Last week, the Texas House of Representatives passed a child-services bill with an amendment that would make Texas the first state in the nation to prevent same-sex couples from becoming foster parents. The state Senate passed a conflicting bill without that measure, and the two bodies are debating how to proceed.

The proposed ban attracted national media attention, and several “pro-family” groups seeking to drum up support for the bill have been circulating some troubling stats about gay parents. Among the most striking, stated during a CNN program: children in foster homes with same-sex parents are 11 times as likely to be sexually abused as those with heterosexual parents…

Ms. Adams [president of the Dallas-based Texas Eagle Forum advocacy group] told me that her source for the claim [that children in foster homes with same-sex parents are 11 times as likely to be sexually abused as those with heterosexual parents] was an article she had read on the conservative site WorldNetDaily, about a study published in February by Paul Cameron, chairman of the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Family Research Institute, a group that says homosexuality is a major public-health threat. In the journal Psychological Reports, Dr. Cameron analyzed cases of sexual abuse committed against foster children and children in subsidized adoption homes, as reported to Illinois’s Department of Children and Family Services from 1997 to 2002. There were 270 reports, and 34% of those were same-sex in nature: committed by a male adult against a male child, or a female adult against a female child. Dr. Cameron called those homosexual acts of abuse, and, citing several studies, including a joint report by the University of Michigan and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, concluded that gays make up between 1% and 3% of the adult U.S. population. “Thus, homosexual practitioners were proportionately more apt to sexually abuse foster or adoptive children,” Dr. Cameron wrote.

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If you click over and keep reading (which I highly recommend), you’ll see that once again gays are being equated to child molesters. The 34% of the reported cases that were same-sex in nature in the study in question were not reported as taking place in a home with homosexual parents. These cases could have happened in heterosexual homes, by heterosexual adults. The assumption was made that if an adult male sexually abuses a male child or an adult female sexually abuses a female child, they must be gay. Not they must be child molesters.