GAY TRUTH

Is this true? Discrimination, not same-sex parents, harms children.  Today , Australian newspapers stretched research to imply that stigma not gay parents harm kids. Newspapers used that line to blame "No" campaign for mental health degradation of children of homosexuals parents. What is the basis for journalists making this claim?  Medical Journal of Australia says: "13 specialists, who include Professor Frank Oberklaid from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute , and Associate Professor Michelle Telfer, from the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne said - "The research tells us that children and adolescents with same-sex parents are doing well, despite the discrimination (stigma) their families endure. This will not continue for long in the face of hostile debate. When damaging misrepresentations of the evidence circulate unchecked, the potential for stigmatising rhetoric to generate greater harm to this community increases."   Who

Quentin Bryce notably ended her Boyer Lectures by expressing her long-term aspiration that Australia might become a nation where ''people are free to love and marry whom they choose.  She expressed a personal opinion, that was untimely and inappropriate in that she knew very well that homosexual marriage legislation was being forced through ACT Parliament and the High Court by only 9 people namely Greens and Labor. Her son in law is the Labor national leader of the opposition.  She should resign immediately for stepping outside of her defined roles and seeking to bring influence to a debate that is very destructive to the backbone of our nation.  Her aspirations were reported as putting her at odds with her Prime Minister in supporting both same-sex marriage and a republic, though Tony Abbott agreed that it was appropriate that Bryce should express her personal views in a graceful style as she came near to the end of her term of office. She was, of course, a