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NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 30, 2004
CONTACT: Diane Gramley 1.814.271.9078 or 1.814 437.5355
PHILADELPHIA IS WRONG-- BOY SCOUTS ARE PROVEN RIGHT AGAIN AND AGAIN, PRO-FAMILY GROUP SAYS
(Harrisburg) -- The revelations of the past week have been devastating for the children of Pennsylvania, a pro-family group said today. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania presented the recent assaults on our children as proof to Mayor John Street of Philadelphia that the City needs to stop discriminating against the Cradle of Liberty Scout Council simply because they are following the national office's policy of not permitting open homosexuals as Scout leaders.
"Within the past few days newspaper accounts from across the state have revealed the dangers posed to our children by those inclined to engage in homosexual behavior. Philadelphia should be praising the Cradle of Liberty leadership rather than threatening to oust them from their headquarters in the City," Diane Gramley, president of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA) remarked in response to the recent news stories.
Since 2000 the Boy Scouts have been targeted by homosexual activists because of their policy of not permitting open homosexuals as scout leaders. The United States Supreme Court ruled that the Scouts, as a private organization, had the right to control who would be in leadership positions. This decision has not stopped the attack on the Scouts by those who wish to force the Scouts into submission.
"The Boy Scouts are right in not permitting homosexuals as Scout leaders. To place young men in situations with adult men who are sexually attracted to them is very dangerous. Would parents want a man for their daughter's Girl Scout leader?" Gramley asked.
Some statistics to consider:
"Homosexualities,"
a Simon and Schuster book by Alan Bell, reports that 25 percent of
homosexual men admit to having had sex with boys who are 16 or under.
A
survey of readers was conducted by "The Advocate," a
homosexual newsmagazine. Of the 2,500 respondents, 21 percent admitted
that an adult man committed a sexual act with them by the age they were
15.
Research
scientist and professor of psychiatry Gene G. Abel, M.D., has conducted
a study of non-incarcerated child sex offenders and has found that
homosexuals "sexually molest young boys with an incidence that is
occurring five times greater than the molestation of girls."
More specifically, the report shows that, on average, 150.2 boys
are molested per homosexual offender, whereas only 19.8 girls are
molested per heterosexual offender. Homosexual offenders admitted
between 23.4 and 281.7 acts of molesting boys.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=13210
Since
men who are "exclusively homosexual" - only 2 percent of the
total
male population - are responsible for 21 percent of child molestation
cases
involving little boys, this finding by one of the nation's leading
experts
on pedophilia ( http://www.abelscreen.com/aboutasi.htm )
indicates that
exclusively homosexual men are ten times more likely per capita to
molest
little boys than are other men. (The long discredited claim by
homosexual
activists that homosexual men comprise 10 percent of the population
would
still indicate that such men were twice as likely per capita to molest
little boys.)
Recent
news accounts in Pennsylvania:
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/local/9214476.htm
July
22, 2004: Upper Allen
Township, Cumberland County Man Exposes Himself to 13-year old Boy in
Sauna at West Shore YMCA
http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/west/index.ssf?/base/news/1090488065268930.xml
July 23, 2004: Bishop McDevitt High School Band Leader Charged with Soliciting Boys
http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1090574462232020.xml
July 23, 2004: Former Sunday School Teacher to Be Charged in Assaults
http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1090574497232021.xml
July 23, 2004: Second Man Says Radio Station Owner Took Sexual Advantage of Him as a Teenager
Scranton
Times: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfmnewsid=12450509&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6
In
addition on July 23, 2004 an Allegheny County Jail male inmate accused a
male guard of sexual assault.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04205/350476.stm
"Lets
face it, the Scouts are right in not permitting homosexuals as Scout
leaders. Philadelphia and
other municipalities which have added 'sexual orientation' to their
ordinances are apparently seeking to discriminate against an
organization simply because it wants to protect the young men in their
charge. The AFA of PA will
continue defending the Boy Scouts of America," asserted Gramley.
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