Posted on 07/07/2014 9:44:34 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Notre Dame University has denied official recognition of a student group promoting policymaking that places primary emphasis on advocacy explicitly for the interests of children in considerations about so-called “Gay Marriage”. The quest for recognition by Students for Child-Oriented Policy (SCOP), was rejected in an April 30 letter from the university’s Student Activities Office.
In evaluating a proposal, approval is based on several things.…There was not a need for another similar-type club. The Club Coordination Council
SCOP’s Notre Dame Marriage Petition cites Pope Francis and the Catechism of the Catholic Church in support of the group’s quest to promote children’s interests as equally valid to the now-exclusive consideration given adults’ interests regarding so-called “Marriage Equity”.
“We reject the view that the young have agreed to redefine marriage. Rather, we think that they have not explored the meaning and importance of marriage.”
— Students for Child-Oriented Policy
An opposing group, Students Against SCOP, asserts that SCOP makes “incorrect implications that same-sex parenting is damaging to children – this blatantly ignores all empirical data in this field of the social sciences.”
SCOP’s incorrect implications that same-sex parenting is damaging to children…blatantly ignores all empirical data in this field of the social sciences.—Students Against SCOP
(Not quite.)
The most scientifically credible studies show that children of heterosexual parents fare better on numerous indicators of personal well-being than children of homosexual parents. Authored by Mark Regnerus, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, the study was published in the July 2012 issue of Social Science Research.
Regnerus’ findings conflict with studies widely touted by homosexual activists which have claimed that children raised by homosexual parents fare as well or even better than their peers. Many of these studies, Regnerus points out, have relied on small, self-selected samples, parent rather than child reported outcomes, and have exhibited evidence of political bias.
Regnerus drew his data from the New Family Structures Study, a data collection project that drew from a large, random sample of American young adults. This study is one of the few that measures outcomes as reported by the children of homosexuals, rather than relying on an assessment by the homosexual parent.
A large-scale study by Douglas W. Allen, professor of economics at Simon Fraser University, has found that children in same-sex households were only 65 percent as likely to graduate from high school as those living in traditional opposite sex marriage families.
Adverse Family Experiences Among Children in Nonparental Care, 2011–2012
Are Kids Equal to You?
Notre Dame University has denied official recognition of a student group promoting policymaking that places primary emphasis on advocacy explicitly for the interests of children in considerations about so-called “Gay Marriage”. The quest for recognition by Students for Child-Oriented Policy (SCOP), was rejected in an April 30 letter from the university’s Student Activities Office.
In evaluating a proposal, approval is based on several things.…There was not a need for another similar-type club. The Club Coordination Council
SCOP’s Notre Dame Marriage Petition cites Pope Francis and the Catechism of the Catholic Church in support of the group’s quest to promote children’s interests as equally valid to the now-exclusive consideration given adults’ interests regarding so-called “Marriage Equity”.
“We reject the view that the young have agreed to redefine marriage. Rather, we think that they have not explored the meaning and importance of marriage.”
— Students for Child-Oriented Policy
An opposing group, Students Against SCOP, asserts that SCOP makes “incorrect implications that same-sex parenting is damaging to children – this blatantly ignores all empirical data in this field of the social sciences.”
SCOP’s incorrect implications that same-sex parenting is damaging to children…blatantly ignores all empirical data in this field of the social sciences.—Students Against SCOP
(Not quite.)
The most scientifically credible studies show that children of heterosexual parents fare better on numerous indicators of personal well-being than children of homosexual parents. Authored by Mark Regnerus, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, the study was published in the July 2012 issue of Social Science Research.
Regnerus’ findings conflict with studies widely touted by homosexual activists which have claimed that children raised by homosexual parents fare as well or even better than their peers. Many of these studies, Regnerus points out, have relied on small, self-selected samples, parent rather than child reported outcomes, and have exhibited evidence of political bias.
Regnerus drew his data from the New Family Structures Study, a data collection project that drew from a large, random sample of American young adults. This study is one of the few that measures outcomes as reported by the children of homosexuals, rather than relying on an assessment by the homosexual parent.
A large-scale study by Douglas W. Allen, professor of economics at Simon Fraser University, has found that children in same-sex households were only 65 percent as likely to graduate from high school as those living in traditional opposite sex marriage families.
Adverse Family Experiences Among Children in Nonparental Care, 2011–2012
Are Kids Equal to You?
Unfortunately, objective measures don’t cut it in our fundamentally transformed America.
Who knew?
Don’t hold your breath waiting for NBC and other propaganda outlets to tout this, like they are that other one which says otherwise (it was the equivalent of an online survey).
It isn’t about the children, it’s about promoting the Marxist agenda.
Pray America wakes up
“We all knew, but we are currently being bludgeoned into submission, otherwise known as indoctrination. I will not go down with the pack, ever.”
Traditional conservatives have been marginalized, pushed to the fringes like the Amish. They can either accept that (and refuse to assimilate into the godless low-rent imitation of secular European culture) or be absorbed by the Borg. Not that we shouldn’t participate in the political process while living our lives; I just don’t see much sense in expecting our ideas to hold sway over an uneducated pagan society.
Stories of children being abused by homosexual “parents” or shot by thugs don’t even move me anymore; to me they are stories from a different world in which my participation isn’t wanted.
Yawn. Obama’s been elected twice. Existing society is devolving:
“screw the facts - have sex, with anything” is the way they want to go.
The rest of us prepare new children to take over for tomorrow.
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