Byline: Associated Press
CHICAGO Openly gay and lesbian adults are no more likely than heterosexual adults to sexually abuse children, a new study suggests.
The study was done in Colorado, after a group lobbying to limit gay rights claimed that people living openly as homosexuals are responsible for 50 percent of all child molestations.
``No evidence is available from this data that children are at greater risk to be molested by identifiable homosexuals than by other adults,'' wrote the authors of the study, published in the July issue of Pediatrics.
The authors reviewed one year of child abuse cases at one hospital and found 269 cases …
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