http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2011/05/04/gay-rights-and-advocacy-research-when-a-political-agenda-drives-objective-scholarship/ News and views on Utah public policy Tue, 21 May 2013 14:35:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2011/05/04/gay-rights-and-advocacy-research-when-a-political-agenda-drives-objective-scholarship/#comment-1038 Advocacy research in the ‘gay rights’ arena: a follow-up | Sutherland Daily Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:16:02 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news/?p=189#comment-1038 [...] months ago, I wrote a post about advocacy research: “scholarly” research driven by a political agenda rather than a [...]

]]> http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2011/05/04/gay-rights-and-advocacy-research-when-a-political-agenda-drives-objective-scholarship/#comment-1037 Mbpetersen Tue, 10 May 2011 16:48:00 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news/?p=189#comment-1037 The real point of interest isn’t the political attitudes of the residents of Portland but the fact that gay teens are FIVE TIMES more likely to commit suicide than their straight peers. You are ignoring this irrefutable FACT with what can only be termed nit picking. You are sending a message that “ignore the FACTs” and the empitical evidence you yourselves site, to go off on some tangent about issuesd that are not even statistically relevant. Justifying anti-gay bias is not a conservative value but a very radical departure from classical liberal (18th century) norms.

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