Canadain lesbians excels at parenting, apparently

[gyeonghwa]

Well the studies on lesbian couples are still new, but the data are saying that Canadain lesbians are raising excellent children:

www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/young-children/children-trends/the-seven-habits-of-highly-effective-lesbian-families/article2226451/singlepage/#articlecontent

There are less data on gay dads because only 9% of married gay men live with children in Canada.

But it's a pretty "good take that" against AFA, NOM and FoF who thinks they aren't good parents.

Edit for proper grammar.

[N. De Plume]

Don’t think the “take that” will, uh, take. These groups will always fault homosexual parents for “teaching their children an ungodly lifestyle” or somesuch. No matter how good they are at raising them in any other aspect of their lives.

[Thejebusfire]

Their not teaching their children to be good christian republicans. So therefore, they're bad parents.

[Art Vandelay]

No accidental pregnancies and thus unwanted kids will raise the standard of parenting quite significantly.

[lighthorseman]

The next 7 million studies that come out showing that lesbians make OK parents will (in the fundie mind) be trumped by this

[ironbite]

Sad but true.

[N. De Plume]

But that Judge beating his daughter was just good discipline.

[anti-nonsense]

sadly fundies do not operate on logic and scientific studies. They operate on "Oh noes! The gayz!"

[tolpuddlemartyr]

Nov 7, 2011 17:24:05 GMT -5 gyeonghwa said:

But it's a pretty "good take that" against AFA, NOM and FoF who thinks they aren't good parents. Edit for proper grammar.

Fundie logic doesn't work that way, as a veteran of FSTDT you should know this.

Fundie logic - they AREN'T being raised properly as they aren't being belted with switches every time they sin within an inch of their lives. Of course if they did do this then that would be evidence they were bad parents-because that would be evidence that gay people beat their kids!

[nightangel1282]

My family knows a gay couple who adopted two little girls. The girls are both very happy, they're showing evidence that they are attracted to the opposite gender (now THERE'S a snub in the "gays will raise gay children BS argument), and the two girls are both straight A students. They love their Daddy and Pappy, and anyone who says that it's a horrible thing for those two girls to be raised by two men don't know the TRUE definition of a family.

[gyeonghwa]

Nov 7, 2011 18:37:48 GMT -5 lighthorseman said:

The next 7 million studies that come out showing that lesbians make OK parents will (in the fundie mind) be trumped by this

Sad but true. Of course they'll ignore all incidences where fundies are terrible parents.

[Thejebusfire]

Nov 7, 2011 18:37:48 GMT -5 lighthorseman said:

The next 7 million studies that come out showing that lesbians make OK parents will (in the fundie mind) be trumped by this

There was also the case of a lesbian woman who locked her girlfriend's son up in an empty kitchen pantry because she thought he was eating too much.

[sylvana]

Nov 7, 2011 22:48:59 GMT -5 nightangel1282 said:

My family knows a gay couple who adopted two little girls. The girls are both very happy, they're showing evidence that they are attracted to the opposite gender (now THERE'S a snub in the "gays will raise gay children BS argument), and the two girls are both straight A students. They love their Daddy and Pappy, and anyone who says that it's a horrible thing for those two girls to be raised by two men don't know the TRUE definition of a family.

Just felt like quoting this for the awesome and truth of it.
Especially your last sentence.

[ragabash]

What seems most likely to me is that the data will be dismissed because "that's in Canada, and we're different". It's the same thing that's been used for equal marriage, LGB military service (I don't know if transgendered people can serve in the military here, have to look that up), and so on.

Of course what would really cause a few fundie heads to explode is if I found that one picture I was shown of the guy from my home town and his fiancé who's currently stationed at CFB Cold Lake.

[lighthorseman]

Nov 7, 2011 22:57:20 GMT -5 gyeonghwa said:

Nov 7, 2011 18:37:48 GMT -5 lighthorseman said:

The next 7 million studies that come out showing that lesbians make OK parents will (in the fundie mind) be trumped by this

Sad but true. Of course they'll ignore all incidences where fundies are terrible parents.

Ah, but the fundies who are terrible parents either won't be True Christians, or, will be being persecuted for trying to raise their children in a godly household. All bases covered.