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Psychologist A. Dean Byrd stated: On the issue of risks of homosexual practices, the national [health] organizations have become reckless guardians of the public health. The failure to report morbidity and mortality rates associated with homosexual practices should be cause for governmental scrutiny. The furthering of an agenda – no matter whose agenda – must not be placed above the lives of those whose interests must be protected. Activism must not be placed above science in informing public policy. It is an injustice to homosexual men and women to allow activism, including accusations of homophobia, to silence discussion of health risks or to suppress research. A civil society has an obligation to implement policies that promote the health and well-being of its citizens. In the early 1970s, sexual-radical activists subverted the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association and forced the removal of homosexuality from the list of mental...

The Australian Medical Association has lent its authority to the cause of homosexual ‘marriage’ by issuing its Position Statement on Marriage Equality (May 20th 2017). This was done without consulting AMA members or the wider medical community, and now we, the undersigned medical practitioners, respond. Our nation’s peak medical body should not publish misleading information, yet that is what happens in this Position Statement. Of several examples, the most egregious is the assertion that there is no peer-reviewed evidence of “poorer health or psychosocial outcomes” for children raised in same-sex parented families. That is a politically potent claim and unequivocally false. We reference peer-reviewed articles that do find poorer outcomes for children raised by same-sex couples, and we also show that the AMA was aware of this evidence. By denying publicly that there is any such evidence of detriment to children, while admitting privately that there is, the AMA has misled the pub...

One of the doctors who wrote a searing critique of the Australian Medical Association ’s Position Statement on changing the Marriage Act repeated his call for the AMA to retract the statement following an address by Australian Medical Association (AMA) President Dr Michael Gannon at the National Press Club today. The critique has now been signed by more than five hundred Australian doctors including 26 professors and six past AMA state presidents and can be found at critiqueAMA.com. The doctors have urged the AMA to retract its Position Statement and to cease misrepresenting social science in a political cause. Queensland GP, Dr David van Gend said: “The AMA has misled the public on same-sex marriage. “The AMA’s Position Statement uses spurious evidence to claim a link between our marriage laws and LGBT mental health . "That is unacceptable from our peak medical body. “The AMA is also misleading politicians. Catherine King, the federal opposition spokeswoman for health, re...

The 2005 American Psychological Association (APA) Brief on ‘‘Lesbian and Gay Parenting ’’, which is repeatedly invoked in the same-sex marriage debate , makes the strong assertion:  “Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents.”  However, Loren Marks’ 2012 paper in the journal Social Science Research systematically examines whether the APA’s conclusions are valid and precise, based on the cited scientific evidence.  Are we witnessing the emergence of a new family form that provides a context for children that is equivalent to the traditional marriage-based family? Even after an extensive reading of the same-sex parenting literature, the author cannot offer a high confidence, data-based ‘‘yes’’ or ‘‘no’’ response to this question.  To restate, not one of the 59 studies referenced in the 2005 APA Brief compares a large, random, represen...

Two of Australia 's leading medical groups have rubbished claims that children of same-sex marriage are worse off than heterosexual families,. The Australian Medical Association and the Australian Psychological Society said there was no scientific evidence  (note what they say NO evidence) that children of gay and lesbian parents had poorer outcomes than those with heterosexual parents. Ahead of the upcoming postal survey, conservatives have raised concerns over same-sex parenting, arguing that allowing same-sex marriage would license families they regard as sub-optimal. IS THIS TRUE? WHAT PEER-REVIEWED EVIDENCE? Dr Gannon stood by the AMA's statement in May that there was "no putative, peer-reviewed evidence to suggest that children raised in same-sex parented families suffer poorer health or psychosocial outcomes as a direct result of the sexual orientation of their parents or carers".  Most of these peer reviewed studies are paid for by homosexual lobby g...