[cherry]

the so called “study” was merely a vehicle to tout the gays...nothing more....it was most assuredly controlled and fixed to bring about the desired results..

[BCW]

Yeah....being a parent of adopted children from the foster care system (and I thank God daily for them) - I also know of a gay couple who also adopted out of the foster care system. The older children (old youth to early teens) were already identified as being gay as well - and as far as being happy - they are not. Alot of issues - alot of bouncing around - and stigma problems more so than the other foster kids that get bounced around.

Being adopted is hard enough - children realizing that they have two completely different parents weighs heavily on their minds. Even those that adopt babies. Although babies become more adjusted quicker if needs are met regularly.

Universally, there should be a strong desire to seek out the opposite sex to continue ones genes - those that go against this or choose not to because that attraction is not there - has to be dealt with on an individual level - and not through some independent study trying to push an agenda on how better gay couples are for adopted children. There are horror stories on both ends...but a universal normal - they are not.

[Cowboy Bob]

Why cruise gay bars when you can rape your adopted children? Less chance to get AIDS.

[ilovesarah2012]

Common sense tells you these kids will grow up very confused and have all sorts of issues. Geesh.

[Tax-chick]

on average, 6% better on two key measures, general health and family cohesion …

I'd like to see the specifics of a child with "6% better general health" than a second child. And the "family cohesion" is nonsense: homosexual couples are less stable even than unmarried heterosexual couples.

And yet, because of this "science," more vulnerable children will be placed with or sold to homosexuals.

[Yosemitest]

Most important part excerpt:

" ... This MEDIA BIAS is consistent with the their highly critical coverage of the New Family Structures Study (NFSS),
a work overseen by Professor Mark Regnerus
in which he examines nearly 3,000 adult children from 8 different family structures ,br>and evaluates them within 40 social and emotional categories.

... The NFSS's results showed that children who remain with their intact biological families
were better educated,
were in better mental and physical health,
reported overall higher levels of happiness,
displayed less drug use and less criminal behaviour.

The greatest negative outcomes were found among children of lesbian mothers, contrary to FAULTY studies popularized by the media.
The NFSS found negative outcomes for lesbians' adult children in 25 of 40 categories,
including far higher rates of sexual assault
(23% of lesbians' children were touched sexually by a parent or adult, compared to 2% raised by normal married parents),
higher levels of depression,
worse physical health,
more marijuana use,
and greater unemployment
(69% of lesbians' children were on welfare, compared to 17% of those with normal married parents).

Regnerus’ research disproved an often-cited 2005 brief by the American Psychological Association (APA) that concluded:
"Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents."
This sentence has now been removed from the APA's website.

And the confidence behind that assertion will be INVALIDATED again and again, as more research unearths the problems associated with homosexual parenting and/or adoption.

One such investigation is that by associate professor at Louisiana State University Loren Marks, published in Social Science Research.

His work reviews the 59 published studies cited by the APA to support its above-quoted claim.

Marks found them wanting in various areas,
including lack of homogeneous sampling,
absence of comparison groups,
presence of contradictory data,
and paucity of long-term outcome data.
The scope of the children’s outcomes studied was too limited:
they focused on "gender roles" and "sexual identities",
while neglecting to examine
the children’s education outcomes,
employment,
risk of substance abuse,
criminal behaviour,
or suicide.

The conclusion is that STRONG ASSERTIONS, including those made by the APA, WERE NOT empirically WARRANTED.

This debunking is particularly significant, in view of the fact
that the APA-endorsed studies have been used in attempts to influence legal decisions in European and American courts,
with claims like
"no objective scientific evidence exists to justify different treatment of same sex couples who wish to adopt",
"all reputable scientific studies have shown that the children of lesbian and gay parents are no more likely to suffer from emotional or other problems than the children of heterosexual parents",
and "a considerable body of professional literature provides evidence that
children with parents who are homosexual can have the same advantages and the same expectations for health, adjustment, and development as can children whose parents are heterosexual."

There's still work to do, but we are on the right track. "

[Yosemitest]

This is what we get when we FAIL to OBEY God.
For it is written:

“ For whosoever shall commit ANY of these abominations,
even the SOULS that commit them
SHALL BE CUT OFF from among their people. ”

Those who support homosexuals are against our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ.
These anti Christ people only bring destruction on us ALL.
I have NO sympathy for homosexuals!

Homosexuality is a "Mark" of disobedience.

It was given by our Heavenly Father to test us
to see ... if we will OBEY our Heavenly Father,
and abide by His commandments, statues, and ordinances.

Someone once asked

"Why are they [homosexuals] all so angry?"

The answer is in the definition of "REPROBATE".

rep·ro·bate \ˈre-prə-ˌbāt\ a. [L. reprobatus, reprobo, to disallow; re and probo, to prove.]

1. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.


Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. 6.




2. Abandoned in sin; lost to virtue or grace.

They profess that they know God, but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate. Titus 1.

3. Abandoned to error, or in apostasy. 2Tim. 3.

And the reason"why" is given in the Bible.

God has a cure for homosexuals.

But will we OBEY our Heavenly Father?

"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect
that God is just,
that his justice cannot sleep forever."

[Graybeard58]

Queer adoption must be ok, after all, the last "republican" presidential candidate said it was, "as long as the pervert adopters love each other".

[weezel]

IF you believe that being raised by 2 men as 2 dads cant hurt a person, consider this. How many lesbians do you know who have children? Why do lesbians have children? I THINK the answer just might be because when they were raised by a man and a woman, they THOUGHT that was the normal way, so they did that. However, as the grew older, their abnormality overtook them, and they turned gay.

Is it not possible that the exact opposite could occur? A person raised by two gay homosexuals could grow up feeling that that was normal, and go that way for that reason?

[logic101.net]

Not all homosexuals are pedophiles, but a shocking number of pedophiles are homosexual.

[NRA1995]

“Stigma against same-sex parenting.” Read: confused kids who don’t know which end is up due to the sins of their so-called parents.

[StonyBurk]

If same sex parenting is such a swell idea— then why did God make them male and female And Why do we still have the example of Sodom and Gomorrah to teach those who would rebel and live unrighteous —even today?There is NO science to this gay LIE
that children raised in same sex homes do so swimmingly swell.

[WayneS]

To compare the results from such an unusual sample with that of a population-based sample of everyone else [which is random] is just suspect science. And I may be putting that too mildly

She is putting it WAY to mildly. Such clear bias in the selection of samples makes their "study" completely divorced from science.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Good post!

[Travis McGee]

[tbw2]

Canada Study: Kids in Gay Families Hampered in School
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/family/item/16815-canada-study-kids-in-gay-families-hampered-in-school

Summary

The study by Douglas Allen, an economics professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, found that young adult children of same-sex couples are 35 percent less likely to graduate from high school than young adult children of traditional married couples.

The children of parents who had been in a homosexual relationship were more likely to be on welfare, have a history of depression, have inferior education, and report a history of sexual abuse.

New Research on Children of Same-Sex Parents Suggests Differences Matter
http://dailysignal.com/2012/06/11/new-research-on-children-of-same-sex-parents-suggests-differences-matter/

[N]ot one of the 59 studies referenced in the 2005 APA Brief compares a large, random, representative sample of lesbian or gay parents and their children with a large, random, representative sample of married parents and their children. The available data, which are drawn primarily from small convenience samples, are insufficient to support a strong generalizable claim either way

(Summary - nearly every study saying gay raised kids are OK come from parents who self-select, and almost no one who self-selects is a negative example.)

ompared to young adults in traditional, intact families, young adults whose mothers had a same-sex relationship tended to fare worse than their peers in intact biological families on 24 of the 40 outcomes examined. For example, they were far more likely to report being sexually victimized, to be on welfare, or to be currently unemployed.

Young adults whose fathers had a same-sex relationship showed significant differences from their peers in intact families on 19 of the outcomes. For example, they were significantly more likely to have contemplated suicide, to have a sexually transmitted infection, or to have been forced to have sex against their will.

[Cowboy Bob]

Why cruise gay bars when you can rape your adopted children? Less chance to get AIDS.