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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 t