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As for "natural law," there is an ever-deeper pool of evidence that homosexuality is a normal sexual variant, one that is fundamentally natural. Modern biological research has generally concluded that homosexuality is programmed by a complex interaction among genetic differences and subtle hormonal influences during early fetal development. It is also true that homosexuality is found in almost every mammalian species.

So many fallacies, so little time.

Short answer, hormone imbalances during gestation causes intersex disorders and there is no chosen same sex desire in the animal kingdom, it's a matter of dominant male hierarchy in the herd. This "doctor" is a quack.

The American Academy of Pediatrics' co-parenting policy statements says that children raised by same-sex couples are as well- adjusted, responsible and moral as any child raised in the milieu of heterosexual family structures across America.

From your link...

"Studies demonstrate that there is, in fact, a difference between non-heterosexual and heterosexual parenting. Children raised by non-heterosexual parents are placed at risk. They are more apt to experience gender and sexual confusion; they are more apt to become promiscuous; they are at greater risk of losing a parent to AIDS, substance abuse or suicide. They suffer more depression and other emotional difficulties. They are also more likely to engage in same-sex behavior.

Furthermore, non-heterosexual couples are less stable than heterosexual couples in their relationships and they are more likely to separate. Research reveals that promiscuity is virtually the norm among male non-heterosexuals. Violence is substantially higher in non-heterosexual relationships. The list of risk factors continues."

I'M POSTING THIS MAINLY TO SHOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GAYS INFILTRATE AN ORGANIZATION THEY TRY TO SHOW HOMOSEXUALISM IS NORMAL, AND WHEN THAT DOESN'T WORK THEY FORM THEIR OWN.
OF COURSE MOST OF THE PUBLIC IS NOT AWARE OF THIS FACT!

A new group is formed to counterbalance the AAP's social activism.

"... However, a new group--the American College of Pediatrics (sic), a Tennessee-based alternative organization headed by Dr. Joseph Zanga--has just responded by requesting that its fellow organization reverse its stand.

Zanga's group was formed by 100 dissenting members of the AAP. His organization disagrees with the AAP's point of view on gay parenting, as well as numerous other social issues.

In a recent interview with NARTH, Dr. Zanga said that the policy statement did not have the support of the AAP membership as a whole. In fact, the position paper--entitled "Co-Parent or Second Parent Adoption by Same-Sex Parents" -- was released to the public despite the objections of one-third of the committee which drafted it, he noted.

Zanga is still an active member of the larger AAP. In fact, he chairs its Bioethics Committee, which, he says, objected to the release of the position paper, citing what it felt were numerous flaws in the research and its foundation in "very weak science."

Because there was considerable opposition within AAP membership ranks to the pro-homosexual stance of the policy, Zanga says, the AAP commissioned a "technical report" to investigate its decision, authored by Boston pediatrician Ellen Perrin.

In that report, Perrin herself questioned the reliability of the studies used by her organization to measure the effects of same-sex couples raising either biological or adopted children, saying "The small and non-representative sample [of children raised by same-sex couples] studied," she said, "and the relatively young age of most of the children, suggest some reserve [concerning the policy statement]."

Although most ACP members retain their membership in the larger pediatrics group, Dr. Zanga said he and his fellow ACP members "do not want the media, the government, or the public to think that all pediatricians agree with the AAP's policies on controversial issues..."

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