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Rep. Will Smith in the UL a year ago, on why gays and lesbians can't be good parents, or somesuch bigotry:
House Bill 436 would redefine "marriage" so as to include people of the same sex. Two years ago, the Legislature introduced the concept of civil unions so as to give same-sex couples most of the financial and legal rights afforded to married couples under a concept of fairness. To extend the legal status of marriage to same-sex couples would indicate that the state believes that same-sex couples are equally as effective in raising children as heterosexual couples.
This is contradicted by numerous studies, including "Review of Research on Homosexual Parenting, Adoption and Foster Parenting," by George A. Rekers, professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. This study concludes that, on average, raising children in same-sex homes "uniquely endangers foster children by exposing them to a substantial level of harmful stresses that are over and above usual stress levels in heterosexual foster homes."
I wonder what that child care expert prof is up to these days?
A pair of writers at the Miami New Times are having trouble repressing their glee that they managed to snap (with their "hot-pink digital camera") George Alan Rekers, a right-wing Christian leader and anti-gay lobbyist, getting off a plane at Miami International Airport with a sizzling-hot gay escort. The prostitute, nicknamed "Lucien" by the paper, was available for hire on the gay-escort site Rentboy.com - home of such other celebrity boyfriends/escorts as Jason Preston, former lover of designer Marc Jacobs. Rekers wouldn't deny he found Lucien on that site, but he did say he'd only hired him to help while he was "recovering from surgery" - that's why he took him on an all-expenses paid ten-day trip through Europe. After all, Rekers did co-found the group Focus on the Family, which has been the bane of gay-rights groups since its creation in 1983, and he also is an officer of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, a gay-cure group. Someone like that would NEVER actually hire a gay hooker, right?
Normally when closeted hypocrites get exposed, I leave it alone because I find it kind of sad. But this excuse for an academic was being used by the anti-marriage crowd here to tell same-sex couples that they are inherently bad parents. Shame on him.
