US Head of Christian group suggests that same-sex parents should be ‘cast into the sea’
The executive director of a Christian anti-gay group in the US has referred to a study which claimed that children of gay parents were worse off than those with straight parents, and quoted scripture which read that those doubting God should be “cast into the sea”.
Writing on his Facebook page, David E Smith, the director of the Illinois Family Institute, wrote a reference to a study published last year which claimed that children born in the twentieth century to parents who had a gay relationship have encountered more personal problems in adult life than those born to married, straight parents.
Engaged in a debate around same-sex parenting on his Facebook page, Mr Smith wrote: “Have either of you read the the Regnerus study on family structure? I think you need to before suggesting that it would be okay to place children in homosexual homes.”
He then quoted a passage from the Bible which suggested that those doubting God should be killed.
He wrote: “‘And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.’ ~Mark 9:42”
The Regnerus study came under fire for introducing sexual orientation into what was seen as more of a comparison between children in unstable parenting environments with those in environments with stable, married parents.
