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Gay Couple with child (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Misty Irons. If you're a straight Christian, you may soon be hearing about an exciting new study conducted by the New Family Structures Study (NFSS), headed up by someone named Mark Regnerus. This study concludes that the children of gay parents turn out to have more problems in their adult life than children raised by heterosexual parents in stable, traditional households. These results supposedly fly in the face of many previous studies that have been done, which have concluded that children raised by gay couples turn out no differently than those raised by heterosexual parents. In a more accessible summary of the NFSS findings, Mark Regnerus reports the following: On 25 of 40 different outcomes evaluated, the children of women who've had same-sex relationships fare quite differently than those in stable, biologically-intact mom-and-pop families . . . . Respondents were more apt to report being unemployed, less healthy,...

The family of a man who was involved in a 10-month experimental gender identity therapy program in the 1970s, in the process of which he was allegedly violently abused by his father, is blaming the therapy for their son’s distress and suicide in 2003. Both CNN host  Anderson Cooper  and the prominent gay rights blog  Box Turtle Bulletin  this week released detailed reports on the story of Kirk Murphy, the five-year-old subject of a government-funded study on gender identity disorder in the early 1970s. The purpose of the therapy was to discourage effeminate behavior in Kirk, who his family says grew up maladjusted and was found hanged in his room in 2003 at the age of 38. The family has not indicated that Kirk gave a reason for the suicide, but now claims that his therapy sessions at UCLA at the age of five should be blamed for his demise. Kirk’s mother Kaytee became aware of the possibility of therapy in 1970 through a television broadcast by gender identity e...