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04/21/2004: "What's good for children?"
One can expect the people Mark Shea calls "gay brownshirts" to descend at any moment on the HQ of the American College of Pediatricians. These medical practitioners have committed grave heresy by declaring that gay parents are not as good for children as heterosexual parents:
Violence among homosexual partners is two to three times more common than among married heterosexual couples. Homosexual partnerships are significantly more prone to dissolution than heterosexual marriages with the average homosexual relationship lasting only two to three years. Homosexual men and women are reported to be inordinately promiscuous involving serial sex partners, even within what are loosely-termed "committed relationships." Individuals who practice a homosexual lifestyle are more likely than heterosexuals to experience mental illness, substance abuse, suicidal tendencies, and shortened life spans. Although some would claim that these dysfunctions are a result of societal pressures in America, the same dysfunctions exist at inordinately high levels among homosexuals in cultures were the practice is more widely accepted. Children reared in homosexual households are more likely to experience sexual confusion, practice homosexual behavior, and engage in sexual experimentation. Adolescents and young adults who adopt the homosexual lifestyle, like their adult counterparts, are at increased risk of mental health problems, including major depression, anxiety disorder, conduct disorder, substance dependence, and especially suicidal ideation and suicide attempts.
This one paragraph carries with it 27 footnotes making reference to a wide variety of studies. Not that science should be expected to change many ideologically bent minds, but it's still a powerful incentive to the rest of us to see if the headlong rush to place homosexuality on an equal footing with heterosexuality can be slowed or stopped.
