"Dr. Regnerus' opinions are his own. They do not reflect the views of the university. Like all faculty, he has the right to pursue his areas of research and express his point of view. We encourage the community of scholars and society as a whole to evaluate his claims."
Statement issued Mar. 4 from The University of Texas at Austin and the College of Liberal Arts
"Dr. Regnerus' opinions are his own. They do not reflect the views of the Sociology Department of The University of Texas at Austin. Nor do they reflect the views of the American Sociological Association, which takes the position that the conclusions he draws from his study of gay parenting are fundamentally flawed on conceptual and methodological grounds and that findings from Dr. Regnerus' work have been cited inappropriately in efforts to diminish the civil rights and legitimacy of LBGTQ partners and their families."
Christine L. Williams, Chair of the Dept. Of Sociology, University of Texas
"It's bullshit! …Reviewers uniformly downplayed or ignored the fact that the study did not examine children of identifiably gay and lesbian parents, and none of the reviewers noticed that the marketing-research data were inappropriate for a top-tier social-scientific journal."
Dr. Darren E. Sherkat, a professor of sociology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Dr. Sherkat, a member of the editorial board of Social Science Research, was assigned the task of auditing the publication's peer review process.
"If gay marriage is perceived as legitimate by heterosexual women, it will eventually embolden boyfriends everywhere, and not a few husbands, to press for what men have always historically wanted but were rarely allowed: sexual novelty in the form of permission to stray without jeopardizing their primary relationship."
Dr. Mark Regnerus, Feb. 20
