"Dr. John E. Anderson of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and his co-author found that surveys collected since 1996 showed between 3.1% and 3.7% of men reported having sex with another man during the past year. This is a sizeable jump from 1988 estimates of between 1.7% and 2%, they note.

However, along with this increase in reported activity, Anderson noted that attitudes about the acceptability of same-sex activity have also changed. In fact, he and his colleague Ron Stall found that, between 1996 and 2000, up to 34% of survey respondents said they believed homosexuality was generally not wrong, while only 24% of people who completed the survey between 1988 and 1994 had similar attitudes toward same-sex activity."

(Source: Alison McCook, "More U.S. Men Reporting Sex with Men Than Before," Reuters Health, [from Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2002;29:643-646], November 27, 2002; http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=1815355.) 

"[T]he American Law Institute declares, 'Homosexual conduct, like heterosexual extramarital conduct, should be disregarded unless shown to be harmful to an individual child.' Judges, it says, should not be swayed by stereotypes or 'prejudicial attitudes.'

... For example, the report said, the lesbian partner of a child's biological mother may, in some circumstances, be able to assert a right to custody or visitation when the relationship between the women ends."

Months before the most recent spate of pedophile priest incidents became a national issue, Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute revisited the connection between homosexuality and child molestation.  In a previous effort, "[e]xaminations of two nationwide newspaper story databases regarding teachers' molestation of pupils...reported that 11 (48%) of 23 teachers from 1993-1995 and 10 (45%) of 22 teachers from 1989-1995 molested their pupils homosexually."  In this new study, Dr. Cameron attempts to determine if this relationship is consistent with findings at the local level.

Using the yearly indices from the Boston Globe for 1991-1998, Cameron found that in 18 of the 20 stories (90%), men were the perpetrators.  Significantly, "more than one student was reported as sexually molested in 14 (65%) of the 20 stories."  The homosexual-pedophile connection appears to be reinforced, for, "[e]leven (52%) of the 21 teachers in these stories engaged in homosexuality."  Is it any wonder that the priestly pedophiles follow their educator counterparts?

(Paul Cameron, "Do Homosexual Teachers Account for About Half of News stories of Molestations of Pupils?  A Boston Globe Replication," Psychological Reports, vol. 90, no.1, [February] 2002, p. 173-174.)