For the life of me, I can't figure out gay Republicans like Cheney. With gay bashing a party cornerstone, Mary Cheney and groups like the Log Cabin Republicans are pretty hard to understand. You'd think they'd be Libertarian or something. But Mary sold out a long time ago -- becoming a PR flack and token lesbian for the brewer Adolph Coors. The Coors family are intolerant lunatics, but they still wanted to sell beer to gays, who they'd turned off with Coors' association with antigay hate groups. To give you an idea how nuts these people are, William Coors once told an african american audience, "...one of the best things they [slave traders] did for you is to drag your ancestors over here in chains." Sweet fella.
So, you'd imagine she's used to this kind of crap and took it into account in her decision to start a family. But other people aren't as lucky and the haters are using her to attack all lesbian and gay families. In a guest column for TIME titled. 'Two Mommies Is One Too Many,' the evangelical leader James Dobson did just that. In that piece, Dobson called on findings by Dr. Kyle Pruett and educational psychologist Carol Gilligan. Here's the relevant snippet of BS:
...The fact remains that gender matters--perhaps nowhere more than in regard to child rearing. The unique value of fathers has been explained by Dr. Kyle Pruett of Yale Medical School in his book Fatherneed: Why Father Care Is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child. Pruett says dads are critically important simply because "fathers do not mother." Psychology Today explained in 1996 that "fatherhood turns out to be a complex and unique phenomenon with huge consequences for the emotional and intellectual growth of children." A father, as a male parent, makes unique contributions to the task of parenting that a mother cannot emulate, and vice versa.
According to educational psychologist Carol Gilligan, mothers tend to stress sympathy, grace and care to their children, while fathers accent justice, fairness and duty. Moms give a child a sense of hopefulness; dads provide a sense of right and wrong and its consequences. Other researchers have determined that boys are not born with an understanding of "maleness." They have to learn it, ideally from their fathers.
And that's when Dobson's argument hit the fan. Both Gilligan and Pruett denounced his citation of their work as distortion and have asked Dobson to never refer to their findings again...
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