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AUSTIN, TX , August 30, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - A Texas university has determined that “no formal investigation is warranted” against a professor who published a rigorous study this summer finding that children of heterosexual parents fare better in many respects than children of homosexual parents. Mark Regnerus is vindicated. The University of Texas at Austin   announced  this week it would not pursue allegations against associate sociology professor Mark Regnerus an article published in the journal  Social Science Research  in July. The announcement came in response to LGBT activist and blog author Scott Rosensweig, who had accused Regnerus of crafting a study “designed so as to be guaranteed to make gay people look bad, through means plainly fraudulent and defamatory,” and of “harbor[ing] anti-gay prejudices” because he is Catholic . The  study  unearthed alarming disparities between the two family models, from suicide attempts and...

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,...