Tell us, ndtovent; did you actually check your statements, or are you just repeating what some gay leftist told you?

A simple trip to Wikipedia would drastically change your statement, I believe; however, the fact that you obviously didn’t bother to make it speaks volumes for gay leftists’ substitution of blind hatred for facts.

This portion of the Dr. Laura interview is worth quoting:

Well, when parents call me, or when young gay guys call me and say, My parents don’t like this and want me to go into reparative therapy, here’s what I say: If parents are willing to have you over for dinner and Christmas with family, but they don’t like that you’re gay, you just have to accept that. They are allowed to have that opinion. What they’re not allowed to do, as decent mommies and daddies, is reject you.
On the parents’ side, I always say, You know what? It’s your kid, straight or gay. Let’s just say you’re a straight guy, and you are married, and you have a daughter who is 18, and she’s doing stripping and call-girl stuff and all of that—and she’s straight. That’s not the point—I still wouldn’t have her over for Christmas, because that’s a very bad influence. So if you are a gay man, and your whole thing is every five minutes you’re out to a different club doing anonymous sex in the bathroom, I wouldn’t have you over to my house either. So straight or gay, I think there is decent behavior.

Note how she uses the hypothetical case of a promiscuous tearoom cruiser to suggest that parental disapproval of a child’s homosexuality might well be rationally justifiable after all. (I.e., Of course mom and dad should put their foot down and refuse to approve their son’s habit of sucking anonymous cocks in public toilets.)

And note that she brings up the hypothetical tearoom marathoner despite the fact that the interviewer has presented himself as being in a stable relationship with another man.

And note that she never says “Good for you two guys for choosing committed couplehood instead of catting around like some gay men do.”

Well, when parents call me, or when young gay guys call me and say, My parents don’t like this and want me to go into reparative therapy, here’s what I say: If parents are willing to have you over for dinner and Christmas with family, but they don’t like that you’re gay, you just have to accept that. They are allowed to have that opinion. What they’re not allowed to do, as decent mommies and daddies, is reject you.
On the parents’ side, I always say, You know what? It’s your kid, straight or gay. Let’s just say you’re a straight guy, and you are married, and you have a daughter who is 18, and she’s doing stripping and call-girl stuff and all of that—and she’s straight. That’s not the point—I still wouldn’t have her over for Christmas, because that’s a very bad influence. So if you are a gay man, and your whole thing is every five minutes you’re out to a different club doing anonymous sex in the bathroom, I wouldn’t have you over to my house either. So straight or gay, I think there is decent behavior.

Note how she uses the hypothetical case of a promiscuous tearoom cruiser to suggest that parental disapproval of a child’s homosexuality might well be rationally justifiable after all. (I.e., Of course mom and dad should put their foot down and refuse to approve their son’s habit of sucking anonymous cocks in public toilets.)

And note that she brings up the hypothetical tearoom marathoner despite the fact that the interviewer has presented himself as being in a stable relationship with another man.

And note that she never says “Good for you two guys for choosing committed couplehood instead of catting around like some gay men do.”

When I asked her if a single parent, socially stable, financially sound household was better than leaving the child in an institutional setting, she cracked and said yes. But only if the parent didn’t leave the child with daycare, latchkey, etc.

From that point on, it didn’t take 30 seconds for me to prove that a gay partnered household could be every bit as effective at raising children as a hetero-household. The two parent hetero-household took a beating from callers for the next 4-5 minutes until Dr L brought on a caller who was worried about a pedophile teacher predating on her neighbor’s kid… new issue, gay adoption was over. She then went on to clarify her comments in subsequent days.

I didn’t think she was anti-gay. I thought she was just pro hetero-household (to a fault) for raising kids and making a family. Her beef was what happened to the “kidlets” when daycare took over as the primary caregiver. Fair enough to me. I am worried about that, too.

I don’t know if she’s homophobic but when I listened to her, in the 1990s, she was “borderline” in some of her comments.

I taped the program and would be willing to loan it to the good doctor.

Her whole flip flopping on religion really bothered me. I felt she was looking for the religion that worked best for her – rather than doing what she tells everyone else to do.
Which is work within the frame work and make it work. When the Jewish community rejected her, not her message, she simply quit and left. And then she tells us that she is uneffected by attacks, because they aren’t personal.

For someone who reguolarly lectures people on making the hard choice, because it is right – it appeared to be the cop out of the spoiled child. I didn’t get my way, so I’m leaving.

As for the gay issue, I don’t think she is homophobic, but the woman doth protest too much. I always am uneasy about the line” my best friend is…”

biological deviant or biological errors, not much difference in those terms. Clearly homosexuality is as natural in the biological world as heterosexuality is. Of course the rates are lower because of the need of all living organisms to reproduce. Societies deal with the issue on a moral level, but the moment you call something an error – than there is something inherently wrong with it. Not quite homophobia – but it bothers me.

As for the gay adoption issue-I agree with her in the sense that I think the best situation for a child is two opposite sex parents (partly because I think moms and dads bring different things to the relationship). But that is the ideal, and how often are kids living in the ideal? Are two abusive opposite sex parents better than loving same sex parents? Fostercare?

One thing with gay parents that separates them from others is they have to actively seek parenthood.

Granted, they know what they’re getting before they call (or ought to), and her advice is sometimes spot-on (not always).