&Omega. Homosexuality and Pedophilia Evidence. I thank E.R. (not myself!), E.N., M.M., and J.O, for the following links on child molestation and homosexuality, which take various positions on the issue. (If you don't mind having your full name mentioned, just let me know and I'll update this.) I haven't really looked at them yet, but I will one of these days, and will try to summarize them then. For now, though, readers might like to look at them directly. I also list the old Iain Murray post that responded to my initial exchange with Professor Volokh.

  1. Iain Murray, "Elusive Statistics,"

  2. "Health and Homosexuality"

  3. Jerrold Polansky, "FACT SHEET ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND CHILD ABUSE"

  4. Department of Health and Human Services website for the Administration for Children and Families

  5. "Child Sexual Abuse: The Facts"

  6. "Prevalence of Sexual Prejudice" and "Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation"

  7. Timothy Dailey, "Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse"

  8. Leslie Carbone on Boy Scouts & Catholic Church on National Review Online

  9. "Gay Mental Health"

  10. Paul Cameron, "Child Molestation and Homosexuality"

Note that all the items in this list are directed to the narrow question of child molestation. None of them applies to the bigger issues, which I think are the really important ones, of (a) whether homosexuality is immoral, and (b) whether it is bad to have immoral people as teachers because they are bad role models. If the child molestation issue were the only one, I think we'd see a lot of people who would prefer female homosexual teachers to male heterosexual ones, which I doubt is the case. But the molestation issue is still an interesting and relevant one.

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