Bryan Fischer of the Christian
conservative group American Family Association (AFA) has said that
allowing a gay couple to adopt a child is “a form of sexual abuse,”
media watchdog RightWingWatch.org
reported.
On his AFA-sponsored Focal Point
radio show, Fischer lauded a study which claims negative outcomes for
the kids of gay parents.
The study by Mark Regnerus looked at
the outcomes of 3,000 people, 248 of which had a mother or a father
who at one time had a relationship with a person of the same gender.
Only 2 of the subjects reported having parents in a gay relationship
for their entire childhood. Regnerus told The Huffington Post
that his study found “that the scholarly and popular consensus that
there are no notable differences between the children who grew up
with a mother or father in a same-sex relationship and those whose
[heterosexual] mother and father were and are still married is
fiction.”
(Related: Study
claiming negative outcomes for kids of gay parents called “seriously
flawed.”)
Citing the study, Fischer claimed that
gay couples cannot sustain a lasting relationship.
“They can't do it. There is so much
pathology associated with homosexual behavior that they are not able
to pull that off.”
He went on to say that placing children
with gay couples was “child abuse.”
“To put kids in this environment,
it's a form of sexual abuse on its own. To adopt kids into a same-sex
environment is a form of child abuse.” (The video is embedded in
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