Comments on: Focus’ Glenn T. Stanton Speaks For Anthropologists

By: Focus President Misrepresents The Entire Field of Anthropology

Focus President Misrepresents The Entire Field of Anthropology — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:10:27 +0000

[...] claim prompted rebukes from actual anthropologists including Bill Maurer, the anthropology department chair at UC Irvine and Damon Dozier, the American Anthropological [...]

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:09:51 +0000

Jose, even after gays achieve full marriage equality marriage will remain virtually exclusively heterosexual, so you have nothing to worry about.

By: Jason D

Jason D — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:52:26 +0000

“Civilization as we have known it has depended until now on exclusive heterosexual marriage.”

Hardly. Civilization is dependent upon “people”. The basic unit of society is a person.

By: Jose

Jose — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:52:12 +0000

Here is an article by an “actual” anthropologist regarding the credulity of the American Anthropological Associations statement regarding the impact of same sex marriages through the ages.

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/wood200504260810.asp

Lets be clear. There have been various forms of marriage throughout the ages, (I don’t believe anyone has ever disputed this), but except for very rare exceptions, all of the above mentioned types of marriage have involved marriages between man and woman, be they monogamous or polygamous. Even in predominantly matriarchal societies, where property and kinship ties are inherited through the woman’s line, marriages are still, (again with very rare exception) between men and women. To argue that because marriages have taken different forms throughout the ages, and then omitting the fact that practically all of these marriage arrangements involved men marrying women, is simply disingenuous, and not objective. Even “Ghost marriages” practiced among the Sudanese, entailed marriage kinship ties between men and woman! And female “husbands” which seem to have been a social arrangement, and not a sexually mitigated one. The preponderance of history demonstrates that Civilization as we have known it has depended until now on exclusive heterosexual marriage.

By: Citizenlink Quietly Rewrites Debunked Article | Ex-Gay Watch

Citizenlink Quietly Rewrites Debunked Article | Ex-Gay Watch — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:25:53 +0000

[...] definition of marriage.” Box Turtle Bulletin did an excellent job of gathering the views of two anthropologists (including XGW contributor Patrick Chapman), as well as those of the American [...]

By: Ottawa Focus on the Family fellow rebuked by American Anthropological Association at Bene Diction Blogs On

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:01:47 +0000

[...] Stanton for his March 3rd article: The University of California at Irvine’s Anthropology Chair Bill Maurer and Associate Professor Tom Boellstorff; Dr. Patrick M. Chapman, anthropologist and author of the upcoming book “Thou Shalt Not Love”: [...]

By: Buffy

Buffy — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:04:55 +0000

Focus on the Family lie to advance their agenda? Say it isn’t so!

Very nice work getting opinions from real anthropologists.

By: XGW Digest: 06 March 2008 | Ex-Gay Watch

XGW Digest: 06 March 2008 | Ex-Gay Watch — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:16:08 +0000

[...] not what the Religious Right wants it to be. Over at Box Turtle Bulletin, anthropologists Bill Mauer and Patrick M Chapman [...]

By: Peterson Toscano

Peterson Toscano — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:24:37 +0000

Great work Daniel. This is awesome stuff!

By: a. mcewen

a. mcewen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:41:28 +0000

distorting scientific work is nothing new for stanton and company.

Now they will either ignore Mr. Maurer and Mr. Boellstorff’s words or accuse them of working for the “gay agenda.”