The California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists […] devoted a special issue of its bimonthly journal The Therapist to same-sex marriage last spring. It included articles both for and against homosexual unions. After receiving a barrage of complaints from homosexual activists and their supporters, the organization, which represents 30,000 therapists, removed the opposing pieces last month. It then apologized to its members and, in a convoluted statement that appears to mollify both supporters and critics, came out squarely against Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment supporting traditional marriage.
In one of the expunged articles, Dawn Stefanowicz, an author and accountant, discusses life with her gay father.
“I was transfixed by one unexpected emotional tangle and discarded dream after another. … For my father and his friends, being gay was a smorgasbord of gender identities such as pseudo males, macho, effeminate, bisexual males, and female impersonators.”
There were also “diverse private and public sexual behaviors, including …. a group or bathhouse rendezvous, sadomasochism, pedophilia, and bestiality,” she wrote.
In another article, “Same-Sex Marriage: Not in the Best Interest of Children,” psychologist Trayce Hansen writes:
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Recent medical research confirms genetically determined differences between men and women and those fundamental differences help explain why mothers and fathers bring unique characteristics to parenting that can’t be replicated by the other sex. Mothers and fathers simply aren’t interchangeable. Two women can both be good mothers, but neither can be a good father. One-sex parenting, whether by a single parent or a homosexual couple, deprives children of the full range of parenting offered by dual-sex couples.
[…] When examining why the profession so emphatically favors the interests of adults over children, it’s important to pose one simple question: Who pays the therapist’s bills?