Posted on 03/19/2002 1:10:56 PM PST by simicyber
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Wednesday, March 20, 2002 ACLU And Rosie O’Donnell Seek To Condemn Children To Same-Sex Households By Rev. Louis P. Sheldon Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition
Washington, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and homosexual talk show host Rosie O’Donnell are currently involved in a media and legal campaign to overturn a Florida state law that protects children from being adopted into homosexual households.
The ACLU and O’Donnell are apparently convinced that boys and girls can grow up just fine in homes where both "parents" are of the same sex. Decades of research shows that children need both a mother and a father in order to develop properly. The Institute for American Values, for example, has published credible data suggesting that children are at risk for emotional dysfunction, poor performance in school, and other social maladies when they are denied life in a loving home with both a mother and a father present.
In addition, newer research—even from pro-homosexual researchers—is providing evidence that children brought up in same-sex households are at risk for emotional problems and confusion over their proper gender roles.
The most quoted research to date on this topic comes from two pro-homosexual researchers, Judith Stacey and Timothy Biblarz who examined 21 psychological studies between 1981-98 on children brought up in lesbian households. They noted that prior researchers had deliberately minimized the differences in these children compared to children from heterosexual homes because they feared being accused of "homophobia."
Biblarz and Stacey are pleased with the differences. Children in same-sex homes are more likely to experiment with homosexuality and are more flexible in their views of gender roles. Boys are more feminine and girls are more masculine. Most parents would not consider these positive effects, but these researchers do.
What isn’t discussed by these pro-homosexual researchers is how sexualized and unstable a typical same-sex household is. Researcher M. Pollak (Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times) has noted that few homosexual relationships last longer than two years, "with many men reporting hundreds of lifetime partners."
In addition, a study published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence found that 90% of the lesbians surveyed had been verbally abused by their partners; and 31% had been victims of physical abuse. A study published in Nursing Research found that lesbians were three times as likely as heterosexual women to abuse alcohol and suffer from other compulsive behaviors, including problems with food, codependency, sex, and money.
Homosexuals also have a significantly reduced life span because of their behaviors. A Canadian study published in International Journal of Epidemiology found that if a young man began practicing homosexuality or bisexual behaviors at age twenty, he would have his life cut short by eight to twenty years compared to heterosexual men.
This is but a brief overview of the devastating consequences of homosexual behaviors—and how these behaviors will affect children. Our culture must not condemn children to live in such horrific conditions—in homes where violence and drug abuse are prevalent; and where children will be exposed to multiple sex partners and the devastating results of sexually transmitted diseases. We lament the fact that millions of children in Africa are AIDS orphans. Why would we deliberately place children into male homosexual homes where it is likely that both "parents" will eventually die of AIDS or anal cancer?
The state of Florida is correct to forbid same-sex partners from adopting children. The ACLU and Rosie O’Donnell are displaying a frightening disregard for children who will be condemned to live in homes filled with violence, sexual confusion, and death from AIDS.
Traditional Values Coalition is an interdenominational public policy organization representing more than 43,000 churches across the United States. For more information, contact Sharone Carmona at 202-547-8570. TVC's Web site is:
| 'Gender bender' fears over pill pollution |
CONTAMINATION of water by the contraceptive pill is changing the sex of male fish and may be making Englishmen less fertile, new evidence reveals.
Fears over the "gender bender" effect of pollution, arose after Environment Agency research showed that half of all the male fish in low-lying English rivers are changing sex as a result of water pollution.
The source of contamination is believed to be urine from tens of thousands of women who use the contraceptive pill.
The government-funded research showed that an "exquisitely potent" form of the female hormone oestrogen, found in the urine of women taking contraceptive pills, was contaminating English rivers - source of one-third of the country's drinking water.
Male fish are developing female characteristics in many of those rivers.
Only minute traces of the biochemical result in dramatic biological effects.
"In some stretches, all the male fish have been feminised," says the report.
The Environment Agency's revelations, due to be published later this month, may explain the steep fall in sperm counts among Englishmen in recent decades.
"Danger to human fertility cannot be ruled out," said opposition Conservative environment spokesman Peter Ainsworth.
Professor Charles Tyler of Exeter University, one of the research team's leaders, said the oestrogen was so powerful that even undetectable levels could have an effect.
"So we cannot be sure that some of these compounds, albeit of very low concentrations, aren't getting into our drinking water," the paper quoted him as saying.
The reality could be even worse.
Water filtration systems taking drinking water from rivers are excellent for clearing it of bacteria but often cannot remove complex chemical compounds.
This makes it more than likely that sex-changing chemicals are making their way into domestic drinking-water supply.
James Bone London
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