Wingnuts: Gay Parents = Gay Kids

Today's "exclusive!" top story on World Net Daily is a claim from some crackpot psychologist who says that kids with gay parents are "seven times more likely to be homosexual!"

A licensed psychologist with both clinical and forensic practice outreaches is warning that it appears children of homosexual couples are seven times more likely to develop "non-heterosexual preferences" than other children, but lawmakers establishing policy often don't know that because the researchers have concealed their discoveries. "Research … although not definitive, suggests that children reared by openly homosexual parents are far more likely to engage in homosexual behavior than children raised by others," said the online report by Trayce L. Hansen.

Studies she reviewed suggest children raised by homosexual or bisexual parents "are approximately seven times more likely than the general population to develop a non-heterosexual sexual preference." The "studies thus far find that between 8 percent and 21 percent of homosexually parented children ultimately identify as non-heterosexual," the psychologist wrote. "For comparison purposes, approximately 2 percent of the general population are non-heterosexual. Therefore, if these percentages continue to hold true, children of homosexuals have a 4 to 10 times greater likelihood of developing a non-heterosexual preference than other children."

It makes perfect sense that kids in an open, loving home, one in which there is no recrimination for natural sexual impulses, would have a broader range of experiences. But seven times? I know I can depend on you folks to dig in and rip this idiot apart.