From Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: http://holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com/2012/12/fraudulent-anti-gay-parenting-study-now.html
By Alvin McEwen
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Reposted with permission
How is this for a swift attempt to kick the gay community in the face? Not only is Mark Regnerus attempting to use his fraudulent study on gay parenting to attack same-sex families, but apparently he is now attempting to create a link between pornography and marriage equality support from information taken from the same study:
There is a correlation between watching porn and support for gay marriage among men, Dr. Mark Regnerus, associate professor of sociology at University of Texas at Austin, found. Exposure to diverse and graphic sex acts, he believes, may undermine a traditional view of marriage. Using data from The New Family Structures Study, a project for which he was the principal investigator, Regnerus found statistically significant positive correlation between porn use and support for same-sex marriage among men, even after controlling for other predictors, such as political party, religiosity, marital status, age, education and sexual orientation. In the full sample, 42 percent of men and 47 percent of women agreed or strongly agreed that gay marriage should be legal. Among men who view porn daily or almost daily, though, 54 percent strongly agreed (not just agreed) that gay marriage should be legal while only 13 percent who said they viewed porn monthly or less believed the same, Regnerus wrote for The Witherspoon Institute’s “Public Discourse.”
Wasn’t that flawed study – which received much deserved criticism – about same-sex parenting? Just how in the world did the porn factor come in?
I almost can’t wait to hear what “negative” factor involving marriage equality Regnerus’ study conveniently finds.
