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The problem with this whole line of reasoning is that people really don't change their beliefs even if their reasons for their beliefs are shown to be contradictory with other values or internally logically incoherent. So even if you prove to someone that gay parents are not bad for kids with a huge longitudinal study with random assignment and causal control, a lot of people will simply say it still is inherently immoral for kids to be raised by gays. You can't say they're wrong.
People aren't optimizing for some coherent set of values, we just have a set of purely non-rational feelings about moral issues.
I think your point here is correct. However, the people who believe it's inherently morally wrong for gays to raise kids put a lot of money into convincing other people that it's wrong, and some of the convincees may then share the belief, but not the moral. Rellevant studies can then change the belief back.