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In
2001, Dr. Judith Stacey and a colleague, Dr. Timothy Biblarz,
authored an analysis of 21 studies of lesbian and gay
families. In that article, Stacey and Biblarz noted preliminary
evidence of some "modest and interesting" differences
between children raised by heterosexual parents and children
raised by lesbian and gay parents, but they affirmed that
"parental sexual orientation has no measurable effect
on the quality of parent-child relationships or on children's
mental health or adjustment."
The
GLBT organization SoulForce released a video on YouTube
of Dr. Stacey who claims that James Dobson's Focus on
the Family and other anti-equality groups have misrepresented
her research on lesbian and gay parenting.
In
her video statement, Stacey calls Focus on the Family's
use of her work "a complete distortion" and
clarifies that "there is absolutely nothing in the
article we wrote, nor in any of the research that has
yet been published, that would warrant any form of discrimination
against parents on the basis of sexual orientation."
Her comments are excerpted from a 2005 Soulforce video
titled Dear Dr. Dobson: An Open Video Letter to Focus
on the Family.
www.SoulForce.org
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