New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

[cbayer]

Good article for rebutting anyone who tries to seriously bring up this new *data*.

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/candacechellew-hodge/6064/new_anti-gay_snake_oil_for_religious_right/

Candace Chellew-Hodge
June 13, 2012 1:05am

Focus on the Family can hardly contain its glee over a new study that purports to show that “children raised by homosexual parents are dramatically more likely than peers raised by married heterosexual parents to suffer from a host of social problems.”

Calling this study “the gold standard” of same-sex parenting studies, FoF’s affiliate CitizenLink crowed that among those “social problems” were “strong tendencies, as adults, to exhibit poor impulse control; suffer from depression and thoughts of suicide; need mental health therapy; identify themselves as homosexual; choose cohabitation; be unfaithful to partners; contract sexually transmitted diseases; be sexually molested; have lower income levels; drink to get drunk; and smoke tobacco and marijuana.”


Sounds horrifying, right? And this study is the “gold standard” because, “All the other studies that have come out on how kids do in same-sex homes are all done by lesbian activist scholars,” according to Focus’ Glenn Stanton.

He’s obviously referring to the longitudinal study of same-sex parents conducted by Nanette Gartrell, M.D., who, according to her bio, “is a 2012 Williams Institute Visiting Distinguished Scholar, UCLA School of Law, and she has a guest appointment at the University of Amsterdam. She was previously on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Francisco.” Oh, and she has a female spouse, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D., with whom she has a 35-year long relationship.

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[TlalocW]

1. Whatever

What about all the studies evangelicals done by their own people that showed that their flocks consumed pornography, lived together before marriage, had out-of-wedlock kids, etc. at rates the same or higher than the rest of society? What about all those evangelicals who keep having gay kids? I mean, if we take their proposition that homosexuality is a choice, is not genetic, and is bad, then evangelicals who have gay skids are bad parents. Maybe the mom (people like Phyllis Schaffly) shouldn't be working outside the home. Is the dad there for the kid? If so, is he too effeminate? Shouldn't they be scoping out their own flock for moms and dads like this and have them enter some sort of "Christian" counseling?

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