Michigan judge eviscerates discredited research by Mark Regnerus in same-sex marriage ruling

One of the best parts of Judge Bernard Friedman's ruling that found Michigan's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional were his comments on Mark Regnerus's testimony regarding his discredited "study" on the impact of same-sex couples on children.

In short, the judge eviscerated him:

"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.

"Whatever Regnerus may have found in this 'study,' he certainly cannot purport to have undertaken a scholarly research effort to compare the outcomes of children raised by same-sex couples with those of children raised by heterosexual couples.

"It is no wonder that the NFSS has been widely and severely criticized by other scholars, and that Regnerus’s own sociology department at the University of Texas has distanced itself from the NFSS in particular and Dr. Regnerus’s views in general."

Bolding is mine.  But you have to love the "quotes" around the word study placed there by the judge.

Regnerus' "study" has been held up by right-wing nuts as 'evidence" that same-sex couples can't raise children with the same success as heterosexual couples.

Thank you Judge Friedman for not only your fair and balanced ruling, but shining a light on Regnerus' sad slop-job of a study meant only to harm LGBT families.