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Episode 16 - Platform Pod 6 - Great American Families, Education, Healthcare, and Criminal Justice Recorded August 11, 2016.  Definitely (in our humble opinion) worth a listen now. It’s like a play-by-play of the legislation under the current president. The Family Research Council - which is labeled an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center - has a strong interpretation of studies of children with same-gender parents. It’s not universally accepted, there are a lot of studies whose authors conclude there’s no significant difference or detriment to children raised by gays or lesbians: 2013: World’s Largest Study Of Same-Sex Parenting Finds That Children Are Thriving 2005: Same-Sex Parents Raise Well-Adjusted Kids Zeke Miller’s reporting (immediate launch video at link) on the behind-the-scenes finagling that resulted in the GOP platform, including this tough passage: At the full gathering, Washington, D.C. delegate Rachel Hoff, the first openly gay member of the committee, introduced an amendment to rewrite the GOP’s language on same-sex marriage to allow for a range of view-points on the issue, as opposed to the strong rejecting in the initial draft. “All I ask today is that you include me and people like me,” she said, fighting back tears. Hoff’s amendment failed by a roughly 3-1 margin. 55 Colleges Face Sexual Assault Investigations. We got the number right, and that makes us feel kind of sick. There’s a map in this 2014 article. Intro song: Parasite by Lamprey - Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) https://soundcloud.com/iamlamprey/parasite Political Speeches from American Rhetoric http://www.americanrhetoric.com/ Read more at http://andleslie.libsyn.com/#xy5wdgrUMxU0qx3m.99