Penn. Activist Cites Statistics, Arrest in Suggesting Ban on Homosexual Profs
by Jim Brown
September 8, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A Pennsylvania pro-family group suggests that the recent arrest of a University of Pennsylvania professor on child sex charges should cause the school to consider banning homosexual professors, just as the Boy Scouts ban homosexual troop leaders.
Penn professor Lawrence Scott Ward was arrested last month at Washington Dulles International Airport after customs agents searching his luggage found three DVDs depicting him having sex with teenage boys. It is the third time Ward has faced sex charges involving young men. He was arrested in 1999 for solicitation, but was allowed by the school to keep his job.
Diane Gramley, who heads the American Family Association of Pennsylvania, says the school may want to consider banning homosexual professors, given a study by the homosexual magazine The Advocate.
"Twenty-five hundred responded to their survey," notes Gramely "and 21 percent of those who responded said that an adult man committed a sexual act with them by the time they were 15. So a lot of men who are involved in the homosexual lifestyle right now were themselves molested as teenagers. They were molested by men."
According to the book Homosexualities by Alan Bell, one-fourth of homosexual men admit to having had sex with boys 16 years of age or younger. Gramley feels the university needs to be aware that homosexuals molest young boys at an alarming rate. And Ward's arrest, she states, validates the Boy Scouts' decision to ban open homosexuals from leadership positions.
"I think the University of Pennsylvania needs to learn from the Boy Scouts' ban that that is what they need to do to protect their students," she says. "When you look at the small percentage of homosexuals in the country and compare that to the number of young men who are being molested by men, the ratio is just astounding."
The AFA of Pennsylvania leader cites a study of non-incarcerated child-sex offenders by research scientist Gene Abel that found homosexuals "sexually molest young boys with an incidence that is occurring five times greater than the molestation of girls." Abel's research reports that, on average, 150.2 boys are molested per homosexual offender, whereas 19.8 girls are molested per heterosexual offender. (See related article)
The University of Pennsylvania gives health benefits to the homosexual partners of university employees and was named by The Advocate as one of the top "gay"-friendly schools in the nation.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
