Links

American Psychological Association: Resolution on Sexual Orientation and Marriage Research Summary (PDF) "...That the APA believes that it is unfair and discriminatory to deny same-sex couples legal access to civil marriage and to all its attendant benefits, rights and privileges,..."

American Anthropological Association: Statement on Marriage and Family "The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships, and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. Rather, anthropological research supports the conclusion that a vast array of family types, including families built upon same-sex partnerships, can contribute to stable and humane societies. The Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association strongly opposes a constitutional amendment limiting marriage to heterosexual couples."

American Psychiatric Association: Adoption and Co-parenting of Children by Same Sex Couples (PDF) "Numerous studies over the past three decades consistently demonstrate that children raised by gay or lesbian parents exhibit the same level of emotional, cognitive, social and sexual functioning as children raised by heterosexual parents.... The American Psychiatric Association supports initiatives which will allow same-sex couples to adopt and co-parent children and support all the associated legal rights, benefits and responsibilities which arise from such initiatives."

American Psychiatric Association: Therapies Focused on Attempts to Change Sexual Orientation (Reparative or Conversion Therapies) (PDF)

U.S. Surgeon General's Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior (July 2001) "Sexual orientation is usually determined by adolescence, if not earlier, and there is no valid scientific evidence that sexual orientation can be changed."