Secular Witch Hunts and Post-Modern Fairy Tales | Michael Coren | Catholic World Report
Activist attempts to destroy the reputation of Dr. Mark Regnerus are not the exception, but the norm.
Well, that puts an end to any doubts anybody had at any time
that there was anything wrong with same-sex marriage. “Study:
Teens With Lesbian Mothers Do Better In School, Happier In Life"
screamed a headline from, all of all places, CBS Les, er, Las Vegas. “Teens
living in homes with lesbian mothers are proving to be more successful in
school and generally happier in life” the article said. “A new study has found
that 17-year-olds with lesbian mothers had high school GPAs ranging between
A-minus to B-plus, while having strong family bonds with their mothers, whom
the teens consider good role models.” The piece went on to describe how the
teens in the study feel connected to their families, admire their parents, and
are models of young people. The principal investigator jubilantly explained,
“As a psychiatrist, I can say that these are the types of child-rearing
outcomes that every parent hopes for.”
So, that—as they say—is that. But hold on just one little
moment. First, the psychiatrist and lead investigator in question is one
Nanette Gartrell, a noted lesbian
activist, who has co-edited a book titled, Everyday Mutinies: Funding
Lesbian Activism. She is
“married” to Diane "Dee" Mosbacher, described as “a lesbian
feminist who has directed or produced nine documentary films, each having to do
with LGBTQ or Women’s Rights issues.” The research, or what passes for
research, was published in the Journal of Homosexuality (and is
available online in PDF format), “covering research into sexual practices
and gender roles in their cultural, historical, interpersonal, and modern
social contexts.” In other words, both the person conducting the study and the
journal publishing the results are agenda-driven, radical, and committed to
propagating the idea that homosexuality, homosexual marriage, and homosexual
parenting are all perfectly acceptable, and perhaps even preferable to their
heterosexual alternatives.
People are allowed to be odd and misleading in a free
society, but it is one of the duties of a responsible media to question or
perhaps even dismiss the work of such people. Instead, one of the largest
networks in the world, CBS, took this nonsense as being revealed truth, and
disguised as fact something that is utter nonsense.
Compare this to how a far more serious and credible study of
the same issue was treated when its results revealed fundamentally different
results. In early 2012 University of Texas sociology professor Mark Regnerus published
a paper in the July 2012 edition of the journal, Social Science Research. He has a Ph.D from the University of North
Carolina, has spent more than a decade in academic research, and has written
two positively and peer-reviewed books. So, Regnerus is no fringe player.
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