Apart from ignorance, why do some people equate pedophilia with homosexuality?

Question

Is there a valid reason to do so, when it has been clarified that these are two very distinct states of being and mind?

Answer 1

I can not validate why it is done, but I can give some reasons.
Pedophilia is something that is often misunderstood and therefore forced underground. I am not justifying it or saying it is a good thing, merely that it is a taboo subject where people rarely understand what actually drives a pedphile as it can bring up uncomfortable truths.
The same goes for homosexuality. It can be incredibly uncomfortable for some people to be gay. It can lead to alot of soul searching/self questioning and feelings of isloation and having no one to talk to about how you feel.
However on a more basic level people feel threatened by pedophilia and believe it to be the lowest of the low in terms of what a person can do. It is (incorrectly) believed that the majority of pedophiles are men preying on little boys. Therefore the link with homosexuality. In some people's opinions because both gay people and pedophiles must be depraved, then they may as well be grouped together. After all it justifies an irrational hatred of 'all things homosexual.'

Answer 2

Very good question. I am straight but I recognize that just because a guy is gay doesn't mean he is attracted to children, he is attracted to men.

Pedophilia involves a sexual act on a child whether it is same sex or diferent sex.

I think perhaps a big problem people have is that so many priests have been charge with pedophillia...and most of the victims have been boys. And the media jams it down the throats of viewers.

I also hold organizations like the Boy Scouts accountable for stupidity. They won't let a gay man be a scoutmaster in fear he will molest the boys...so again it perpetuates. Fact is..... some of the many loving parents in the world today are also gay/lesbian.

Education of the public is key here.

Answer 3

Pedopholillia and Homosexuality are two completley different words with two completley different meanings and anyone with a shread of intelligence will know that. Unfortunatley morons who think they're the same aren't capable of reading the dictionary so that they can find this out. And since homosexuals account for less than 1% of child abuse (http://www.womeninthelife.com/articles/skinny/childabuse.html) technically speaking they're safer being addopted by a same-sex couple!
They've realised that people don't listen to them spreading hate about two people who love each other who happen to be of the same sex, so if they lie by saying they abuse kids then idiots might listen to their bigotry.

Answer 4

Such people are losing their excuses to hate homosexuals at every turn, so they turn to lies to justify their own prejudices. Pedophilia is a common ruse for them to use as a last resort.

Statistics prove that the vast majority by far of pedophilia cases are by HETEROSEXUAL married men, straight married with 2.2 children; although HETEROSEXUAL female school teachers seem to be coming in at a close second with their male students, according to the cases we have been seeing on TV.

Answer 5

The media helps with the hype.

Just last week three female teachers from the same school district in some U.S. state were arrested for having sex with their minor "male" students.

One teacher already pleaded guilty. FOX News aired the story (abt 2 minutes worth) and that was it.

Had the teachers been male every news agency in the U.S. would be plastering it 24/7.

Answer 6

maximum do. don't get me incorrect - I truly have Christian pals who do no longer believe this tripe yet even in my state, the place gay marriage is permitted, you hear this rubbish approximately pedophilia and homosexuality someway being related. It disgusts me. Little can get me that worked up yet blatant lack of know-how does it each time. And whilst i'm asked by way of particularly much each and every non-Christian homophobe i understand (and non-Christian homophobes are a severe majority too, just to be honest) in simple terms WHY i'm so insistent that any baby-kisser i % in workplace be professional-gay marriage I tell them this: "no longer in simple terms is it a human, no longer a civil or non secular top, and NO human might desire to have much less rights then yet another, yet in case you haven't any longer observed, there are loopy human beings interior the international who truly believe THAT THEY SHOULDN 'T, and frequently equate homosexuality with the two a ailment, a innovations illness, or an indecent, disgusting act. " My father is a large guy yet he would not understand why i'm considered one of those crusader for this reason whilst "there's a lot else of importance interior the international", why this user-friendly human top is so substantial to me. that is using fact the homophobes of the international truly think of like this (see the different solutions) and unfold their lack of know-how around to others quicker than a fundie to a church. this happens each and all of the time, everywhere and dominates maximum each and every faith. The communities i discover this form least probable in are atheist/agnostics and Pagans yet a lot of them nonetheless purchase into this irrational and inhuman concept. we've come someplace in understand-how and respecting the human top of freedom to love and we are persevering with to get someplace. it is an prolonged, uphill conflict. everyone who tells you "a sin is a sin" is a heartless, ignorant nutjob. era. If this upsets everyone, please get rid of me out of your contacts checklist. i do no longer % to appreciate you. EDIT: howdy, the only sturdy element to come back out of it is that now you have an entire BEVY of human beings to dam! (I used to think of blockading wasn't helpful, till doing it saved me from getting VNs. nicely worth it, certainly).

Answer 7

Nope...you can't keep that thinking apart....unfortunately.
Those thinkers would be the same that believe homosexuality is a sickness
You cannot compare the two in the least!!!

Answer 8

There isn't any reason but hate and they need to find a reason to care about other people's love life.

Answer 9

that's like saying "apart from stupidity... why are people stupid"...? for some reason people like to make snap judgements with little or no information... that's why we're so lucky to have our legal system... if it were up to the general mentality... we'd still have lynchings and witch burnings...

Answer 10

Because that's how people are able to keep in their minds that it;s sick and wrong. So why not stick two things that they think are sick and wrong together.