‘Controversial’ Home Office Publication

Who said these words?
‘Approximately 20 to 33 per cent of child sexual abuse is homosexual in nature’.
I will tell you. It was the Home Office, on Page 14 of Sex Offending Against Children: Understanding The Risk, published by the Policing and Reducing Crime Unit in 1998.
I have a copy.
For saying roughly the same thing, Dr Hans-Christian Raabe has been sacked – by the Home Office – from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).
That’s right. He has been sacked from a body to do with drugs, for having unfashionable views about sex, views that the Home Office has itself espoused.
This is the first known instance of anyone being fired from a Government post under the provisions of the Equality Act 2010, Section 149, though I don’t think it will be the last.
Dr Raabe is accused of having expressed ‘controversial’ views on homosexuality and of having ‘failed to declare them’, though they are traceable in seconds on the internet and he had no good reason to think they had anything to do with his appointment.
I have spent several days trying to discover exactly what the Home Office means by ‘controversial’ in this case, or who defines this word. No reply.
I think we should also wonder why it is a sacking offence, in a free society, to be controversial.
When I asked them if their own publication’s words on the subject were ‘controversial’, they wouldn’t say.
(Peter Hitchens)