The ligbitists can't seem to let Mark Regnerus move on with his life

Perhaps you, dear reader, had the good fortune of not being in the middle of the firestorm that swept across the plains of America last year, after the publication of Mark Regnerus's study into alternative families in Social Science Research.

As somebody who got pulled into the vortex of the post-Regnerus-publication debate, I can say, those weren't great times. Nobody in their right mind would want to relive 2012. The reason I say this is as follows: It was a massive shock to the gay activist community that they were not going to be able to continue their myth of same-sex parenting as benevolent and perfect forever. They had managed to use their financial and political strings in the academy -- particularly in the social sciences, where over 90% of researchers are left of center -- in order to assemble an ersatz "consensus" that children "fare just as well" with two same-sex parents as they do with a mother and father.

The smallest amount of snooping into said "consensus" would lead any rational person to throw the consensus out. The sample sizes had been small, the respondents had been recruited in politically motivated venues, the questions and metrics were vague, and the children were typically too young to have an independent thought about what was going on.  (more...)

The ligbitists can't seem to let Mark Regnerus move on with his life