from Political News
According to Dr. Fitzgibbons, in "Same-Sex Marriage and Mental Health," the APA's endorsement of gay marriage was done by ignoring the scientific data on the importance of children being reared in homes with a mother and a father.
Dr. Fitzgibbons observed: "The APA has chosen to ignore the significant
medical research which has documented serious psychiatric and medical
illnesses associated with
He says that peer reviewed studies demonstrate that gays have an "inability to maintain committed relationships and rampant promiscuity" is the norm in the homosexual lifestyle.
He continues: "Dr. Rekers and Dr. Byrd's summary of some of the vast literature on child development demonstrates the vital importance of a father and a mother for the developmental needs of a child. In effect, the social science research supports the recent statement of the Vatican that to deliberately deprive a child of a father or a mother through adoption by those in the homosexual lifestyle would inflict severe harm onto those children."
Dr. Fitzgibbons is critical of many programs in the public schools that portray the gay lifestyle as healthy: "Many of these educational programs attempt to mask their true goals by the use of names such as diversity, tolerance or 'no name-calling weeks' when, in fact, they attempt to undermine the Church's teaching on marriage, human sexuality and, now child-rearing."