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Given the fact that there's absolutely no evidence to support the claim that growing up in a household with two parents of the same sex harms a child, I angry at how the Vatican is promulgating an outright lie in order to slander gays on this issue.

David - I imagine you know this already, but it bears repeating, loudly, publically, as much as possible over the next several months at least: There is not only no evidence to support harm to children raised by same-sex parents, there is ample, even prolific evidence to actively contradict such an assertion.

In fact, the studies show that kids of gay couples may even be a little better off than kids in hetero families, at least with regards to resilience, openness to flexible gender roles, and tolerance (not that the arch-conservatives think the latter two are actually desireable traits). There is enough evidence in favor of gay parenting to convince the American Pediatric Association to endorse it.

It's going to be vitally important, if we are to beat back the threat posed by Bush and the Vatican's comments today, to say not just "gays don't hurt their children" but "research shows that gay people raise *healthy* children." The other side doesn't have a leg to stand on, research-wise, and are reduced to an "everybody knows..." kind of assertion when challenged to back up their statements with actual data. The problem is that such challenges are rare and usually private or only semi-public.

Actually, there's about half the Indiana that there is of Ohio, unless you're traversing them in some kind of extremely odd U-shaped fashion. But having made that I-80/90 drive that I'm betting you describe, it's true that there is very little to recommend the Indiana or Ohio portions. The top halves of both states were all scraped of by the great glacier, you see, which stopped at around Brown County, IN, leaving Brown County and the like a wonderful kind of bumpy, rolling-hilly wonderful in contrast to the sort of horrible flatness up north.

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