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Mark Regnerus
How is this for a swift attempt to kick the gay community in the face? Not only is Mark Regnerus attempting to use his fraudulent study on gay parenting to attack same-sex families, but apparently he is now attempting to create a link between pornography and marriage equality support from information taken from the same study:
There is a correlation between watching porn and support for gay marriage among men, Dr. Mark Regnerus, associate professor of sociology at University of Texas at Austin, found. Exposure to diverse and graphic sex acts, he believes, may undermine a traditional view of marriage. Using data from The New Family Structures Study, a project for which he was the principal investigator, Regnerus found statistically significant positive correlation between porn use and support for same-sex marriage among men, even after controlling for other predictors, such as political party, religiosity, marital status, age, education and sexual orientation. In the full sample, 42 percent of men and 47 percent of women agreed or strongly agreed that gay marriage should be legal. Among men who view porn daily or almost daily, though, 54 percent strongly agreed (not just agreed) that gay marriage should be legal while only 13 percent who said they viewed porn monthly or less believed the same, Regnerus wrote for The Witherspoon Institute’s “Public Discourse.”
Wasn’t that flawed study – which received much deserved criticism – about same-sex parenting? Just how in the world did the porn factor come in?
I almost can’t wait to hear what “negative” factor involving marriage equality Regnerus’ study conveniently finds.
Hat tip to an anonymous Facebook buddy who pointed this out to me.
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Looks like Regnerus has turned into a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Witherspoon Institute.
And if his methodology for these comments is as rigorous as that in the original study — pfft!
Yeah, porn “use” by straight men is completely unheard of. You never, for example, see that sort of thing when you don’t have your filter on. LOL @ Mark Regnerus, that’s all he and this deserve.
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I hope Regnerus doesn’t receive tenure there because upon following those links and looking at his methodology, it seems to be very like the climate change deniers who will pick and choose weather events, (or non events), that tend to support their point of view and discount all of those that do not, rationalizing doing so for absurd and sometimes entirely unrelated reasons. Regenrus does the same thing, for example using children who were products of stable heterosexual marriages with children who had one or more parents who had a gay “relationship” at any point in their childhood. These children in many cases came from homes, not just broken but torn apart under some really ugly circumstances. This guy isn’t a scientist, he’s an ideologue.
Is it true that the raw data from the study has not yet been released?
Mighty convenient that Regnerus can continue publishing new findings without having pesky peers able to crunch the numbers independently.
Actually, it makes sense that viewing a variety of sexual imagery would cause a person to become more open-minded about sexual diversity. So, porn has a positive side.
It’s been “released,” but it’s only available to people at member institutions of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. So, in effect it hasn’t been released at all.