{"id":28260,"date":"2012-06-13T07:36:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T13:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/new-kids-in-gay-familes-suffer-horribly-study-is-pretty-bogus.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:36:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:36:06","slug":"new-kids-in-gay-familes-suffer-horribly-study-is-pretty-bogus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/new-kids-in-gay-familes-suffer-horribly-study-is-pretty-bogus.html","title":{"rendered":"New &quot;kids in gay familes suffer horribly&quot; study is pretty bogus."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>New &quot;kids in gay familes suffer horribly&quot; study is pretty bogus.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If for no other reason than it compares apples (children of married heterosexual couples) to oranges (mostly children of broken families where one custodial parent is gay).<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0we will be hearing the\u00a0Regnerus study dredged up as &quot;proof&quot; of that gay marriage, gay adoption, etc., are evil and should be banned \/ illegal\u00a0_forever_. \u00a0Because that&#39;s about all the ammo they have.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/dispatches\/candacechellew-hodge\/6064\/new_anti-gay_snake_oil_for_religious_right\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter'>New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt doesn&#39;t even measure what it claims to be measuring.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/D3NJ7LiuVis' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New &quot;kids in gay familes suffer horribly&quot; study is pretty bogus. If for no other reason than it compares apples (children of married heterosexual couples) to oranges (mostly children of broken families where one custodial parent is gay). But\u00a0we will be hearing the\u00a0Regnerus study dredged up as &quot;proof&quot; of that gay marriage, gay adoption, etc., &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/new-kids-in-gay-familes-suffer-horribly-study-is-pretty-bogus.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New &quot;kids in gay familes suffer horribly&quot; study is pretty bogus.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,718,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marriage-equality","category-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43478,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/11\/suffer-the-children-to-come-unto-me.html","url_meta":{"origin":28260,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Suffer the children to come unto me&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Jul-14 12:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While Jesus didn't deem it necessary to do a background check into the parents of the kids he told the disciples to allow into his presence (Matt. 9:14), conservative Catholic Bishop Robert Morlino of Wisconsin probably thinks he should have. 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