Shameless self-promotion–check out my first piece as the top story in The Advocate (and no I did not pick the photo lol):

While James Dobson’s Focus on the Family continues to cherry-pick and distort research on LGBT families, Soulforce and Truth Wins Out are raising the stakes to expose what they call a harmful and alarming disinformation campaign discriminating against American families. A week after Robynne Sapp and Dotti Berry were arrested as part of Soulforce’s new “Focus on the Facts” campaign, Truth Wins Out has launched a new Web site, RespectMyResearch.org. “Dobson’s latest op-ed in Time was the last straw,â€? declared Wayne Besen, executive director of Truth Wins Out. “I called five different mainstream researchers, all of whom were floored that their research was being used to denounce LGBT families.â€?

Judith Stacey was one of them. “I’ve had to spend a lot of time correcting the record,� Stacey confirmed. “When Dobson says thousand of studies demonstrate that children do better with a mom and a dad, he is not talking about research that studied gay and lesbian parents. He is talking about children who were raised by two heterosexual parents versus children who were raised by a single heterosexual parent.�

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