Ecce, errr, homo.
Posted on 01/15/2010 2:17:02 PM PST by Abathar
SAN FRANCISCO -- Children raised by same-sex parents are as well-adjusted and safe from abuse as kids who grow up with a mother and father, a Cambridge University psychologist testified Friday in a federal lawsuit challenging California's same-sex marriage ban.
"For a significant number of these children, their adjustment would be promoted were their parents able to get married," developmental psychologist Michael Lamb said while undercutting arguments made by sponsors of Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage ballot measure passed in 2008.
Lamb said there was no evidence that children with gay parents were more likely to become gay themselves or become victims of sexual abuse or incest. Click here to find out more!
In addition, he said no evidence exists that gays or lesbians were more likely to sexually abuse children.
"We have a substantial body of evidence documenting that a child being raised by same-sex parents are just as likely to be well-adjusted as children raised by heterosexual parents," Lamb said.
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Ecce, errr, homo.
I taught for years in an inner-city college where the kids almost universally insisted that single parenting—the only kind most of them knew firsthand—was obviously equivalent to being raised in a two-parent household. What could I say to convince them differently? “You are living in a ghetto precisely BECAUSE your parents couldn’t be bothered to raise you in a normal family”??? Nope, that would only hurt feelings and build still more defensiveness. But it was the God’s-honest truth.
The same dynamic applies to these “gay” families. Putting kids in a household with two “parents” of the same sex is a recipe for disaster, but who will be so bold as to tell it like it really is?
What does this testimony have to do with the constitutionality of Prop. 8? From what I have read of the testimony presented so far NONE of it addresses the constitutionality of the proposition.
Same sex couple adoption is the next goal post in the homosexual agenda. They can’t get there as easily without the norming of same sex couples.
Yes, and I knew a lesbian who was married to a man, who molested her daughters. So, there are all types. The woman should have gone to jail for what she did to those girls, but we just didn't understand it at the time. We kept saying that B---- could not be a lesbian because she is married, so it couldn't be true.
However, if you like, I can show you statistics that show that heterosexuals murder their children at much higher rates than gay parents.
Future victims of paedophiles.
Well that depends on how you define "good parent" doesn't it. Suppose Adam and Steve are living together with Adam's 13 year old biological son named Billy. Adam and Steve both love little Billy, who is now approaching adolescence and starting to wonder about girls and about what it means to be a man. Little Billy hears daddy getting corn-holed every night by Steve. "Ughhh ughhh ughhh....oh Steve, oh yes, put it in me.....". And you're going to sit here and try to tell me that this is not going to screw with little Billy's head? You're going to tell me that this is not going to confuse little Billy about what it means to be a man? About how he should interact with other men and with women?
I don't care if Adam and Steve say they love little Billy or not, it's child abuse. They are screwing with the kids head. John Lennon once said "all you need is love". Well you know what, John Lennon was full of crap. It takes more than love and good intentions. And just because you use the word "love" in a sentence, it doesn't mean that everything you do is therefor AOK. You want to play statistical games with me? Bring it on, pal. I'll show you a hell of a lot more statistics that show that children raised in "loving" gay home have about a zillion times more probability of long term mental problems. (Ya, ya, I know, you're going to tell me that "I know this guy who" was raise by gay parent and turned out to be a wonderful person, etc. etc., as if I were actualy going to believe you.)
Practicing gays raising children is child abuse, and this has been shown by study after study, covering thousands of children, across decades of time. Love is NOT "all you need" (Ya, ya, I know, this makes me an evil, bigoted, homophobic gay basher.)
Or suppose your mother is the heterosexual Susan Smith, and you are a toddler and your mother straps you and your brother into car seats and pushes the car into a murky lake. You and your brother cry as the water flows into the car and soon there is no more air to breath and only the murky water to fill your lungs?
Or suppose five siblings named Luke, Paul, John, Noah and Mary are drowned one by one by Andrea Yates, their mother in a bathtub?
So you see, simply because someone is a heterosexual does not make them a good parent and simply because someone is gay does not make them a bad parent.
And again, if you want to talk about statistics and facts, I can show you that heterosexuals kill their babies in far larger rates than gays.
IBTZ
I never said that being heterosexual automatically makes someone a good parent. You came up with that strawman. I said that exposing your child to a homosexual environment automatically makes you a bad parent, and I stand by that statement.
And again, if you want to talk about statistics and facts, I can show you that heterosexuals kill their babies in far larger rates than gays.
Okay, I'm game. Show me the statistics, and don't forget to include the source. And when you've done that, explain to me how they show that gays make good parents.
I never said that children living in a homosexual environment are living in ideal circumstances, but it is only a small percentage of children in this country who do live in ideal circumstances. Show me the statistics, and don't forget to include the source.
Susan Smith and Andrea Yates are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to women that have killed their children as we all know that millions of heterosexual women in this country have killed their children.
And according to National Review 40% of American women under the age of 45 have killed at least one of their children.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/de_solenni200403090920.asp
Now, can you show me statistics that show that more than 40% of lesbians and gays have murdered their kids?
No matter how hard they try a gay couple can NEVER be good parents. Ever. Not even if they showed all the affection in the world and showered their adopted/IVF children with worldly gifts.
The unspoken lessons of a gay relationship are that sex is purely recreational, pleasure is everything, and childbearing is meaningless. If the child sees the two of them as role models than he or she will be guaranteed to grow up to be a dangerously promiscuous pro-death moonbat.
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