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Follow this logic – an NYU professor is against traditional marriage, but for same-sex marriage.

The Heritage Foundation reports on Professor Judith Stacey’s mind-bending ideas on “What is marriage?”

Her take? “Why should there be marriage at all?”

The think tank, which recorded one of her talks, further expounds on the sociology and cultural analysis professor’s beliefs, and they actually get much, much worse:

Stacey concedes that we live in a world where marriage exists and so asks, “What should limit [marriage] to two, and why should it be monogamous?”

… Stacey rejects the relationship between marriage policy and the interests of children. She also rejects the overwhelming evidence that children tend to do best when raised by their married, biological parents: “I would say that children certainly do not need a mother and a father.… There is no evidence that three parents would not be better than two.”

Stacey also rejects the conclusions of studies of the past 40 years that conclude there are social consequences when the law teaches fathers are optional. Unwed births make children more vulnerable to poverty, and children without fathers also are much more susceptible to participate in crime and drug abuse. All the while, unwed childbearing leads to dramatically higher welfare costs and limits social mobility.

Stacey even disputes the recent statement of President Obama, who was raised by a single mother, about children growing up without fathers: “We know the statistics—that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home or become teenage parents themselves.”

Stacey’s response: “Obama is not a social scientist and was deeply misled.… Obama was dead wrong.”

In fact, Stacey goes so far as to attest, “I suspect, for the reasons of selection effects, the children of gay male co-parents will wind up having probably the best parents.”

Stacey is co-author of “How Does the Gender of Parents Matter?” and “Ideal Families and Social Science Ideals.” We can only surmise those works aren’t fans of traditional marriage.

This woman is at the helm of sociology and cultural analysis studies at NYU, yet her beliefs are probably similar to most of her peers across the nation. In effect, is it any wonder the war against traditional marriage is losing so badly nowadays? We send our children off to college to further their educations, but oftentimes they’re indoctrinated by educators like Stacey along the way.

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