You can bet that THIS will cause controversy.
An analysis of publicly available documents indicates that homosexuals in the military are three times more likely to commit sexual assaults than heterosexuals, relative to their numbers, announced the Family Research Council Wednesday.
...a review of the "case synopses" of all 1,643 reports of sexual assault reported by the four branches of the military for Fiscal Year 2009 (October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009) found that over eight percent (8.2%) of all military sexual assault cases were homosexual in nature. Yet homosexual activist groups themselves have stated that less than three percent of Americans (2.8% of men and 1.4% of women) are homosexual or bisexual.
Gee. The Catholic Church has had experience with that--and that experience record is available.
Oh please. A super homophobic Christian group excitedly points to two sets of numbers and declares that they have proven the evils of homosexuality. Do you even understand how REAL research works, let alone sexual assault? Sexual assault is about power, not sexual gratification, which is why it is possible for one man to sexually assault another man even though he identifies as straight. Which leads to another problem—the number that the family research council uses to show the number of gays in the US only refers to the individuals who identify as gay, not those who are still in the closet. Both of those points are moot though because DADT forbids them from identifying as anything but straight, so we don’t have accurate data. In addition to that, the number they use to mark the percentage of gay Americans is not the only figure out there. Other groups have determined higher numbers. Which leads to YET ANOTHER issue—they may say that only 2.8% of men in the US identify as gay, but I think you would agree that the demographics of the US population are not identical to the demography of the military. There are many other caveats to making such a hasty and negligent conclusion, but I don’t have time to explain to you something that you probably already understand, but choose to ignore. If the Family Research Council really wanted to make the case that DADT should remain, maybe they should have done their homework a little better. But I guess it really doesn’t matter, because the only people who give a crap about what they say are homophobes themselves, desperate to latch onto anything to validate their hate.
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Interesting study because I've experienced far more harassment and inappropriate contact (up to and including attempted rape) from straight men in 30 years than the average straight man experiences from gay men in a lifetime.
ReplyDeleteAlso, how many of the perpetrators are lesbians? I'm guessing less than 1.4% because violence is a male tendency. I'm not trying to male-bash, males in general are much easier to deal with than women, however, whenever someone mentions "gays are promiscuous," I think back to all the lesbians I've known and none have been promiscuous, just some of the men and those are usually young men. Just like most young straight men are obsessed with getting as many women as possible but no one seems to mind that.
The concern is about disordered sex, not promiscuity per se.
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