Homophobia’: Its Origins and Meanings, and its uses in Homosexual Agenda

A look at the term ‘homophobia’, its origin and meanings, and its uses in the campaign to forward the homosexual agenda, particularly in schools. The writer wishes to state at the outset that he finds taunts like ‘faggot’, ‘queer’ and ‘poofter’ totally unacceptable and can see no justification whatever in so-called gay-bashing, verbal or physical.

“You’re a homophobe!”

In today’s dominating climate of political correctness, that label is heard increasingly often, along with the related terms homophobia and homophobic. But what is homophobia? Who uses the term and why? Little has been written on it from any but the gay rights perspective. Some diversity of opinion is overdue.

The first use of the word homophobia is credited to George Weinberg who coined the term in the late 1960s, later discussing it at length in a book in 1972. The first use in print, however, was by activists Jack Nichols and Lige Clarke in their May 23rd column in Screw magazine, 1969. ¹

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Storm as lesbian couple sue over unwarranted twin

Australia (Reuters News Report)

A LESBIAN couple in Australia are suing their doctor after they had twin girls from an in-vitro fertilisation procedure when they wanted only one child.

The two women are seeking more than $400,000 (NZ$470,000) in damages to help pay for the cost of raising the second child, including private school fees.

They say they made it clear to their doctor that they wanted only one baby. The twins are now three years old.

The civil case, which is the first of its kind in Australia, has prompted intense debate about the value of children and role of parents.

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‘Fear of prejudice’ let gay carers abuse boys

News Item

UK Telegraph 06 September 2007

A council’s political correctness allowed a pair of homosexual foster parents to sexually abuse children in their care, a report has concluded. Managers and social workers were reluctant to investigate Craig Faunch and Ian Wathey for fear of being accused of prejudice. Instead, they were viewed as "trophy carers" who, by virtue of their sexuality, had a "badge" which made their actions less questionable.

A mother of eight-year-old twins raised concerns about them with social services after finding a photograph of one of the boys using the lavatory. But the authorities took no action, accepting that the two men had been "naive and silly". In reality, they had been using the boys for sexual gratification within months of being approved as carers by the Labour-run Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. Faunch, 42, and Wathey, 33, were jailed last year for a string of offences against four boys, aged between eight and 14, at their home in Pontefract, West Yorks. The victims were among 18 children placed with the pair, Yorkshire’s first homosexual foster parents, between August 2003 and January 2005.

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Gay Mag Promo for Gay Chief Censor’s Agenda

 

The recent Gay Express Magazine (10-23 May) includes a double page “Feature” interview entitled “Chief censor Bill Hastings” (pp. 12-13) in which he calls on the gay community to lobby their MPs to support the introduction of “tight” “hate speech” legislation. It is accompanied by a large colour photo of him in a suit and tie. A series of colour advertisements that promote pink condom use and lubricants to the “Horny As” homosexual community, accompany the article, including one that shows two homosexuals kissing passionately.

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Society exposes NZ Aids Foundation’s failed policies on HIV/AIDS prevention

 

Press Release 19/05/06

The NZ AIDS Foundation’s (NZAF) response to the SPCS press release (Scoop 12/05/06) that dealt with NZAF’s promotion of condoms to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission, demonstrates why this homosexual-lobby fringe group is so ineffective in reducing this growing health crisis amongst the “gay” community.

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Society Responds to NZ AIDS Foundation’s Spurious Claims

 

Press Release 12/05/06

The New Zealand AIDS Foundation strongly rejects claims that its new “safe sex” advertisement, featured in the latest issue of gay magazine Jack, is pornographic (Scoop 11/05). This is about as true as their spurious claim that condoms will prevent the transmission of the HIV virus.

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Society responds to Whitcoulls and Chief Censor over "gay" magazine row

Press Release: 11 May 2006
The Society has written an open letter to Whitcoulls (NZ) congratulating its management for refusing to stock the “gay” magazine JACK. It has responded to the arguments put forward by Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, that sexually explicit NZ AIDS Foundation ads in the magazine promoting ’safe-sex’ via condom use are in the “public good”.

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Chief Censors’ denial of involvement in banning religious videos is proved false

“Censors and Videotapes”
Letters to the Editor
The NZ Herald, 6/03/06

Chief Censor Bill Hastings says that columnist Jim Hopkins’ attempt at satire over South Park evaporates in the harsh light of truth because he did not ban religious videotapes to which Hopkins refers.

Hastings’ claim is disingenuous. He was largely responsible for writing the decision that resulted in the banning of the two videos (GayRights/Special Rights: Inside the Homosexual Agenda and AIDS: What You Haven’t Been Told) when he was the deputy president of the Film and Literature Board of Review, a statutory position he held before becoming Deputy Chief Censor in 1998.

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SPCS Responds to "HappyClappingHomos"

The SPCS (Society for Protection of Community Standards) is opposed to all MPs who promote the homosexual lifestyle regardless of their sexual preference. The strongest proponents of this unhealthy lifestyle are of course homosexuals. Some are openly homosexual. How many are in the closet is anyone’s guess. Some may be misguided heterosexuals that put so-called minority rights ahead of the safety of the New Zealand public.

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Labour’s Homosexual Agenda: Crushing Free Speech

Press Release

7 September 2005

The Labour Party’s ‘hidden agenda’ is to boost the number of high profile gay lobbyists, like Wellington lawyer Charles Chauvel and former party president and outspoken lesbian, Ms Maryan Street, (placed at number 44 and 36 respectfully on the party list), within its parliamentary ranks. This will help it achieve its social engineering legislative programme that is so dear to the heart of the gay and feminist cabal within the party: same-sex marriage, gay adoption, anti-discrimination laws to protect transsexuals and hate-speech laws to crush all criticisms of promiscuous homosexual lifestyles.
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Labour’s Homosexual Agenda: Promoting Lesbian Lobbyists

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0509/S00103.htm

The Labour Party’s ‘hidden agenda’ is to boost the number of high profile “gay” ‘rights’ lobbyists, like former Labour Party president and outspoken “open lesbian”, Ms Maryan Street, and “lesbian icon” Ms Louisa Wall (placed at no. 36 no. 46 respectively, on the party list), within its parliamentary ranks. Labour thinks this will help it achieve its social engineering legislative programme that is so dear to the heart of its “gay” and feminist cabal: same-sex marriage, “gay” adoption, anti-discrimination laws to protect trans-sexuals and cross-dressers, and hate-speech laws to crush all criticisms of promiscuous homosexual lifestyles.

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Promoting "Buggery": Dire warnings of STD pestilence

Paying the due penalty for unnatural sex and indecent sex acts.

Rare STD on increase in Europe and USA

British health authorities have warned that the number of cases of a rare sexually transmitted disease (STD) that began showing up among homosexual men last year is growing in London’s homosexual and bisexual community.

Lymphogranuloma venereum, or LGV, began showing up a year ago in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Sweden and the UK. In the Netherlands 92 cases of LGV had been uncovered by early November 2004, with cases dating back to 2003. It typically sees fewer than five cases per year. Now 24 cases of the disease have been confirmed in England, all in homosexual men or bisexuals. The disease is passed on via unprotected oral or anal sex.

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The link between homosexuality and child sex abuse

"The link between homosexuality and child sex abuse" is the title of a report in the latest issue of LIGHT (August-October 2004) published by Festival of Light, Australia [see Special note below]. In answer to the question: "Is there any evidence that homosexuals have a greater risk of being a paedophile?" it states:

The risk is well-documented. The May 2004 report on child sex abuse in the Adelaide Anglican church by former SA Supreme Court judge Hon Trevor Olsson and child protection expert Dr Donna Chung noted that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys have been sexually abused – i.e. 60% of victims are girls [ref. 1].

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