Soulforce Posts Video of NYU Sociologist Who Claims Focus on the Family

[LostInTime]

Soulforce Posts Video of NYU Sociologist Who Claims Focus on the Family Misrepresented Research on LGBT Parents

In her video statement, Stacey calls Focus on the Family's use of her work "a complete distortion" and clarifies that "there is absolutely nothing in the article we wrote, nor in any of the research that has yet been published, that would warrant any form of discrimination against parents on the basis of sexual orientation." Her comments are excerpted from a 2005 Soulforce video titled Dear Dr. Dobson: An Open Video Letter to Focus on the Family.

In December 2006, Dobson authored a TIME Magazine editorial condemning Mary Cheney and her partner, Heather Poe, for their decision to have a child. Two of the social scientists Dobson cited in his opinion piece, Dr. Kyle Pruett of Yale and Dr. Carol Gilligan of NYU, have publicly contested Dobson's use of their research to rationalize discrimination against lesbian and gay parents. In recent weeks, the organization Truth Wins Out has posted statements from Pruett and Gilligan on YouTube, and today Dr. Stacey's video statement adds to the mounting evidence of what Soulforce believes to be a pattern of misrepresenting research.

[kaelin]

The best way to debunk FotF and other organizations of that nature for someone who has their research distorted by them to call them out on their BS.