Tell University of Texas President William Powers to Investigate Hack Study Maligning Gay Parents
A controversial new junk science study by Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas at Austin claims that gay and lesbian couples are unfit parents. One look at the study, however, reveals it to be totally fraudulent and lacking any basis in sound science.
In response, the American Psychological Association (APA) said this week that leading mental health organizations “have concluded that there is no scientific evidence that parenting effectiveness is related to parental sexual orientation.” This is based on “a remarkably consistent body of research on lesbian and gay parents and their children.”
Clearly, Regnerus’ work is not in the mainstream, but on the far fringe of scientific legitimacy. It seems the researcher may have manipulated his interpretation of the data to please the virulently anti-gay bullies who funded his pseudo-science study.
Indeed, the study was funded with a $695,000 grant from the Witherspoon Institute and a $90,000 grant from the archconservative Bradley Foundation. Most ominously, Princeton professor Robert P. George is a key member of Witherspoon. George has been affiliated with the Family Research Council and is a founder of the notoriously anti-gay National Organization for Marriage. While Regnerus is trying to bill his work as the “gold standard” of science, upon closer inspection this research looks more like fool’s gold.
The University of Texas should immediately launch an investigation to determine whether Regnerus’ research was truly independent, or if he worked in concert with anti-gay activists to smear loving gay parents and harm their children. Was the goal to produce legitimate science, or to manufacture a political club for use in an election year with marriage equality on the ballot in four states?
If collusion occurred which created a conflict of interest and compromised the academic integrity of the university, appropriate action should be taken against Regnerus.
Urge the University of Texas at Austin to launch an investigation today — sign Truth Wins Out’s petition.
Please!.. this has significant impact on people’s lives
Please launch an investigation.
We need good research, not studies designed to support the bias of those that pay for the study.
This study needs to be investigated by an unbiased panel or group that understands true scientific principles and is not swayed by the desires of those buying the results.
This is not (a reputable) University worthy
>”It seems the researcher may have manipulated his interpretation of the data”
He manipulated the data itself as well. He got a random sample, which is a great feat, but then he asked people whether a parent had a same-sex relationship since their birth and nothing further about either the relationship or their parents’ sexual orientation. The problems start right there, not just with the interpretation of the answers he received.
I can’t Stand people who think there is a way to science it out
UT should be ashamed to be associated with this junk.
It is time to put this issue to rest. Gays and lesbians are among us and part of us. They become parents. They raise children. They adopt and care for children. The issue about whethere gays and lesbians choose to be the way they are or whether they are genetically predisposed is irrelevant.
Straight people raise children and some of them become gay. Most become straight. That has always been the nature of human beings. End of story.
Reid
Thank you, Wayne. I’ve asked in a number of places about an ethics complaint. You’ve gone ahead and initiated it.
Please launch an investigation.
Opinion: How Anti-Gay Regnerus ‘Study’ Was Corrupted By NOM From Beginning To End
Mark Regnerus‘s recently-released, anti-gay, Republican political propaganda was a trap set by the malicious anti-gay bigots at the National Organization for Marriage.
Where NOM intended to trap people, and, so far, has largely succeeded in trapping people, is in getting them to blah-blah-blah about the details of Regnerus’s junk findings, instead of talking very pointedly about the genesis of the junk.
If you have not yet read an insightful debunking of Regnerus’s garbage, you could go here.
My object, though, is to expose Regnerus’s “study” as a total fraud and a hateful election year political stunt.
NOM’s mastermind Robert George, as happens, also is the mastermind of Regnerus’s anti-gay political propaganda masquerading unjustifiably as “social science.”
Robert George’s virulent, medieval anti-gay biases are already very well known. George is an author of the gay-bashing Manhattan Declaration, which essentially is an anti-Obama election document. George also is an author of the gay-bashing NOM pledge, signed by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
For his service towards the Republican goal of evicting the LGBT-friendly President Obama from the White House, Robert George was rewarded by House Speaker John Boehner, who appointed him to the egregiously misnamed U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. The bitter irony should be lost on nobody that in the United States, Robert George is working tirelessly to deprive clergy who wish to marry same-sex couples of their religious freedom right to do so.
Now, here is how we know that Regnerus’s junk study is corrupted by NOM from beginning to end:
1) The study was funded in part by The Witherspoon Institute, where NOM’s Robert George is a Senior Fellow;
2) The study was further funded by The Bradley Foundation, where NOM’s Robert George is a Board member:
In other words, NOM’s Robert George, the most malevolent and determined of all American political gay bashers, arranged for the funding of Regnerus’s study. Reportedly, Robert George got Mark Regnerus three-quarters of a million dollars to do the study. You read that right: three-quarters of a million dollars. Now ask yourselves; who picked Regnerus to do the deed? If Robert George got the funding for this study, do you think that Robert George subsequently had no say in who would carry the study out — not to mention — how they would carry it out?
This study was not funded and otherwise arranged for out of pure scientific curiosity. NOM’s Robert George had specific, ill-intentioned anti-gay political goals in funding the study and controlling how the study was carried out and promoted to the public. This is not science, this is not scholarship; this is anti-minority political hate propaganda.
It must be noted that on his Trinity Christian College bio, Mark Regnerus, an Evangelical, says that he thinks his “Christian” faith should inform his research and every other aspect of his work.
Regnerus’s junk study was announced with great fanfare, and an accompanying, anti-gay families editorial, in the LDS Church’s Deseret News. The Deseret News attempts to lend unwarranted respectability to Regnerus’s corrupt junk study, by saying that the study was published in a journal, Social Science Research. (More on this topic later).
READ: NOM Founder And Mormon Church Tied To First Report Of New Anti-Gay Parenting Paper
Nowhere does the Deseret News mention that the study was funded under the direction of NOM’s Robert George.
Nor do Deseret News reports — and anti-gay-leaning editorials — about Regnerus’s junk propaganda even bother to mention that NOM’s Robert George is on The Deseret News’s Editorial Board. Having arranged funding for the study, and having had a say in directing the political aims of the study, NOM’s Robert George also was able to dictate his NOM blog’s and Deseret News’s editorializing about the study.
In all the many ways and places — including the NOM blog — that the anti-gay NOMzi Republicans have been promoting Regnerus’s junk study — for which, it cannot be said often enough — NOM’s Robert George arranged the funding — no NOMzi ever mentions that NOM’s Robert George arranged the funding.
What else have the gay-bashing NOMzis rolled out for this hate-filled propaganda blitz?
And in a related question, who went running to venues like ABC with the news of this study? Networks do not pick up on fake social science out of the blue. Who, connected with NOM’s Robert George and with Regnerus, brought the study to the networks’ attentions? Was it NOM’s public relations firm? Or was it Regnerus’s publicists? You have to bear in mind that most studies heretofore done on the subject showed that children raised by same-sex parents do well overall. The vicious gay-bashing NOMzis hated that, and wanted to do something about it. Now, without so much as even eating a dinner with a gay couple and their children, the NOMzis have paid an extravagant sum in order to carry out an attack against all gay parents as a class.
In addition to paying for Regnerus’s study, had control over picking the evangelical Regnerus to carry out the study, and arranging for the study to be heavily promoted through venues over which NOM’s Robert George has editorial control, anti-gay bigots simultaneously coordinated with Dr. Loren Marks, who is alleging, basically, that all previously-reported positive measures of same-sex parents are false.
Why is this Dr. Marks not to be trusted, ever, on matters involving gay human beings?
Marks holds undergraduate and Master’s degrees from Brigham Young University, owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The BYU “Honor Code” prohibits all forms of physical intimacy that give expression to homosexual feelings (while there is no such restriction against expressing heterosexual feelings). Additionally, BYU has this as official policy: No one may advocate homosexuality or promote homosexual relations as being morally acceptable.
Marks previously was lined up by NOM’s anti-gay thugs to testify, essentially against gay parents, in a Proposition 8 related case, even though he had no experience studying or working with same-sex parents. A transcript of Marks’s deposition in the case shows that under questioning, he admitted that he had cherry-picked information convenient to his anti-gay arguments out of the studies he relied on, that he neither read those studies in their entirety, nor knew anything whatsoever about same-sex parents, and that his presumptions were based on his theologically-fueled prejudice against gay people. The witness stand was a lonely place for Marks to tell his anti-gay lies; in the matter of this study, he is not at all under oath, nor is Regnerus, or NOM’s Robert George.
In sum, it is no mere coincidence that Marks’s and Regnerus’s anti-gay political propaganda is appearing at the same time and is being very aggressively promoted by the same sleazy cast of gay-bashing theocratic characters.
Marks’s sleazebag political slap at gay parents appeared in the same online “journal,” as Regnerus’s junk, “Social Science Research.”
Why nobody else has asked whether the Regnerus and Marks studies were peer reviewed, and if so, who those peers might have been, I do not know. According to the site’s “Peer Review Policy,” the editors “welcome suggestions for referees from the author(s).” “Referees” would be those who review the papers for scientific soundness and integrity prior to publication. Who were the “referees” for the Regnerus and Marks junk studies? Did the editors allow Regnerus and Marks to recommend their own referees? Were palms greased?
I sent Social Science Research head editor James Wright an e-mail, asking what vetting methods he used towards being certain that Regnerus was behaving ethically in carrying out and submitting his study to the publication. The financing of the study combined with the known, nasty political motives of the NOMzi who arranged the financing — in an election year — should disqualify the junk from any serious consideration. Nowhere does Social Science Research report that NOM’s Robert George 1) arranged for the funding of Regnerus’s study; or that he 2) had control over picking the evangelical Regnerus to carry out the study, apparently towards fulfillment of; 3) a specific, gay-bashing political goal. How — How? – was this project at all ethical?
In an e-mail, Wright neglected to say whether Regnerus and Marks were permitted to select the evaluators of their own studies. Wright also did not say just who evaluated the studies prior to publication. It appears entirely possible that the Regnerus and the Marks studies were reviewed by persons who share their theologically-motivated anti-gay biases. So far, Wright is not providing this crucial information; who reviewed those two studies? Wright has been involved in books seemingly promoting, and studies of so-called “Covenant Marriage.” Here is a typical sentence from his writings: “[T]his first analysis shows that (1) the beneficial effects of covenant marriage are tied largely to religiosity, and specifically the wife’s religiosity.” One political supporter of “Covenant Marriage” is Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, an SPLC-certified anti-gay hate group. The SPLC classifies groups as hate groups when they engage in patterns of deliberate lie-telling against a minority. In this paper, Wright and his co-authors used the phrase “the threat of gay marriage as a potentially destructive influence on the institution of marriage.” In that paper, Wright and his co-authors refer to efforts to “strengthen heterosexual marriage” as though same-sex couples’ marrying did anything to weaken “heterosexual marriage.” They also write about the “promotion of heterosexual marriage” when what they mean evidently is political opposition to same-sex marriage rights.
Something certainly smells funny, that Wright simultaneously published two anti-gay attack studies carried out by anti-gay theocrats, for election year use by the anti-gay political monsters of NOM.
Regnerus teaches at the University of Texas, Austin. I asked a spokesperson for Randy Diehl, Dean of the UT College of Liberal Arts, if he honestly believes that Regnerus’s study was carried out with academic integrity. I explained how the study was funded, and what NOM’s Robert George’s political intentions are against gay people. Dean Diehl gave a highly disigenuous, CYA response through his spokesperson. He did not at all acknowledge that NOM’s Robert George had funded Regnerus’s junk study, with pre-set anti-gay political aims. But he did blah-blah-blah at me about the need for different points of view to be explored.
That is a total cop out, and an abdication of Dean Diehl’s duty to uphold academic integrity. A university should not be a lies and propaganda factory, where scientific method can be flushed down the toilet to fulfill the demands of deep-pocketed gay-bashing monsters. The University of Texas, Austin handbook has a great deal to say about the topic of “Academic Dishonesty.” The relevant sections all specify that not all forms of disallowed academic dishonesty are described in the handbook. But there is one striking phrase that without question applies to the Regnerus NOM-funded junk study. The school forbids “providing false or misleading information in an effort to injure another academically or financially.”
The NOMzis are absolute world champions in pumping out misinformation – (and, now, this “study,” and Regnerus’s and NOM’s uses of it contain heaping servings of misinformation) – in deliberate attempts to do injury to other people they do not even know. One NOMzi goal, we must now remember, is to get annulled by force the marriages of every last currently-married same-sex American couple. Robert George finds no success, attempting to prove in a court that marriage equality does him or anybody else a personal damage, and increasingly, Republican as well as Democratic judicial appointees are ruling against anti-gay discriminatory laws, so George and his bigot thugs have to resort to dishonest hate speech propaganda campaigns to try to motivate the electorate against a minority.
NOM and Robert George have widely announced goals of strengthening the institutionalized financial disadvantaging of LGBT Americans. NOM and George are opposed to such measures as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would help to protect LGBTers’ rights to freedom from workplace discrimination. The Regnerus junk study and the deeply dishonest manner in which the evangelical Regnerus presented it to the public manifestly violates everything in the spirit and letter of the UTA description of “Academic Integrity.”
In this context, it must not go ignored that I have long deplored the Trustees of Princeton University, including Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman for looking the other way when Professor Robert George, who brings a lot of right wing money to the school’s vicinity, violates Princeton’s “Rules, Rights and Responsibilities” by publishing anti-gay lies as quack scholarship with the Princeton name attached to the lies.
It is hardly a surprise that NOM’s Robert George did not hesitate to exert a corrupting political anti-gay influence on an academic in a different university.
The words in Regnerus’s junk study — and in Marks’s equal heap of anti-gay junk — should not be dignified by repeating them in order to rebut them.
That NOM’s Robert George funded the Regnerus anti-gay political propaganda, had control over picking the evangelical Regnerus to carry it out, and used venues over which he had editorial control to push the study, without ever disclosing that he had arranged for its funding, is the only thing one really needs to know.
The whole episode is shameful, and yet — surprise to end all surprises — NOM’s Robert George, Maggie Gallagher, Brian Brown and Thomas Peters know no shame.
An e-mail was sent to Mark Regnerus, asking if he is acknowledging how his study got funded through NOM’s Robert George to the tune of three-quarters of a million dollars — a windfall for domestic, non-foreign social sciences — and if he is acknowledging George’s long-established, virulent anti-gay bias. As of publication, Regnerus had not given me the courtesy of a reply. Some “scientist” Regnerus is.
Do not bother looking for any integrity in NOM or in Regnerus; they have none.
NOM Shill Mark Regnerus’ Long History Of Using Religion To Attack Gays
In its dirty War Against Gays, the National Organization for Marriage never has hesitated to tell lies, more lies, and even more lies towards perpetuating the absolute evil of sexual orientation apartheid.
So it came as no surprise whatsoever that NOM’s co-founder Robert George – who has a history of publishing anti-gay lies in supposed scholarly journals — went out and found a willing theocratic shill in Mark Regnerus, to pump out, and then to promote heavily a hack propaganda “study” that does not at all measure same-sex-headed households, in order to communicate to the public the anti-gay hate speech message that same-sex parents are dangerous to children.
READ: Why Is Princeton University’s President Shielding NOM’s Founder?
The message is not far from the NOM specialty of inciting people to conflate homosexuality with pedophilia.
One of the oddest things about Regnerus’s anti-gay hate study is that it asked potential study subjects if, between their birth and the time they left home, one of their parents had ever had a same-sex romantic relationship.
Anybody who said yes, qualified to take the rest of the survey.
That is suspicious on its face, as not every parent has had an affair, and not every parent who has, has talked about it with their children.
Do you talk with your parents about their supposed extra-marital affairs? Then too; Regnerus alleges that he had to ask such a question, because through to the 1990s, there were no gay adults raising children. That is false, actually. There were, for example, through to the 1990s, gay uncles and lesbian aunts who took guardianship of children after the children’s heterosexual parents passed away. And, with the $785,000 funding that NOM’s Robert George secured for Regnerus to do a study, Regnerus could have focused on finding such families to evaluate them, instead of carrying out his malicious anti-gay hit job.
Regnerus was raised in a viciously anti-gay ambiance and is himself a theocratic heterosupremacist.
In one strikingly peculiar revelation, Regnerus wrote: ”My father, a minister, told me that he’d rather ‘bury people than marry people.’” We must not ignore that Regnerus’s writings often have been used in the past by anti-gay groups to promote anti-gay ideas. In an article sub-section titled “Changing Ideals,” Regnerus wrote: “Our Creator clearly intended for male and female to be knit together in covenantal relationship.”
READ: Opinion: How Anti-Gay Regnerus ‘Study’ Was Corrupted By NOM From Beginning To End
In that connection, everybody must take note that the “Social Science Research” editor James Wright, who published Regnerus’s study simultaneously with another anti-gay parenting study by the theocrat propagandist Loren Marks, has published books promoting “Covenant Marriage.” Wright furthermore has, in his published academic papers, written about the supposed “threat of gay marriage as a potentially destructive influence on the institution of marriage.”
Regnerus is a 1993 graduate of Trinity Christian College; even today, that school’s diversity statements say nothing about sexual orientation, or gender identity and expression. Regnerus later taught at Calvin College, which is one of the most resolutely and aggressively anti-gay schools in the country. The Calvin College Board of Trustees only recently issued an edict that “advocacy by faculty and staff, both in and out of the classroom, for homosexual practice and same-sex marriage is unacceptable.”
As part of the gay-bashing promotional blitz of his hack job that Regnerus has been coordinating with his NOM funders, Regnerus has been lying his head off. On the evangelical website Patheos, Regnerus held a Q&A with himself, to promote his study, and his and NOM’s faith-based anti-gay hate, in which he fraudulently alleged that his personal religious viewpoint had nothing to do with his study. Meanwhile on his Trinity Christian College alumnus biography, Regnerus says: ”After I graduated, I went to seminary.” Regnerus goes on to say: ”As Christians, our lives should reflect our relationship with God and our desire to glorify Him. I’ve noticed that some Christian professors see a disconnect between their faith and their profession. I believe that if your faith matters, it should inform what you teach and what you research.” Regnerus further says: “When I teach . . . my worldview colors what I do in the classroom.” He also says: “I want my students to recognize the connection between my faith and my work.”
Which religions does Regnerus follow, incidentally? The University Of Notre-Dame profile of him reports this: “his academic interest in family formation trends and processes had arisen while still an evangelical and his recent entrance into the Catholic Church has shaped his own thinking about fertility and family life.” Pope Benedict, the erstwhile member of the Hitler Jugend, has fraudulently alleged, in an anti-gay hate-mongering outburst, that the entire future of humanity depends on banning same-sex marriage. Arch-bigot Timothy Dolan sent President Obama a letter threatening a church state conflict of unprecedented proportions over gay rights.
Meanwhile, the NOMzi theocrat gay-bashers are pushing, pushing, pushing Regnerus’s faith-based contempt for gay people. NOM ratfink Thomas Peters posted about the Regnerus theocratic poison, on CatholicVote.org using this title: “5 Reasons the Kids-of-Gay-Parents Study Means Its (sic) Time for Gay Marriage Supporters to Revisit Their Assumption.”
Peters is a Robert George protege in political gay-bashing; in his post, he articulates Robert George’s motives in hiring Regnerus as a NOM shill: “My particular hope in all of this is that individuals who originally changed their views about marriage because of previous misleading research about child outcomes display the intellectual honesty to revisit their support of same-sex marriage now that we have more conclusive evidence to the contrary.”
Got it? The NOMzi-Regnerus theocrats are using blatant lies about gay people to push their demands that gay people not be given their inalienable rights. And to boot, the NOMzis are using, as anti-gay propaganda, a “study” that did not measure gay parenting, to say that gay rights supporters should now use that same defamatory study to apply “intellectual honesty” to their positions.
That is a typical twisted NOMzi incitement to anti-gay hate.
Regnerus himself is promoting his study to incite to anti-gay hatred and discrimination, though exactly what he says about the study depends on the venue to which he is giving an interview. Consider what he told The National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez.
Regnerus told Lopez that his study confirmed that married heterosexual parents provide the “gold standard” for child rearing. Where in Regnerus’s study does one see anything about a supposed “gold standard”? Did peer review perceive any “gold standard” in the data showing that a married heterosexual mother and father produces “Gold Standard Children” and that married gay and lesbian couples produce something else, maybe, for example, a silver or bronze standard? Is that what Regnerus’s research data prove? Regnerus is telling right-wing interviewers that his study proves a “gold standard” in parenting, when it absolutely does not. Regnerus studied adult children of heterosexual — perhaps bi-sexual parents — one of whom allegedly had had a same-sex affair.
Regnerus is telling the right wing media dirty gay-bashing lies about what his study says, when his study does not say those things at all. Further prior evidence of his manifest contempt for gay human beings and their rights can be found in many places on the internet.
NOM very actively is demonizing all gay parents on the basis of the Regnerus study it got funded; Regnerus is doing nothing to demand that NOM stop misrepresenting his work.
In this context, we must not forget that NOM tells its followers that gays are not human, and are “worthy to death.” During an all-day anti-gay hate symposium at Liberty University, NOM’s William C. Duncan led a session titled: “Homosexuals or Homo Sapiens; Who Deserves Protected Class Status?”
That is the level of hatred that the LGBT community is dealing with during the 2012 elections. Here, you can see Mitt Romney’s signature on the NOMzis’ gay-bashing “pledge.”
Mark Regnerus is a despicable, gay-bashing, duplicitous theocrat NOMzi shill. He has knowingly taken $785,000 to produce anti-gay propaganda for NOM’s Robert George, with a premeditated intent to demonize gay human beings in an election year, when their rights hang in the balance of who wins the election.
Scott– thanks for writing all of that. I was going to do something ismilar, and may still do so.
The intensely homophobic NJ Family Policy Cousel
has already sent out it’s newsletter praising this “study”. This is the group that defeated a gay marriage option in NJ. While 60,000 unwanted children sit waiting in foster care in this state (I’m going to assume the majority of these children are from “straight” or 1 man 1 woman relationships) it is astounding that this pseudo “family” counsel devotes the majority of it’s time and money spreading hate and smearing gay families. They included this reference:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/10/study-children-fare-better-traditional-mom-dad-fam/
Isabel
A shoddy piece of work indeed! We may need research, but we don’t need any more studies designed to support the bias of those that pay for the study.
It’s strange as much as it is obvious hypocrisy when these heterosexual bigots go on so much about the “un-natural”-ness of homosexuality as if heterosexuality was some type of purity.
If heterosexuality was a purity then why in more than most cases (if not all) is child rape and spousal abuse cases come from families with heterosexual parents? This guy needs to do a study and count how many kids, teens and spouses from heterosexual parented families end up being abused by their own parents. He should also do a study on the high percentage of these same cases are those that happen in “religious” families and households.
Fact is fact and a lie is always just another lie.
Someone needs to count and report the number of known incest rape cases where the victims are children of heterosexual parented households. There should also be a count and report on how many of those same households and others where women have experienced sexual and physical abuse from their husbands or boyfriends. Do the math.
Evangelical Roman Catholic Dominionist Mark Regnerus admits that his religious sect affects his research.
This fact alone is enough to disqualify him as a scientific researcher of anything at all.
To not launch an investigation on this study would be a disservice to the legitimate scholars of science and it’s community. Psuedo studies like this will ridicule and discredit any reputable study and its scholars of science in far reaching ways we do not forsee.
It all stems from religious balderdash!
Those of us who are gay and parents and who will feel the real, hard-hitting, subtle and not-so-subtle impact of this study urge you to turn this into a positive by showing what kind of university you really are through a thorough, truth-telling investigation.
For a review of the bigotry behind Regnerus’ “study” – a facade for a propaganda stunt to bolster his own personal opinions – see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zinnia-jones/regnerus-same-sex-parents-study_b_1595213.html Regnerus definitions are flawed, and his new “institute” a fraud backed by rightwing extremist organizations. UT and Elsevier – publisher of Social Science Research – should be ashamed of any association with this seriously flawed research. Has serious similarities to Wakefield’s MMR study (“proved” what he set out to prove after seriously manipulating/likely falsifying data)except no one else had the gall to sign onto this single-author “study”
NOW WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND IS GOING TO TELL ME IT TOOK ALL THAT MONEY TO DO THIS? CAN YOU IMAGINE THE GOOD THIS KIND OF MONEY COULD HAVE DONE? MEDICAL RESEARCH, CARE FOR THE ELDERLY, SCHOLERSHIPS FOR POOR KIDS??? AMAZING HOW PEOPLE CAN WASTE MONEY! JUST GOES TO PROVE THAT THE RICH IN THIS COUNTRY CAN BUY EXACLY WHO AND WHAT THEY WANT! WATCH OUT PRES. OBAMA..THESE NUTS HAVE THEIR DOLLARS SET AGAINST YOU TOO!
I know far too many well adjusted kids that have been nurtured by gay parents. There is something fishy with this Texas study.
Well, there went nearly $800,000 to “prove” that 2+2=6. What hurts the most is, this is from U. T. Austin. Why are they turning Bevo into a steer? It’s enough to make you move to Oklahoma. (Oh, wait; I did, after Shrub.)
What this study really shows is that gay men and lesbians shouldn’t enter in to heterosexual marriages and that divorce is bad for children. This is news?
Do not stop with the University. Pressure Elsevier (publisher) and the editors of Social Science Research (journal that published the article) about the review process for accepting the article for print. Peer review is the foundation of scholarly research. What degree of rigor was applied to this article? Who were the reviewers? Was there instruction to revise and resubmit?
The question is if US funds (taxpayer $) went to pay for this or was it private. If its private them who contributed?
If US Funds went to pay for it then we should be able to stop such funding in the future meanwhile the damage is done and we arye stuck with damage control,
“Christian” science is to Science as military music is to Music.
As a graduate of UT Austin I am ashamed to be associated with a biased and politically motivated ‘research’ project such as this. It certainly must be investigated to determine how and why this was allowed to proceed in a manner that was so obviously flawed and inadequately planned and carried out. Thank you.
For me, the real psychological question is: why do these people need to do anti-gay things? What do they get from it emotionally?
Signed.
Maybe we should launch an investigation into Mr. Regnerus’ parents as to why a supposedly heterosexual male is so interested in what gay people do?
To what ends will bigotry and ignorance go?
Why don’t we investigate how these critics raise their children?
I had to get in between my daughter and former husband to protect my daughter from him as he was so out of control he was hitting her.
Children need loving families, that’s all that matters. Be it two daddies or mommies is irrelevant.
My wife and I have two children, both from former marriages. My daughter, 30, is a lawyer. Our son, 19 is studying to become and electrician. We are very proud of both our daughter and son, who have been raised by us and turn to us if they require relational advice and emotional support. In the speech that she gave, during our marriage ceremony, my daughter said that we have taught her the meaning of unconditional love. She knows that her two Moms and her brother will be there for her, no matter what. Our children love their Mom’s (and their Dad’s) and are no different than any of their cousins or peers who have grown up in strictly heterosexual households.
I think it is deplorable that some people within right-wing Christian churches continue to look for any and every excuse to attempt to denograte LGBTQTTI people and families. How very un-Christ like of them! Perhaps they need to remember that Christ told us to judge not lest we be judge and not to attempt to take the spec out of our brother’s eye, lest we miss the log in our own!
In Peace and Solidarity,
J
I am a minister and the heterosexual parent of three grown children, and the grandmother of 2 teenagers.
As minister, cousin and friend, and the reader of much reputable research, I know that homosexual people are very good parents.
Rweverend Judy Deutsch
Please stop the abuse through false science.
Obviously the State of Texas, and eventually the whole USA, will be bombarded with the phony research of these foolish idiots. But I signed the petition based on my knowing David Armstrong, who died several years ago in Texas. He was a fine upstanding Gay individual who would have fought vigorously against the Family Research Council et. al. and the whole shebang of anti-Gay Re-Publicans if he were still with us.
I personally know a lesbian couple who raised a wonderful daughter. She just started college this year. Her parents did a fantastic job raising her. That’s all the “research” I need to know: that as long as the couple is committed to the responsibility of raising a child, regardless of the couples’ gender, that child will turn out just fine.
Pure ignorance based on hate. Amazing that any instituion of higher learning would lower its standards by allowing its name to be associated with this nonsense. UT will be the laughing stock of the academic world.
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