GAY PARENTHOOD

Despite Propaganda Gay Parenthood Flawed
By Stuart Shepard

SUMMARY: Despite a flattering report on gay parenthood from ABC, children ofgay parents give the arrangement a thumbs-down.

Last Friday, the ABC News program "20/20" examined the lives of childrenwith homosexual parents. True to form, the network presented a glowingendorsement of the arrangement. But there's more to the story than the majormedia outlets are letting you know.

Suzanne Cook, who was raised by a homosexual father, says being raised byhomosexual parents can have powerful negative effects on a child. "In anall-male home, there is a distaste and a disdain for real females," Cooksaid. "They reject it and imitate it themselves." After years ofrelationship problems in her own life, she finally realized the root cause:"I don't know what the rules are and what I've been taught is all wrong."

Cook said the media are seeking to influence public opinion. "All people aredoing is having their own ideas and then following that rabbit trail togather those facts, instead of looking for the truth," she said.

In addition to anecdotal evidence, new research, published by the MarriageLaw Project, investigated nearly 50 studies that claim there's no differencebetween homosexual and heterosexual parents. David Orgon Coolidge, who headsthe project, said the analysis found that the existing studies areinconclusive. "What they found is that, for all the studies and all the inkand all the trees that have been knocked down to publish all these studies,there's no 'there' there," Coolidge said.

Coolidge said every single study that claims gay parenting isn't harmful wasfound to have at least one fatal flaw in methodology. Those flaws, he said,are serious enough to make all the conclusions meaningless.

TAKE ACTION: The entire study can be downloaded at the Ethics and Public Policy Center's Web site:
http://www.eppc.org/books/xq/ASP/bookID.39/qx/book_viewdetail.htm