Tag Archives: gay families

REPORT: NOM’s Brian Brown Collaborated With Russia’s DUMA On Bill That Bans Gay Couples From Adopting

Right Wing Watch reports that at the invitation of Russia’s legislature, NOM president Brian Brown traveled there with a group of far-right French Catholic anti-gay activists to collaborate on the bill that bans gay couples from adopting.  The DUMA passed the bill five days after Brown’s visit. On June 13, 2013, just days after the Russian Duma passed laws banning …

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Good Baby

Good As You blogger and anti-NOM crusader Jeremy Hooper and his husband are daddies! He writes: Savannah Rose Hooper-Shulman came into the world on 9/25/13 at 7:40PM CT. Baby is gorgeous and healthy; daddies are ecstatic! My husband and I are going to take a few days to enjoy this amazing new life. Regular updates will resume once I come …

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RUSSIA: Disgusting Clip Uses Regnerus Study To Claim Gays Rape Their Own Kids

Americablog‘s John Aravosis has unearthed a repulsive anti-gay clip out of Russia. He writes: A newly-discovered anti-gay video making the rounds in Russia (see the video below with subtitles) claims that gays adopt children so that they’ll have a readily available source of kids to rape. Even more troubling, the video bases its adoption-child-rape assertion on a debunked faux-scientific “study” …

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Anti-Gay Researcher Mark Regnerus Is Angry That Russia Is Using His Work

“Policing the uses to which my Social Science Research article on same-sex parenting has been put would be a challenge. Groups from across the political spectrum have struggled over the meaning of its analyses, which documented a variety of differences between those young adults who grew up in a stable, biological family and those who did not—including those who reported …

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Quote Of The Day – Alexei Zhuravlev

“We view Europe as Sodom and Gomorrah. Europe must not tell us how to live. The Europeans can live any way they like, but they mustn’t tell us what to do. Of course [a gay mother] should definitely be deprived of her rights to the child. Homosexuals must not raise children. They corrupt them. They do them much more harm …

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RUSSIA: Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Take Children Away From Gay Parents

A member of Russia’s Duma has introduced a bill that would allow the state to to remove children from the homes of their gay parents. Pink News reports: Lawmaker Alexei Zhuravlyov has proposed a bill that will would deny gay parents custody over their own children. If passed it would make “non traditional sexual orientation” a basis for the deprivation …

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HomoQuotable – Robert Oscar Lopez

“Children have a right to a mom and a dad. You don’t ask sociologists to prove to us that free speech and liberty from slavery are justifiable because you can prove the negative impacts of being denied those rights. You can’t do that when it comes to a child’s right to a mom and a dad. Same-sex parenting flagrantly violates …

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Kids Of LGBT Parents Speak Out

From the Family Equality Council: When Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote his landmark opinion in Windsor V. United States, a critical tenet of his opinion was that the voices of the children of LGBT parents should be considered in the marriage debate. For several years, opponents of marriage equality have built their movement on the argument that loving, committed couples must …

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HomoQuotable – Robert Oscar Lopez

“Most kids of gay parents we know are struggling with sexual identity issues, recovering from emotional abuse, fighting drug addictions, or are so wounded by their childhood that they lack the stability to go public and face the onslaught from an increasingly totalitarian gay lobby, which refuses to admit that there’s anything wrong. [snip] For a movement like the LGBT …

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HomoQuotable – Robert Oscar Lopez

“Straight people started the artificial reproductive technology morass to deal with infertility, but it’s now the gay lobby that promises the future growth market for the synthetic baby business, as well as the most compelling ideological pretext to normalize commercialized procreation. (Hypocrisy alert! In the 1970s, homosexuality was fervently de-pathologized by the medical field, but now homosexual activists compare themselves …

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New Animated Movie Shows Gay Family

The coming animated feature from Laika Studios mentions a two-dad family. Via The Hollywood Reporter: In the new trailer for The Boxtrolls, the latest 3D animated feature from Portland-based Laika Studios, a sweet-faced toddler stands alone on a street as various combinations of parents in Victorian garb appear and disappear beside him. “Sometimes there’s a mother,” the narrator intones. “Sometimes …

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New From The DOMA Project

Clip recap: Cathy and Catriona may be the first married, same-sex couple in the United States to receive a green card, after they completed their interview at the Denver, Colorado USCIS office and cleared all eligibility hurdles except for DOMA. Their case has not been denied, and The DOMA Project co-founder, their attorney, Lavi Soloway, says they may be the …

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Disney Show To Feature Gay Family

Via TV Guide: In a first for the Disney Channel, next season an episode of Good Luck Charlie will feature a family with two moms. Producers are currently casting the couple, with production set for next week. The episode will air in early 2014 as part of Good Luck Charlie’s final season. Because Good Luck Charlie is coming to a …

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Gay Family Holds Funeral For Prop 8

From JMG favorites, the Leffew family.

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A Tale Of Two Dads

From Freedom To Marry and Campaign For Southern Equality.

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Today’s Gay Etiquette Question

From Steven Petrow’s Civil Behavior column in the New York Times comes this question: Dear Civil Behavior: My husband and I became foster dads to our son when he was 4 months old and adopted him when he was 2 years old. He will soon be 10. As an adoptive parent, it strikes me as odd that complete strangers will …

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One Million Moms Vs The Fosters

“Dear Joe,  ABC Family Channel has several anti-family programs and has now added to that growing list. ABC Family’s new show The Fosters is about a lesbian couple and their diverse family. While foster care and adoption is a wonderful thing and the Bible does teach us to help orphans, this program is attempting to redefine marriage and family by …

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AUSTRALIA: Children Of Same-Sex Couples Score Well In Parenting Study

In yet another blow to the discredited Regnerus study, a preliminary report from the world’s largest study of same-sex parenting shows that children in such families are thriving. Children of same-sex parents are doing as well or better than the rest of the population on a number of key health indicators. That is the initial finding from the world’s largest …

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Louisiana House Bans Gay Surrogacy

On Sunday the Louisiana House approved a bill that bans unmarried couples from entering into surrogacy contracts. The bill now heads to the desk of Gov. Bobby Jindal. The final version of Senate Bill 162 defines “intended parents” as “married persons,” thus barring unmarried partners and same-sex couples from becoming parents through surrogacy. However, much of the opposition to the …

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