{"id":611,"date":"2015-05-28T17:09:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T17:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2024-03-06T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T14:56:19","slug":"611","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/611\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 297px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 82.659933% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/474533230?et=ZYIlaBcgTKh2kMYr7rQo7g&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=auzF4RyvTGwG1yR7V51dCauwNm77YiQHqChboaPKeRE=\" width=\"297\" height=\"245\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0 0 0 10px; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/474533230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View image<\/a> | <a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While everyone was casting their May 22<sup>nd<\/sup> vote regarding the same-sex marriage referendum campaign, heated words during the campaign were hard to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>The official count was announced over the weekend, media articles lit the headlines offering different perspectives which led up to voting day. One of the most prominent ones was published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/social-affairs\/religion-and-beliefs\/studies-prove-no-differences-in-children-raised-by-gay-or-heterosexual-couples-1.2213132\">Irish Times in where clinical psychologist, Dr. Maureen Gaffney, decided to take a public stance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She was bothered by the \u201cNo\u201d campaign. In good conscience she could not morally continue to remain silent and shared her views at a \u201cYes\u201d conference in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been deeply troubled by the way the campaign has been run by some elements on the \u2018No\u2019 side, and that\u2019s why I\u2019ve decided to support \u2013 I was going to vote \u2018Yes\u2019 anyway \u2013 but to actively support the campaign because I can only describe what has happened as a kind of guilt by association campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reporter, Patsy McGarry from the Irish Times expressed how the psychologist felt that the \u201cNo\u201d side presented appalling suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>He writes how Gaffney viewed it as, \u201creally egregious that the problems of surrogacy are being loaded onto gay, lesbian and bisexual people as if they haven\u2019t enough to deal with.\u201d She found \u201cthe idea of surrogacy a most troubling issue \u2013 it\u2019s like the Wild West and requires very strong regulation nationally but also internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then tackled the \u201cNo\u201d side\u2019s insinuation regarding how children would in some way have an agonizing childhood if raised by gay parents. Gaffney told the crowd that she personally executed her own research, back to the early 1970s, and there was no substantiated proof indicating the differences of upbringing either it be by heterosexual or homosexual couples.<\/p>\n<p>McGarry quotes her saying, \u201cI can say without hesitation that there is not one study in literature that shows any difference in the emotional, education and social development of children who are reared by gay and lesbian couples,\u201d she said. \u201cThe things that matter to children are emotional security, someone at your back. Gender has no bearing on how well or how badly you do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, the \u201cNo\u201d side had their share of time in the spotlight. Doing their best to put forth healthcare professionals, they roped in Dutch psychologist, Dr. Gerard van den Aardweg.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/social-affairs\/religion-and-beliefs\/dutch-psychologist-links-homosexuality-to-conspiracy-theories-1.2213033\">Irish Times, van den Aardweg<\/a> was quoted as saying, \u201cHomosexuality is presented by the majority of the media as a question of unjust discrimination of people who in themselves are just a little bit different by nature &#8230; denied rights the majority enjoy. This is absolutely absurd and completely nonsensical,\u201d he said.\u00a0 He added, \u201cHomosexuality is not equal to heterosexuality. Scientifically this is absolutely absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same reporter, McGarry, covered the story, stating how van den Aardweg pushed on saying that scientific institutions have been swayed by \u201cactive militant gays\u201d in an effort to raise gay awareness.<\/p>\n<p>It was these types of statements which spurred Gaffney to break her silence.<\/p>\n<p>Also siding with Gaffney was Fergus Finlay, chief executive of Barnardos.<\/p>\n<p>He told campaign supporters and reporters that parenting, \u201c\u2026was a function of quality, not of colour, not of income, not of race, not of gender, not of sexual orientation. You will not find anywhere a piece of literature that proves or establishes, or even raises a question mark, about some of the assertions that have been made by the \u2018No\u2019 campaign in this referendum,\u201d he said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,100,121],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gay-marriage","tag-gay-parents","tag-ireland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surrogacy-lawyer.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}