Grassroots Effort Launched to Overturn AAP's Embrace of Gay Parenting; CWA Asks Parents to Tell Doctors To Oppose 'Normaphobia'

2/7/2002

From: Rebecca L. Riggs of Concerned Women for America, 202-488-7000, Web: http://www.media.cwfa.org

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- "CWA is equipping its members across the country to ask their doctors to oppose the American Academy of Pediatrics' lurch into radical advocacy of homosexual parenting," said Sandy Rios, president of Concerned Women for America. "Armed with the latest, most reliable information, we are asking our members to spread the word to their pediatricians and neighbors that homosexual parenting does NOT achieve the same results as mother/father married relationships."

Concerned Women for America (CWA) has produced a letter and brief summary of studies for mothers and fathers to take to their pediatricians, who will be asked to contact the AAP and register their objection.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a statement Monday declaring that children in homosexual households turn out the same as children in married families, and called for an end to laws giving preference to married couples in adoption and custody. The AAP relied heavily on an article in its journal, Pediatrics, by a pro-homosexual researcher who condemned traditional morality as "heterosexist."

"So now an AAP researcher has come up with a new word to slander the sane: 'heterosexist.' In their lexicon of lunacy, they are attempting to attribute abnormality to the normal and normalcy to the abnormal," said Rios. "Never mind the mountain of research showing that children do best in mother-father, married households; we are told we must put the interests of gay couples above the well-being of children. There should be a word for this sort of thing. Let's call it: 'normaphobia.'"

"Creating motherless or fatherless families by design is not in the best interests of children," said Robert Knight, director of CWA's Culture and Family Institute. His summary of studies on homosexual parenting, published in the Culture and Family Report at http://www.cwfa.org shows that even pro-homosexual researchers have found significant differences between children raised by homosexuals and heterosexuals.

------- Concerned Women for America is the nation's largest public policy women's organization.