The Regnerus Affair

If you want to know how University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus's summer has gone, look no further than The Weekly Standard. On the cover of the conservative magazine's July 30 issue are two hooded henchmen impishly turning the gears on a medieval torture wheel holding Regnerus, sweating beads as he tries to stay in one piece. The cover copy—"Revenge of the Sociologists: The perils of politically incorrect academic research"—hints at the situation sparked by the publication of Regnerus's newest research as well as the broader political discourse over same-sex marriage.

The survey, known as the New Family Structures Study (NFSS), is remarkable in its scope. It's a random national sample, considered "the gold standard" of social science surveys. NFSS measures the economic, relational, political, and psychological effects on adults ages 18 to 39 who grew up in families where the father or mother engaged in homosexual behavior. Despite Regnerus's repeated caution that the NFSS does not account for stable same-sex marriages (since same-sex marriage as such didn't exist when the survey participants were children), he has undergone professional censure. Social Science Research conducted an internal audit on the peer-review process of the NFSS, and the University of Texas at Austin investigated Regnerus following allegations of "scientific misconduct." (The school has since cleared Regnerus of the allegations.)

Regnerus agreed to an e-mail interview with Christianity Today associate editor Katelyn Beaty to set the record straight on the NFSS and its many discontents.

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004047180339 John Adams

Queers should NOT be raising children. God made it so that they couldn't have children, and they shouldn't be stealing, whether legally or not, children and raising them. For queers to raise children is, basically, the ultimate in child abuse.
- daves
  
  Why?
  - http://www.answersingenesis.org/ keyboardshark
    
    Why? Because homosexuals are much more likely to be pedophiles:
    
    "Gay activists have strenuously argued that there is no connection between homosexuality and the sexual abuse of children. They point out that the majority of child molestation cases are by heterosexuals. But they neglect a pivotal fact: Homosexuals comprise only a small percentage of the population, yet account for an extraordinarily high percentage of offenses against children.
    
    A recent study in Demography estimated the number of exclusive male homosexuals in the general population at 2.5 percent, and the number of exclusive lesbians at 1.4 percent. The study took into account three large data sets, including the all-encompassing U.S. Census.
    
    Now consider a report from the Journal of Sex Research which noted that homosexual pedophiles commit about one-third of the total number of child sex offenses, even though they are outnumbered by heterosexuals 20 to one. Less than four percent of the population commits one-third of the offenses against children!
    
    In The Gay Report, homosexual researchers report data showing that better than 7 out of 10 homosexuals surveyed had at some time had sex with boys 16 to 19.
    Or consider a study in Archives of Sexual Behavior, which found that of 229 convicted child molesters surveyed, “85 percent of offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual.”
    
    The evidence is clear. Homosexuals have an overwhelming propensity towards child molestation. This is not to say that all homosexuals act out with pedophile tendencies. But the percentage of those who do is so disproportionately high it would be irresponsible and costly to ignore. Just ask the Roman Catholic Church."
    
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/865615/posts
    
    Also, studies have shown that children are harmed by growing up in homosexual and lesbian households:
    
    "What is being hailed as the most scientifically credible study so far on the issue demonstrates that children are harmed by growing up in homosexual and lesbian households. Story contains results from Thursday's poll
    
    The study analyzed data from nearly 3,000 American adults, ages 18 to 39, who were raised in "different types of family arrangements." The results, according to principal investigator Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas at Austin, reveal "numerous, consistent differences, especially between the children of women who have had a lesbian relationship and those with still-married (heterosexual) biological parents" — effectively dispelling the "no differences" paradigm."
    
    http://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2012/06/13/study-examines-youngsters-of-gay-households
  - Esther
    
    Because it makes momma bear mad. They like their own cubs and gradcubs. Is that reason enough daves?
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=58215905 Wesley Woods
  
  homosexuals still bear the image of God in them. theirs is just like a broken mirror that has fell into and was broken by coal. the good news is that Christ can take this broken human being and clean off all the suet and repair all the broken piece and make it new as though nothing had ever happened. this sociologist has shown how much these broken people effects those children who looked up to them. Christ told the pharisees that he came to seek and save the lost, and homosexuals would be included among those who Jesus was looking for.
  - mallen11
    
    Homosexuals are living against God's will for their lives and when they try to raise children in that atmsphere there are continuing to mock God.
    
    Homosexuality is a sin because God said it is a sin (Geneses 19:5-8, Jude 7, Lev 18:22-23, Lev 20:13, 1Tim:9-10, & Romans 1:26-27) and since it is a sin just like any
    other sin God has provided a way to overcome the sin of homosexuality just like
    He has with all other sins.
    
    HOW,
    in a "nutshell"…
    
    If not a believer in Jesus Christ then: Acts 16:31 “…Believe in the Lord Jesus,
    and you will be saved.”
    
    If one is a believer already…
    
    1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our
    sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
    
    II Peter 3:8… but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus
    Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity.
Steve03

So children raised in a household where one or both of their parents were having sex with people other than their partner (and doing it so frequently and/or clumisly that the children noticed) turned out worse than those raised by mutually faithful or more discreet parents. Was anyone surprised? The more interesting question would be whether homosexual affairs warp the kids more than heterosexual ones, and the study didn't address that one.
The homosexual couples I know who have adopted children all seem to be doing a great job with them. In fact, their children are among the best behaved I've seen, and most them were "hard to place" kids in the first place.