“I’d like to know if you’re going to have a leader of Hamas or a similar group on for “balance”, next time you talk about Israel.

I’d also like to know when you’ll have a member of the Klan or a neo-Nazi group as “balance” the next time your show talks about race relations in the US.

Why do I ask you that? Because you recently had a member of a known hate group on your show, supposedly as “balance” when the show discussed something having to do with a LGBT issue.

Please go look up the Southern Poverty Law Center’s newest additions to their list of hate groups, and realize the fact there’s no difference between Hamas, the Klan, and a group like the Family Research Council in the view of the SPLC.

The reason people have such a problem refuting all of Perkins crap is that he throws out so much complete and total BS at one time that it is next to impossible to address all his lies and misleading and false information without a much longer time than is usually provided in a format like this one. Perkins knows that and he takes full advantage of that fact.

The fact that he and his buddies hide behind organizations that have a veil of respectability by using names that are very similar to actual recognized groups doesn’t help. Most of the public doesn’t know the difference, and honestly they don’t have a reason to know the difference. Another thing Perkins and his type count on.

These people are hard to deal with and they know it, they love that they are hard to deal with.

They will eventually hang themselves with all the rope they have tossed out, but until then we have to continue to do what we can to refute their speech with truth and reason.

Their desperation is already showing in so many ways and they know.

True, but I missed it because you went about it differently. Instead of pointing our attention to the quoted sentence directly as a misquote, you went with the math instead. And as everyone knows, math is hard. ;-)

Another important factor to consider is that the laws are out of sync with clinical terms. A child molester is defined legally. If the law defined child as anyone under the age of 30 then almost ever adult would be a child molester at one time or another.

Pedophiles are usually attracted to children per se, not to one gender or another. And it is true most of them do not identify as gay. True pedophiles often engage with children of both genders.

But the law includes adolescents in the category of child. Individuals who are sexually interested in teens, ephebophilia, do tend to differentiate.

So when they research men who “molest children” knowing whether we are talking about true children (prepubescent) or merely those legally defined as children, but who are pubescent) can change things rather dramatically.

if the former is used for the study then few gay men would show up. Most those individuals would not be interested in adults and those who are would tend to identify as straight.

Adding pubescent teens (often very willing teens) changes the mix. Now you would get people who identify as gay and straight both. But since the law tends to crack down on same-sex relationships more than opposite sex ones, gay men would be over-represented in this mix, not because they are more likely to have sex with teens, but because they are more likely to be prosecuted for it.

For instance some states still criminalize same-sex relationships if one partner is under 18 but the same age dichotomy would be legal if they were an opposite sex couple.

Yes, I pointed it out in my comment immediately prior to your comment.

Good lord. How could we all have missed that? I’ve updated the post accordingly. To Timothy’s point, a male predator who preys on male children isn’t necessarily gay or bisexual. But still, a major misquoting like that is important. Great catch.

One might expect that a (male)pedophile who preys on (male) victims might be homosexual…

One might expect such a thing, but one would be wrong. Actually very few pedophiles who prey on male victims have adult homosexual attractions. Most are avowed heterosexuals – if they have any adult attractions at all.

See our analysis here.