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02-26-2007, 07:12 PM
While James Dobson's Focus on the Family ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) continues to cherry-pick and distort research on LGBT families, Soulforce and Truth Wins Out are raising the stakes to expose what they call a harmful and alarming disinformation campaign discriminating against American families.
A week after Robynne Sapp and Dotti Berry were arrested as part of Soulforce's new "Focus on the Facts" campaign, Truth Wins Out has launched a new Web site, RespectMyResearch.org.
"Dobson's latest op-ed in Time ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) was the last straw," declared Wayne Besen, executive director of Truth Wins Out. "I called five different mainstream researchers, all of whom were floored that their research was being used to denounce LGBT families."
Dr. Judith Stacey was one of them.
"I've had to spend a lot of time correcting the record," Stacey confirmed. "When Dobson says thousands of studies demonstrate that children do better with a mom and a dad, he is not talking about research that studied gay and lesbian parents. He is talking about children who were raised by two heterosexual parents versus children who were raised by a single heterosexual parent." All the major medical and professional associations, including the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association ([Only registered and activated users can see links]), The American Counseling Association, the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychoanalytic Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians, have unequivocally discredited Dobson's claims.
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A week after Robynne Sapp and Dotti Berry were arrested as part of Soulforce's new "Focus on the Facts" campaign, Truth Wins Out has launched a new Web site, RespectMyResearch.org.
"Dobson's latest op-ed in Time ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) was the last straw," declared Wayne Besen, executive director of Truth Wins Out. "I called five different mainstream researchers, all of whom were floored that their research was being used to denounce LGBT families."
Dr. Judith Stacey was one of them.
"I've had to spend a lot of time correcting the record," Stacey confirmed. "When Dobson says thousands of studies demonstrate that children do better with a mom and a dad, he is not talking about research that studied gay and lesbian parents. He is talking about children who were raised by two heterosexual parents versus children who were raised by a single heterosexual parent." All the major medical and professional associations, including the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association ([Only registered and activated users can see links]), The American Counseling Association, the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychoanalytic Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians, have unequivocally discredited Dobson's claims.
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