Mark Regnerus, the UT researcher, whose rightwing-funded, biased parenting studies have been thoroughly discredited and debunked, took the stand yesterday for the defendants in the trial challenging Michigan's ban on gay marriage and gay adoption.
The AP reports:
“We aren’t anywhere near saying there’s
conclusive evidence” that children with same-sex parents grow up with no
differences when compared to kids with heterosexual parents, he said.
“Until we get more evidence, we should be
skeptical. … It’s prudent for the state to retain its definition of
marriage to one man, one woman,” said Regnerus, who believes that’s the
best scenario for kids.
He’ll be cross-examined Tuesday.
But even as he took the stand, the Sociology Department at the
University of Texas, where Regnerus is employed, blasted his work as
"fundamentally flawed" and distanced themselves from Regnerus' toxic
views, issuing this statement:
Like all faculty, Dr. Regnerus has the
right to pursue his areas of research and express his point of view.
However, Dr. Regnerus’ opinions are his own. They do not reflect the
views of the Sociology Department of The University of Texas at Austin.
Nor do they reflect the views of the American Sociological Association,
which takes the position that the conclusions he draws from his study
of gay parenting are fundamentally flawed on conceptual and
methodological grounds and that findings from Dr. Regnerus’ work have
been cited inappropriately in efforts to diminish the civil rights and
legitimacy of LBGTQ partners and their families. We encourage society
as a whole to evaluate his claims.
The Sociology Department at The University of Texas at Austin aspires to achieve academic excellence in research, teaching, and public service at the highest level in our discipline. We strive to do so in a context that is based on the highest ethical standards of our discipline and in a context that actively promotes and supports diversity among our faculty and student populations.
The Sociology Department resides in the College of Liberal Arts, which has issued a statement regarding Dr. Regnerus.
The Sociology Department has no affiliation with the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture.
Defendants' testimony in the Michigan trial had a rough start already
yesterday after a judge barred the state's first witness from the
stand, saying Sherif Girgis had nothing to offer:The Sociology Department at The University of Texas at Austin aspires to achieve academic excellence in research, teaching, and public service at the highest level in our discipline. We strive to do so in a context that is based on the highest ethical standards of our discipline and in a context that actively promotes and supports diversity among our faculty and student populations.
The Sociology Department resides in the College of Liberal Arts, which has issued a statement regarding Dr. Regnerus.
The Sociology Department has no affiliation with the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture.
“He’s very eloquent … but right now, all
he is offering to us is mainly his opinions,” U.S. District Judge
Bernard Friedman said of the witness. “The court does not believe ...
that he should be allowed to testify.”
The only thing I have to say about any of this bullshit, what does any of this have to do with gay rights and marriage?
Marriage doesn't require any couple, hetero or gay, to have children, so I see no reason this asshole should be testifying on anything let alone our civil rights.
2 comments:
I do see a pattern. Since society is becoming comfortable with the idea of same-sex couples, a new tactic must be used to continue the bigotry. Eventually they will wear out their agenda because equality will not be denied. They don't realize that this sort of attitude is a reason people turn from religion in the first place. Funny how Jesus never said a word against us but they still do. B
Your wrong, Jesus did say something about homosexuals, this is the really ugly part of these so called Christians who have even convinced gay people, Jesus didn't say anything about them.
2000 years ago, there was no word in either Hebrew or Latin (spoken by Romans) for homosexual, they did however have a terminology for them, *born eunuchs* meaning, men born without a desire for women and what did Jesus say about *born eunuchs*?
He said they were the most blessed among Gods children.
In my way of thinking, he said this thing, because as the son of God, he knew how people would persecute them in his name in the future.
Now ask yourself, if I know this, why doesn't the various religious leaders like the Pope, or Scott Lively or even televangelist like Pat Robertson know this?
The answer is, they do, but they refuse to acknowledge it, even do their very best to discredit this knowledge.
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