Comments on: Equality news round-up: Reports from Netroots Nation’s transgender equality panel, and more

By: Walter

Walter — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:49:15 +0000

The study seems to be getting a significant amount of bad press. Link shows an article this morning on Huffington Post. It seems researchers take a group of dysfunctional families, label them as gay, and then proceed to compare them to stable straight families. They, then, conclude children fair better with straight parents.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/12/gay-pare…

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 03:07:28 +0000

It should also be noted that this whole thing is indirectly a NOM creation. The co-founder of NOM sits on the boards of both of the right-wing think tanks that funded the study and also on the advisory board of the Mormon propaganda rag Deseret News which first reported it.

And the author of the study is an ultra-conservative Catholic who has a habit of writing op-eds about family issues which frequently have an anti-gay slant. He makes a huge deal about his religion in public.

By: DaveP

DaveP — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:33:11 +0000

Lots of very good info over there from the various commenters, especially you, SGM. I read some of your back-&-forth emails with the guy who created this "study". I think you may have frightened the poor man. Good for you!

By: Str8Grandmother

Str8Grandmother — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:06:53 +0000

About that new study out of Texas that supposedly shows that kids are harmed if their parent (s) are gay. The conversation is to long to repeat here but i am having e-mail exchanges with Dr. Regnurus's just released study and posting them at Box Turtle.
I feel we all need to know about this study because this is going to be used again and again against Sexual Minorities. Actually the study is about children who were raised in a Mixed Orientation Marriage, one parent gay and one parent straight. This says nothing about 2 loving lesbains or 2 loving gay men creating and raising a family and how those children do. http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/06/11/45557” target=”_blank”>www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/06/11/45557
and a lot of comments on the article that broke the story http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/06/10/45512

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:48:40 +0000

sorry try this,,,, it's good http://youtu.be/s2yIaNSFBBw

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:44:29 +0000

this pastor has a great message bang on the truth

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By: Sagesse

Sagesse — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:28:06 +0000

By: Seth from Maryland

Seth from Maryland — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:16:59 +0000

BUSH: I don’t think people need to be discriminated against because they don’t share my belief on this, and if people love their children with all their heart and soul and that’s what they do and that’s how they organize their life that should be held up as examples for others to follow because we need it. We desperately need it and that can take all sorts of forms, it doesn’t have to take the one that I think should be sanctioned under the law.

Bush’s statement is not an endorsement of marriage equality. Still, coupled with his other observation about how his father and Ronald Reagan would have a hard time finding common ground in today’s GOP, it does show the potential of a party shift on marriage equality similar to President Obama’s own evolution.

–Steven Perlberg
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/06/11/497268/j…

By: Seth from Maryland

Seth from Maryland — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:16:12 +0000

Jeb Bush: Loving Same-Sex Parents Should Be ‘Held Up As Examples For Others’
In an otherwise comfortable interview with Charlie Rose last Thursday, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R) struggled to answer questions about his stance on marriage equality. Although his brother supported a constitutional ban on gay marriage as president, the younger Bush believes America needs all forms of families as parenting examples. He clarified that he personally still opposes same-sex marriage, but despite his platitudes offered a contrast to many of his GOP cohort: