While the Obama administration promoting responsible fatherhood sounds like a great idea, the media isn’t reporting everything as clearly as it should. Harry Knox, a controversial member of Obama’s faith-based council, said that part of the administration’s role in promoting responsible fatherhood should include moving beyond America’s “heteronormative view of fatherhood.” Knox was appointed last month to the 25-member President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Knox is also director of the faith and religion program at the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay-rights group.

Knox said, “It’ll be challenging to do that for instance in ways that are not dismissive of the tremendous gifts of single mothers; not to sort of hold a heteronormative view of fatherhood up as the only model.” Not the only model, but by far the best model. Single-mothers cannot be considered as an equivalent in any way to a traditional male-female parental structure. It is a fact that the vast majority of criminals come from single-parent (usually mother) households. Even after you control for income, race and other factors, family structure is an important predictor of delinquency and crime. Female-female and male-male likewise cannot be considered as an equal to a male-female household.

Knox continues: “So the challenge will be for all of us getting to know what fatherhood means for us, and how to talk about it in a way that is as inclusive as possible and empowering as possible.” Aside from the “inclusive” and “empowering” buzzwords, what exactly will they be proposing? And more importantly, what will be the consequences of those proposals?