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Same-sex marriage was sold on lies. The evidence is in.

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It’s been nearly 11 years since five Supreme Court justices swept away the multi-millennia understanding of the one-man, one-woman definition of marriage with their landmark Obergefellruling.

At the time of the decision, I suggested that despite the ruling, the High Court had not really settled the issue. The years have borne that out. It was the Greek statesman Pericles who long ago suggested, "Time is the wisest counselor of all." In this instance, its passage provides perspective, clarity and proof that many of the ills we warned about in the run-up to redefine marriage have been realized. When it comes to same-sex "marriage" over the years, it is time to admit we've been subjected to a litany of lies.

The late Barney Frank, who was considered a pioneering radical activist during his longtime tenure as a member of Congress, repeatedly stated that homosexual marriage wouldn't threaten other families.

"If you don't like same-sex marriage, don't get married to someone of the same sex," he said. "It is entirely an optional activity."

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A little web research (Co-pilot summary) says Regnerus' study done 2012 included 15,000 subjects. 236 of them reported having a gay parent but only 2 of them had actually lived with a same-sex couple for their entire lives. In a 2015 reanalysis with correction of misclassification of those "raised by same-sex parents" previously cited differences largely disappeared.

There is not much to hang your hat on there.
 
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A little web research (Co-pilot summary) says Regnerus' study done 2012 included 15,000 subjects. 236 of them reported having a gay parent but only 2 of them had actually lived with a same-sex couple for their entire lives. In a 2015 reanalysis with correction of misclassification of those "raised by same-sex parents" previously cited differences largely disappeared.

There is not much to hang your hat on there.
I did a bit more research too. My suspicions were right that the author is biased. What does the scholarly research say about the well-being of children with gay or lesbian parents? | What We Know
 
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Pride Month 2026 began with some bracing news for the LGBT movement. According to Gallup’s latest annual survey, public support for same-sex marriage, the morality of homosexual conduct, and transgenderism has declined significantly.

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It's interesting to note that a man from my parish, who told me not to sign a petition to place the definition of
marriage as between a man and woman, because it discriminated against his daughter, who was in a lesbian
relationship. His daughter ended up marrying her partner and they adopted two children of a different race.
Years later, I ran into this man and asked how his kids were doing? He said he had just attended his granddaughter's
wedding to her girlfriend and the theme was for the wedding was based on "Dungeons and Dragons." So, the
adopted daughter of the lesbian couple became a lesbian herself.

Is there a connection? I don't know, but their relationship even a close one, does not make a marriage. It's
biologically impossible.
 
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