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Paris Riots After Gay Marriage Vote

Are you kidding? That is horribly historically inaccurate which is pretty bad given that most of those bans occurred only a decade ago. A little history lesson on this issue is apparently needed.

1972: Baker v. Nelson the Supreme Court dismissed a case seeking SSM in Minnesota setting the first court precedent on the issue.
1996: Defense of Marriage Act signed by President Bill Clinton.
2002: The first Federal Marriage Amendment was proposed by a Democratic Representative.
2003: Lawrence v. Texas the Supreme Court strikes down sodomy laws.
2003: Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled the right to marry should be extended to same sex couples.
2004: Same sex marriage becomes legal in Massachusetts, the first state to legalize it.
2004: President George W. Bush makes same sex marriage a major part of his election campaign and after winning the GOP pushes ballot questions to ban same sex marriage and civil unions in over 25 states over the nest few years.

Basically, as a reaction to the sodomy laws being overturned, an inability to pass a federal marriage amendment, and the MA Supreme Court ruling in favor of SSM, your side pushed bans on civil unions and same sex marriage in each state across the country. I didn't ask for marriage, the overreaction was entirely on your side and now that SSM is gaining ground, your side is frantically accusing us of being uncompromising. If from the BEGINNING your side had made any push to compromise with civil unions, then the current debate likely would not be occurring at all, but your side decided to use the government to FORCE a particular social view of the majority at that time and as a result your side became the one that became seen as limiting freedom. Now even the most stout conservatives have trouble reconciling the bedrock principle of individual freedom with their reactionary and completely UNCOMPRISING push to deny same sex couples any legal recognition or rights.

If you want to be a historical revisionist and pretend that isn't the case in some clearly prejudiced, baseless, and ignorant attempt to blame the gay rights movement for the current state of affairs, then feel free. That is your own animosity, not HISTORICAL FACT.

The homophobes are so desperate to prove the superior morality of their position that they have to lie and pretend there was a time when they didn't oppose civil unions for GLBT's
 
Was the other study the one in the original post I replied to?

The original study was from the Family Research Council in 2006. Schumm's objective was to attempt to disprove their findings by reevaluating the available data and deliberately skewing the methodology used in order to favor the assumption that homosexual parenting did not result in an increased occurence of homosexuality in children.

Even with the deck heavily stacked against the claim, the FRC's original findings were still found to hold true.

When using it as comparison to their own findings, yes. Not what Shumme did.

Nonsense. There are plenty of peer reviewed academic studies which only compile and evaluate existing data.

Even if Shumme's report is to believed, the amount of children that identified as gay was still the minority. Homosexual adoption is not recruitment, and I cannot believe I actually just had to state that.

A 16% to 57% chance of adopting a homosexual identity after growing up in a homosexual household is a non-trivial figure.

How do you define "abnormal"? And even so, that does not make it a lifestyle.

Anything that falls outside of objective biological or statistical norms.

Only if it was proven that a couple must exhibit both a mother/father figure in order to function safely, which is dubious as best. I would need to see just how Lesbian and gay couples interact with their children before making a definite claim.

Again, numerous studies have linked an absence in clearly defined father figures to behavioral problems in male children. Try again.

Incorrect. The relationship bewteen a married couple and their children is innately different than a mother/grandmother-to-child relationship.

Why on earth should it matter whether or not the "parents" in question are screwing on the side? wtf.gif

There are plenty of piss poor parents out there who cannot keep their hands off of one another. There are plenty of great parents who can hardly stand the sight of one another.

Not my main point.

I can show you data showing that gays can raise children as effectively as straights. It will not be the first time, but I'm willing to do it again.

And only with a potential 16% to 57% chance of making any children they adopt gay themselves...

I did not say 'plantation slavery', I said slavery.

Large scale slavery was more or less extinct in the West by the late middle ages. Plantation slavery was a new phenomena.

It was never a "traditional value."

No, it is not. Being gay does not lend itself to a specific lifestyle. Homosexuality is an orientation.

Then it is a deviant orientation.

Schumm's analysis uses 10 samples, most of which are literary books on gay parenting, and at least one of which the author, Abigail Garner, purposely selected HALF the contents to be about gay parents with straight kids and HALF to be about gay parents with gay kids. He uses those samples to argue that gays have a disproportionate number of gay youth. As such, it is false even at face value. That was a criticism back when Cameron did the original analysis and one he intentionally did not mitigate despite the author herself reporting her book was not a representative sample in a radio interview with Cameron.

Box Turtle Bulletin » “Children of Homosexuals” Researcher More Apt To Ape Paul Cameron

Do you really think authors of gay parenting books are working hard to make their books statistically representative of the gay parenting population?

To clarify, your argument here is that, because Schumm's conlusions were reached using literary sources about the effects of gay parenting on children, that happened to primarily concern themselves with the effects of gay parenting on children, they are somehow invalid? wtf.gif

Ummm... What?

If you have any evidence to suggest that the statistics and figures provided by the literature in question was in any way in error, go ahead and present it. Otherwise, you are simply engaging in a truly bizarre form of the "poisoning the well" fallacy.
 
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what dodge you didn't ask me anything?????? LMAO

way to make stuff up :laughat:
what natural laws? you mean your OPINION of what natural laws are LOL

thanks for proving my point

You're just dodging and weaving because you rely on emotional arguments

It's comical and embarrassing

Gay Marriage isn't real marriage nor is marriage a "Civil Right". By it's very nature a "right" means everyone and everything that wants to engage in that right can. If gays get the ability to change the definition of marriage from man + woman to man + ? or woman + ? than every other interest group that wants to get "married" based upon their sexual behavior should get the ability to do so as well.

Marriage has always had a specific definition and a specific purpose. Gay Marriage isn't anymore real marriage than Group Marriage, Father/Son marriage (no incest since no procreation) ect. Gay Marriage trivializes marriage which is why it pointless and purely an emotional and selfish concept. Not a logical or rational one.

The homophobes are so desperate to prove the superior morality of their position that they have to lie and pretend there was a time when they didn't oppose civil unions for GLBT's

You only undermine your own credibility by childishly objectifying anyone who doesn't support Gay Marriage as a "bigot" or a "homophobe".
 
The original study was from the Family Research Council in 2006. Schumm's objective was to attempt to disprove their findings by reevaluating the available data and deliberately screwing the methodology used in order to favor the assumption that homosexual parenting did not result in an increased occurence of homosexuality in children.

Even with the deck heavily stacked against the claim, the FRC's original findings were still found to hold true.

Shumm's a colleague of Paul Cameron, and his 'research' was doubling down on the three articles that Cameron selected. All he did was add Junk Science to Junk science, cherry picked data that supported his claim and ignored the pieces that didn't fit into what he wanted.

Ya know what else? Shumm got his data from a bunch of books. Not peer-reviewed studies.


Nonsense. There are plenty of peer reviewed academic studies which only compile and evaluate existing data.

And they are presented as complications, not a brand new discovery.




Anything that falls outside of objective biological or statistical norms.

Clarify the bolded.


Again, numerous studies have linked an absence in clearly defined father figures to behavioral problems in male children. Try again.

And I'm sure if they're so numerous you would have no problem linking one. Remember, we're not talking about signle mothers raising their children. We're talking about lesbian couples.

Why on earth should it matter whether or not the "parents" in question are screwing on the side? View attachment 67146667

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That is not the only difference between a grandmother and a lesbian partner.


And only with a potential 16% to 57% chance of making any children they adopt gay themselves...

Way to avoid the question.


Large scale slavery was more or less extinct in the West by the late middle ages. Plantation slavery was a new phenomena.

Again, I never said 'plantation slavery.' Also, I can think of around 4 million people who would disagree with you, but okay.

It was never a "traditional value."

How so?



Then it is a deviant orientation.

Define deviant.
 
Yes, you are expecting us, society to go for the unknown over the known, that is just plain fallacy...the unknown is better than known fallacy...make you happy with a label on it now?

What?

What is known is how societies have developed in a stable manner over about 10,000 years of recorded history. What do we have for the unknown of same sex marriage? For a guy as seemingly sharp as you, I would have thought you would have figured that out.

you have a loose definition of 'stable'. The last few thousand years were pretty hectic.

What is the divorce rate for same sex marriages? Oh yeah, we don't have a lot of data on that. Why is that? Hasn't been around long enough? So lets wait and see how that data turns out before we turn society upside down so that 2-4% can be happy, maybe, in the right here and now... yes, lets just gamble our posterity on just such a roulette wheel. Vegas anyone?

I'm not arguing that gay marriages are better.

The divorce rate on hetero marriage is skewed,

'Course it is. No other explanation.

Nothing being risked? Wow, you are gonna need to put some depth on that to get it closer to being profound aren't you? Once you open up marriage, you erase the lines, all Hades will soon break out. Who else do you think might want a non tradional type marriage after that... and on what legal basis would you stop anybody/anything from getting married? That would then be discrimination, because they gave these special rights do same sex couples, how are you going to legally deny someone else. We all currently have equal protections under the law, the Constitution... and with it exactly equal right now, we simply cannot improve on that.

Not bad, except, wrong on every count. Legalizing SSM does not let hell loose. That is a fantasy for the bible thumpers.

You got nothing much except the "I wanna do it!! Give it to me give it to me" and the "if it feels good in the moment, lets just do it" arguments. Flat and unpersuasive.

I have a mountain of supporting data and a clean conscience. I am confident in my position.
 
The original study was from the Family Research Council in 2006. Schumm's objective was to attempt to disprove their findings by reevaluating the available data and deliberately skewing the methodology used in order to favor the assumption that homosexual parenting did not result in an increased occurence of homosexuality in children.

I just wanted to point out that in another thread, Gathomas acknowledged that FRC prints propaganda, but now he's using the propaganda because the facts don't support his position

Yes. I didn't see anything that would cause me to label most of these organizations as being "hate groups."

If the mere act of distributing wildly absurd and factually incorrect propaganda aimed against particular social or ethnic groups was enough to grant a given organization that title, Moveon.org and PETA would just as easily qualify as any of the groups named in that list.

Hell! Occupy Wall Street would probably count as a "hate group" as well.
 
I just wanted to point out that in another thread, Gathomas acknowledged that FRC prints propaganda, but now he's using the propaganda because the facts don't support his position

Let's take a look at some of the other "research" FRC has promoted

18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda | Southern Poverty Law Center

Headed since 2003 by former Louisiana State Rep. Tony Perkins, the FRC has been a font of anti-gay propaganda throughout its history. It relies on the work of Robert Knight, who also worked at Concerned Women for America but now is at Coral Ridge Ministries (see above for both), along with that of FRC senior research fellows Tim Dailey (hired in 1999) and Peter Sprigg (2001). Both Dailey and Sprigg have pushed false accusations linking gay men to pedophilia: Sprigg has written that most men who engage in same-sex child molestation “identify themselves as homosexual or bisexual,” and Dailey and Sprigg devoted an entire chapter of their 2004 book Getting It Straight to similar material. The men claimed that “homosexuals are overrepresented in child sex offenses” and similarly asserted that “homosexuals are attracted in inordinate numbers to boys.”

That’s the least of it. In a 1999 publication (Homosexual Behavior and Pedophilia) that has since disappeared from its website, the FRC claimed that “one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual order,” according to unrefuted research by AMERICAblog. The same publication argued that “homosexual activists publicly disassociate themselves from pedophiles as part of a public relations strategy.” FRC offered no evidence for these remarkable assertions, and has never publicly retracted the allegations. (The American Psychological Association, among others, has concluded that “homosexual men are not more likely to sexually abuse children than heterosexual men are.”)

In fact, in a Nov. 30, 2010, debate on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” between Perkins and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok, Perkins defended FRC’s association of gay men with pedophilia, saying: “If you look at the American College of Pediatricians, they say the research is overwhelming that homosexuality poses a danger to children. So Mark is wrong. He needs to go back and do his own research.” In fact, the college, despite its hifalutin name, is a tiny, explicitly religious-right breakaway group from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the 60,000-member association of the profession. Publications of the American College of Pediatricians, which has some 200 members, have been roundly attacked by leading scientific authorities who say they are baseless and accuse the college of distorting and misrepresenting their work.

Elsewhere, according to AMERICAblog, Knight, while working at the FRC, claimed that “[t]here is a strong current of pedophilia in the homosexual subculture. … [T]hey want to promote a promiscuous society.” AMERICAblog also reported that then-FRC official Yvette Cantu, in an interview published on Americans for Truth About Homosexuality’s website, said, “If they [gays and lesbians] had children, what would happen when they were too busy having their sex parties?”

More recently, in March 2008, Sprigg, responding to a question about uniting gay partners during the immigration process, said: “I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them.” He later apologized, but then went on, last February, to tell MSNBC host Chris Matthews, “I think there would be a place for criminal sanctions on homosexual behavior.” “So we should outlaw gay behavior?” Matthews asked. “Yes,” Sprigg replied. At around the same time, Sprigg claimed that allowing gay people to serve openly in the military would lead to an increase in gay-on-straight sexual assaults.
 
You're just dodging and weaving because you rely on emotional arguments

It's comical and embarrassing

Gay Marriage isn't real marriage nor is marriage a "Civil Right". By it's very nature a "right" means everyone and everything that wants to engage in that right can. If gays get the ability to change the definition of marriage from man + woman to man + ? or woman + ? than every other interest group that wants to get "married" based upon their sexual behavior should get the ability to do so as well.

Marriage has always had a specific definition and a specific purpose. Gay Marriage isn't anymore real marriage than Group Marriage, Father/Son marriage (no incest since no procreation) ect. Gay Marriage trivializes marriage which is why it pointless and purely an emotional and selfish concept. Not a logical or rational one.



You only undermine your own credibility by childishly objectifying anyone who doesn't support Gay Marriage as a "bigot" or a "homophobe".

I do not have a problem with gay marriage and as this moment in time I am perfectly happy with the state deciding whether or not to recognize it or not. I also do not have a problem with polygamy. I also agree with you that marriage is not a right, as far as I know every state has to issue a marriage licence for one to get married. So in reality one has to obtain government approval first. I also do not think if one is against gay marriage that makes him homophobic or a bigot. It is like being against amnesty for illegal aliens, people tend to label you a racist if you are. But words like these are thrown around way too much now a days just to score or make a political point.
 
1.)You're just dodging and weaving because you rely on emotional arguments

2.)It's comical and embarrassing

3.)Gay Marriage isn't real marriage
4.)nor is marriage a "Civil Right".
5.)By it's very nature a "right" means everyone and everything that wants to engage in that right can.
6.)If gays get the ability to change the definition of marriage from man + woman to man + ? or woman + ? than every other interest group that wants to get "married" based upon their sexual behavior should get the ability to do so as well.

7.)Marriage has always had a specific definition and a specific purpose.
8.)Gay Marriage isn't anymore real marriage than Group Marriage, Father/Son marriage (no incest since no procreation) ect. Gay Marriage trivializes marriage which is why it pointless and purely an emotional and selfish concept. Not a logical or rational one.

1.) LMAO this is a bold face lie, you havent ask me anything.

if you disagree please by all means prove you didnt lie, link what i dodged, I cant wait so i can laugh again :)

2.) yes it is comical and embarrassing watching fail and lie, i agree :)

3.) based on nothing but your opinion

4.) state supreme court justices call it an equal right, so again your opinion is meaningless

5.) false SCOTUS disagrees with you and has said so at least 14 different times in CASES
http://www.debatepolitics.com/break...fter-gay-marriage-vote-21.html#post1061742356

your OPINION is again meaningless

6.) gay marriage already exists so nothing will change they will just make it protected by federal law, you are wrong again LOL

7.) this strawman is always a complete failure. "sexually behavior" we arent discussing just behaviors LMAO

8.) another lie, history proves you wrong and so does reality today

9.) again, nothing more than your opinion supported by ZERO facts LMAO


please stop lying because you are failing at every try LMAO
 
Shumm's a colleague of Paul Cameron, and his 'research' was doubling down on the three articles that Cameron selected. All he did was add Junk Science to Junk science, cherry picked data that supported his claim and ignored the pieces that didn't fit into what he wanted.

Ya know what else? Shumm got his data from a bunch of books. Not peer-reviewed studies.

Prove it. All I see here are a bunch of wild unsupported accusations aimed against a peer reviewed study that came to conclusion you simply happen to dislike.

Walter Schumm is not in any way that I know of directly affiliated with the FRC.

Clarify the bolded.

They make up to 2-4% of the population. They are a statistical anomaly.

And I'm sure if they're so numerous you would have no problem linking one. Remember, we're not talking about signle mothers raising their children. We're talking about lesbian couples.

The same principles apply.

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That is not the only difference between a grandmother and a lesbian partner.

Feel free to list those differences then.

Again, I never said 'plantation slavery.' Also, I can think of around 4 million people who would disagree with you, but okay.

Platation slavery was the only kind of slavery to survive in the West into the modern era, and it was a relatively new development.

As such, it can not be "traditional."


Explain to me why it would count as one?

Define deviant.

Contrary to established norms.
 
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Prove it. All I see here are a bunch of wild unsupported accusations aimed against a peer reviewed study that came to conclusion you simply happen to dislike.

Walter Schumm is not in any way that I know of directly affiliated with the FRC.



They make up to 2-4% of the population. They are a statistical anomaly.



The same principles apply.



Feel free to list those differences then.



Platation slavery was the only kind of slavery to survive in the West into the modern era, and it was a relatively new development.

As such, it can not be "traditional."



Explain to me why it would count as one?



Contrary to established norms.

isnt it great when people make up their own definitions of normal and tradition, you understand those are only your OPINIONS and nothing more and when talking about discrimination and infringement of rights of other they are meaningless LOL
 
Prove it. All I see here are a bunch of wild unsupported accusations aimed against a peer reviewed study that came to conclusion you simply happen to dislike.

Walter Schumm is not in any way that I know of directly affiliated with the FRC.



They make up to 2-4% of the population. They are a statistical anomaly.



The same principles apply.



Feel free to list those differences then.



Platation slavery was the only kind of slavery to survive in the West into the modern era, and it was a relatively new development.

As such, it can not be "traditional."



Explain to me why it would count as one?



Contrary to established norms.

Since Schumms statistical research is contrary to established norms, his work is "deviant"

Box Turtle Bulletin » Walter R. Schumm

Convenience samples have many weaknesses, and one of the weaknesses is that they tend to be small. A “meta-analysis” is intended to correct that problem. To perform a meta-analysis, a researcher collects a bunch of other studies and combines all of the data from their samples, re-crunches the data, and sees which trends hold up in the much larger sample. This too, is valuable, although it also has its pitfalls. It’s not important to go into them here, but for our purposes it’s fair to say that meta-analysis techniques are useful — as long as the studies gathered for the meta-analysis contain samples that were similarly constructed and were meant to examine the same set of questions. And that also means that the smaller samples were somewhat similarly random, even if they were not statistically representative. The larger meta-analysis retains the same weakness of the smaller random-but-not-representatives samples, but with the larger combined sample, it can tend to diminish some of the quirks (or “outliers”) of the smaller samples. These kinds of studies can be useful in identifying trends and correlations, but they cannot be used to extrapolate behaviors or conditions to the population as a whole.

But Schumm’s “meta-analysis” (and Cameron’s before him) doesn’t even have the benefit of being built off of random convenience samples. There were no convenience samples in any of the ten prior works that Schumm used for his meta-analysis. In fact, they weren’t even professional studies. They were popular books!

That’s right, each of the ten sources that Schumm used to construct his “meta-analysis” were from general-audience books about LGBT parenting and families, most of which are available on Amazon.com. Schumm read the books, took notes on each parent and child described in the book, examined their histories, and counted up who was gay and who was straight among the kids. The ten books were:
◾Abigail Garner’s Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is
◾Andrew Gotlieb’s Sons Talk About Their Gay Fathers: Life Curves
◾Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels’ Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents
◾Maureen Asten’s Lesbian Family Relationships in American Society: The Making of an Ethnographic Film
◾Mary Boenke’s Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones
◾Jane Drucker’s Families Of Value: Gay and Lesbian Parents and their Children Speak Out
◾Peggy Gillespie’s Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents and Their Families
◾Louise Rafkin’s Different Mothers: Sons and Daughters of Lesbians Talk About Their Lives
◾Myra Hauschild and Pat Rosier’s Get Used to It!: Children of Gay and Lesbian Parents
◾And Lisa Saffron’s What About the Children: Sons and Daughters of Lesbian and Gay Parents Talk About Their Lives

The first three were also used in Cameron’s 2006 paper. Schumm comments these books, saying:


The authors of these ten books have done important data collection for the entire scientific community. While their samples may not be random, they may be no worse than the convenience and snowball samples used in much of previous researcher with gay and lesbian parents; certainly their combined dataset is far larger than that of the early studies on gay and lesbian parenting.

This is utter nonsense. None of the books contained any semblance of a sample — not even a convenience sample, and the authors certainly didn’t do anything approaching an ”important data collection” by any stretch of the imagination. What they did was tell stories, or, rather, helped the families themselves to tell their own stories. The people chosen in each of these volumes were were not picked according to a pre-defined criteria in the manner in which a researcher would construct a sample. They were chosen solely because the authors and editors thought their stories were compelling
 
1.) right to marriage :shrug: some state supreme courts in the US have already decided when put to the task LMAO
yes i knew this thread is about paris, and as their government ruled.

2.) no because its not under attack nor is it in danger of being not preserved. From my understanding striaht marriage is still legal right? nobody is trying to take that away right? then its fine its not in danger and doesnt need preserved because it already exists LOL

theres ZERO force because they dont have to participate in gay marriage LMAO assuming otherwise is just disingenuous.

2a.) you are welcome to that opinion but you have not facts to support it and court ruling in the US already disagree with you

3.) so make up your mind then LOL you made the statement not me LOL glad you clarified.

5.) no it doesn't fail me because homosexuality is not illegal
5a.) WRONG because you would have to strip away many rights to make rape legal LOL
so no "bam" and whether legal or not a victim and force would still be present lol
5b.) no it doesnt if you are an honest adult and understand reality, rights, freedoms liberties and what rape is, a minor is, force is lOL not even CLOSE to the same unless one is totally dishonest LOL
5c.) see above no fail is present, you lose LOL
7.) see another fail because i didnt label you on how uneducated you are in general so please stop lying, you could have 15 degress, on this topic you are uneducated, Im uneducated on many topics, brain surgery, engine rebuilding etc

so let me know when your appeal to emotion rant and strawman is over LMAO tell me that cool line about who looks bad again? LMAO

or continue to lie and make things up, the choose is yours really

8.) nice try but this already failed when i said minorities i was talking about minorities and women was i not and the rights they already GAINED so it was obvious to honest people who i meant Nice back pedal though but it fails LMAO

9.) 100% wrong because facts and state supreme court justices already disagree with you :laughat:

cool line though LOL
my "work" is already done ;)

if you want an HONEST and OBJECTIVE conversation, because i can already tell after that loss if you even response its gong to be emotional ranting all over the place LOL, take deep breaths and feel free to ask me any questions you want. Ill gladly answer

HONEST questions and i will gladly answer them, that way you wont have to assume and make stuff up about my stance.

Nicely done, I would not have expected anything less.

That being said…we have differing views, yet…

1. Noticed the “some”. Some state supreme courts.

Very little some… almost lonesome. Almost none, comparatively.

Should, sorry to have to say, stay that way. What gave credibility in the eyes of everyone, EVERYONE, African Americans fought Civil Rights pretty much straight up, proud and righteous, honestly righteous. Those who had never had to take a side, just comfortable, living, lettin be, gettin along, suddenly chanced to see it starkly, for what it was,,, rebelled against that … that thick stinky fertilizer, surface deep but rich soiled there in the South.

In contrast, the same sex marriage movement....

Battles in courts, sometimes a legislature, removed from the people, just like France [tangentially] … where there are not the votes for it, it de facto won’t happen. If you try to force, de jure, you often slow it down. People have to accept willingly, people in this country have come miles and miles on the whole Gay issue. But when pushed hard, like by a salesman at a car dealership, we tend to shy in the other direction.
We’ve been really tolerant, despite conflicting with most’s faith. Should be appreciated, acknowledged, honored.

There are times to draw lines.

Enough already

2. Don’t really keep either eye pealed on Europe I am guessing? Can’t envision the coming Cassandra, cannot see that old locomotive puffing for the wooden bridge, bridge over the deep gash of a mountain pass. Look closer, wooden spars falling away as we watch, bridge collapsing as the train approaches... Europe these days.

This isn’t about Europe. We can sort of do a real time autopsy before the fact. Your opinion about European society, think its strong? Strong enough? Wasn’t just this current crisis though, unhappily for liberals, its more just plain liberal, too liberal, policy in general. Yes, my opinion, with points, solid. This post is already too long, however.

Also apropos, the old adage, watch what you ask for, you might just get it. Europe got it, and it is contagious.

What y’all don’t seem to get is that gay movement has not been a, no pun intended either time, straight on assault as stated previously. Lots of short term termiting, lacing the entire structure upon which we have built a strong nation… done with many hardly even realizing it…just like Europe, starting much earlier, hit much harder.

2a. A Court case ruling huh? One? What about, what was the rulling…?? see what you did, now I’m on the edge of my seat. Soooo not convincing tho, besides, you had already made some head feints that direction, straw man called.

3. Yes, I did clarify, you understand the subtlety. Rarely used violence, on occasion, ends the job. Not a big advocate, but when used…hard and fast. Make it hurt so bad others won’t try, unless just stupid suicidal. Dance back Ali like, untouched if possible.

4. Nearly all the gay culture WAS criminal. See, all those other minority groups you hesitate to support, currently illegal, too. Easily changed, assisted by this, those and many leagues of others. Then unhindered, a now unstoppable force no longer meeting an immovable object…

Society crumbles, a tide slicing though sand castles.

5. Stripping away/adding special rights, whichever way necessary for certain groups wanting... whatever. Basis upon which to deny them? After? None. Hey, you gave that to same sex folks, cries of discrimination ring from all sides [and they would be right]… so how legally to stop much of anything after? You won’t be able.

Society crumble crumble crumbling.

Interesting thought experiment. If rape were made legal, how long would it be before people stopped struggling against? Let’s say, with just the right backing, or packing, a court or two, or the courts in general, started ruling in their favor, maybe a legislature somewhere or three joined… The national legislature bonded with them, passed the law… but the people were against it… then what?

Anybody see France in this frame?

All is uncomfortable even to think about, suffice to say, could come to pass, doubting it ostensibly, sure, seems too repugnant. See, even a similar past. Surely cannot be certain, not at all certain it wouldn’t.


6. Give ya slack on this one too, cause you are not really incorrect, you were just slinging so parameters were in order.
7. Sorry, just not the case… but again, its hardly enough to quibble over.
8. Already dealt with this continued fail…
 
Since Schumms statistical research is contrary to established norms, his work is "deviant"

Box Turtle Bulletin » Walter R. Schumm

This only goes to support what I've been saying all along. There simply is not enough data available to come any kind of definitive conclusion on the longterm effects of homosexual parenting. Frankly, the Left in academia has made a deliberate effort not to ask the kinds of questions which might threaten the LGBT agenda precisely because they fear the conclusions they might come to.

I hardly see how Schumm can be faulted here for simply attempting to address an issue which many more "politically correct" researchers have decided to avoid like the plague out of fear of creating controversy.
 
Prove it. All I see here are a bunch of wild unsupported accusations aimed against a peer reviewed study that came to conclusion you simply happen to dislike.

Walter Schumm is not in any way that I know of directly affiliated with the FRC..

He is directly affiliated with Paul Cameron though:

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Gerard J.M. van den Aardweg, PhD [European Editor]

Tony B. Bieber, PhD [Psychologist, PC]

Kirk Cameron, PhD [Statistical Scientist. Author of over 60 journal articles, papers, and reports. Research interests: examining the misuse of statistics in psychology, sociology, and biomedicine, especially in sexuality and health research]

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Carlin Freeberg, PhD [Retired licensed psychologist and teacher. Has taught grade 4 through graduate school. Academic specialties: research design and measurement, cognition, human development, change strategies. Research: juvenile offender rehabilitation, developing community support systems, identifying the mentally ill in jail settings]

Thomas Landess, PhD [Former Dean, Univ. of Dallas]


Ralph E. Mayberry, MD [FAAFP; Board Certified Family Physician]

Steven Rice, MD [Clinical Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, University of Tennessee Memphis School of Medicine]















John Raney, MD [DABPN; FACFE; Forensic psychiatrist]

Nathaniel Lehrman, MD [Clinical Director (retired), Kingsboro Psychiatric Center, Brooklyn, NY; former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Downstate Medical Center, State Univ. of NY; certified in psychiatry and administrative psychiatry; graduate, Comprehensive Course in Psychoanalysis, NY Medical College]

Walter R. Schumm, PhD [Published over 270 journal articles and book chapters and coedited one major text on family theory and research methodology. Research Scholar for US Army Research Institute; Fellow of National Council on Family Relations. Known for his theory of differential risk relative to same-sex and mixed-sex relationships and his critiques of biased research in area of same-sex parenting]


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Dodge noted

Laws can always be repealed/overturned. Human Laws don't change Natural Law.

And Natural law has determined that there will be 2 to 4% homosexuality in our species. It has always been so and will ever be. No matter what you believe that is the truth.
You need to deal with it instead of running away.
 
This only goes to support what I've been saying all along. There simply is not enough data available to come any kind of definitive conclusion on the longterm effects of homosexual parenting. Frankly, the Left in academia has made a deliberate effort not to ask these kinds of questions precisely because of the conclusions they might lead to.

I hardly see how Schumm can be faulted here for simply attempting to address an issue which more "political correct" researchers have decided to avoid like the plague out of fear of creating controversy.

Schumm can be faulted for using deviant methods.

And coming to the conclusion that same sex parents are somehow harmful to the children they raise based on deviant research is deviant.

Why are you engaging in deviant behavior, and should your deviant behavior justify a prohibition on you raising children?
 
Schumm can be faulted for using deviant methods.

And coming to the conclusion that same sex parents are somehow harmful to the children they raise based on deviant research is deviant.

Why are you engaging in deviant behavior, and should your deviant behavior justify a prohibition on you raising children?

He used literally the only data that was available. That's what researchers do.

Frankly, regardless of whether the sample was large enough or not, the fact of the matter remains that there is strong circumstantial evidence to support the conclusion that children raised in homosexual households have a greater chance of turning out to be homosexual themselves.

This shouldn't be ignored.

P.S. Flagrantly misusing words won't help your argument. My definition of the term "deviant" is literally the exact definition used by most dictionaries.

Merriam-Webster: Deviant

Definition of DEVIANT

: deviating especially from an accepted norm <deviant behavior>

I'm sorry that people like you apparently like to forget facts like these when it is inconvenient to your ideology. :roll:
 
He used literally the only data that was available. That's what researchers do.

Frankly, regardless of whether the sample was large enough or not, the fact of the matter remains that there is strong circumstantial evidence to support the conclusion that children raised in homosexual households have a greater chance of turning out to be homosexual themselves.

P.S. Flagrantly misusing words won't help your argument. My definition of the term "deviant" is literally the exact definition used by most dictionaries.

Merriam-Webster: Deviant



I'm sorry that people like you apparently like to forget facts like these when it is inconvenient to your ideology. :roll:

actually you just proved yourself wrong, the definition of the word as you just posted is SUBJECTIVE

so what YOU think is an accepted norm is just your OPINION. LMAO

nothign like owning yourself, seems the person forgetting FACTS is you since they just proved you wrong.
 
He used literally the only data that was available. That's what researchers do.

Frankly, regardless of whether the sample was large enough or not, the fact of the matter remains that there is strong circumstantial evidence to support the conclusion that children raised in homosexual households have a greater chance of turning out to be homosexual themselves.

This shouldn't be ignored.

P.S. Flagrantly misusing words won't help your argument. My definition of the term "deviant" is literally the exact definition used by most dictionaries.

Merriam-Webster: Deviant



I'm sorry that people like you apparently like to forget facts like these when it is inconvenient to your ideology. :roll:



I hope Salman Khan believes in "conversion"...........................
 
nor·mal /ˈnôrməl/

Adjective

Conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.

Noun

The usual, average, or typical state or condition.

Synonyms

adjective.

regular - standard - ordinary - common - usual

noun.

normality - normalcy - perpendicular

In no way, shape, or form does an anomalous condition afflicting only 2-4% of a given population match this definition, nor is there any way in which it ever conceivably could.

Are those who suffer from schizophrenia "normal" too?
 
He used literally the only data that was available. That's what researchers do.

Wrong. Only deviant researchers use data that is not representative or random.

Frankly, regardless of whether the sample was large enough or not, the fact of the matter remains that there is strong circumstantial evidence to support the conclusion that children raised in homosexual households have a greater chance of turning out to be homosexual themselves.

It has nothing to do with the size of the sample. It has to do with the sample being neither representative nor random.

IOW, there is no circumstantial evidence to support your deviant conclusion.

And I have done similar research. I read books about heterosexual couples, and books about homosexual couples. According to my meta-analysis, the homosexual couples had no homosexual children, while some of the heterosexual couples did. Therefore, hetero couples are more likely to have homosexual children.

Also, most homosexuals have heterosexual parents, which confirms my conclusion that hetero couples are more likely to produce homosexual children

We need to ban straight marriages, and stop the scourge of divorce and the production of deviant children.


P.S. Flagrantly misusing words won't help your argument. My definition of the term "deviant" is literally the exact definition used by most dictionaries.

Merriam-Webster: Deviant

Yes, and performing meta-analyses on data that is neither representative nor random is "contrary to established norms". His work is deviant

It is also "contrary to established norms" to form conclusions on the basis of deviant studies, therefore your conclusion and your beliefs are also deviant.

See how that works?

I'm sorry that people like you apparently like to forget facts like these when it is inconvenient to your ideology. :roll:

I accept your apology

But it wouldn't be needed if you stopped believing in deviant studies
 
In no way, shape, or form does an anomalous condition afflicting only 2-4% of a given population match this definition, nor is there any way in which it ever conceivably could.

Are those who suffer from schizophrenia "normal" too?



Gee, maybe targeting that 2-4% anomaly like it was the very center of everything "wrong" with the entire universe wasn't exactly the right tactic ? You think ?.....................
 
Nicely done, I would not have expected anything less.

That being said…we have differing views, yet…

1. Noticed the “some”. Some state supreme courts.

Very little some… almost lonesome. Almost none, comparatively.

1b.)Should, sorry to have to say, stay that way. What gave credibility in the eyes of everyone, EVERYONE, African Americans fought Civil Rights pretty much straight up, proud and righteous, honestly righteous. Those who had never had to take a side, just comfortable, living, lettin be, gettin along, suddenly chanced to see it starkly, for what it was,,, rebelled against that … that thick stinky fertilizer, surface deep but rich soiled there in the South.

In contrast, the same sex marriage movement....

1c.)Battles in courts, sometimes a legislature, removed from the people, just like France [tangentially] … where there are not the votes for it, it de facto won’t happen. If you try to force, de jure, you often slow it down. People have to accept willingly, people in this country have come miles and miles on the whole Gay issue. But when pushed hard, like by a salesman at a car dealership, we tend to shy in the other direction.
We’ve been really tolerant, despite conflicting with most’s faith. Should be appreciated, acknowledged, honored.

There are times to draw lines.

Enough already

2. Don’t really keep either eye pealed on Europe I am guessing? Can’t envision the coming Cassandra, cannot see that old locomotive puffing for the wooden bridge, bridge over the deep gash of a mountain pass. Look closer, wooden spars falling away as we watch, bridge collapsing as the train approaches... Europe these days.

This isn’t about Europe. We can sort of do a real time autopsy before the fact. Your opinion about European society, think its strong? Strong enough? Wasn’t just this current crisis though, unhappily for liberals, its more just plain liberal, too liberal, policy in general. Yes, my opinion, with points, solid. This post is already too long, however.

Also apropos, the old adage, watch what you ask for, you might just get it. Europe got it, and it is contagious.

What y’all don’t seem to get is that gay movement has not been a, no pun intended either time, straight on assault as stated previously. Lots of short term termiting, lacing the entire structure upon which we have built a strong nation… done with many hardly even realizing it…just like Europe, starting much earlier, hit much harder.

2a. A Court case ruling huh? One? What about, what was the rulling…?? see what you did, now I’m on the edge of my seat. Soooo not convincing tho, besides, you had already made some head feints that direction, straw man called.

3. Yes, I did clarify, you understand the subtlety. Rarely used violence, on occasion, ends the job. Not a big advocate, but when used…hard and fast. Make it hurt so bad others won’t try, unless just stupid suicidal. Dance back Ali like, untouched if possible.

4. Nearly all the gay culture WAS criminal. See, all those other minority groups you hesitate to support, currently illegal, too. Easily changed, assisted by this, those and many leagues of others. Then unhindered, a now unstoppable force no longer meeting an immovable object…

Society crumbles, a tide slicing though sand castles.

5. Stripping away/adding special rights, whichever way necessary for certain groups wanting... whatever. Basis upon which to deny them? After? None. Hey, you gave that to same sex folks, cries of discrimination ring from all sides [and they would be right]… so how legally to stop much of anything after? You won’t be able.

Society crumble crumble crumbling.

Interesting thought experiment. If rape were made legal, how long would it be before people stopped struggling against? Let’s say, with just the right backing, or packing, a court or two, or the courts in general, started ruling in their favor, maybe a legislature somewhere or three joined… The national legislature bonded with them, passed the law… but the people were against it… then what?

Anybody see France in this frame?

All is uncomfortable even to think about, suffice to say, could come to pass, doubting it ostensibly, sure, seems too repugnant. See, even a similar past. Surely cannot be certain, not at all certain it wouldn’t.


8.). Give ya slack on this one too, cause you are not really incorrect, you were just slinging so parameters were in order.
8. Sorry, just not the case… but again, its hardly enough to quibble over.
10.). Already dealt with this continued fail…

1.) yes some, the ones that have looked at it in a case
cant decide before a case :shrug

1b only if we rewrite history LMOA
1c.) you are welcome to this opinion

2.) uhm i dont care about any of that nor does any of it along with your opinions change anything?
straight marriage is still legal and nobody is tryign to stop it lol

im not sure what any of it even meant in correlation, are you drinking? and NO im not trying to insult you or be a smart ass, i was being serious in a funny way because i ahev no clue what this rant was about :)

2a. no not just one a couple thats how gay marriage as already been established in some states :shrug:
no straw man facts

3.) i understand and i would support some violence in some case, not against equality though

4.) gay culture now? what are you referring to, please qoute these laws in the US that made gay culture illegal LOL
and like i said it is not illegal now not does it involve a victim

trying to equate gay marriage with child rapist is silly

5.) but again gay marriage doesnt strip away rights it grants them, your examples would strip them away so they are illogical anologies.

6.) society crumbling is your opinion, many feel equal rights strengthens it :shrug:

7.) again that takes rights away, its doesnt just grant them so again the example is a failure as they are not the same lol

8.) i know im not incorrect you were lol
9.) its 100% the case as my post proves would you like to read it again
10.) weird you call it a fail when its true, justices disagree with you LMAO you lost


anyway, what are you drinking? anything good or unique?
 
Wrong. Only deviant researchers use data that is not representative or random.

Nonsense. As your own source admitted, he used "meta-analysis." This is a perfectly valid technique for gathering data regardless of what the critics might happen to say.

It's hardly his fault that literature concerning the effects of homosexual parenting happens to be so sparse.

It has nothing to do with the size of the sample. It has to do with the sample being neither representative nor random.

Now you're just spitting out random combinations of words without the slightest understanding of what they mean.

You have absolutely no idea how "representative" or "random" the examples given in any of those books happened to be. Again, these books were the ONLY research available on the subject.

If they can be used to come to false conclusions concerning homosexual parenting, that is the fault of academia for categorically choosing to ignore this field of study.

IOW, there is no circumstantial evidence to support your deviant conclusion.

Again, not so good with this whole "definitions of words" thing, are you? :roll:

circumstantial evidence
n
indirect evidence that tends to establish a conclusion by inference

Google is your friend Sang.

Yes, and performing meta-analyses on data that is neither representative nor random is "contrary to established norms". His work is deviant

It is also "contrary to established norms" to form conclusions on the basis of deviant studies, therefore your conclusion and your beliefs are also deviant.

Which would be a great argument... If there were any other evidence to go off of.

There is not.

You can blame academia's pro LGBT agenda for that.

I accept your apology

But it wouldn't be needed if you stopped believing in deviant studies

I momentarily unblocked you because you actually manged to raise a valid point for once.

For some strange reason, I suspect that I will be blocking you again here shortly. :roll:
 
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