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Published: February 5, 2009

“California government at its worst”

Cash-strapped state finds funds for billboards encouraging adoption by homosexuals

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 3 /Christian Newswire/ -- At the same time that it can't pay its bills or mail tax refunds, California's government is spending time and money on an advertising campaign that invites homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals to adopt children.

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is partnering with the California Department of Social Services and the County of Los Angeles to sponsor two billboards, one in West Hollywood, and later, another in Alameda County, that encourages homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals to apply to become adoptive parents and bring impressionable children into their homes. The California Department of Social Services is under the lead of openly homosexual director John Wagner, a Human Rights Campaign advisory board member.

"At a time when the state doesn't have enough money to provide hard-working people with their tax refunds, it's a shame that state and county funds are being wasted on this propaganda," said Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families / SaveCalifornia.com, a leading California statewide pro-family organization.

"God created fathers and mothers so that children could have the best chance at life," said Thomasson. "Studies show that children raised in homosexual and transsexual households are highly likely to experience sexual confusion and to act out homosexually, bisexually and transsexually when they otherwise would not. When the facts confirm that children do best with a married father and mother, there is no reason other than selfishness for anyone to advocate placing vulnerable children into these sexually-confused and sexually-charged environments."

In 2001, the University of Southern California conducted a "study of studies" regarding the effect of homosexual parents upon children. "(How) Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?" by sociology professors Judith Stacey and Timothy Blibarz was published in the American Sociological Review. The researchers found significant differences between homo-parented and hetero-parented children. Among them:

A significantly greater proportion of young adult children raised by lesbian mothers than those raised by heterosexual mothers say they have experienced sexual intimacy with a partner of the same sex. They were not, however, statistically more likely to identify themselves as gay or lesbian.

Young girls raised by lesbians are more likely to be sexually adventurous and active than their counterparts raised by heterosexual parents. However the sons of lesbians exhibit "an opposite pattern" and are likely to be less adventurous and active than boys raised by heterosexual households.

Lesbian mothers reported that their children behave in ways that do not conform to "sex-typed cultural norms." And the sons of lesbians are reportedly less likely to behave in traditionally masculine ways than those raised by heterosexual couples.

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