Bumiller Defends Gay Parents from Bush
Posted by: Clay Waters
4/12/2006 10:59:13 PM
Monday’s “White House Letter” from reporter Elisabeth Bumiller, “The Egg Roll (Again!) Becomes a Stage for Controversy” is on the prospect of gay families as a group joining the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House.
Bumiller called the Institute on Religion and Democracy, which criticized the gays, as “an influential conservative group,” and called The Weekly Standard magazine “conservative,” but gave no labels to the other side.
The Times’ White House reporter also puts in her two cents on the psychological health of gay families: “Last year, Mr. Bush upset gay parents even more when he said in an interview with The New York Times that while ‘children can receive love from gay couples,’ he believed that ‘studies have shown that the ideal is where a child is raised in a married family with a man and a woman.’ Afterward, experts across the political spectrum countered that there was no scientific evidence that children raised by gay couples did any worse -- socially, academically or emotionally -- than their peers raised in more traditional households.”
For more from White House reporter Bumiller on gays and the Easter Egg Roll, click here.
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