Mark Regnerus Watch: Utah, Michigan | The Bilerico Project

Tuesday I posted concerning Regnerus and his flawed "sociological study." The one where data and conclusion don't exactly line up. This article again touches on the influence of said study but also delves into some of the other players in the Utah case (and Michigan as well).

Relying on information from Joe.My.God.:

Another familiar name on the Utah brief is Professor Douglas Allen, of Canada's Simon Fraser University. Allen sits on the board of directors of NOM's former hate-satellite, the Ruth Institute. Allen is a supporter of Regnerus and claims to have analyzed a 2000 census and come to the conclusion that "children being raised by same-sex couples are 35% less likely to make normal progress through school."

Also signing the brief is Professor Joseph Price from Utah's Brigham Young University. Last year Price and four other (presumably Mormon) members of the Brigham Young social sciences faculty filed an anti-gay SCOTUS brief against the overturn of DOMA. Their brief denounced the APA's position that gay people make fine parents. From the brief: "Boys who do not regularly experience the love, discipline, and modeling of a good father are more likely to engage in what is called 'compensatory masculinity' where they reject and denigrate all that is feminine and instead seek to prove their masculinity by engaging in domineering and violent behavior." In other words, lesbian parents produce violent boys.

What I, and by reading through various comments from JMG, and a few others have pondered: how is a widely discredited study continually cited in cases all the way up to the supreme court?

The answer simplified, "[t]he reason this study still carries weight in Court is because it does, to this day, remain Peer Reviewed and Published, although 2 out of 3 peer reviewers were CONCOMITANTLY paid consultants to the study." Unlike the Wakefield vaccine study which was rescinded, this study has not been.

Mark Regnerus Watch: Utah, Michigan | The Bilerico Project