If you read the papers, their preachers are being rounded up and charged with sexual battery on a routine basis.

Here’s a website with all their dirty secrets.

http://www.priestsofdarkness.com/bcc/crimes02b.html

Where better for molesters to hide than behind the pulpit of a church.

Here’s a case that Robertson would love:

MISSISSIPPI
JAYESS – Valley of the Kings Church patriarch David Earl King, 66, and Nathan Paul King, 32, King’s adopted son, were indicted in April on charges of sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy who attended their church and school.

The elder King was sentenced to 36 years in prison for sexual battery, conspiracy to commit sexual battery and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was fined $16,000 on all counts. His son received 18 years and 6 months for the same charges and was also fined $16,000.

A third man, Gary Lynn Bates, 21, of Denham Springs, La., was arrested on related charges. All three pleaded innocent.

Bates testified that he, David Earl King, and the young victim engaged in sex together, “three or four times.” Bates said Nathan Paul King joined them twice.

Bates said he was threatened with expulsion from the church by the elder King if he did not continue to have sex with the child.

Under questioning by the defense, Bates acknowledged that he was promised 5 years probation in return for cooperating with prosecutors.

The 14-year-old’s parents claim the Kings sexually abused their son and **threatened to castrate him if he spoke of it**, Sheriff Duane Dillon said. The indictment includes a second possible victim, identified as an 11-year-old boy who alleges Nathan King attempted to have sex with him.

!>>Since the arrest, the sheriff says at least 8 people from Tex., Lou., and Miss. have come forward, alleging sexual abuse by David King and church followers. Some allegations date back decades.

1. It will perpetuate the stereotype and make each gay man suspect.

2. It will create distrust between these parents and innocent gay men and women who do work with the young.

3. Robertson is asserting that a CRIME has been committed on this boy. So, what are these parents to do? Who to accuse, prosecute…how to gather evidence?

Pat Robertson is engaging in the same kind of fear based political speech and advise that segregationists used against white people fearful of integration. They planted the seeds of suspicion that ALL black males were sexually predatory, aggressive and unintelligent with no more consciousness than apes, but with an uncontrollable attraction to white females.

This assertion of course, got black males lynched on the flimsiest of accusations and over the most casual of social encounters.

Gay men know ALL about that too.

This is a calculation. Just like the incitement that culminated in the deaths of G. Tiller, the security guard at the D.C. Holocaust museum and the shootings at the Knoxville church…

Robertson counts on the knuckleheads out there to do the dirty work he won’t be bothered to get his hands dirty over.
He doesn’t care about these parents, and especially not about this boy.
That kid’s parents NEVER needed PR’s permission to love him.

And the kid doesn’t need anyone’s permission to be gay and be happy.

The parents were looking for a kind of absolution if anything awful DOES happen to their boy.
The permission they were looking for, and the rationale they sought was to not be responsible for the kid’s ability to go forth, even emotionally UNMOLESTED, by their beliefs and assumptions.

Pat Robertson is counting on these parents to hurt this kid and do their utmost to pass along the guilt and shame and unhappiness.
He has a kind demeanor and sophist delivery. And these people allow him to lead them by the nose as if HE knows their boy better than THEY do.

The real shame is the boy is at highest risk of paying a heavy price for such laziness by his parents, and evil on the part of Robertson.
They SHOULD rely on the truth of the boy’s own witness to his life and experience, not Robertson.

But then, that would be a lot simpler and more logical…wouldn’t it?

I feel terrible for that mother who was told her son was likely abused. It’s possible it could open a conversation about abuse that really happened (which could be healing or tear the family apart; depends on who is the guilty party), but more likely he was NOT abused and she will spend days if not years beating herself up over missing the “fact” that her son was being abused and that their relationship is so fractured he won’t tell her about it. I recall hearing a few people talk about this parental trauma as a result of their participation in ex-gay ministries.

I’m with Ben on how ridiculous the Robertson hypothesis is when applied to real-world incidents instead of ideological smokescreens. And I’m very much in agreement with Fannie, wondering whether my feminist hackles are raised higher than my relief to be largely ignored by the hatemongers.

Here is some peer-reviewed research indicating the rate of childhood sexual victimization to be about 9% among LGB youth: “Childhood Gender Atypicality, Victimization, and PTSD Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth” Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Nov 2006; vol. 21: pp. 1462 – 1482. The same research group is looking deeper into the connection between gender atypicality and victimization. Preliminary findings are that the gender atypical children are much more likely to be targeted. Since gender expression starts to be apparent by age 2-3 and most victimization comes after that, it hardly takes a working brain to rule out causality there.

Please educate yourself before you add to the fear.

But here is a different thought for you. Assuming that there is a little bit of truth in what you were saying, maybe you have it backwards. Being molested doesn’t turn people gay, but being perceived as gay by sexual predators is enough to get you molested. i’m fairly certain it works for catholic priests.

I doubt you know much aobut sexuality. you should probably read the part of Paul which talks aobutm istaking your ignorance for wisdom.

You are flat out wrong when you claim that “the majority of persons who are homosexual have been sexually abused at a young age.” There is not one scintilla of evidence behind that statement, which is exactly the point of this entire post.

If you have any evidence for that whatsoever, then please post a link to it. Unlike other web sites, we do not allow unsubstantiated claims like that to go unchallenged. Pseudoscience doesn’t pass here.

I just hope that Pat Robertson and those like him are a dying breed. It’s time for their preaching to end and for mankind to move beyond it.