Thanks for posting this.

I am a child of gay parents.

No, I wasn’t raised by two men or two women. My mother and my father were both homosexuals who stayed in the closet their whole lives. It was miserable. I watched my mother fall in love with other women and get her heart broken, and she could never say what it was that was causing her pain. She was very bitter and could be incredibly cruel to people, especially my father and me. My father was a kind and compassionate man who accepted Mom’s abuse without complaint. In a letter he wrote near the end of his life, he let on that he was gay. I don’t know whether he ever had an intimate relationship with another man.

I have no patience with the “experts” who think they can tell you all about homosexuality and how it can be “fixed”. Bigotry and intolerance are what need to be fixed.

Homophobia ruins lives. VOTE NO ON 36.

I think what’s really interesting is that so-called “Gender Specific” could only call out that section of my post … no response to any other aspect.

And you “miss the days when “I’m married” meant you were heterosexual.”–this is what you miss, being able to determine someone’s sexuality?!?!? I’m much more concerned with whether a couple is being guaranteed their civil rights.

There are a lot of things I miss, but it’s never been high on my list of priorities to be able to discern someone’s sexuality on contact.

I miss the days when “I’m married” meant you were heterosexual.

We would never even consider making it mandatory for people to take a mental health test prior to having children, and yet the fundamentalist right is spinning in circles wanting to take away basic human rights from people based on the simple fact that they love their own gender. Claiming that it’s to “protect the children” is a ruse. If they are so concerned about the welfare of children, there are plenty of heterosexual parents that should be examined, and plenty of institutional inequalities that harm children in far more dire ways. There aren’t even enough people willing to be foster parents out there, but we’re suddenly worried about the consequences to these children–it’s hypocracy.

Shall we take a look at all the unhappy products of children from the one-man, one-woman households where one or both of those parents are abusive? How about neglectful or addicted parents? How can you quantify an “ideal” child-raising situation. One of my best friends was raised by a healthy single parent and she’s far better adjusted than many of us from a “traditional” marriage.

It’s a bogus silkscreen for a religiously-motivated agenda. And incidentally, I’m in a one-man, one-woman marriage in case my motivation should be misconstrued.

A number of studies in recent years have purported to show that children raised in gay and lesbian households fare no worse than those reared in traditional families. Yet much of that research fails to meet acceptable standards for psychological research; it is compromised by methodological flaws and driven by political agendas instead of an objective search for truth.

In addition, openly lesbian researchers sometimes conduct research with an interest in portraying homosexual parenting in a positive light. The deficiencies of studies on homosexual parenting include reliance upon an inadequate sample size, lack of random sampling, lack of anonymity of research participants, and self-presentation bias.

In their thorough review of homosexual parenting studies, Robert Lerner and Althea K. Nagai found little evidence to support the oft-repeated mantra that homosexual households are “just like” traditional families: “We conclude that the methods used in these studies are so flawed that these studies prove nothing. Therefore, they should not be used in legal cases to make any argument about ‘homosexual vs. heterosexual’ parenting. Their claims have no basis.”