“Washington D.C., May 21, 2010 / 03:21 am (CNA).- Family Research Council released a new study on Thursday, detailing how women who grow up without their biological parents are more likely to engage in homosexual conduct as adults versus women who were raised with both a father and a mother.”
(My Note: EWTN interviewed Dr Patrick Fagan recently on a Sunday Program….I cannot recall which one. He sounded interesting, so I looked him up online and whhaa la! Thus the several posts about his work, today. Check out the two links. One is from CNA and one is from two other websites).
The Two Researchers Photograph’s follow. One a priest researcher and one a layman. Interesting research work.
Article from website: www.mappingamericaproject.org
“Women (aged 14-44) Who Had Homosexual Sexual Partners in the Past Year Are More Likely to Worship Infrequently and to Have Grown Up in Non-Intact Families Women (aged 14-44) who have not had a homosexual sexual partner in the past year are more likely to worship at least weekly and to have grown up in intact families than those who have had a homosexual sexual partner in the past year. According to the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), 2.1 percent of women who grew up in intact married families and attend religious services at least weekly have had a homosexual sexual partner in the year prior to being asked, followed by women who grew up in other family structures and worship at least weekly (4.6 percent), those who grew up in intact married families and never worship (7.3 percent), and those who grew up in other family structures and never worship (9.5 percent).
Examining structure of family of origin only, four percent of women who grew up in intact married families have had a homosexual sexual partner in the year prior to being asked, followed by women who grew up in intact cohabiting families (4.3 percent), those from married stepfamilies (6 percent), single divorced parent families (6.6 percent), always single parent families (6.6 percent), and cohabiting stepparent families (9.6 percent).
Examining current religious attendance only, 2.8 percent of women who worship at least weekly have had a homosexual sexual partner in the year prior to being asked, followed by women who worship between one and three times a month (2.9 percent), those who worship less than once a month (6.9 percent), and those who never attend religious services (8.7 percent).1
Related Insights from Other Studies
Several other studies throw some light on why this might be so. Michele Dillon of Yale University reported that 44 percent of frequent Catholic church attendees “said that sexual relations between two adults of the same sex were wrong,” compared to 10 percent “of those who attended occasionally or never.”2
Darren Sherkat of Southern Illinois University also found that heterosexual women have much higher rates of church attendance than homosexual women.3
Examining the current family structure of homosexual men, Daryl Higgins of Deakin University reported that homosexual men who married women usually did so because “it seemed natural” or they “wanted children or family life.” Separation or divorce from their spouses often “led to an increase in the range of sexual behaviors engaged in with other men.”4
“As the evidence indicates, more family brokenness in family of origin and less frequent worship correlate positively with homosexual activity.”
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Study done by: Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D. and D. Paul Sullins, Ph.D.
Dr. Fagan is senior fellow and director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute (MARRI) at Family Research Council.
Dr. Sullins is an associate professor of sociology at The Catholic University of America.
Direct Quotations is from a PDF Article: “Women (aged 14-44) Who Had a Homosexual Sexual Partner in the Past Year” by Current Religious Attendance and Structure of Family of Origin
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My Two Cents Worth
Proves Christ Jesus’ words to be true: “Apart from Me ~ You Can Do NOTHING!”
And as the Protestant saying goes: “NO GOD – NO PEACE.” Conversely, “KNOW GOD – KNOW PEACE!”
It’s not Rocket Science. TRUTH IS PERRENIAL – Evergreen – and EVER RELAVENT. Jesus is TRUTH.
Jesus never changes. Truth never changes.
The Politically Correct Agenda is Opportunistic and Self-Serving. However, God gives us smart Grace driven men and women, in every age to put up a mirror to the moral decadences in society, not masking it, or lying about it. Simply they state the Truth reflected in that mirror on cultural trends, that are messing up individuals, families and society.*
*We only have to see the serpentine ways of Rock Groups of Infamy like Led Zeppelin, who acted-out on stage, in very depraved ways: to see how their “sex, drugs and rock and roll” messages ruined our nation, and many nations.
*Then, we see the opposite affect, in Grace-driven work of Mother Angelica, Blessed Mother Teresa and Blessed John Paul II had on the World, positively.
Amorality versus Morality, is the Age-Old Human Drama, in every Era. Grace versus Depravity.
One can use our time to Pray and Forgive them. As Saint Francis of Assisi said, “There, but for the Grace of God, go I.”
Praying for Conversions of Others, Jesus told Saint Faustina greatly pleases Him. This is what Lent is all about. It is a year round Catholic Layman and Laywoman Vocation.
