Campaign to overturn Obergefell uses 14-year-old junk science to 'prove' gay people are bad parents - LGBTQ Nation
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This movement is especially heartbreaking considering the thousands of children in foster care who are waiting to be adopted.

Leading up to the 2015 landmark Supreme Court decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, which made marriage equality a federal right, sociologist Mark Regnerus published controversial research titled the “New Family Structures Study”. Regnerus, who is forthcoming about the fact that his Catholic faith shapes his practice as a social scientist, published the study in 2012 in the journal Social Science Research.

The study purported that children raised by a parent in a same-gender relationship are at greater risk of negative psychosocial outcomes in adulthood compared to children raised by straight parents. The study was funded primarily by The Witherspoon Institute and The Bradley Foundation, both far-right interest groups that actively lobby against LGBTQ+ rights, and was viewed by many political commentators as a blatant effort by both groups to influence the Supreme Court’s decision in several high-profile cases, including Obergefell v. Hodges.

Regnerus denied the allegations, although a leaked correspondence challenged his defense and insinuated that the study was designed to produce specific results to challenge the idea that children raised by same-gender parents experience similar psychosocial outcomes to those raised by straight parents.

  • Sunflier@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    13 days ago

    Not seeing how marriage equality giving tax benefits to equal marriage, inheritance law, or preference is buying a home inherently links to child upbringing.

    • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today
      81·
      13 days ago

      It’s saying the quiet part out loud. Marriage as a concept for ‘love’ or ‘relationships’ is an incredibly native, relatively brand new view. Especially in terms of Christian marriages. Marriages are for exactly one thing historically: economically linking families, which almost always has involved having children. The entire reason the bible supports marriage at all is because it had been a multi-thousand year old societal standard to join families and ensure the continuation of the family line in some way.

      This attitude has of course been carried forward in conservative and regressive ideologies, since that’s the idea they want to get back to; they want to abolish non-financially productive marriages.

      • Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPEnglish
        8·
        13 days ago

        they want to abolish non-financially productive marriages.

        Of course. It’s always about work and money with these idiots.