At 07:32 PM 3/12/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote:
>"But wait: All the evidence—as both sides acknowledge—is seriously
flawed
>and doesn't begin to supply anything like solid support for either the
>hopes of gay family harmony or the fears about scarred children and skewed
>parenting. And until gay couples are allowed to marry, there can't
>possibly be decent studies of whether the honorable estate confers the
>same benefits on kids whose parents are the same sex as it does on those
>who have a mom and a dad. In the meantime, it's quite clear that the
>absence of good science won't—and shouldn't—settle a fraught debate.
What
>will help clarify it are experiences like mine, watching my sister and her
>partner sharing the hard work and the happiness of raising their daughter.
>I can't think of a better argument for gay marriage than that."
Well, I agree that the author certainly does herself no favors by writing
a two page article on sceintific principles, and then succumbing to all the
sins she just delineated by appealing to her own previous biases and a
single piece of anecdotal evidence.
Nevertheless, the rest of the article until this pargarph struck me as
still being worthwhile, despite the author's failings - and I think that
despite the last paragraph it is still hard to call into question the
earlier conclusions about "scientific" studies on this subject.
JDG
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