The University of Texas at Austin has vindicated a professor whom a pro-homosexual blogger accused of scientific misconduct for studying the negative impact on children raised by same-gender couples.
Professor Mark Regnerus' "New Family Structures Study" found that children raised by same-sex parents do have more emotional and sociological problems than do children with heterosexual parents. Homosexual activists were outraged, including blogger Scott Rose, who proceeded to make baseless accusations about the legitimacy of Regnerus' research (see earlier story).
David Hacker of the Alliance Defending Freedom explains that these false claims created much of conflict.
"It is unfortunate that UT-Austin inquired into the complaint at all, because it required Dr. Regnerus to go through several meetings and have his computer seized and his files seized -- all actions of the government that we would think of in totalitarian state, not in America," Hacker declares.
Still, such harassment is becoming more common throughout the United States.
"Professors who don't kowtow to the prevailing orthodoxy on campus, which is primarily a leftist orthodoxy these days, are being punished or censured because of their views," the ADF attorney laments.
The inquiry concludes that none of the scientific misconduct alleged by Rose was substantiated by any of the evidence put forth.