Sen Franken to Focus on the Family: We can't trust you when you're reading studies and twisting them

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At a hearing on the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, Sen. Al Franken took issue with the testimony of Tom Minnery, the head of Focus on the Family’s political arm, CitizenLink. After Minnery cited a government study he said showed that the children of married gay and lesbian couples fared worse than married opposite-sex couples, Franken flatly stated that Minnery was wrong and called into question any further testimony from Minnery.

“I checked the study out,” Franken said. “It doesn’t actually say what you said it says. It says ‘nuclear families’ not ‘opposite-sex couples.’”

Franken is correct in his reading of the study. HHS defines a nuclear family as one that consists of “one or more children living with two parents who are married to one another and are each biological or adoptive parents to all children in the family.”

The study doesn’t make a distinction regarding the gender of both partners in a marriage and never mentioned same-sex marriage.

http://minnesotaindependent.com/84907/al-franken-focus-on-the-family-doma-tom-minnery

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1. I love Al Franken. He's done a remarkable job in the Senate

and his Supply Side Jesus is hilarious!

[Love Bug]

2. "Thou shalt not bear false witness"

Funny how those who scream loudest about the Ten Commandments seldom seem to be able to follow the most simplest of them.

[Graybeard]

3. Franken, very calm and cool, utterly destroyed him.

He exposed what the RW does all the time in twisting facts and studies. Franken is doing a great job.