Two days after leaving the AIDS/LifeCycle bubble of love, I force myself to click on NOM’s blog page, and you know what I find?
Same sh*t, different day.
NOM (and the rest of the anti-gay world) is crowing about a study on the awfulness of gay parenting. You can read more about that here and here and here. Let me focus on one distinct and familiar flaw: The study compares the children of married biological parents with those from broken homes — and the study’s “lesbian mothers” that our opponents are vilifying generally weren’t married to each other; nor were the gay fathers. No, they were often in opposite-sex relationships that broke down.
Our opponents’ reporting hasn’t focused on that. But I can easily imagine how how an unstable, dishonest mom/dad relationship would (a) be harmful to the kids, and (b) have nothing to do with same-sex parenting!
Now, you can combat this sort of thing with careful analysis. But the error is so common, so recurring, that I’ve put together a cartoon I now can just whip out when the need arises. Who knows, maybe this is the best way to make such an obvious and elementary point:
Feel free to post it where needed.
Since NOM never quits saying, “Think of the children!” you might want to add a small child to each side of the equation.
At least one NOM Blog commenter, Ash, has a good understanding of what the Regnerus study is (and what it isn’t). While most people who plague the NOM Blog with their intolerant and ignorant views, at least someone on the other side is willing to be intellectual, fair, and honest.
Here is the way to politically slam it in NOM’s pig-face:
The NOM MORMON CATHOLICS all scream that Gays don’t need marriage because THEY CAN ALREADY GET MARRIED – to an OPPOSITE SEX PARTNER.
Well, according to this study…NO THEY CAN’T. Not without irrepreble harm done to All Parties Involved, including the children
In fact(!) when there are two loving same sex parents, especially Lesbian parents, Children of SSM flourish BETTER than their counterparts.
All NOM MORMON CATHOLICS have done is prove us right and give us a study to tear apart one of their favorite canards.
So pass the meme and disable their ridiculous arguement about gays already being able to get married.
[...] a widely-quoted piece on Mark Regnerus’ gay-parenting study, the Washington Times wrote: He found that, when compared with adults raised in married, [...]
[...] a widely-quoted piece on Mark Regnerus’ gay-parenting study, the Washington Times wrote: He found that, when compared with adults raised in married, [...]
[...] has largely succeeded in trapping people, is in getting them to blah-blah-blah about the details of Regnerus’s junk findings, instead of talking very pointedly about the genesis of the [...]
[...] largely succeeded in trapping people, is in getting them to blah-blah-blah about the details of Regnerus’s junk findings, instead of talking very pointedly about the genesis of the [...]
[...] largely succeeded in trapping people, is in getting them to blah-blah-blah about the details of Regnerus’s junk findings, instead of talking very pointedly about the genesis of the [...]
[...] has largely succeeded in trapping people, is in getting them to blah-blah-blah about the details of Regnerus’s junk findings, instead of talking very pointedly about the genesis of the [...]
[...] revel in irrelevance. We see it when they condemn same-sex parenting with studies that have nothing to do with same-sex parenting. And now Minnesota for Marriage (M4M) is doing it again as they try to [...]
[...] revel in irrelevance. We see it when they condemn same-sex parenting with studies that have nothing to do with same-sex parenting. And now Minnesota for Marriage (M4M) is doing it again as they try to [...]