Univ. of Texas Prof. Regnerus says Michigan judge showed bias in ruling allowing same-sex marriage

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DETROIT, MI, March 31, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Mark Regnerus, whose conclusions about same-sex "marriage" were dismissed in last week's ruling on the matter by Judge Bernard Friedman, is fighting back.

"I frankly don't understand why the judge elected to pass on a discussion of some of the very real concerns our research raised," Regnerus told LifeSiteNews in an e-mail. Regnerus says Friedman "chose to privilege certain scholars as well as research that leaned on self-selected samples."

Friedman ruled that same-sex "marriage" should be legal in Michigan, overturning the state's ban on those relationships. Gov. Rick Snyder has said he will not validate about 300 same-sex "marriages" until the state's attorney general has exhausted his legal defense of the state. Friedman's decision was temporarily "stayed" by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, pending the state's appeal.

Nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1988, Friedman criticized Regnerus' study and testimony in his opinion. He called Regnerus’ testimony “entirely unbelievable and not worthy of serious consideration," and accused Regnerus of being influenced by the goals of the study's funder. The study was given $700,000 by the Witherspoon Institute, and the organization wanted the study to be done prior to the arrival of certain cases before the Supreme Court.

More at http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/prof.-regnerus-says-michigan-judge-showed-bias-in-ruling-allowing-same-sex .

Disclaimer: LifeSiteNews is a project of the Campaign Life Coalition a Canadian conservative Christian pro-life group. I am linking to this particular article since it is the original source that corresponded with Regnerus via email in order to provide the most comprehensive account on this story.

For those that don't want to click on that link there is a summary at http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2014/04/mark-regerus-has-michigan-sadz.html .

"I frankly don't understand why the judge elected to pass on a discussion of some of the very real concerns our research raised. It's as if raising standard methodological issues on this subject is just unwelcome today, unless it's clear that you are friendly to the political goals of the same-sex marriage movement. My study noted numerous suboptimal outcomes experienced by adult children who reported a parental same-sex relationship. Like other studies, it has its limitations. But there is much it can tell us, including about the household instability experienced by such children, and the uncommon frequency of stably-coupled lesbian households with children in the era I was examining. In the end, the judge seemed to focus on what my study could not say rather than what it could. It is frustrating to see him overlook the significant limitations of other studies." - Discredited researcher Mark Regnerus, speaking to LifeSiteNews in an article tweeted out this morning by NOM head Brian Brown. I believe this is the first public statement by Regnerus since his brutal smackdown by that Michigan judge.

Cross-posted in the LGBT Group.

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1. This professor is an idiot

The Michigan judge's opinion is very well written