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Gay Couple with child (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There is a new and significant piece of evidence in the social science debate about gay parenting and the unique contributions that mothers and fathers make to their children’s flourishing. A study published last month in the journal Review of the Economics of the Household—analyzing data from a very large, population-based sample—reveals that the children of gay and lesbian couples are only about 65 percent as likely to have graduated from high school as the children of married, opposite-sex couples. And gender matters, too: girls are more apt to struggle than boys, with daughters of gay parents displaying dramatically low graduation rates. Unlike US-based studies, this one evaluates a 20 percent sample of the Canadian census , where same-sex couples have had access to all taxation and government benefits since 1997 and to marriage since 2005. While in the US Census same-sex households have to be guessed at based on the gender an...

OTTAWA, Feb. 12, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Canada ’s Official Opposition leader is under fire Tuesday after saying traditional Christian beliefs on sexuality go “completely against” Canadian values, and even Canadian law . Thomas Mulcair , the leader of the New Democrat party, was up in arms Monday over a government grant supporting Crossroads Communications Inc.’s efforts to improve water access in Uganda because of the group’s beliefs about homosexuality. NDP leader Thomas Mulcair The three-year $544,813 grant, awarded by the Canadian International Development Agency , was targeted by a report in  The Canadian Press  on Sunday because of a page on Crossroads’ website, since removed, that called homosexuality a “sin” and a “perversion.” In response, International Cooperation Minister Julian Fantino had said payments to Crossroads would be halted pending a review, but his office said Monday that the review was complete and the grant would continue. Outside...

TORONTO, Ontario , June 28, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A prominent Canadian evangelical minister is back on TV after having his show dropped in December 2010 after industry watchdogs targeted his show for what they said was discrimination against homosexuals. “After being attacked by big government censors for speaking the truth and removed from TV, we are back,” said Dr. Charles McVety , former host of Word TV and new host of The Canadian Times, in a press release last week. Charles McVety McVety’s show Word TV was forced off the air after the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council ( CBSC ) rebuked the preacher for claiming that the homosexual movement was driven by a “conspiratorial” agenda, suggesting homosexuals prey on children, and labeling the annual Pride events “sex parades”. McVety believes that Crossroads Television System , which carried his program, was pressured by the CBSC to cancel his show for his preaching against what he called “the radical sex agenda...