Per usual, members of the religious right are attacking gay parenting (again). Jennifer Morse of NOM's Ruth Institute is talking to conservative host Michael Brown and proceeds to go on a ridiculous tangent about parenting in which she spouts very little facts.
Her rambling starts at 2:00 of this clip:
Here are just a few things I noticed. I'm sure you can add more:
At 2:20 - Morse says that there needs to be more recruitment of adoptive parents coming from the mother/father dynamic. That's a good point which she brings up because as far as I know, NOM has NEVER undertaken any attempt or pushed any legislation to do this.
2:25 - Morse says that since American couples "go all over the world" to find children to adopt, including children of different races and handicaps so she does not believe that there is a shortage of homes to adopt children. Funny how she doesn't cite any statistics.
Fact: According to Adam Pertman, head of the Evan Donaldson Adoption Institute:
Then Morse goes into a spiel which folks on her side the argument have done before and very few of us have called them out - pitting heterosexual two-parent families against gay parents. She makes it seem that society is favoring gay parenting supposedly traditional heterosexual parenting, when in fact there has never been any competition regarding gay or heterosexual parents, except for in the talking points of folks like Morse.
She then claims that one cannot compare same-sex parenting to heterosexual parenting without going into detail as to why. Of course Morse is contradicted by many credible health organizations including the American Psychological Association and the National Association of Social Workers.
Everything else Morse says is purely blather and nonsense which has nothing to do with the reality of gays raising children.
And the religious right can't seem to figure out why they lose the vast majority of court cases involving gay adoption.
Here are just a few things I noticed. I'm sure you can add more:
At 2:20 - Morse says that there needs to be more recruitment of adoptive parents coming from the mother/father dynamic. That's a good point which she brings up because as far as I know, NOM has NEVER undertaken any attempt or pushed any legislation to do this.
2:25 - Morse says that since American couples "go all over the world" to find children to adopt, including children of different races and handicaps so she does not believe that there is a shortage of homes to adopt children. Funny how she doesn't cite any statistics.
Fact: According to Adam Pertman, head of the Evan Donaldson Adoption Institute:
More than 104,000 children in the United States are waiting in foster care to be adopted by permanent, loving parents. These girls and boys, who are on average 8 years old, typically remain in temporary situations for over three years before being placed with "forever families."
Then Morse goes into a spiel which folks on her side the argument have done before and very few of us have called them out - pitting heterosexual two-parent families against gay parents. She makes it seem that society is favoring gay parenting supposedly traditional heterosexual parenting, when in fact there has never been any competition regarding gay or heterosexual parents, except for in the talking points of folks like Morse.
She then claims that one cannot compare same-sex parenting to heterosexual parenting without going into detail as to why. Of course Morse is contradicted by many credible health organizations including the American Psychological Association and the National Association of Social Workers.
Everything else Morse says is purely blather and nonsense which has nothing to do with the reality of gays raising children.
And the religious right can't seem to figure out why they lose the vast majority of court cases involving gay adoption.
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