{"id":1723,"date":"2013-03-27T15:25:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T23:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2013-03-27T15:25:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T23:25:45","slug":"storm-troopers-of-the-war-on-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/03\/27\/storm-troopers-of-the-war-on-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Troopers of the War on Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The social sciences can readily be abused by those who wish to <a title=\"The Political Temptation of Social Science\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/03\/13\/the-political-temptation-of-social-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">push an agenda<\/a>, and often such work is less &#8220;science&#8221; than bias confirmation.\u00a0 When doctors and other such professionals allow their reputation to be a servant for their political biases, it is particularly pernicious.\u00a0 The American Academy of Pediatrics has now <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/influential-pediatricians-group-backs-gay-marriage-043451794.html;_ylt=AwrNUbEDoUtRsBMAujDQtDMD\" target=\"_blank\">gone on record<\/a> that gay marriage is <em>fabulous<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The academy believes that a two-parent marriage is best equipped to provide that kind of environment. Their policy says that if a child has two gay parents who choose to marry, &#8216;it is in the best interests of their children that legal and social institutions allow and support them to do so.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Their insistence on <strong>two<\/strong> parents seems a bit odd.\u00a0 If the sex of the parent is irrelevant, than why is the number two so important?\u00a0 The basis of two stems from a child being the result of a sexual union between two persons, specifically a male and a female.\u00a0 What &#8220;scientific&#8221; basis is there for this <em>duonormative<\/em> value if the biological basis of reproduction via a man and a woman is irrelevant?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Despite the claims to the contrary, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2013\/03\/15\/social-science-confirms-kids-need-married-moms-and-dads\/\" target=\"_blank\">much<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/reports\/2013\/03\/marriage-what-it-is-why-it-matters-and-the-consequences-of-redefining-it\" target=\"_blank\">evidence<\/a> that having <em>both<\/em> a mother <em>and<\/em> a father are key to a stable family and a successful future. \u00a0An <em>Amici Curi\u00e6<\/em> submitted to the Supreme Court case <em>Hollingsworth v. Perry<\/em>, outlines this succinctly:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p  style=\" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\">   <a title=\"View Amicus Brief in Hollingsworth v. Perry on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/131731125\/Amicus-Brief-in-Hollingsworth-v-Perry\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >Amicus Brief in Hollingsworth v. Perry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/131731125\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_12838\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The American Academy of Pediatrics is joined by other groups, none of which involve <em>hard<\/em> science &#8220;American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association and the American College of Nursing.&#8221;\u00a0 These are the elite guard &#8211; the storm troopers &#8211; of the War on Boys.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Certainly, these <em>august<\/em> organization claim that this is all <strong><em>Science<\/em><\/strong>!\u00a0 But then, both eugenics and phrenology were considered &#8220;settled science&#8221; in the not-too-distant past.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They go on to state that what is important is &#8220;nurturing children. We want what&#8217;s best for children.&#8221;\u00a0 What they fail to want to see is that the way men and women nurture and interact with their children are <em>different<\/em>, and that without both a mother <em>and<\/em> a father, children receive half of the parenting they deserve, no matter how much love and care they are given.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Perhaps Adam Carolla put it best:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Zw4PIcjVNg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Hat Tip<\/strong> for the Adam Carolla snippet to <a href=\"http:\/\/blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca\/2013\/03\/amicus-brief-in-hollingsworth-v-perry.html\" target=\"_blank\">Blazing Cat Fur<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The social sciences can readily be abused by those who wish to push an agenda, and often such work is less &#8220;science&#8221; than bias confirmation.\u00a0 When doctors and other such professionals allow their reputation to be a servant for their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/03\/27\/storm-troopers-of-the-war-on-boys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[55,11,86],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progressives","category-science","tag-gender","tag-obamacare","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}