Gay Parents: 11 x more likely to molest and other "goodies"

[_Chap]

It is also worth recalling that for the majority of children awaiting adoption, the choice is not between a nice regular man-woman married couple living in a large house in the suburbs with a lawn and a picket fence, close to a good school, with optional kittens, and a pair of outrageously camp gays with multiple piercings and bondage fetishes living in an inner-city apartment, but between life in a loveless and often dangerous institution where they may be open to multiple abuse, and adoption by a couple of whatever composition who actually want them, and with whom they may have a reasonably stable home life.

I know which I would have picked.

[_Chap]

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/13nqnl/iama_18yr_old_boy_who_was_raised_by_my_two/

He looks lesbian to me.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Well. Whatever. Good for him. He seems happy enough, and he's not out acting like a complete heterosexual asshole, which we know all heterosexuals act like assholes because they're heterosexual.

V/R
Dr. Cam

[_Chap]

Well. Whatever. Good for him. He seems happy enough, and he's not out acting like a complete heterosexual asshole, which we know all heterosexuals act like assholes because they're heterosexual.

V/R
Dr. Cam

Well, I was sort of joking ...

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Clearly. :)

[_EAllusion]

I wouldn't have considered this post off-topic to general Mormon discussion given the role homosexual relationships have played in LDS themed commentary over the past decade.

[_Dr. Shades]

I wouldn't have considered this post off-topic to general Mormon discussion given the role homosexual relationships have played in LDS themed commentary over the past decade.

He didn't tie it in to Mormonism at all, but if you think it's on-topic, I'll move it back.

[_Chap]

I wouldn't have considered this post off-topic to general Mormon discussion given the role homosexual relationships have played in LDS themed commentary over the past decade.

He didn't tie it in to Mormonism at all, but if you think it's on-topic, I'll move it back.

If it's by bcspace, it's about Mormonism, even if he doesn't realize it is ...

[_hobo1512]

I don't know if this one could be considered "str8", or "gay". LOL

http://www.abc4.com/content/news/state/ ... jRsqg.cspx

[_palerobber]

bcspace, thanks for giving me the opportunity to repost my late reply to you when you posted this exact same dishonest and hate-mongering "study" back in August....

aside from any allegations of misconduct, there's something very important i think every American voter ought to know about Regnerus' study.

his study absolutely did not find, as bcspace parroted, that...

[...] adult children from gay families are “more apt to report being unemployed, less healthy, more depressed, more likely to have cheated on a spouse or partner, smoke more pot, had trouble with the law…” than children from traditional mom-and-dad households.

indeed, it could not possibly have found that, because Regnerus didn't even study a sample of "adult children from gay families".

instead, out of the 248 adult children Regnerus selected for his "study group" only two -- less than 1% -- were from an intact gay family (i.e. two gay or lesbian partners living together throughout the subject's childhood). the remaining 99%+ had come from some variety of broken home where one of their biological parents -- short of actually even being gay -- had ever been involved in a same sex relationship, however brief. but now what about the "control group" Regnerus constructed of 2740 adult children of hetero parents? believe it or not, all 2740 of them -- 100% -- were drawn from intact biological famlies (excluding even those subjects from intact hetero step-parent households).

now i know nothing about the academic ethical standards that studies like this are expected to meet, but here's what we can say about this just from the standpoint of everyday ethics -- if a researcher does a study in which the overriding control factor is intact vs. broken households, and then goes out and presents his study as comparing gay vs. hetero households, then it's fair to say that this researcher (Regnerus) is a lying sack of crap.