Gay Parenting

[Beirut]

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.

"Crass peripheral categorizations like gender"? Um... you ever kissed a girl?

But let us all go tell our mothers that their input into our upbringing was nothing that could not be replaced by your garden variety homosexual man. And let us tell our fathers that any lesbian of the day could supplant him in his role as "dad".

Oh my...

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

Well, you take your science study of the week and I'll stick with my common sense about mom and dad.

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

Like the learned belief that kids should have moms and dads.

Since science is inferior to anecdote in your world, I'll present my friend Anna as a counterpoint.

Hi Anna.

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.

Good for her. I'm happy she's happy.

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

Indeed she might.

That scientific research may render your worldview outdated.

Um... no.

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?

Obviously, but not in this case.

Why not have all the babies be test tube babies born in vats, IV fed, and "educated" by electrodes for the first three-years of their life? I'll bet you dollars to donuts there's a study out there that says those kids would be just fine. Hell, they might even be better that the "normal" kids. While they are in their vat-cribs, they could be given special drugs to influence their IQ and mood and physique. We could have 100% happy, smart, healthy kids, who all live to be 110. Wouldn't that be great!

No. It wouldn't. It's - not - normal.