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Whose rights are they anyway? The children's? : Comments

By Bill Muehlenberg, published 3/9/2010

Same s*x adoption. Are children just guinea pigs in this radical social experiment?

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" there exists a mountain of social science research which demonstrates that children do best when raised in a biological, two-parent household, cemented by marriage"

Surely, for the kids being adopted out - this was never going to happen?
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Posted by McReal, Friday, 3 September 2010 12:57:46 PM
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Quite so, McReal. That's the most obvious of Muehlenberg's intellectual con jobs here. A child who is in need of adoption obviously doesn't have access to their biological parents, ipso facto.

This is just another thinly disguised expression of fundamentalist Christian homophobia, sold under the guise of "what about the children?".

Typical.
Posted by CJ Morgan, Friday, 3 September 2010 1:04:24 PM
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McReal, good point.
Posted by Dick, Friday, 3 September 2010 1:38:56 PM
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Bill Muehlenberg is in the long line of experts from many and varied academic humanities speaking out against adverse outcomes of the relentless march, which is in progress, of the gay rights movement.

In this case it is a missive which decries adoption by gay couples. Blind Freddie could argue against such an absurdity as the right to adopt children by gay couples

The question is as always forward; where do the misfit lefty “gay” activists get off the band wagon in decrying human rights abuse. Well, obviously not at the intersection where their own perceived mistreatment by a tolerant society conflicts with those of children.

Thanks to OLO for contributing some balance in the “gay rights” debate: and it is interesting also the article directs criticism at the media, for its soft approach and lack of balance in debate on key social issues such as adoption of children by homosexuals
Posted by diver dan, Friday, 3 September 2010 2:26:42 PM
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Studies show that children raised by a Lesbian couple have better outcomes than a heterosexual couple.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19014-children-of-lesbian-parents-do-better-than-their-peers.html

"The children of lesbian parents outscore their peers on academic and social tests, according to results from the longest-running study of same-sex families"

Therefore the arguments about needing a mother and a father are all invalidated.

Furthermore if a childs rights are an issue and they have a right to the ideal parenting situation then therfore children should ideally be raised by lesbian parents and have a right to be raised by lesbian parents.
Posted by Bayne MacGregor, Friday, 3 September 2010 2:40:54 PM
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Bayne MacGregor, you might want to have a look at this article: http://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/view/7389/

There is a number of flaws in the way the study was conducted and really should not be seen as the be all end all of evidence behind why there is no issue with homosexual adoption.

Interestingly they have an quote from an article by Professor Walter Schumm who wrote:
"While the NLLFS results [1] may appear to support policies favoring the rights of gay, lesbian, or bisexual (GLB) parents, they could also be interpreted as evidence against the fitness of male parents, regardless of sexual orientation, placing gay father couples at risk for being seen as even less fit than couples with only one father. However, at present, there is far less research on gay fathering than there has been for lesbian parenting, leaving us with few empirical answers concerning any effects of gay fathering."
Posted by Nate10, Friday, 3 September 2010 3:22:45 PM
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