Gay Parenting

[PanzerJaeger]

Common sense is common sense and common sense says mom and dad is better for a kid than dad and dad.

And my common sense indicates that parental outcomes are a function of parental inputs such as time, energy, and focus, not crass peripheral categorizations like gender.

That's the thing about common sense. It's not so common after all.

Racism isn't intuitive. It is learned.

Every belief is learned. Some learned beliefs stand up to logical scrutiny more than others.

Since science is inferior to anecdote in your world, I'll present my friend Anna as a counterpoint. She was abandoned by her biological parents in China because it is intuitive in many parts of that country that girls are virtually worthless. She was adopted by her real family, her two fathers, as an infant and never had a mother in her life. She's now been married to her husband for three years and is working on her masters in chemical engineering. She is also one of the most normal, well-adjusted people I know.

She might disagree with you on the intuitive nature of the innate superiority of a father and mother over a same sex couple.

Insecurities about what?

That scientific research may render your worldview outdated.

For cancer you need a doctor. A proper doctor. For kids you need parents. And proper parents for a kid means a mother and a father.

So you are, at least on some level, willing to accept that an expert may know more about a subject than a non-expert, and that in some situations expert knowledge may be superior to intuition?