Judge That Struck Down Michigan’s Same Sex Marriage Ban Calls Mark Regnerus A Hack
by Will Kohler
U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman (appointed to the federal bench in 1988 by Republican demon President Ronald Reagan) who
this weekend struck down the state of Michigan's marriage
discrimination amendment as unconstitutional had some choice words for
"expert witness" Mark Regnerus
Friedman
slams Regnerus in his ruling going so far as to use quotation marks
around the word "study" when referring to Regnerus's right-wing-funded,
discredited New Family Structures Study that claimed same-sex couples make inferior parents:
"The court finds Regnerus's testimony entirely unbelievable and not worthy of serious consideration. The evidence adduced at trial demonstrated that his 2012 'study' was hastily concocted at the behest of a third-party funder, which found it 'essential that the necessary data be gathered to settle the question in the forum of public debate about what kinds of family arrangement are best for society' and which 'was confident that the traditional understanding of marriage will be vindicated by this study.'"..."While Regnerus maintained that the funding source did not affect his impartiality as a researcher, the Court finds this testimony unbelievable. The funder clearly wanted a certain result, and Regnerus obliged.
That
sound you hear is the final "flush" of any further "expert testimony"
and any possible legitimate research career for Mark Regnerus
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