US Christian group accused of covering up sexual abuse of minors

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[–]UbiquitousCultOfSelf 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

this will be no less than the third time I quote your own words, so I'm starting to naturally question your cognative uptake. Sorry, I don't mean to, and didn't start off this back and forth that way... but come on!

There are studies that show that religiosity predicts child molestation. Religious Affiliations Among Adult Sexual Offenders

religiosity was linked to a higher number of sex offense victims and more convictions for sex offenses. Those sex offenders who reported regular church attendance, a belief in supernatural punishment, and religion as important in their daily lives had more known victims, younger victims, and more convictions for sex offenses than the sex offenders who reported irregular or no church attendance and no or less intense allegiance to religious beliefs and practices.

And there's a stack of literature that shows that LGBTQ are not more likely to molest children than the general population.

For example: Are children at risk for sexual abuse by homosexuals?

Those bolded links are yours, that you commented to lolz or lulz with and the links were both to gov sites, one being the NIH.

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

this will be no less than the third time I quote your own words, so I'm starting to naturally question your cognative uptake. Sorry, I don't mean to, and didn't start off this back and forth that way... but come on!

Please accept my humble apologies. I made the mistake of trying to read your comments with the erroneous assumption that you have a clue. I will try to do better in our future conversations.

Those bolded links are yours, that you commented to lolz or lulz with and the links were both to gov sites, one being the NIH.

The paper "Religious Affiliations Among Adult Sexual Offenders" was written by Donna Eshuys of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Queensland, 4001, Australia. It was published in the scholarly journal "Sexual Abuse", which is one of the Sage journals, which is an independent publisher.

Because journals are a money making business, the version of the paper on the publishers site cannot be read unless you have a subscription. So for free, I found you the full paper elsewhere on the web. This is why the link points to a department of justice hosted page. You have confused the hosting of a version of the paper with being associated with the authors or publishers.

I wondered if this might be the case when I copied out the author affiliations for you, but you didn't seem to understand.

Similarly the paper Are children at risk for sexual abuse by homosexuals had the lead author at the Kempe Children's Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, and was published in Pediatrics, which is one of the journals of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is the main professional association of pediatricians in the US. Again it is independent of the government.

Since I found you a link to the whole paper, in this case at a NIH hosted page, you have confused this will affiliation with the NIH. It is not. They just host some papers relevant to their work.

In my defence, the author affiliations and the publishing journal are pretty clear at the links. But perhaps I've made the situation sufficiently clear enough even for you now?