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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

The ABC once again on the eve of the voting on the Marriage Act has interviewed and promoted the liberal views of Robyn Whitaker who states that the Bible and God support homosexuality.  Whitaker, lectures in biblical studies at  Trinity College  at the  University of Melbourne .  We understand why the ABC has selected such a person, but what is the basis of her claim regarding homosexuality?  Whitaker ORIGINALLY believed homosexuality was a sin. But something changed. What happened? She was trained in liberal theological colleges in the USA .   "I have moved a very long way from not really seeing how someone could be gay and be a person of faith through to now saying I'm going to vote yes on a postal survey because I think there should be equality in marriage," she said.  WHITAKER NEXT ERROR IS REGARDING IMMEDIATE JUDGEMENT She says: "Living in the United States as same-sex marriage was legalised was a part of that transformation process. 

“Kids from same-sex families fare as well as peers – or better” claims the heading of an  article  by an Australian academic repeated in the  New York Times ,  Washington Post , the  Guardian  and many other media outlets this week. Children with same-sex attracted parents are “doing well in terms of their overall health”, their “families are getting along really well”, says Simon Crouch. Actually, they are doing “better” than average on those points, but they do “experience stigma”, which explains any “lower scores” on certain measures. So we have to get rid of that stigma somehow… It’s a familiar story, and if this one seems particularly  deja vu  it is because we heard it all a year ago, when interim results from the Australian Study of Child Health in Same-Sex Families (ACHESS) were published with similar upbeat headlines. Dr Crouch, himself an  openly  homosexual man with twin boys aged about 5, and his University of Melbourne team, couldn’t wait to tell the good news to a p

Australia, April 30, 2014 – A radical feminist gender theorist is making the case that  transgenderism  is a “hugely harmful phenomenon” – but not for the reasons you might expect. The American Psychiatric Association   classifies  gender dysphoria – defined as “a marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender” – as a mental illness , and  studies show  41 percent of people who suffer from it will attempt suicide at some point in their lives. Many people who suffer from the disorder have their bodies mutilated by surgeons in an attempt to look more like the opposite sex, and  substance abuse  and  risky behaviors  are rampant. Sheila Jeffreys However, in her new book  Gender Hurts , Sheila Jeffreys, a professor of sexual politics at the University of Melbourne , argues that transgenderism is damaging not because it is a devastating mental illness – although she admits the condition “is invariably born of severe psychological distress” – bu