John Jay College (CUNY), Author Roger Rowlett (CC BY-SA 2.5 Generic)
In 2011, a landmark study by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York identified no single cause or predictor for the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests between 1950 and 2010 [1A][2A].
Celibacy, Homosexuality, and Predation
Principal investigator on the study, Karen Terry PhD, stated that neither celibacy nor homosexuality were causes of the abuse. Terry concluded that “The increased frequency of abuse in the 1960s and 1970s was consistent with the patterns of increased deviance of society during that time [2B].”
It is not politically correct to criticize homosexual behavior today. However, more than 80% of victims in this study were pre-teen and teenage boys [1B]. In other words, the problem was primarily one of male-on-male predation by Catholic priests on underage boys.
The Sexual Revolution
Alfred Kinsey — the bisexual author of the Sexual Revolution — is known to have had great animosity toward the Catholic Church [3A][4]. It is now believed that he discarded research data which did not support his intended goal of normalizing homosexuality [3B]. Continue reading
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