In a column for the conservative Townhall.com, anti-gay pastor Biship Harry Jackson, Jr., laments over the psychological and biological harms of children living outside of families headed up by one dad and one mom.

Among his facts:

Consider these statistics. Over half of Americans studied in a survey in 2001 by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government believe that the high number of single-parent families is a major cause of poverty. Studies also reveal that most Americans believe that welfare programs encourage single-parent families and teenage pregnancy.

Malcolm D. Williams in 1997, used a sample of 1,610 10-13 year-olds in a study. He found that children who learn to share significant ideas with their fathers had fewer behavior problems and developed stronger cognitive abilities than their peers.

Similar results were found in a 1995 study of 254 black adolescents living with both of their biological parents. Ninety-six percent of these boys said their fathers were their role models. In this study, only 44 percent of black adolescents who were not living with their fathers said their fathers were their role models.

The Journal of Family Psychology in 2000 reported a study of 116 African American students ages 10-13. The boys with married parents were found to have much higher levels of self esteem and a better sense of personal power and self-control compared to single-mother homes.

Repeatedly, scholarly studies focused on adolescence show that early onset of puberty in girls is a major problem. It is associated with negative psychological, social, and health problems. Depression, alcohol consumption, and higher teenage pregnancy rates are some of the results. An eight year study of girls and their families showed that a father’s presence in the home, with appropriate involvement in his children’s lives, contributed to later pubertal timing of the daughters in the seventh grade.

These studies and scores of others suggest what most Americans have always known: that both boys and girls, are deeply affected in both biological and psychological ways by the presence of their fathers. We have emphasized the father half of the biblical duo called “parents,” assuming the mother is intact within the family setting.

Sounds like some damn perfect arguments for divorce and requiring forced marriages, wouldn’t you say?

If he is so adamantly opposed to same-sex marriage because having two-parent, mom-dad homes are just so absolutely important and crucial, then I’m sure Jackson wouldn’t mind me signing him up to support two bills that would immediately fix his “nuclear family degradation” problem — two bills that would impact more children’s lives than all of the anti-gay marriage amendments put together:

1. The Sanctity of Marriage Act (SOMA) (a.k.a., the divorce ban). SOMA would ban divorce nationwide, thereby keeping healthy heterosexual, mom-dad parenting intact for all of our nation’s children
2. For the Future of our Children Act (FFCA). The FFCA would instantly change the plight of motherless and fatherless children across the country, by forcing young parents with unplanned pregnancies to immediately wed as soon as the female in the couple tested positive for a pregnancy. This bill would be historic, forever ridding our country of single parents everywhere!

Together with all of the “pro-family” advocates in the nation, Bishop Jackson could unveil the “Restoring America’s Marriages Relief and Aid Package,” including SOMA, FFCA and tax credits and stimulus checks for all parents who immediately disown their homo-sex-sinning children who fail to successfully complete the U.S. National Love Conquers Sexual Sin Trainings (disowned children will be deported to San Francisco, which will be involuntarily seceded from the Union and will become known as Degenerateland).

Yup, all that should do the trick. America would be on to a healthy, free and just existence for all!

Lemme hear a brother say, “Amen! Praise Jesus! Damn the queers!”