Focus analyst responds to critique of article on same-sex marriage

I'm unclear about all of these 'studies'

If the influence of a father is so critical what sense does it make to prevent a father's influence if he is gay ?

Would two fathers double one's chances of social and academic success ?

I await these studies with great anticipation

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by: tiponeill @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 09:38:22 AM CDT

All this nonsense that they spew out

is entirely predicated on the ideas that divorce can be avoided, or reduced; that same-sex marriage ruins children's chances; that there is some policy whereby families can be forced together into a unit or kept together.

They can't.

Conservatives oppose market regulation. This is a given. US conservatives are market capitalists; this is also a given. The penetration of corporate market values into family life; the constant advertising that tells people that they are losers if they're not self-actualising; that self is more than family or sacrifice, that there's always a better one around the next corner, not to mention the long corporate working hours that separate EVEN PARENTS WHO ARE NOT GAY OR DIVORCED from their children for 90% of the time; the technology that children use to fill the gaping holes where their family and other forms of socialising should be; they REFUSE to admit that the money culture, the culture of work, the culture of profit and consumption is FIRST AND FOREMOST responsible for the isolating and dissatisfaction of modern family life.

They refuse. They blame liberal education, hippies, feminists, gays, atheists; anybody but the people who forcibly separate parents from their children for all but 40 minutes a day and make it impossible to own a house without a mortgage and a double income.

A parent can't work a 50 hour week. Impossible.

A parent can't have less than 5 weeks holiday a year. Impossible.

Women (or men) who stay home need to be be subsidized by the government. With taxes. They need support.

Until they admit that, nothing the 'family' right say is worthy of a second's notice. Put your money where your mouth are, you losers, cheapskates, ostriches. You have the crappiest family structures in the developed world for a reason.

The reason is your prosperity, your business models and the junk piling up in the basement.

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by: steerpike66 @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 09:44:49 AM CDT

This is good news

Unfortunately the legalization of same-sex marriage would not help us connect more children with their fathers, but often do precisely the opposite. This is one of the leading reasons why Focus on the Family opposes same-sex marriage, along with no-fault divorce and policies that tend to encourage out-of-wedlock child-bearing.

Does this mean he and his ilk are going to take a break from gay bashing and go after those filthy divorce es and unmarried  
pro creators?

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by: troy m @ Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 07:29:28 AM CDT