Tag Archives: Mark Regnerus

MICHIGAN: Judge Tosses First “Expert” Witness In Marriage Equality Lawsuit

The Associated Press reports: The state of Michigan’s defense of a ban on gay marriage is off to a rocky start after a judge refused to allow the first witness to testify. Sherif Girgis is a law student at Yale University and a doctoral candidate at Princeton University. He has written and talked about a historical defense of marriage between …

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UTAH: Plaintiffs Slam “Misleading” Regnerus Study In Brief To Tenth Circuit

Via press release from the National Center for Lesbian Rights: Late Tuesday, attorneys for three couples challenging Utah’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples filed a brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, urging the court to uphold a lower court’s December 2013 decision finding the ban unconstitutional. On December 20, 2013, U.S. District Court …

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Michigan Marriage Trial: Day One

The Detroit News has recapped today’s start of the federal trial to overturn Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage. First, the good guys: Research shows a wide variety in how men and woman parent, but their gender is irrelevant to child outcomes, an expert testified Tuesday in a federal court trial challenging Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage and adoption law. “Both …

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New York Times Reports On Links Between Mark Regnerus And Anti-Gay Group

Discredited researcher Mark Regnerus and other anti-gay social science researchers are scheduled to be called as witnesses in this week’s marriage equality lawsuit in Michigan. The New York Times today reports on the link between these men and the virulently anti-gay Heritage Foundation. In meetings hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington in late 2010, opponents of same-sex marriage discussed …

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Mark Regnerus: Same-Sex Marriage Will Embolden More Straight Men To Demand Anal Sex From Women

“If gay marriage is perceived as legitimate by heterosexual women, it will eventually embolden boyfriends everywhere — and not a few husbands — to press for what men have always historically wanted but were rarely allowed: sexual novelty in the form of permission to stray without jeopardizing their primary relationship. Discussion of openness in sexual partners in straight marriages will …

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Liberty Counsel Files Anti-Marriage Briefs With Tenth Circuit Court Of Appeals

The Liberty Counsel has filed two amicus briefs with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of  Oklahoma and Utah’s defense of their bans on same-sex marriage. Their Oklahoma brief was filed on the behalf of NARTH, the crackpot “ex-gay” group whose co-founder was busted in the Miami airport with a young male prostitute as they returned from a …

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UTAH: Discredited Researcher Mark Regnerus Files Tenth Circuit Court Brief

Discredited researcher Mark Regnerus today filed a brief with the Tenth Circuit Court in support of Utah’s defense of its ban on same-sex marriage. Another familiar name on the Utah brief is Professor Douglas Allen, of Canada’s Simon Fraser University. Allen sits on the board of directors of NOM’s former hate-satellite, the Ruth Institute. Allen is a supporter of Regnerus …

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MICHIGAN: Plaintiffs In Marriage Equality Suit File Motion To Exclude Testimony Of “Expert Witness” Mark Regnerus

The plaintiffs in a marriage equality lawsuit against the state of Michigan have filed a motion requesting that so-called “expert witness” be barred from testifying. Because all his debunked bullshit is about children. An excerpt: In addition to being relevant, an expert’s testimony must also be reliable. Reliability of an expert’s conclusions is based on the expert’s knowledge or experience …

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UTAH: State Cites Debunked Regnerus Study In First Brief To Tenth Circuit Court

Late last night the outside counsel hired to defend the state of Utah in its same-sex marriage case filed its first brief, which relies heavily on the widely-debunked study by discredited Texas researcher Mark Regnerus. Via the Salt Lake Tribune: Utah has chosen a definition of marriage that is “principally a child-centered institution, one focused first and foremost on the …

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TEXAS: Judge Refuses Regnerus Brief Filed By Anti-Gay Christian Group

A federal judge in Texas has refused to consider an amicus brief filed by the anti-gay Christian group Texas Values in the marriage equality lawsuit against the state.  The brief cites the work of discredited researcher Mark Regnerus four times. The Dallas Voice reports: The group’s brief argues that children in same-sex families are at a disadvantage compared to children …

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UTAH: State Files SCOTUS Reply To Plaintiffs’ Brief Opposing Marriage Stay

On Friday, the good guys filed a SCOTUS brief opposing Utah Gov. Gary Herbert’s demand for a stay on gay marriages while the Tenth Circuit Court considers their appeal. Today the state fired back with a reply brief. As you’ll recall, the plaintiffs’ brief denounced the state’s citation of the Regnerus study and noted that Regnerus was denounced by the …

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UTAH: State AG Dropped Procreation Argument In Marriage Stay Demand

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: Utah made a subtle shift in its arguments in defense of opposite-sex marriage in a stay application to the U.S. Supreme Court filed Tuesday. Gone is any mention of procreation. Instead, the state talks about child-rearing without discussing how children may be produced. Utah argues one reason it is likely to ultimately prevail in reversing …

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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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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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MICHIGAN: State Calls Mark Regnerus As Witness In Marriage Equality Lawsuit

Last month a Michigan judge set February 25th as the trial date for the above-titled lawsuit to overturn the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. According to a filing released yesterday, the state is calling discredited researcher Mark Regnerus as an “expert witness” on their behalf.  As tipster Str8 Grandmother put it in an email, those documents from UCF can’t come …

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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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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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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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