Obama to Supreme Court: 'Overwhelming expert consensus' gay parents as good as heterosexuals
Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) WASHINGTON, D.C. , February 28, 2013, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – President Obama's Justice Department argued that homosexuals do as good a job parenting as heterosexual couples, in a late-breaking amicus curiae brief filed with the Supreme Court this afternoon. According to the legal brief opposing California's Proposition 8 , the “overwhelming expert consensus,” which is “supported by numerous scientific studies,” is “that children raised by gay and lesbian parents are as likely to be well adjusted as children raised by heterosexual parents.” “The weight of the scientific literature strongly supports the view that same-sex parents are just as capable as opposite-sex parents,” the Obama administration stated. The amicus cites a number of studies, as well as policy statements from the American Academy of Pediatrics , th