Pediatrician Group: "no relationship between parents’ sexual orientation and any measure of a child’s emotional, psychosocial, and behavioral adjustment"

The Minnesota chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics announced earlier in September 2012, that Academy pediatricians oppose a Constitutional amendment in Minnesota that would ban marriage equality.

“This amendment would be harmful to the health and well-being of children and adolescents in Minnesota,” the group said in a press release.

The physician group said the passage of an amendment that bans civil marriage equality could lead to an increase in bullying and violence against LGBT youth.

The pediatrician group said:

“More than 25 years of research has documented that there is no relationship between parents’ sexual orientation and any measure of a child’s emotional, psychosocial, and behavioral adjustment. Rather, children’s optimal development seems to be influenced more by the nature of the relationships and interactions within the family than by the particular structural form it takes.”

Source: Pediatricians Support Marriage Equality

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Berlin Cardinal Re-Affirms His Support for Lesbian and Gay Relationships

In Catholic on July 10, 2012 at 9:34 am

Cardinal Rainer Woelki of Berlin has re-affirmed his support for same-sex relationships which he made at a German conference of Catholic lay people back in May.

London’s Tablet magazine, an international Catholic periodical, reports:

“The Church must rethink its approach to remarried divorcees and gay relationships, the world’s youngest cardinal has said.

“Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, 55, made his comments in an interview with the German weekly Die Zeit and said that while the Orthodox Church considers only the first marriage sacramentally valid, divorce and a second marriage is tolerated. Asked whether this could be a model for the Catholic Church, he replied that the Church should talk about it.

Commenting on gay men in relationships he said he tried not to see them as just violating natural law but as people trying to take responsibility for each other in lasting partnerships. ‘We must find a way of allowing people to live without going against church teaching,’ he said.”

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Berlin Cardinal Re-Affirms His Support for Lesbian and Gay Relationships

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