from Parenting & Family

The WorldNetDaily story also pointed out that in 2004, NARTH was involved in exposing the questionable backgrounds of an American Psychological Association task force that issued an endorsement of gay marriage. The APA simply listed the task force members as "a combination of both scientific expertise in family and couple relations and professional expertise with lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations."

NARTH, however, pointed out that each member of the APA's Working Group on Same-Sex Families and Relationships is a gay advocate, not an impartial social scientist. WorldNetDaily observed:

What sort of "expertise"? According to the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, or NARTH, the psychologist association's "Working Group on Same-Sex Families and Relationships" is made up of "gay activists."

For instance, reported NARTH:

• "Dr. Armand Cerbone, who was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 2003 and was awarded an award for distinguished service to the gay movement by the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues, which is Division 44 of the APA.
• "Dr. Beverly Green, who served as editor of Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Issues, published by Sage Publications in 2000.
• "Dr. Kristin Hancock, who developed the APA's 'Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients,' and is a founding member of APA's Division 44, a group focusing on gay issues.
• "Dr. Lawrence A. Kurdek, who serves on the editorial board of Contemporary Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Psychology."

Possibly most controversial of all is the presence on the APA's working group of Dr. Candace A. McCullough, a lesbian who attempted in 2002 to produce, for the second time, a deaf child by artificial insemination, using sperm from a deaf donor. Both McCullough and her lesbian partner, Sharon Duchesneau, are deaf. Their attempt to create a second deaf baby was profiled by the Washington Post on March 31, 2002. "It would be nice to have a deaf child who is the same as us," Duchesneau, who carried the baby to term, told the Post two months before the baby boy, named Gauvin, was born. "I think that would be a wonderful experience. You know, if we can have that chance, why not take it?"

They succeeded, according to the Advocate ("The National Gay & Lesbian Newsmagazine"), which disclosed in 2002 that Duchesneau and McCullough had earlier sought a deaf sperm donor to father their daughter, Jehanne, as well as later for their son, Gauvin, focus of the Post article.

"As a result," says the Advocate report, "Jehanne is deaf, and Gauvin is deaf in one ear and has severe hearing loss in the other. And that's what both mothers - who consider their deafness an identity, not a disability - intended."

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Explaining the APA's resolution blessing same-sex marriage, NARTH president Dr. Joseph Nicolosi said the psychologist organization has "let political activists take over the APA in this particular area, and these activists are giving us their own, values-laden 'take' on the issues."

NARTH, an organization of psychiatrists, psychologists, certified social workers and others focused on therapeutically helping homosexuals become heterosexual, was founded in 1992.

Because the APA starts out "with the foundational belief that there's no real difference between the genders, then mothers and fathers start to look interchangeable," said Nicolosi. "With such a worldview, gay and straight relationships look the same; then gay marriage starts to look as if it were no different from the natural, biological family. And, when the research comes in - as indeed it has - showing gays and lesbians to be less psychologically healthy than straights, then the APA simply dismisses it, saying that the psychological problems are due solely to society's homophobia."

Updated: 8 February 2008

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