{"id":2589,"date":"2006-08-14T03:22:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T10:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/14\/more-homophobic-lies-about-gay-parenting\/"},"modified":"2006-08-14T03:22:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T10:22:39","slug":"more-homophobic-lies-about-gay-parenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2589","title":{"rendered":"More Homophobic Lies About Gay Parenting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200608030003\">Media Matters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On National Public Radio&#8217;s Morning Edition, reporter Jacqueline Froelich failed to challenge Arkansas Republican state Sen. Jim Holt&#8217;s assertion that &#8220;there are thousands of studies, actually &#8230; over 10,000&#8221; that show &#8220;the homosexual family or the environment is problematic for the child.&#8221; <strong>Froelich did not address Holt&#8217;s dubious figure of 10,000 studies, which would be possible only if a new study reaching that conclusion had been released every day for the past 27 years.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, the social science research <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/12\/04\/what-social-science-says-about-gay-parents\/\">overwhelmingly shows<\/a> that there&#8217;s little or no significant difference between kids raised by same-sex and opposite-sex parents.<\/p>\n<p>Curtsy: <a href=\"http:\/\/echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com\/2006_08_01_echidneofthesnakes_archive.html#115462171541902818\">Echidne<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Media Matters: On National Public Radio&#8217;s Morning Edition, reporter Jacqueline Froelich failed to challenge Arkansas Republican state Sen. Jim Holt&#8217;s assertion that &#8220;there are thousands of studies, actually &#8230; over 10,000&#8221; that show &#8220;the homosexual family or the environment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2589\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-structures-divorce-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}