Comments on: Same-sex parenting claims hotly contested

By: Gary Yates

Gary Yates — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 10:04:18 +0000

All these arguments (and the study too) are irrelevant for Catholics. Homosexuality is forbidden in both the Old and New Testaments, and the Church dogma is that it is intrinsically disordered and against natural law (CCC 2357).
Gary Yates

By: editor

editor — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:22:18 +0000

We have checked and found that an inadvertent, subtle change to meaning was made in editing. We have corrected that. Thank you.

By: editor

editor — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:20:17 +0000

Your comment as stated is not a fact, but an opinion. An opinion on military service does not of itself prove bigotry.

By: Scott Rose

Scott Rose — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:34:17 +0000

PS — Get your facts straight, please. Regnerus did not survey 20,000 people. He screened 15,000 from Knowledge Network’s online panel, of which 2,988 wound up taking the survey. Lies told to enhance one’s invalid argument do not help one to persuade those in the know that one is right.

By: Scott Rose

Scott Rose — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:32:42 +0000

Walter Schumm is a known anti-gay bigot. He said, for example, that homosexuals shouldn’t be allowed to serve in the military, because it is easier for them to have oral sex. Additionally, he is a paid Regnerus study consultant — something that was not disclosed in his paper. And, his submission to the journal was not peer reviewed, but the editor nonetheless published it with the hallmarks of peer review, including an abstract and the notation “Original Research Article.” Moreover, the Regnerus paper itself was publishing in violation of peer review ethics. None of the peer reviewers were topic experts, and all have fiduciary conflicts of interest with Regnerus and his funders.

By: JeffreyRO5

JeffreyRO5 — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 23:58:57 +0000

The Regnerus “study” has been overwhelmingly rejected in the US for its fraudulent funding and inaccurate data interpretation. Regnerus compared outcomes for the children of still-married different-sex couples, to divorced couples where one or both parents had a same-sex adulterous affair. Yet instead of blaming any negative outcomes on the divorce, Regnerus attributed all negative outcomes on the sexual orientation of the parent. Such shoddy work gets rejected pretty quickly in US academic circles.

Common sense tells us that sexual orientation has no bearing on one’s ability to parent. That’s because parenting isn’t a sexual activity. The things that make one a good parent, achieving successful parenting outcomes, are unrelated to sexual orientation. Reading to a child regularly, for example, is an activity equally accessible to straight parents and to gay parents.