Why is homosexuality mistakenly associated with pedophilia?

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I'm pretty sure it's due to that one Bible passage that says "you're not allowed to sleep with men" was originally translated as "you're not allowed to sleep with young boys".

And yeah, seriously. The comparison between the two is 100% ignorant.

I have heard a big part of the prevalence was someone high in the FBI wrote a letter that said that gay people were. Evidence apparently he himself was gay, and was trying to hide this fact by discriminatory to the gays.

J. Edgar Hoover had a boyfriend.

People abuse children, frequently, for similar reasons as people rape adults (and children):

A pathological need to have power over others, and a sadistic delight in victimizing people.

Many times, the above is the “turn on.”

Okay, so.

Homosexuality isn't "mistakenly associated with pedophilia."

Conservatives have been deliberately associating homosexuality with pedophilia for a number of reasons:
* Conservatives typically assume heterosexuality is the default choice and homosexuality is a deviation from the "correct" sexuality. In the conservative mindset nobody is ever homosexual by default; anybody who attests to being homosexual by default is lying and actually suffering one of two conditions:
* They're mentally ill and engaging in homosexual behavior as a pathological response to trauma. This is the typical "absent father/harsh mother" argument.
* They were "converted" to homosexuality through pornography, masturbation, or unwanted contact with other homosexuals.

To be clear, this is patently false. Heterosexuality and homosexuality are but two possible outcomes of a person's sexual orientation, but again, we're dealing with a dogmatic and prescriptivist mindset that hasn't really evolved since the Bronze Age. They're taking a lot of this as an article of faith, and what we're seeing is the shape of that false belief when it extrudes into reality.

So, to prevent the existence of more homosexuals, the conservatives begin banning contact between homosexuals and other people. They fight to make it unacceptable to express homosexuality as a normal behavior pattern because at some level they're arguing that "this will stop people from discovering homosexuality." When that doesn't work -- and it won't because that's not how this works -- they escalate. Banning complex gender expressions. Denying trans people's existences. Fighting against positive representation. And, ultimately, accusing every homosexual of being a covert -- or overt! -- pedophile because axiomatically in their world view, gay people don't _just happen_. They _come_ from somewhere, and if they can just find all the places where gay people _come from_, they can prevent more gay people from existing.

Also worth noting, many conservatives don't actually believe this, but they pay lip service to these ideas because they're fascists and the true believers who _do_ think this way will support the causes of any person who claims to believe it, and because they'll always find reasons to justify why not punishing _their_ gay friends and family is okay because "they're among the good ones."