[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Given that it is more life threatening to be a homosexual male than it is to smoke cigarettes, by about a factor of six I believe (as measured in average lifetime lost), shouldn't we be demonizing and taxing homosexuality at least six times more than we do smoking?

[concerned about politics]

Children need both a mother and a father. Why? Sociologist David Popenoe of Rutgers University has done extensive research on the different functions that mothers and fathers play in their children's lives. His studies show that while fathers tend to stress competition, challenge, initiative and risk-taking, mothers stress emotional security and personal safety. When disciplining, mothers provide important flexibility and sympathy, while fathers provide predictability and consistency. By nature, same-sex couples are unable to provide one-half of this equation.

I agree 100%.
I've seen children "grabbing for air" in one parent families ! They feel the lack of "something", but are unable to explain why they're so lost. I can imagine if two of the same sex were there. I feel so sorry for the social "guinea pig" kids being placed in homosexual homes today because maybe, just maybe, they'll be OK.

The homosexuals have published their agenda. Imagine a child in a home like this :

[ArmoredCav]

Homosexuals want us to accept their "lifestyle". Unfortunately, they can't accept their own "lifestyle"-- that is, gays are invariably biologically non-reproducing. For gays to have children is dishonest in "lifestyle" acceptance. Reproduction is a uniquely heterosexual function. Adoption by heteros is lifestyle consistent- children arriving at a natural "lifestyle" consistent family unit.

Demand consistency when arguing with special gay rights radicals-- it infuriates them!

[Rockitz]

How about a secular reference that says the same thing, so I can send it to my liberal acquaintances? This piece can't claim to be free of bias either, just as Rosie can't claim that.

[GrandMoM]

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Time to stop using the pediatrician and use your family (General practitioner) physician instead
Be sure to tell them why your leaving.
Suggest they speak with their professional Organization.

[T'wit]

Imagine having to cite studies to defend the family! Before the liberals messed up the country, everyone knew that kids needed a mom and a dad, that mom and dad must be married, and that (as everyone used to say), "This is the best darn country in the world."

We won't have a decent country again unless we stop listening to batbrains like Rosie and witch doctors like the APA.

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

claiming that children raised by homosexuals fare just as well as children whose parents are heterosexual

misprint correction: should have read
"homosexuals fairy just as well"

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

claiming that children raised by homosexuals fare just as well as children whose parents are heterosexual

misprint correction: should have read
"homosexuals fairy just as well"

[beckett]

I am happy to learn of the revolt in the ranks of the AAP. The Executive Director of the AAP, Dr. Joseph Hagan, Jr., claimed in US NEWS that children of gays suffer "no increase in depression, anxiety, gender identity problems, or adjustment problems." This is an outright lie.

I know someone who has been through this ordeal, a good friend who bared her soul to me over the course of many years. The experience just about destroyed her capacity for a happy heterosexual relationship. She insists that any claim that a straight kid can be well-adjusted when his or her parents are modeling same-sex behavior day in and day out, year in and year out, is absolutely absurd.

[Salvation]

-- Children raised by homosexual parents are more likely to experience gender and sexual confusion, more likely to become promiscuous and more likely to experiment with homosexual behavior. They are also at greater risk of losing a parent to AIDS, substance abuse or suicide.

In a nutshell. Catholic bump.

[Salvation]

Hate the sin; love the sinner. Speaking from experience here, since my brother died from AIDS.

[Intolerant in NJ]

By nature, same-sex couples are unable to provide one-half of this equation...another study you won't hear about from the gay lobby was designed and run to try to show the "beneficial" effects of two (lesbian) parents in the family - what it found instead was that one of the two usually ended as being seen by the children as the "mother" while the other of the pair ended up in the role of "big sister' - in othe words, even though there were two adults present, they were still in effect a one-parent families......

[SouthCarolinaKit]

It'll be interesting to see how much press this report gets compared to the 'outing' of Rosie! Admitting that Gays are less than better than straights is SO politically incorrect!

[Buffalo Bob]

[LadyDoc]

There is also two facts rarely discussed in this matter.

First, most girls giving up babies would not give their kids to gay couples. Once the fact that their kids might be adopted by gays gets around, I suspect fewer babies will be offered up for adoption, unless "open" adoption is done.

second, there is a bias to give kids to such couples. Remember when black social workers opposed black kids being given to white couples? The reason was that after the show "Different strokes" became popular, many rich upper middle class white couples decided to show how good they were by adopting "black" kids. So black kids were taken from their moms (usually for neglect by a druggie mom) and instead of giving the kid to HER mother or aunt, who were poor and black and might have been single or maybe not having enough bedrooms, the middle class white social workers would decide it was "better" for the kid to be given to a richer white family.

Now it is an open secret that many social workers are lesbian. Given the choice between a richer, white collar, upper middle class gay "couple" and a heterosexual, Christian "fundamentalist" blue collar worker, guess who gets the kid?

[BibChr]

found no basis for the conclusion that children raised by homosexual parents fare just as well as those raised by homosexual parents

Um... I'm betting they fare exactly as well.

Now, as compared with heterosexual parents — well, that's entirely another matter!

Dan (suspecting textual corruption)