According to state law, same sex marriage is illegal, but after reading several news stories about it, one would have hardly guessed it.  Thomas Dysarz and Michael Meehan, two Lexington homosexuals, are expecting quadruplets in August--a first for homosexuals.  The media treatment of this issue sounded more like a gay-marriage advertisement than front-page news.

For years the media has been a conduit for normalizing homosexual relations in society, helped in part by the 1100-member National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association. So long as the media persists in popularizing an idea the majority finds wrong, we shouldn’t expect even a half-hearted attempt at truth or objectivity.

.           The story made a dangerous assumption that homosexual partnerships that include parenting should be accepted by society without reservation.  There was no question on the ethics of incubating kids outside the marital bond through surrogacy.  Nor was there any thought about the possibility of one of their offspring someday unknowingly intermarrying with half-sisters or half-brothers.  But the real irony is that in a story spotlighting a “family,” there was no concern about the plight of the kids in this pioneering social arrangement. 

            Typically, before something new is recommended as safe in our society it is thoroughly tested. In order for a new drug to reach the market it must pass strict scrutiny.  Should a pharmaceutical company cut corners or falsify data, a lawsuit would surely follow.  There is no reliable body of evidence suggesting that same-sex parenting is healthy for kids yet there is convincing data to the contrary.

            “Attempts to redefine the very nature of the family ignore the accumulated wisdom of cultures and societies from time immemorial, which testifies that the best way for children to be raised is by a mother and father who are married to each other,” said Dr. Timothy Dailey in Homosexual Parenting: Placing children at Risk.  “The importance of the traditional family has been increasingly verified by research showing that children from married two-parent households do better academically, financially, emotionally, and behaviorally. They delay sex longer, have better health, and receive more parental support.”

            Even though a number of recent studies purport to show that children raised in homosexual households fare no worse than those reared in traditional families “much of that research fails to meet acceptable standards for psychological research,” according to Dr. Timothy Dailey in Homosexual Parenting: Placing children at Risk.  “It is compromised by methodological flaws and driven by political agendas instead of an objective search for truth

But children, like truth, are simply a casualty in this debate and they will be hurt the most.  Kids are not guinea pigs to be used by homosexuals for some kind of social experimentation any more than they are ornaments to be used to adorn a home. The Dysarz/Meehan children are human beings deserving of a healthy family with both a mother and father present.