vendur
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Bullcrap. I'm not sitting here as some political hack who is angry at a study that paints a negative light on gay and lesbian parents. I'm a social scientist who is pissed because the researcher of this study specifically designed the study to produce this result.
Here is a question for ya. If I had a study comparing the outcomes of children raised by married same sex couples to the outcomes of children raised by divorced or separated heterosexual couples, would you have argued that there is no methodological error in my study?
It would, of course, entirely depend on the variable being looked at.
That is exactly what his study does, only it switches it. He compares the outcomes of children raised by married heterosexual couples to the outcomes of children raised by gay and lesbian parents who are typically divorced or separated.
No, it doesn't. It compares numerous groups, of almost every imaginable family origin, all compared to intact biological families. Parents of adopted chaildren aren't screaming about the results. Divorced parents aren't screaming the results. Single parents aren't screaming about the results. It's only the gaystapo and their media liars complaining about the results.
Now if you want to get into a debate about the stability of same sex relationships, then this study could certainly make great fodder for fighting for same sex marriage, but that is neither here not there. I wouldn't use it for that anymore than I would use it to argue against same sex marriage.
The fact is that even well done research isn't good research if it is done with an agenda to produce desired results. Is the other research out there perfect? No. But don't give me this bull**** like the two situations are comparable. This study within a few weeks has been used to argue against same sex marriage on the state and national level and has been used to attack gay and lesbian parents and call them pedophiles. That is disgusting no matter how you try to spin it.
How the results of the study are applied/abused by others is not at all a reflection on the study itself, and it's unfair to impure someone conducting studies that are later manipulated by others.
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