Big Brother/Big Sister Inclusion of Homosexuals causes insurance woes
Another factually intersting email I received.
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BBBSA's Inclusion of Homosexuals Causes Insurance Woes
By AFA Journal
June 10, 2004
(AgapePress) - One of the nation's largest mentoring organizations is
discovering that some of its chapters are having trouble getting liability
insurance because they allow homosexuals to be mentors for kids.
According to Family News in Focus, several chapters of Big Brothers Big
Sisters of America (BBBSA) may be forced to shut down because insurance
companies are charging higher premiums or even refusing to write policies
because of the "gay" mentors.
In 2002, BBBSA began requiring its chapters to allow open homosexuals to
serve as mentors for children participating in its programs. That policy --
especially in light of the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal -- has led to
a hesitancy on the part of some insurers to do business as usual with BBBSA..
Joan McPheron, a director for one BBBSA chapter, told Family News, "Of
course, bottom line, the homosexual issue does come into play. Because we're
working with kids ... we're dealing with possible abuse issues. [Insurers]
recommend at least a million dollars to two million dollars coverage."
Rob Paris, who is a risk management specialist, said, "When you put a child
with a known homosexual as a mentor, that would be [an additional] risk
factor that the insurance company would take into consideration."
Paris said some insurance companies will not insure the chapters at any
price because of the homosexual factor.
This article appeared in the June 2004 issue of AFA Journal, a monthly
publication of the American Family Association.
© 2004 AgapePress all rights reserved.
For Agape Press info. contact
editor@agapepress.org
1:05 AM
uh, why is a homosexual any greater of a risk than a heterosexual? homosexual is not synonymous with pedophile. "in light of the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal" - what does this have to do with homosexuals mentoring children? what do priests who are pedophiles have to do with homosexuals who wish to mentor children? I fail to see how being a homosexual is an additional risk factor. do these people descend from those who thought rock n' roll was going to corrupt the youth of the 1950's? these are some strange emails you are sharing...
9:57 AM
Ask the insurers on it. Seems they are the ones that find mentoring homosexuals are a greater risk of pedophilia, ect than heterosexuals. Hence the copy/paste I did.
12:30 PM
yes I realize that was not your opinion, I suppose I was posing rhetorical questions since obviously the insurers do not puruse your blog (...or do they?).
11:25 AM
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