Skeezix
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It is regrettable, despite the very best of intentions of most gay couples, yet nevertheless true.
Some gay couples are good parents, some hetero couples are terrible. But don't let your progressive politics get in the way of millions of years of evolutionary history. Its how we evolved. I notice you duck the key assertion young boys need father figures. Just look at the crime statistics where fathers are not present. Just admitting the obvious doesn't make you a Nazi, relax.
Men are already largely absent from elementary schools, for well-known reasons, removing another important influence.
Its this sort of mystical, cult-like thinking that destroyed liberalism with the general public and opened the door to nutjobs like Trump & Ford. And its truly sad because I was fairly liberal until I stood back and actually looked at what was going on.
And with regards lesbians raising boys i happen to actually know something about it (anecdotally)![]()
Ugh.
You shouldn’t be talking about cult-like thinking after a post like that.
Let me be clear. It is undisputed fact that the research and studies
Works supporting the opposite conclusion are few in number, highly criticized and outliers. They almost all suffer from the same flaw – few of the families studied were actually same-sex households, but rather failed opposite-sex households where one parent came out as gay or lesbian (with those children suffering the typical stress and disruption of any divorce). In other words, they basically tried to equate children of same-sex couples with children of divorce.
The poster boy for your “won’t someone think of the children” anti-LGBT crowd is Mark Regnerus, whose work is so discredited that the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Sociological Association have all felt the need to publicly come out against his data and conclusions. My favourite story dates back to 2014, when Regnerus gave testimony on the Michigan same-sex marriage ban – the Reagan-appointee judge on the Federal Court stated in his decision: “The Court finds Regnerus’s testimony entirely unbelievable and not worth of serious consideration”. Moreover, the evidence before the Court showed that Regnerus’ work was “hastily concocted at the behest of a third-party funder”. I keep that decision on hand because the findings respecting Regnerus’ work are so deservedly scathing.
I’ve supplied some introductory links so you can actually research the facts. I’m now done debating this with you because your posts are not suggestive of someone who has something substantive to add to this, or likely any, topic.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4091994/
https://whatweknow.inequality.corne...eing-of-children-with-gay-or-lesbian-parents/
https://journals.lww.com/jrnldbp/Ab...nd_Different_Sex_Parent_Households_and.1.aspx
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