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Regnerus Anti-Gay Parenting ‘Study’ Created To Influence Supreme Court, Report States

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From The New Civil Rights Movement:  http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/regnerus-anti-gay-parenting-study-created-to-influence-supreme-court-report-states/politics/2013/03/11/62329

by David Badash
on March 11, 2013

The anti-gay parenting “study” produced by Mark Regnerus (image) of the University of Texas at Austin was created to influence the Supreme Court against supporting same-sex marriage, a report by the American Independent states. This confirms all the reports The New Civil Rights Movement has published on the Regnerus study, and reports by many other media outlets.

READ: Goal Of UT Parenting Study Was To Influence SCOTUS Decisions On Gay Marriage, Docs Show

 The Regnerus study claimed to find that adult children raised by same-sex couples fare far wore than their peers raised by intact heterosexually-married parents, but in fact studied few adult children raised by same-sex couples. The Regnerus study called these parents gay dads and lesbian moms, but in the vast majority of cases the children were not raised by same-sex couples, and the only “proof” of a perent’s sexuality the study required was asking a question if a respondent ever even thought one or both of their biological parents had ever had a same-sex relationship.

“The conservative funders who bankrolled a flawed and widely cited academic study that’s critical of gay marriage choreographed its release in time to influence major decisions of the Supreme Court,’ documents show,” Sofia Resnick at the American Independent reports in a Huffington Post article published last night, (which is now also available here):

The documents, recently obtained through public-records requests by The American Independent and published in collaboration with The Huffington Post, show that the Witherspoon Institute recruited a professor from a major university to carry out a study that was designed to manipulate public policy. In communicating with donors about the research project, Witherspoon’s president clearly expected results unfavorable to the gay-marriage movement.

Continue reading at:   http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/regnerus-anti-gay-parenting-study-created-to-influence-supreme-court-report-states/politics/2013/03/11/62329



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