tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post7651574506585972735..comments2024-03-28T08:03:32.297-07:00Comments on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Regnerus was approached to do anti-gay parenting study by Witherspoon InstituteBlackTsunamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02349560427762283170noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-64215760343971477922012-08-14T12:15:29.268-07:002012-08-14T12:15:29.268-07:00I don't think this posted to be reviewed, so I...I don't think this posted to be reviewed, so I'll try again. <br /><br />It turns out that a Witherspoon Institute book easily available to me. "The Meaning of Marriage: Family, State, Market, and Morals by by Robert P. George & Jean Bethke Elshtain, editors. 2006."<br /><br />So, I picked it up and started to read "Soft Despotism and Same Sex Marriage" by Seana Sugrue. She is an Associate Professor of Politics at Ave Maria University<br /><br />I'm not an academic; I'm an eccentric artist. I also haven't had the time to read the essay completely, and don't have the time to go through the essay point by point. <br /><br />But a quick impression so far is that Sugrue doesn't seem to realize (I hope) that in her zeal to defend heterosexual privilege, she is defending THE privileged against the "soft despotism" of minority rights. <br /><br />She ignores the historical context in which the upper class John Locke wrote and presumed about marriage. Locke is talking about marriage, she is talking about "family. A family back then was embedded in a patriarchal unit generally called a household. A household could be just the nuclear family, but more often the nuclear family was embedded in the household...and the father in the nuclear family wasn't necessarily the patriarch of the household. <br /><br />A household, especially an upper class one, could consist of more than one nuclear family, widows and widowers, the latter could be patriarchs, siblings, uncles and aunts who weren't the marrying kind, orphaned minors related in some way, apprentices in the family business, and servants...hired, indentured, enslaved.<br /><br />So, today's typical other-sex marriages and families are the result of a an earlier "radical redefining" of marriage and family.<br /><br />Sugrue is also not above name calling and showing her lack of knowledge about biology when she called same sex couples raising adopted children, "parasitic." <br /><br />Oh right, that's just what parasites do, Sugre,...use their own resources to raise children to adulthood who aren't their biological offspring. Gregory Petersonhttp://www.facebook.com/gregory.peterson.35noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-59989833768246886072012-08-13T20:52:21.417-07:002012-08-13T20:52:21.417-07:00Good work Alvin!Good work Alvin!Bernie Keefe aka OneOfTheWatchersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-66430312059542027172012-08-13T12:18:07.320-07:002012-08-13T12:18:07.320-07:00One thing that can be done is to examine the intel...One thing that can be done is to examine the intellectual integrity of the Witherspoon Institute.Gregory Petersonhttp://www.facebook.com/gregory.peterson.35noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-29602204928142906572012-08-13T09:42:14.947-07:002012-08-13T09:42:14.947-07:00Well also the university of Texas is doing a peer ...Well also the university of Texas is doing a peer review of the paper because he admitted to not doing a lot of the research that is stated in the paper.<br /><br />here is the link:<br />http://www.statesman.com/news/local/ut-investigates-professors-study-on-children-with-gay-2415276.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-21107325727838663102012-08-13T08:19:46.903-07:002012-08-13T08:19:46.903-07:00You left out this quote from The Statesman article...You left out this quote from The Statesman article- "Regnerus, for his part, has continued to stand behind the results, even as an internal draft audit by Social Science Research, the journal that published the study, found "serious flaws" in the peer review process and concluded the journal never should have published his report." Sure looks like the publisher had an agenda to generate buzz (when confronted with that charge, the editor admitted as much). I guess they subscribe to the adage "There's no such thing as bad publicity." Perhaps it didn't occur to them that the magazine's reputation and integrity would take a nosedive over this.Woodstocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-34106887376555613322012-08-13T08:15:15.596-07:002012-08-13T08:15:15.596-07:00So this was a study commissioned to "discover...So this was a study commissioned to "discover" the people who funded its per-conceived biases and the conclusions were already made regardless of the findings James Savikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10655186137970788276noreply@blogger.com