Kardinal Tarcisio Betone, Katolska kyrkan:

Många psykologer och psykiatriker har visat att det inte finns någon länk mellan celibatet och pedofili medan åter många andra har visat, enligt vad jag har blivit underrättad, att det finns ett samband mellan homosexualitet och pedofili.

Professor Gregory Herek, University of California at Davis:

The empirical research does not show that gay or bisexual men are any more likely than heterosexual men to molest children. This is not to argue that homosexual and bisexual men never molest children. But there is no scientific basis for asserting that they are more likely than heterosexual men to do so. And, as explained above, many child molesters cannot be characterized as having an adult sexual orientation at all; they are fixated on children.