Debate: Should Gays Be Allowed To Adopt?
Side: Yes because

Your source, The Family Research Council (AKA Focus on the Family) and Mark Regnerus are well known for their dishonesty and manipulation of the facts. They have actually been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center because of their "propagation of known falsehoods about LGBT people . . . that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities." They don't just look for data that supports their views and ignore the counter evidence, they actually take the counter evidence and twist it to make it look like it supports their view. The people whose publications have been misrepresented by them have even contacted them telling them to stop misrepresenting their data, but they still continue to do it. Here is one of those letters.-"Dear Dr. Dobson:I am writing to ask that you cease and desist from quoting my research in the future. I was mortified to learn that you had distorted my work this week in a guest column you wrote in Time Magazine. Not only did you take my research out of context, you did so without my knowledge to support discriminatory goals that I do not agree with. What you wrote was not truthful and I ask that you refrain from ever quoting me again and that you apologize for twisting my work.From what I understand, this is not the first time you have manipulated research in pursuit of your goals. This practice is not in the best interest of scientific inquiry, nor does bearing false witness serve your purpose of furthering morality and strengthening the family.Finally, there is nothing in my research that would lead you to draw the stated conclusions you did in the Time article. My work in no way suggests same-gender families are harmful to children or can’t raise these children to be as healthy and well adjusted as those brought up in traditional households.I trust that this will be the last time my work is cited by Focus on the Family.Sincerely,Carol Gilligan, PhDNew York University, Professor"-Here are a few quotes from other letters.“The research has been hijacked for somebody’s political purposes or ideological purposes and that’s worrisome.”“It’s a complete misrepresentation of what the research actually says,”"It has come to my attention that my book 'The Trouble with Boys' has been seriously misrepresented in writings by James Dobson.""You cherry-picked a phrase to shore up highly (in my view) discriminatory purposes... There is nothing in my longitudinal research or any of my writings to support such conclusions."-The following website has videos of the researchers saying Focus on the Family misrepresented their data, and on the bottom of each page is the letter they sent to Focus on the Family. http://respectmyresearch.org/anti-gay-activists/focus-on-the-family/Now about the "study" by Mark Regnerus. "Mark Regnerus’ flawed paper in the journal Social Science Research claiming that gay parenting harms children has been widely criticized by major medical organizations and over 200 professors across the country, while hate groups and ex-gay ministries have defended it. There are many indications that the paper was published as a political calculation, and the University of Texas has agreed to investigate whether it constitutes scientific misconduct. Now, a member of the journal’s editorial board has completed an internal audit of the study and found it to be 'bullshit.'"This page explain why it's bullshit:http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/07/27/596251/gay-parenting-bullshit/Here's more info about the Family Research Council for those who are interested.http://justiceforall.firedoglake.com/2013/12/10/family-research-council-distorts-researchers-work-a-decade-after-he-demanded-a-retraction/http://holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com/2011/02/peter-sprigg-proves-family-research.htmlhttp://holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com/2010/12/family-research-council-defends-itself.htmlhttp://holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot. com/2011/06/family-research-council-sneaking.html