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To: Albion Wilde
It is actually a scholarly research organization, with greatly respected family scholars in residence, such as Peter Sprigg and Patrick Fagan.

... who happen to be associated an organization that promotes a particular political and religious/moral point of view, and this report just happens to support that point of view.

Sorry, but that's just the truth. It's not enough simply to claim "scientific method" when an interest group conducts and releases a study that supports its agenda. The possibility of bias and misapplication of data (whether inadvertent or on purpose) cannot be assumed away, just because we like what the report has to say.

40 posted on 11/01/2010 3:20:40 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb

So what (according to you) would be an example of an organization that discusses the same topic that is not biased?


42 posted on 11/01/2010 8:18:21 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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To: r9etb; little jeremiah; wagglebee
... who happen to be associated an organization that promotes a particular political and religious/moral point of view, and this report just happens to support that point of view.

Fine. But the scientific method is the last word. FRC is not just a lobbying org; they are serious about scholarship and are the research arm to back up the religious/moral claims of the parent organization with secular fact-finding (which exists in abundance on this topic, and is routinely denied by the left).

You seem to believe that if a conservative organization puts out the results of their research in replicable studies, it is the moral equivalent of a liberal lobbying organization putting out its attitudinal talking points based on flimsy or non-existent evidence.

The heart of conservatism is taking a cautious and incremental view of change, and changing through the system based on facts and what will work in the long term. The heart of leftist-liberalism is immediate, radical change by any means, excusing oneself from doing the homework of digging out the facts, misrepresenting or suppressing facts to make an emotional or political point, making "progress" for its own sake while dismissing the possible unintended consequences, blaming ill-effects of too-rapid change on conservatives, flouting the law and redefining words.

• The Kinsey work widely cited as a defense of homosexuality has been shown to be corrupt data and flagrant child abuse.

• The de-listing of homosexuality from the APA's list of disorders was the result of political pressure, not science; and has been refuted by one of its former champions, who has now been silenced.

• The CDC routinely publishes reliable statistics on the higher risk and greater danger of poor mental and physical health and early death associated with homosexual behavior; all ignored by the MSM and the NEA in their efforts to foist an unsupportable viewpoint on the public.

Yet you object to the publishing of a review of the negative outcomes of homosexual behavior and a discussion of the ways in which it truly cannot be called a "civil right", when young people are being deluded and risking their futures because of the anti-family agenda of the left? Did you even read the essay?

49 posted on 11/02/2010 1:07:59 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Government does nothing as economically as the private sector. - Ronald Reagan)
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