Ideology, not science, behind redefining marriage, SCOTUS brief says
Leon Kass, former chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) WASHINGTON, D.C., March 22, 2013 ( Heritage Foundation ) - Severe flaws and limitations exist in the scientific research into the relatively new phenomenon of same-sex parenting , argue preeminent political scientists Leon R. Kass and Harvey C. Mansfield in a brief filed with the Supreme Court by Nelson Lund. The scholars urge the Court not to redefine marriage based on the new and inconclusive research. The academic studies on same-sex parenting purporting to show “no differences” are, Kass and Mansfield argue, “subject to severe constraints arising from limited data” and a lack of “replicable experiments.” They argue: Even if same-sex marriage and child rearing by same-sex couples were far more common than they now are, large amounts of data collected over decades would be required before any responsible researcher could make meaningful scientific estimates of the effec