{"id":3255,"date":"2012-06-16T17:05:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2012-08-03T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T19:51:12","slug":"needs-of-children-irrelevant-to-gay-marriage-issue-guardian-writer-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/needs-of-children-irrelevant-to-gay-marriage-issue-guardian-writer-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Needs of children irrelevant to gay ‘marriage’ issue, Guardian writer claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is sometimes difficult to keep up with the topsy-turvy world of homosexual politics, where sea-change shifts in ideology happen almost as a regular occurrence. Once the gay community finally seems to have reached a consensus on some important point, the parameters will shift and they will adopt a new ideology, sometimes the opposite of what they once affirmed.<\/p>\n

Once the homosexual community virulently opposed any notion that there is a genetic base to homosexuality; now, anyone who denies the genetic theory is automatically labelled a homophobe.<\/p>\n

Once the homosexual community relentlessly championed the notion that sexuality is fluid. Those were the days when anyone who denied that we can choose our sexual identity was classed as a bigot. Now the gay community insists with equal virulence that our sexual identity is something we are born with.<\/p>\n

Once more the tables are turning, and this time the issue concerns the role of children.<\/p>\n

For years advocates of same-sex marriage have argued that same-sex parenting either makes no material difference to children, or makes a positive difference. Both of these views can be found in the thought of Judith Stacey, professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Sociology at New York University. In an article<\/a> reflecting on her debate with Judith Stacey, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse recounts how Dr Stacey argued that the gender of a couple makes absolutely no difference to a child.<\/p>\n

I crossed swords with Judith Stacey\u2026at a debate at Bowling Green State a few years ago. I asked her point blank if she believed men and women were completely interchangeable as parents. In front of that very friendly audience, she said absolutely: the gender of parents doesn\u2019t matter\u2026.<\/p>\n

Treating same sex unions like marriage amounts to saying that mothers and fathers are interchangeable. It is a coin toss from a child\u2019s point of view, whether they have two moms, two dads, or one of each.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite Dr Stacey’s remarks at Bowling Green State, the New York University professor has elsewhere suggested that the gender of same-sex couples does actually matter, because having two moms makes a positive difference for the children entrusted to their care. In other words, lesbian parenting is an improvement<\/em> on traditional households containing a father. Commenting on 81 different studies for an article \u201cHow Does the Gender of Parents Matter?\u201d that appeared in of Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 72, Issue 1<\/a>, Stacey and Biblarz leave the reader with the distinct opinion that traditional man-woman parenting just cannot come anywhere near the benefits generally provided by two lesbians. Here are some quotes from their article:<\/p>\n