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Gay Parents Raising Children Badly: The Mark Regnerus Study

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A new study 2   by Mark Regnerus has selected 3,000 study participants randomly by telephone in order to reduce sampling bias . In addition, the participants are the   children   who report on their respective parents. Although the methods are much better for this study than previous studies, the reporting of the comparisons is what has drawn the ire of many gay groups—and with some justification. One of the arguments made by those who oppose gay marriage is that homosexual parenting produces children with social and other deficits compared with children raised by heterosexual parents. Numerous recent studies, authored by gay scientists, have shown that children of gay parents fare identically to children of straight parents. 1   However, all of these studies have suffered from the fact that the sampled populations were not randomly selected , largely because few gay parents actually exist. So, investigators have used advertising (mostly online and in gay magazines) in order

Homosexual parenting claims hotly contested by Kiwi

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The University of Melbourne logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A New Zealand pro-life commentator has blasted the methodology and findings of an Australian sociological study that found that children with homosexual, bisexual or lesbian parents are happier and healthier than kids from the average family. Writing on his Leading Edge blog on July 22, Brendan Malone stated that the Australian Study of Child Health in Same-Sex Families, out of the University of Melbourne , was “ideologically motivated”. The preliminary findings of the study were listed in an article in the Sunday Star Times in New Zealand on July 21. The lead researcher was Dr Simon Crouch, a homosexual man with four-year-old twin boys. The study collected data on the physical, mental and social wellbeing of 500 children aged 5 to 17, from 315 homosexual, lesbian and bisexual parents. Children from same-sex couples scored better than the national average for Australia in general health and family cohesion measures. T

Media still lying about Mark Regnerus' report children of homosexual do badly in life

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WASHINGTON, D.C. , April 15 ( C-FAM.org ) - Homosexual advocates seem obsessed by a social science study that goes against them. They say the research is unimportant -- and they can’t stop talking about it. Mark Regnerus A year ago Dr. Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas published a 15,000-person  study  showing that children do best in a household with their married mother and father. He further found that no other family structure works this well and by contrast often did worse. A tsunami of protest and personal attacks engulfed him. His university and the journal where he published his findings investigated the research and cleared him of any suspicion. Even so, the attacks on him and those who use his research continues. Dr. Susan Yoshihara, research director of C-FAM , used the Regnerus study before the legislature in Rhode Island and came under attack by political fact checkers who claim some of her testimony was false. Yoshihara countered the popular wisdom

Truth about Homosexuality suppressed!

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Symbol of gay sin. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) We know how important truth is to this fight, and how so many of our opponents recoil from the very idea of truth. There is no better example than the news this week  that Washington's Attorney General Bob Ferguson is using taxpayer funding to bring a lawsuit against a small Washington state florist named Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene's Flowers and Gifts. Stutzman's crime? Refusing to sell flowers for a gay wedding . For this 'thought crime' against gay marriage, her whole livelihood is now put at the stake. It was only a few months ago, before the November elections, when gay marriage advocates were sanctimoniously getting on television and reassuring voters that our claims of the religious persecution that comes hand in hand with redefining marriage were unfounded. Made up. Untrue. They knew at the time they were not telling the truth.Because now, just a few months later, the ACLU and a State Attorney Gen

Men who use Pornography support Homosexual Marriage

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Immoral Homosexual  Marriage (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The moral effects of pornography are, by now, well attested. The scourge of pornography has brought ruin and harm into the lives of millions of our friends and neighbors, destroying marriages , distorting sexuality, and poisoning minds. Even so, the pornography industrial complex continues to grow, representing one of the most lucrative segments of the Internet economy . For the most part, previous research into the effects of pornography has focused on the psychological and physiological effects of pornography exposure. Among males, exposure to pornography is associated with addictive behaviors traced to the release of chemicals in the brain, stimulating arousal and excitement. In the larger context, pornography is also associated with an exaggerated masculinity, negative attitudes toward women, and relational breakdowns due to unrealistic sexual expectations. Pornography reduces women to objects of sexual attraction a

Mark Regnerus and the outconme of gay parenting study

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November 19, 2012 ( ThePublicDiscourse ) - Seldom has the publication of a dry, factual report in sociology caused such a storm of controversy. In June 2012, the bimonthly peer-reviewed journal Social Science Research published an article by University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus titled, “How different are the children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study.”  The answer to his title’s question was: quite a bit different, and most of the differences are not good. Within minutes, it seemed, Professor Regnerus, a gifted and highly productive scholar with two previous books published on related subjects, was denounced as “anti-gay,” attacked personally and professionally, and his thoughtful, measured research conclusions were buried under an avalanche of invective, abuse, and misunderstanding. For the remainder of the summer months, Regnerus withstood an onslaught of criticism, but as the autumn arrived, it became cl