Family structures study = academic misconduct?

  (OneNewsNow.com) Tuesday, July 17, 2012

One analyst is shocked that a professor at the University of Texas at Austin is under investigation for conducting a study that indicates adults with "gay" parents tend to have more emotional problems than do children with heterosexual parents.

After Professor Mark Regnerus' "New Family Structures Study" was published, a firestorm erupted. Homosexual activists immediately branded his work "hopelessly flawed" and accused him of being homophobic. But analyst Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family paints a different picture of the professor and his work.

"Professor Regnerus is an imminently good scholar -- very careful, very thoughtful," Stanton asserts. "I've read his study. He bends over backwards to really try to be measured … thoughtful and fair with the data. He doesn't slam anybody; he doesn't implicate anybody."

So the family analyst is shocked that the university would undertake this investigation based on one letter from a homosexual activist blogger. "We do need to understand that it's not scholars complaining about that and making that charge; it's one gay activist blogger who is," Stanton notes. "And unfortunately, the University of Texas at Austin kowtowed to that request."

A panel of university professors is conducting the inquiry into possible academic misconduct. The investigation is expected to be complete within 60 days.

See earlier OneNewsNow story:

Study: Youngsters of 'gay households' negatively affected