Lesbian parenting and the problem with public information

A recent study on lesbian parenting is drawing fire as it doesn't seem to stand up to academic scrutiny.

"A recent and widely reported news story, headlined "Kids of lesbians have fewer behavioral problems, study suggests," reported that "A nearly 25-year study concluded that children raised in lesbian households were psychologically well-adjusted and had fewer behavioral problems than their peers."

The conclusion does not strike me as particularly surprising. In our society and many others, mothers play a larger role in child rearing than fathers, so it would not be surprising if children with two mothers did, on average, better than children with a mother and a father. Reading the story, however, I concluded that it did not actually give me much reason to believe in its conclusion—for two related reasons."

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Minnesota and it's marriage law

Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) hopes to intervene in a lawsuit filed in Minnesota state court to overturn that state's law on marriage.

The Minnesota law currently defines marriage as between one man and one woman, and ADF senior counsel Jordan Lorence is teaming with the Minnesota Family Council in asking the court to reject the lawsuit.

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Societies suffer or collapse when they reject traditional marriage

Jordan Lorence, who is a native Minnesotan and lived in the Lake Minnetonka, Mound area and graduated the University of Minnesota Law School, said he was excited to join forces with MFC and bring ADF’s national expertise to aid in our local effort to defeat the lawsuit filed in Hennepin County to strike down our Defense of Marriage laws.

The ADF has participated in similar battles across the country including Proposition 8 in California.

Lorence said “this case is mangling and contorting the state constitution in ways that know one has interpreted it to mean that there is a right of every individual define marriage any way that he or she wants and to force the state, and everyone else in the state to accept that definition.”

That will result in chaos. That is not marriage equality it’s marriage demolition,” and it’s judicial activism that the court should reject.

In fact, the Minnesota Supreme Court had one of the first cases like this, Baker v. Nelson, back in 1971 and the State Supreme Court unanimously rejected it “and I expect the State Supreme Court or one of the lower courts to reject it again.”

“When you put men and women in society they eventually produce children. And society has to figure out what to do with them [the children]. If they allow anyone to do what they want you end up with irresponsible men, exploiting women and neglecting children. You don’t sustain a society from generation to generation with this self-oriented model of sexuality and marriage.”

Consequently, “societies have to come to the conclusions that their needs to be a societal orienting of this eventual production of children into a stable relationship of the father and the mother to raise the children that they produce. It is a lifelong commitment; it is sexually exclusive between the people and monogamous. This is the best environment for raising children."

He also noted that when societies have experimented with this orientation, they have suffered or collapsed.

MFC and ADF intervene in lawsuit to legalize homosexual "marriage"

Notice to intervene in lawsuit seeking to overturn Minnesota’s marriage law is filed by group seeking to protect marriage

Group was instrumental in passage of Minnesota’s Defense of Marriage law in 1997 and wants to ensure it is strongly defended in the courts.

MINNEAPOLIS – Tom Prichard, President of the Minnesota Family Council today announced the filing of a notice of intervention in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Minnesota’s marriage law.

“We’re filing this notice to intervene to ensure Minnesota’s marriage law is vigorously defended in the courts. We are being assisted in this effort by the Alliance Defense Fund, the national expert in defending marriage laws across the country. We believe it’s absolutely vital that all the necessary arguments are made to uphold Minnesota’s marriage law,” said Prichard.

An intervention in a lawsuit occurs when a person or group, which has a particular interest in the outcome of a case, petitions the court to become a party to the lawsuit. The intervening party is then allowed to make arguments defending their interests.

“We want to assist the Hennepin County attorney with all the legal resources they need to strongly defend the law in court,” added Prichard. “This is the first time a lawsuit has sought to challenge Minnesota’s marriage law under the Minnesota Constitution. Neither the county attorney nor the state’s attorney general have ever been called upon to defend the constitutional basis for our state’s marriage law. We want to ensure that all the necessary legal resources are available to see that is accomplished.”

“We at the MFC have a unique interest in the outcome of this lawsuit. We were the principle initiators and lobbyists for the Minnesota Defense of Marriage legislation when it was passed in 1997. We are involved in efforts to protect the institution of marriage through a state constitutional amendment. We’ve worked to strengthen marriages through divorce reform legislation and marriage strengthening initiatives. And of course, our constituents strongly support defending marriage. Over 100,000 Minnesotans signed our marriage protection petition calling for passage of state marriage amendment,” concluded Prichard.

Alliance Defense Fund and MFC submit request to intervene to defend marriage

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence will join members of the Minnesota Family Council in a press conference Thursday at the Minnesota State Capitol to announce their intention to submit a request to intervene to defend marriage against a legal attack filed in state court.biblenewstoday.disciplerob.com, Bible News Today, Jun 2010