The Catholic Church’s Complicity In NOM-Regnerus’s Anti-Gay Hate Speech

[SecularMotion]

We have been reporting on an invalid sociological study on gay parenting carried out by researcher Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas, Austin.

Regnerus’s known total of $785,000 for the study was arranged by The Witherspoon Institute and The Bradley Foundation, where Robert P. George – (head of the anti-gay-rights, scientifically disreputable, so-called National Organization for Marriage) – holds positions of authority. Witherspoon president Luis Tellez is a NOM board member. NOM’s Robert George is a long-time Catholic Church co-conspirator in the Church’s ages-long, Unholy War Against Gays. He is a current Board member of The Catholic League, whose motormouth president Bill Donohue has a long and shameful history of verbal gay bashing.

The Regnerus study currently is being used as an anti-gay-rights political weapon in the 2012 elections. With its toxic connections to the so-called National Organization for Marriage, the Catholic Church of course has been using the invalid Regnerus study as a political weapon against LGBT-Americans — who against their wills are obliged to subsidize one of the very worst of their relentless and ruthless oppressors worldwide — the tax-exempt Catholic Church – with their hard-earned tax dollars.

Clarity still is needed as to the real source of the funding for the Regnerus study. Sure, the Witherspoon Institute gave a known minimal total of of $695,000, and the Bradley Foundation a known minimal total of $90,000, but where exactly did they find those big bucks? Could the Church possibly have been involved in getting that money to Witherspoon and/or the Bradley Foundation? Witherspoon so far has refused to cooperate with Freedom of Information Act requests from multiple reporters for its Regnerus study-related communications.

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/opinion-the-catholic-churchs-complicity-in-nom-regneruss-anti-gay-hate-speech/discrimination/2012/07/29/44825

[xchrom]

1. Du rec. Nt

[zbdent]

2. What a bunch of JoePas ...

including Pope JoePa ...

[cbayer]

3. The Regenerus study was called out as NOM funded crap as soon as it hit the press..

thank goodness.

[edhopper]

4. Called out by

the Catholic Church? Or still defended by the Church?

[cbayer]

5. I've not heard the church speak to it at all, but the blogosphere slammed it immediately.

[edhopper]

6. I have seen Bill Donehue

head of the Catholic League defend it as recently as a few weeks ago.

[cbayer]

7. Not surprised at all. I missed that, though.

[edhopper]

8. here's his letter

from a week ago.
Bill is the Church attack dog and does not do things without consent.
His "independence' gives the Church deniability.

http://www.catholicleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Letter.pdf

[cbayer]

9. Appreciate that. I can't get it to open right now (very bad connection), but

will try reloading it later (after the tourists get off my bandwidth).

[Scott Rose]

10. The Catholic Church's business model

You have to understand that the politically-motivated funding for the Regnerus study came mainly through Robert George of the Witherspoon Institute, the Bradley Foundation and the National Organization for Marriage. George is the main political enabler of the Catholic Church in the United States. He is an apologist for Pacelli, who authored and got signed the notorious Reichskonkordat political treaty between the Vatican and Adolph Hitler. NOM and the Catholic Church have identical political goals vis-a-vis LGBTers rights and women's rights; NOM and the Church are united politically against President Obama. The Catholic League's Bill Donohue is especially despicable for his attempted defense of the Regnerus "study," as Donohue alleges he is a trained sociologist, yet the Regnerus "study" makes no valid test-group, control-group comparison. A Sociology 101 student would get laughed out of the room for suggesting that a study with an invalid test-group, control-group comparison was a valid study.

[cbayer]

11. Great synopsis, Scott Rose. Welcome to DU and to the Religion Group.