They invite comments and I put them down. James – thank you for that CDC mention. I was going to ask it myself.

Any “information” that says otherwise is found to have been distorted as such.

Here at this website anyone can see where those professionals have spoken out about their distortions: http://respectmyresearch.org/scientists/

Look “JeremiahA” you’re wrong, pure and simple. All of the studies ALL of the studies done by EVERY RESPECTED MENTAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION have said that homosexuality is not a mental illness, not a choice, is not abnormal, and yes same-sex couples make good parents as well as heterosexuals.

AND children who have been raised by same-sex couples have actually spoken out in defense of their gay/lesbian parents. Numerous studies prove that they are no likely to turn out any different.

Now who is “Michael Stiffman” and “Margo Wilson”? You don’t even quote from reliable sources.

I had a look at the Child Welfare League of America’s website which has some articles from the American Academy of Pediatrics as well as the other 5 or so organizations that agree that same-sex couples make just as good parents as heterosexual couples.

Here is what the Child Welfare League of America says about same-sex parenting: http://www.cwla.org/programs/culture/glbtqposition.htm

Oh and where does the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) say that children raised by same-sex couples are 65% likely to get AIDS? Please show me the source and I want to see the source from the CDC themselves, not some religious organization who happened to “quote” the CDC. That will ensure that it is not a distortion.

And when I said the “Christian church” I meant from the very year it was started up until today. From the 2nd century to 6th century AD, Christians had killed hundreds of thousands of pagans. Of course, that was BEFORE the 1400′s (the random timeline you conveniently coin for yourself).

Now I’m probably not gonna get any answers from you because you said you were gonna leave. You’re probably just gonna come back later when you wanna cause trouble again, read this, and continue. And yes, you are causing trouble, this website, emphatically opposes EVERYTHING you are saying. I don’t go to “Focus on the Family’s” Website and start harassing everyone on there on pro-gay matters do I? Of course, it’s necessary for YOU to come HERE and do it because the more lies you spread, the better it is for your side.

I don’t got to go on Focus’ website and troll their blogs with my information because I don’t need to “promote” anything. The truth is on my side.

JeremiahA is leaving this blog! He sais so as in “last words”.

Gee I wonder if anyone read his post.

Good ridance you vile,, ignorant and hateful bigot!

The UN Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, is an outstanding document, but I wish the United Nations was able to live up to that document. Since the United States has freed more people than any country in the history of the world, I would offer the Declaration of Independence and the oldest living constitution in the world, the US Constitution, as two other documents worthy of praise.

As for slavery and Saint Paul’s writing, please read Ephesians 6:6-9 and 1 Corinthians 7:21-24. This should clear up Paul’ actual views on slavery, and while reading, please also understand that the practice of slavery and bondservice at that time was unlike the practice of slavery in the United States. The documentation on Jefferson’ abolitionism is so great that it would be difficult to cover it here.

On gay parenting and gay marriage…

Dr. David Popenoe–”We should disavow the notion that “mommies can make good daddies, ‘just as we should disavow the popular notion of radical feminists that ‘daddies can make good mommies’…The two sexes are different to the core, and each is necessary, culturally and biologically, for the optimal development of a human being.”

In explaining how mother and fathers both help their children to grow up to be women and men–Suzanne Frayser, anthropologist–”Each process complements the other. The boy can look at his father and see what he should do to be a male; he can look at his mother and see what he should not do to be a male…The importance of contrasts in gender roles and specification of gender identity may be clues to the psychological importance of sexual differentiation [male and female] in all societies.”

Mary Clarke, Center for Law and Social Policy–”Most researchers now agree that…studies support the notion that, on average, children do best when raised by their two married biological parents…Research indicates that, on average, children who grow up in families with both their biological parents in a low-conflict marriage are better off in a number of ways than children who grow up in single-, step or cohabiting-parent households.

On the American Academy of Pediatrics and research on families…

“These [same-sex] families closely resemble stepfamilies formed after heterosexual couples divorce…the consderal research literature that has accumulated addressing this issue has generally revealed that children of divorced lesbian mothers grow up in ways very similar to children of divorced heterosexual mothers.”–American Academy of Pediatrics

Children from such families are eight times more likely to die of maltreatment than children living with two biological parents.–Michael Stiffman

Children from such families are forty times more like to become a victim of abuse than children living with a biological mother and father.—Martin Daly and Margo Wilson

Children from such families are likely to have greater emotional, behavioral, and academic problems than children living with their biological mother and father.—Nicholas Zill

The CDC states that a child raised by a homosexual parent has a 65% of developing AIDS.

Generally, nullifying the significance of marriage in society has had a negative influence on the family, the basic building block of society. Benefits exist for children raised by a mother and a father, while divorce and same sex parenting put children at higher risks.

On religion…

I am not sure why religion keeps appearing here. Has anyone on this blog quoted scripture from the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, or some other religious scripture concerning gay parenting or homosexuality? What does religion have to do with whether redefining marriage is the proper way to proceed or not?

“The Christian church has murdered more people than Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden combined.”

In a 500 year period, 1450-1950 AD, the Inquisition, the Crusades, and witch burnings killed approx. 200,000 people.

In a 100 year period, 1900-1999 AD…

Nazi Germany-10 million murdered (not killed in action). Communist China under Mao-approx. 70 million deaths. Communist Russia under Stalin-approx. 20 million deaths. Communist Combodia-approx. 1.5-2 million people, one-fifth of the country’ population. North Korea under Kim Jung Il-deaths continue to climb.

Lastly, 90% of Americans, an exceptional majority, are convinced of God’ existence which would make them the prevailing norm in the United States. A definition of faith is “holding onto a truth, found through reason, despite one’ changing moods.” In my opinion, people who have reached the conclusion that God exists through logic and reason, such as Anthony Flew, would qualify as rational.

It’s not about getting through to them though. We already know how they feel. We just need to educate everyone else on how they lie.

These people — if you can dignify them with that description — aren’t just disputing about some fascinating scientific or philosophical but purely academic point. They want, among other things, to stop gays from forming meaningful relationships and to break up all existing gay relationships; they want young gays to waste their teenage years trying to reject their natural sexuality at a time when they should be learning to come to terms with it, as their straight confreres are; and they want all “same-sex attracted” people to embark on a bootless quest for an illusory “cure” for something that doesn’t need fixing. In other words, they want to play unconscionable games with other people’ lives.

Anxious as I often am to refute such people by reason and fact, there are times when I feel that the only message that can actually get through to them is that of the GayClic Collab Against Homophobia: “Fuck you. Fuck you very, very much.”

Is there like some nasty reservoir where they all get this stuff from?

One example is this claim:

“Homosexual men and women are reported to be promiscuous, with serial sex partners, even within what are loosely-termed “committed relationships”

One of the sources ACP uses is:

“Marie Xiridoui, et al., “The contribution of steady and casual partnerships to the incidence of HIV infection among homosexual men in Amsterdam,” AIDS 17 (2003): 1029-1038. [Note: one of the findings of this recent study is that those classified as being in “steady relationships” reported an average of 8 casual partners a year in addition to their partner (p. 1032)”

ACP doesn’t tell anyone that the study only looked at casual gay partnerships, making it a point to exclude gays in monogamous relationships.- http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/Articles/000,003.htm

Also, there wasn’t even a question in the study about children in same-sex households so to use this study to make a prediction about children in same-sex households would be wrong.

(Sorry, guys. As you can tell, I am bored today and itching for some type of fight.)

According to Concerned Women for America, ACP formed in retaliation against the American Academy of Pediatrics after AAP released scientific studies finding no significant harm to children in same-sex parenting. ACP accuses the AAP of “bad science” but does not say how AAP’ studies were flawed.

The ACP’ family resources page links primarily to religious-right organizations.

In contrast to the scientific approach of the AAP, ACP employs what it considers a predetermined “moral” filter to pediatrics.

NARTH (National Association of Research & Therapy of Homosexuality)

PATH (Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality)

Free To Be Me

Need I say more?

“From reading the webpage of the American College of Pediatricians, it sounds like a religious right site masquerading as a legitimate medical organization.”

SOUNDS LIKE? I think that you’re very politely understating the case. Having just perused it myself, I’d say that it bloody well IS.