Showing posts with label Mark Regnerus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Regnerus. Show all posts
Saturday, November 22, 2014

A Reader Writes: "In History, This Sort of Gender Binary Essentialism Has Been an Important Support to Nazism, the Taliban, and Various Theocracies in the West"

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In response to my posting on Thursday about the lack of socioeconomic analysis of family and what it takes to sustain family at the ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

More Translations of Recent News Reports: Regnerus's Latest, Gays and Religion, Archbishop Sartain and LCWR, More News about Archbishop Nienstedt

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More translations of recent news stories (see my explanation of what the term "translation" means here in what I posted abo...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

New "Secret, Shadowy Version of NOM" Formed: Continuing Thick Ties of National Organization for Marriage to Secret, Shadowy, Rich and Powerful Catholic Group Opus Dei

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Interesting news about the National Organization for Marriage, which is staging the "March for (Some People's) Marriage...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Mid-Week News Items: Marriage Equality and Religious Groups

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More mid-week news tidbits, these focusing on religion and gay issues (the Cincinnati story discussed below does  focus on gay issues...
Friday, March 28, 2014

End of Week News Clips: World Vision and Marriage in Michigan

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Elizabeth Drescher , "World Vision Rescinds Decision to Employ LGBT Marrieds":
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

On the Increasingly Wild Claims of Religious Right That It's Being Ghettoized by the Gays: Case of Mark Regnerus

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Frank Strong on the absurd (and growing) meme of the anti-gay religious right, as it claims that bullying gays are ghettoizing ...
Monday, February 24, 2014

John Corvino, What's Wrong with Homosexuality?: "Man on Man, Man on Dog, or Whatever the Case May Be"

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I was reminded of  John Corvino's book   What's Wrong with Homosexuality? (NY: Oxford UP, 2013) as I read Erik Eckholm's ...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Churches and Gays: Stephen Fry on Ex-Gay Therapy, Becca Morn on Exporting of Anti-Gay Hatred, Rowan Williams on Appalling Anti-Gay Violence of Many Christians

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It's worth watching Stephen Fry's stylish, humane look at ex-gay therapy * for his observation (at about the 8.24 mark) that Jos...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Final Two Installments in Miranda Blue's Series on Globalizing Homophobia and Role of U.S. Religious Right

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Miranda Blue has now published the final two installments in her Right Wing Watch series about the role of the religious right in glo...
Friday, October 4, 2013

Recommended: Miranda Blue's Series at Right-Wing Watch on Globalizing Homophobia and Role of U.S. Religious Right

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Matthew 28:19-20, The Great Commission We have known for some time now that the fingerprints of the American religious right are all ...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

In News: SCOTUS on Dignity and DOMA, Chris Hedges on Edward Snowden, Regnerus Cavils, Pam's House Blend

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At dotCommonweal , John McGreevy suggests that Andrew Sullivan may be the most influential lay Catholic in the U.S. in the past fift...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Fellow Sociologist on Regnerus Study: "Key Measure of Gay and Lesbian Parenting Is Simply a Farce"

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"The key measure of gay and lesbian parenting is simply a farce."
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Footnotes to Previous Discussions: Mark Regnerus and Margaret Thatcher

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Brief glosses today on two items about which I've written recently:
Saturday, April 13, 2013

New Evidence Corroborates Conclusion That Regnerus Study Was Politically Driven

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Also in the news this week, and not unrelated to the "this was a week" posting I just published: Sofia Resnick published ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

In News: Maciel Legacy and Papacy, Vatican and Violence Against Women, Regnerus Study

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In news not unrelated to the papal conclave and the future direction of the Catholic church:
Saturday, March 2, 2013

Rob Tisanai at Box Turtle Bulletin: "Dear Dr. Regnerus"

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And now, in non-"Dancing with the Stars" news as the weekend arrives:
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Tribalism as Illuminating Category for Discussing American Catholicism and Evangelicalism: Carrying on the Conversation in 2013

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As 2012 ended, I began compiling a list of religion-politics-culture discussions from the year that seemed worth continuing in 2013. Th...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

Mark Regnerus Back in News: Straight Men Who Support Marriage Equality Consume More Porn

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Also not to be missed as the year turns: Mark Regnerus, the author of this year's widely criticized study about "gay" p...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Weekend News: Regnerus Study Again, More on Sally "Ad Multos Annos" to San Fran!

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In the news as the weekend gets underway: The Regnerus study , which an auditor of the processed used by the journal Social Science...
Friday, July 13, 2012

Regnerus Study Appears June 10, Is Cited in Amicus Curiae Brief by Christian-Right Group on June 11

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The deeply flawed, pseudo-scientific Regnerus study, which is being interpreted to "prove" that "gay parents" are...