In his daily email yesterday, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins attacked a bill that would prohibit adoption programs that receive federal funding from discriminating against same-sex couples. This bill, he says, “would intentionally deprive children of a mother” and expose children to “the serious risks [of] being raised in a homosexual home.”
Perkins’ evidence for these “serious risks” is, of course, the thoroughly debunked Regnerus Study.
Now, some in Congress want to get in on the act with a bill that would intentionally deprive children of a mother. Under this legislation, the government would punish any adoption agency that gives priority to married, heterosexual couples. The bill, co-sponsored by Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), would cut off the federal funding of any agency — including faith-based charities — that seek the safest and most nurturing home for kids. If it passes, the official policy of the U.S. government would be to penalize organizations who take the well-being of children into account in adoption placement.
This is how backwards we’ve become as a society! As we’ve seen in the Boy Scouts membership debate, America’s focus is no longer the well-being of children but on the “well-being” of a small but politically powerful minority. There’s an abundance of social science data supporting the common-sense belief that children do best when raised by a married mother and father. Because of that, there’s every rational basis for agencies to prefer such households over those headed by same-sex couples in adoption.
In the largest peer-review study ever done on same-sex parenting, Dr. Mark Regnerus found that the emotional, financial, academic, and physical outcomes of kids raised in homosexual homes rated “suboptimal” or “negative” in almost every category. “There’s nothing worse than being brought up by two gay dads,” said homosexual actor Rupert Everett. And Dr. Regnerus proves it. In outcome after outcome, he shows the serious risks to being raised in a homosexual home — not the least of which are poverty, depression, and abuse.
