New Republic writer Molly Redden explores some of University of Texas “researcher” Mark Regnerus’s barbaric views. He is the author of the notorious new study, “How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study.” Here is an excerpt highlighting some of his misogynistic ideas:
Take the book he co-authored in 2011, Premarital Sex in America, most notable for its embrace of “sexual economics,” a theory holding that all sex between unmarried heterosexual people, from fleeting one-night-stands to sex in relationships of many years, is sterile, transactional, and satisfying almost exclusively for the male participant. That weird and icky concept is also the basis for most of his moralizing essays—like this one for Slate, which blames male commitment problems on women who have failed to be “more fully in charge of how their relationships transpired.” (If they were, “we’d be seeing, on average, more impressive wooing efforts, longer relationships, fewer premarital sexual partners, shorter cohabitations, and more marrying going on.”)
Regnerus sounds like he’s as bad of a date as he is a researcher. His views on women come from the Fred Flinstone era.
Also keep in mind that he brags about his faith informing his entire work. He thinks that science shouldn’t be view point neutral as far as possible. On the contrary, that would be discriminating against religion for him, which he thinks happens all the time in academics. So as a counterpoint, he sells himself as some sort of Christian scientist.
On this same topic. I wonder if the readers here will help me. The Journal of Social Science Research is available on line and there are 2 reviews of the “Gays Make Bad Parents” research by Regnerus the reviews are by Drs. Amato and Eggebeen.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/social-science-research/recent-articles/
Here are the titles to their reviews:
“What can we learn from studies of children raised by gay or lesbian parents.” by David J. Eggebeen
“The well-being of children with gay and lesbian parents.” by Paul R. Amato
Do you see how the title wrongly infers that it is the well-being of children raised by parent(s). The logical assumption is that it is mommy+mommy or daddy+daddy. In fact this research is completely on mommy+daddy and one of them has a gay fling.
Please consider writing to them and asking them to change the Title to their article so that it is clear to the public that the relationship of the parents was mommy+daddy.
Dr. Amato pxa6@psu.edu
Dr. Eggebeen e5x@psu.edu
The editor of this Journal is Dr. James White james.wright@ucf.edu
You have to agree that these titles are very misleading to the public. that [s] in the word “parents” needs to be defined so that the public is not mislead.
We can spend our time on gay blogs talking to each other or we can actually do something. So please write and ask that the titles be changed.
Wow. If it ever seemed as though Regnerus had any professional integrity, the above piece has just washed the last shred of it away.
How he can claim to be a serious scientist when he accepts money from NOM affilliates, is hopelessly mysoginistic, and freely admits, nay braggs, that he has a religious/right-wing bias in everything he does, is beyond me.
I wonder, do we know if any major news outlets have picked up this story and are reporting the study’s findings as they are presented by Regnerus? (eg: Fox?)