NOM’s Ruth Institute: “All Laws” That Allow Gay Couples To Raise Children Are “Wrong”

In August, Equality Matters noticed that the National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) Ruth Institute was flirting with the idea of banning same-sex adoptions. It appears that flirting has evolved into a full-on courtship.

On September 7, the Ruth Institute published excerpts from a column written by David van Gend, a spokesman for the Family Council of Queensland in Australia. Van Gend has previously encouraged gay people to “escape the suffering of same-sex attraction” through so-called ex-gay therapy. Yeah, it’s going to be one of those columns.

In his piece, Van Gend makes clear that it’s not just marriage equality he’s opposed to – it’s any law that allows same-sex couples to raise children:

Obviously there are tragic situations where a child cannot have both a mum and a dad, such as the death or desertion of a parent, but that is not a situation we would ever wish upon a child, and that is not a situation that any government should inflict upon a child.

Yet legalising same-sex marriage will inflict that deprivation on a child. That is why it is wrong, and that is why all laws are wrong that permit single people or same-sex couples to obtain a child by IVF, surrogacy, or adoption. [emphasis added]

Van Gend’s full column is also bursting at the seams with anti-gay misinformation, including:

• Asserting that marriage equality will lead to polygamy
• Citing MassResistance – a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated anti-gay hate group – to support the (thoroughly debunked) claim that kids are being forced to learn about homosexuality in school
• Promoting the (also thoroughly debunked) myth that the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) distributed copies of “The Little Black Book” to high school students

Opposing same-sex parenting, repeating long-disproved anti-gay talking points, and partnering with known hate groups – all in a day’s work at NOM.

Previously:

NOM Promotes Column Claiming That Normalizing Homosexuality Is “Sexual Anarchy”

Fox’s Stossel: “I Still Don’t Get” Brian Brown’s Arguments Against Marriage Equality

NOM’s Ruth Institute Floats The Idea Of Banning Gay Adoptions