First of all this week, there was a big (about 5,000 observations) sophisticated (University of Chicago Business School) study of bad behavior in little boys. Conclusion: little boys benefit substantially from living with both their biological parents. The second study was a little (78 observations) simplistic (unrepresentative sample, ideologically motivated researchers) of the Quality of Life of the children of lesbian couples. Conclusion: the children of lesbian couples are just as happy and well-adjusted as their peers. Read more…
Categories: Children, debunking MSM, Events, Gay and Lesbian, Jennifer Roback Morse, Parenting, Ruth Institute, same sex parenting Tags: Jennifer Roback Morse, lesbian, lesbian parenting, Ruth Institute, same sex parenting
November 26th, 2010
Betsy
by Melinda Selmys
The idea that sexual orientation is fixed is based on an impoverished view of the human person, says a former lesbian.
If you have undergone modern sexual education, followed the gay-marriage debates on television, or simply unconsciously imbibed the sexual ethos of this culture, you are probably familiar with the idea of sexual orientation. This is the theory that every human being has an innate, fixed set of sexual attractions either for the opposite sex, for their own sex, or for both. Read more…
November 22nd, 2010
Betsy
Funny that this should show up in my inbox after we’ve been discussing it recently.
Family Research Council (FRC) looked into the family lives and worship rates of 7,643 women between the ages of 14 and 44. Pat Fagan, senior fellow and director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute at FRC, co-evaluated the data and tells OneNewsNow about the findings.
“Once the girl grows up in a home in which her father is not present, it’s about three times” more likely she has had or will have homosexual partners, he says – but when she is raised by parents who are married and “always intact, it’s about a four-percent rate.” Moreover, he explains that rate is “slightly higher in the always-intact-but-cohabitating parents — that’s parents who never married.” Read more…
We’ve been talking about this study a lot lately, and now there’s a podcast about it here. Dr J appears on Issues, Etc to discuss the shoddy science and the gratuitous potshots contained therein.
Just in Time for Father’s Day…
November 24th, 2009
Betsy
Posted in ”No Left Turns” by Julie Ponzi
Irony is a funny thing . . . and sometimes irony is unavoidable. For Progressives who seek to deny the realities of low nature rather than taking them into account on the journey toward a more natural (in the higher sense) and just world, the irony often is that they end up embracing the low tyranny of nature’s grip on man. They think they are overcoming nature by denying it when, in fact, they only reaffirm their powerlessness in the face of it. They decry the “Cretan-like” and “backward” thinking of conservatives when, in fact, it is their way of thinking that points backward . . . way backward.
Jennifer Roback Morse helps to illustrate this phenomenon by taking to task a “story” that ripped through international headlines last week as it claimed to demonstrate that lesbian couples make better parents than heterosexual couples. As Roback Morse argues, the “story” amounted to a single (and fuzzy) quote from a lone conference participant at a meeting of the British think tank Demos during which they were discussing this report (a report which, by the way, does not at any point address the question of the relative merits of lesbian parents). Read more…
Categories: Babies, Children, family, Gay and Lesbian, Homosexuality, Jennifer Roback Morse, Parenting, Ruth Institute Tags: child rearing, gay adoption, Jennifer Roback Morse, lesbian, Ruth Institute
November 20th, 2009
Betsy
Charlie Butts and Jody Brown – OneNewsNow -
The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening an Alabama school district over prohibiting a lesbian from taking her girlfriend to the prom.
Tharptown High School near Russellville told Cynthia Stewart she could not attend the prom in March with her girlfriend in tow. On behalf of the 17-year-old junior and her guardian, the ACLU is now demanding that school officials reverse their decision. Read more…
September 30th, 2009
Betsy
By Piero A. Tozzi, J.D.
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The European Parliament voted 349 to 218 today to condemn Lithuania for its “law on the protection of minors” which prohibits promotion of “homosexual, bisexual or polygamous relations” among children under 18 in the Baltic nation. Conservative critics contend that the measure, crafted in reaction to the domestic legislation of a sovereign member state pertaining to the family, oversteps the Parliament’s authority. Read more…
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