[Hodar]

When you do a study, you need to do it in a “fair” manner. Comparing the outcome of children raised by Gay families may not be “fair” as opposed to measuring kids raised by married parents, in that the parents are ‘blood’ (genetically) tied to the hetero-sexual family. Thus, the parents have a child not unlike them physically, mentally and emotionally. The married straight family units have these factors (both nurture and nature) that do not exist in a “Gay” family.

How do the kids raised in Gay households compare against kids raised in Foster-care program, or in an orphanage?

[Darteaus94025]

I can hear the shrieks already...

[SeekAndFind]

RE: the parents are ‘blood’ (genetically) tied to the hetero-sexual family.

Well, I have seen gays have babies by in-vitro fertilization using their own sperm with another woman’s egg. In which case, he is related to the kid by blood.

In fact, I have heard of lesbian couples who have each given birth to a child using the same sperm donor.

[dagogo redux]

Any study in this arena will be flawed. Deeply flawed. Why?

Because, one cannot guarantee objectivity on the part of those constructing and carrying out the study. The patina of “scientific objectivity” can all too often be scrubbed away in such areas of study, and even when it cannot the results will only be accepted or rejected by others depending solely on their pre-formed notions of the truth.

Motives, conscious or unconscious, are just too strong in certain areas of life, and this is one of them.

[rusty schucklefurd]

The claim that is being asserted by gay activists is that children raised by gays are no worse off that children raised in two parent married heterosexual families. So of course you would compare these two groups rather than the gay parenting families with the less than ideal scenarios of children raised in orphanages or foster-care.

[fwdude]

Comparing the outcome of children raised by Gay families may not be “fair” as opposed to measuring kids raised by married parents, in that the parents are ‘blood’ (genetically) tied to the hetero-sexual family. Thus, the parents have a child not unlike them physically, mentally and emotionally.

You're missing the obvious fact that EVERY homosexual family, BY DESIGN, is comprised of children not genetically related to both "parents." This is an inherent flaw that cannot be avoided, and it is a flaw promoted by activist homosexuals.

[lentulusgracchus]

Comparing the outcome of children raised by Gay families may not be “fair” as opposed to measuring kids raised by married parents

But that is precisely the comparison that gays insist on themselves, when they make their assertions about the wholesomeness and kid-friendliness of gay parenting.

Why bring in a third model for comparison, except to give gay parenting an easier standard to measure against? Patrick Moynihan called this constant liberal practice (or "ruse", better), "defining deviancy down".

That is what the whole marriage debate -- initiated by the homosexual political crowd -- is about: Defining deviancy (theirs) down, by disparaging normal heterosexuality in all its expressions.