Academic Outrage over Politically Incorrect Gay Parenting Study

American Thinker ^ | 9-19-2012 | David Paulin

[Renfield]

Sociologist Mark Regnerus, whose study on gay parenting outraged gay-rights advocates and their cheerleaders in the academy, started classes at the University of Texas in Austin with, he says, a bit of a load off his shoulders.

A university inquiry cleared him of charges of flawed scholarship. Or as gay activists and their many supporters in academia saw it -- that he'd engaged in some very calculated and vile gay-bashing.

Specifically, Regnerus was charged with "scientific misconduct" for his study in the July issue of Social Science Research, titled: "How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study."

Its politically incorrect conclusions, based on data from nearly 15,000 adults, contended that children reared over the years by gay and lesbian parents were, as adults, far less well-adjusted than adults reared as children in households of married biological and heterosexual parents. "The results reveal numerous, consistent differences, especially between the children of women who have had a lesbian relationship and those with still-married (heterosexual) biological parents," the study observed....

[x]

Immorality has so destroyed our culture that they have to produce studies to explain what is obvious.

That is what science is. It's "obvious" that the sun goes around the earth, but some people wanted to test that to be sure.

[Vision]

That’s not true at all.

[1010RD]

Right, that’s the secret cost of this alternative lifestyle. That we allow government schools to teach young people that it is normal and healthy is a crime.

[Smokin' Joe]

Liberals don't use science, they abuse it.

When you begin with a foregone conclusion and disregard/discard any data to the contrary you are no longer seeking answers nor to discern/explain what exists, you are only seeking to add a mask of credibility and authority to the agenda you pursue.

Since the latter is their aim, the only way to retain any of that purloined credibility is to attack the integrity of those who would report the theft.

But projection (in this case, the accusation of others of their own real or anticipated sins) is so common a trait among liberals as to be nearly universal.