Tag Archives: gay parenting

UCF Calls Out Big Guns In Campaign To Cloak Emails About Regnerus Study

The University of Central Florida (my alma mater!) has hired the former chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court to defend themselves against demands that they produce the emails leading up to the publication of Mark Regnerus’ discredited study on gay parenting. Via the Human Rights Campaign: A judge ruled the university had to release the documents, deemed public records …

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ARKANSAS: Supreme Court Overturns Visitation Bans In Child Custody Cases

Another great win today by the ACLU: The Arkansas Supreme Court today reversed a lower court child custody order that prohibited a parent from having overnight visitation with his child in the presence of his long-term domestic partner. The ruling ends a widespread practice in Arkansas custody cases of courts automatically barring parents from living with an unmarried partner regardless …

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New Site: The Regnerus Fallout

Via press release: The University of Central Florida (UCF) has ramped up its legal efforts to block the release of over 50,000 documents related to the flawed same-sex parenting study by Mark Regnerus that appeared last year in the publication Social Science Research, housed at UCF. A judge ruled the university had to release the documents, deemed public records under …

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FLORIDA: UCF Faces Contempt Charge For Refusing To Hand Over Regnerus Files

The University of Central Florida is facing a contempt of court charge for refusing to hand over internal documents related to the publication of discredited researcher Mark Regnerus’ deeply flawed study on gay parenting. UCF was ordered to release the documents following a demand by gay activist John Becker. Via the UCF student newspaper: John Becker’s attorney, Andrea Mogensen, filed …

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FLORIDA: Judge Orders UCF To Release Documents In Debunked Regnerus Study

An Orange County judge today ordered the University of Central Florida to release documents relating to the publication of the widely-debunked study by Texas “researcher” Mark Regnerus, which claims that gays are substandard parents. Via the Human Rights Campaign: Almost from the moment it was released, the 2012 New Family Structures Study raised red flags among family scholars for its …

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The Call: On Gay Adoption

From the Family Equality Council: There are 400,000 young people in foster care waiting for a home. Millions of LGBT people are willing to become adoptive parents if they could – yet many states make it harder for them to adopt. Help knock down these barriers and ensure every child has a chance to find a home. Find out more.

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Sociology Group Files Amicus Brief Against Marriage Bans In Nevada & Hawaii

From their website: The American Sociological Association (ASA) filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today supporting efforts to overturn gay marriage bans in Nevada and Hawaii and highlighting the overwhelming body of social science research that confirms “children fare just as well” when same-sex or heterosexual parents raise them. The Ninth Circuit …

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Mark Regnerus Is In Hawaii

At the invitation of GOP state reps, discredited anti-gay researcher Mark Regnerus will testify before the Hawaii House Information Briefing Panel today. The panel is meeting to plan for Monday’s special legislative session. I’ll try to find video afterwards. (Tipped by JMG reader Str8 Grandmother) UPDATE: The hearing was actually yesterday. I missed the date buried at the bottom of …

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RUSSIA: Bill To Seize The Children Of Gay Parents Is Temporarily Withdrawn

Via Buzzfeed: A bill that threatened to expand Russia’s crackdown on LGBT rights by stripping gay parents of their children has been withdrawn from consideration, a spokesperson for the parliamentarian who sponsored the bill said on Saturday. The move came to light after LGBT rights activists noticed the bill had been noted as “withdrawn” on the website of the State …

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First Gay Adoption Approved in France

Five months after the passage of France’s marriage and adoption bill, a lesbian couple has been granted adoption rights. A couple being identified in local media reports as Caroline and Pascale A. were married in June, and on Thursday received approval for one wife’s two biological children, Laure and Lise, to be adopted by the other wife, Le Monde reports. …

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Brian Brown: Fred Karger Will Not Stop Me From Collaborating With Russia

Yesterday we learned that NOM watchdog Fred Karger has reached out to federal officials, asking that they investigate Brian Brown for possibly violating the Logan Act, which forbids citizens from collaborating with foreign governments against the interests of the United States. Five days after Brown’s speech to the Duma, they passed the bill which bans anybody from a country with …

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RUSSIA: Bill To Seize Children Of Gay Parents Set For Debate During Olympics

The proposed bill that would authorize the Russian government to seize the children of gay parents will be debated in February. The debate will likely coincide with the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi which have already been marred by boycott calls over Russia’s controversial new anti-gay legislation. The bill, published on the website of Russia’s Duma lower house of …

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CALIFORNIA: Governor Signs Bill Allowing Children More Than Two Legal Parents

After vetoing a similar measure last year, California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill which allows children to have more than two legal parents. Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) said he authored the measure to address the changes in family structure in California, including situations in which same-sex couples have a child with an opposite-sex biological parent. The law …

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REPORT: Discredited Study By Mark Regnerus Cited In Russian Bill That Authorizes Seizing Children Of Gay Parents

In the third of their four part series on the influence of American hate groups on Russia’s anti-gay movement, today Right Wing Watch reports that the infamous study by discredited Texas researcher Mark Regnerus was cited in the pending Russian bill that authorizes the government to seize children from the custody of their gay parents. When Russian lawmaker Alexei Zhuravlyov …

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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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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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Tweet Of The Day – Ricky Martin

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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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