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February 26, 2014 ( BreakPoint ) - Dr. Rosaria Butterfield has an amazing story to tell—and it’s her story. A former lesbian feminist professor, she started studying Christianity in order to debunk it—but ended up embracing it. Today, she’s a dedicated Christian apologist , wife, and mother, with two books about the faith to her credit. Although some Christians will struggle with same-sex attraction their whole lives, she, in God’s grace, was able to leave it behind. So it’s not surprising that Wheaton College , one of the nation’s premier Christian colleges, invited Dr. Butterfield to tell her story at a chapel service. But some 100 students protested the chapel and what they called Dr. Butterfield’s “dangerous” message—a message that would only tell one side of the same-sex story. They held signs saying things like “Rosaria’s story is valid, mine is too,” and “I’m gay and a beloved child of God. That’s my story.” Dr. Butterfield graciously met and talked with these demo...

Sound public policy requires knowledge of the facts. But recent events show that disagreements about the evidence on hot button issues are often resolved in state capitols, not the ivory tower. In the debate over same-sex marriage and parenting, one of the key empirical questions is whether same-sex relationships harm children. The July issue of  Social Science Research published a study by University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus that found that adult children of parents who had same-sex relationships reported more emotional problems than did those who were raised by parents in heterosexual marriages. Political activists on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate jumped on the article. Opponents of same-sex marriage   cited the research  as evidence of the problems of same-sex parenthood.  Social conservatives  jumped on the results as scientific confirmation of their beliefs and intuition. Proponents of gay rights and same-sex marriage, however,...