Michael Knowles argued during a recent episode of his show that gay couples aren’t fit to raise children because they lack attributes or qualities possessed by those of the opposite gender that are essential to child-rearing.
The right-wing windbag was defending University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, who made racially insensitive, sexist, and homophobic comments in class. Wax also invited a white supremacist to address one of her classes.
The University punished Wax, who has a history of controversial statements, with a suspension and docked her pay by half. It also stripped her of her endowed chair as the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law, and is blocking her from receiving summer pay in perpetuity.
Conservative activists have championed Wax as the patron saint of academic freedom on college campuses, arguing that her comments are protected speech and that punishing her will have consequences for others who express unpopular opinions. Wax has threatened to sue the university.
Knowles seized on one of Wax’s more outlandish statements, in which she claimed that “gay couples are not fit to raise children,” and tried to ideologically defend her reasoning.
“Amy Wax commented in class that gay couples are not fit to raise children,” Knowles said during a recent episode of The Michael Knowles Show. “That’s just obviously true. Does anyone seriously disagree with that? I guess some people do seriously disagree with that. People who think that men and women are exactly the same might try to disagree with that.”
Knowles argued that since same-sex couples cannot physically produce children together, “they are literally not fit to beget, and therefore to raise children.”
The conservative Catholic then added, “Even if they adopt a child or even if they go to the baby store and purchase the eggs from one woman and rent the womb of another woman and create a child as though the child were a handbag to be purchased at Ferragamo or something — even if they do that — they’re not fit to raise a child.”
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is nothing new for Knowles. He believes same-sex relationships are inherently illegitimate and that gay and lesbian couples who live together are just “pretending” to be married.
A proposed amendment to enshrine the right to marry, regardless of the spouses' gender, in the Delaware Constitution failed to secure the two-thirds majority needed to pass the House of Representatives.
The proposed amendment, sponsored by State Sen. Russ Huxtable (D-Lewes), passed the State Senate on a 16-5 vote on June 10. It marked the first step in the lengthy process of amending the constitution to declare that marriage is "a fundamental right that may not be denied or abridged on the basis of gender," as well as race, color, national origin, or sex.
A gay couple that is owed more than $560,000 in damages and legal costs after being denied a marriage license by former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis has filed a new lawsuit alleging that she transferred inherited property to family members to avoid paying the judgment.
David Ermold and David Moore were turned away by Davis's office when they attempted to obtain a marriage license in 2015. In 2023, a federal jury found that Davis had violated their constitutional rights and awarded them $100,000 in damages.
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Michael Knowles argued during a recent episode of his show that gay couples aren’t fit to raise children because they lack attributes or qualities possessed by those of the opposite gender that are essential to child-rearing.
The right-wing windbag was defending University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, who made racially insensitive, sexist, and homophobic comments in class. Wax also invited a white supremacist to address one of her classes.
The University punished Wax, who has a history of controversial statements, with a suspension and docked her pay by half. It also stripped her of her endowed chair as the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law, and is blocking her from receiving summer pay in perpetuity.
Conservative activists have championed Wax as the patron saint of academic freedom on college campuses, arguing that her comments are protected speech and that punishing her will have consequences for others who express unpopular opinions. Wax has threatened to sue the university.
Knowles seized on one of Wax’s more outlandish statements, in which she claimed that “gay couples are not fit to raise children,” and tried to ideologically defend her reasoning.
“Amy Wax commented in class that gay couples are not fit to raise children,” Knowles said during a recent episode of The Michael Knowles Show. “That’s just obviously true. Does anyone seriously disagree with that? I guess some people do seriously disagree with that. People who think that men and women are exactly the same might try to disagree with that.”
Knowles argued that since same-sex couples cannot physically produce children together, “they are literally not fit to beget, and therefore to raise children.”
The conservative Catholic then added, “Even if they adopt a child or even if they go to the baby store and purchase the eggs from one woman and rent the womb of another woman and create a child as though the child were a handbag to be purchased at Ferragamo or something — even if they do that — they’re not fit to raise a child.”
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is nothing new for Knowles. He believes same-sex relationships are inherently illegitimate and that gay and lesbian couples who live together are just “pretending” to be married.
He has called for drag queens and Pride parade attendees to be arrested and prosecuted for indecent behavior, and has asserted that transgender identity “must be eradicated from public life” for the betterment of society.
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