The Same Old Recycled Deliberate Lies

There is an excellent post at Pam's House Blend that while focused on the Illinois Family Institute - which has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center which tracks such groups - that does an excellent job of laying out the false information recycled time and time again by Christianist and professional Christian groups to malign LGBT Americans and more or less depict us as diseased vermin. Much of the "expert" opinion cited tracks back to totally discredited "studies" and articles by Paul Cameron whose own organization has likewise been labeled a hate group. Since Cameron was thrown out of basically every legitimate mental health and medical related professional association more than 20 years ago, the fact that his materials are blatantly false is something that is readily available to anyone how makes even the slightest effort to check out its veracity. The fact that the Illinois Family Institute and other "pro family" organizations continue to disseminate information based on Cameron - a common practice is to merely have someone else make the same claims to remove Cameron's name directly from the mix - is proof positive that these "Christian" organizations care NOTHING for the truth and know that they are lying. Having followed many of them for going on a decade, they are among the most dishonest organizations one can encounter. Yet sadly, the lazy and irresponsible main stream media never call them out on the lies. It is most infuriating. Here are a few highlights:

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The article in question was a rehashing of Cameron’s discredited gay life span study. It also makes the claim that the Centers for Disease Control’s own work proves Cameron’s study to be accurate. This is a lie (which would make the piece defamatory, wouldn’t it?) A member of the CDC went on record saying that the article’s claim was totally inaccurate:

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“[The CDC] does not collect statistics on the life span of gay men. While gay men continue to be severely impacted by HIV and AIDS, AIDS-related death data cannot be used to indicate that homosexual men live shorter lives than heterosexual men overall.” - Ronald Valdiserri, deputy director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention.

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And mostly by the condemnation rained down on him [Cameron] by the medical profession:

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“(Cameron) misrepresents my findings and distorts them to advance his homophobic views. I make a very clear distinction in my writing between pedophilia and homosexuality, noting that adult males who sexually victimize young boys are either pedophilic or heterosexual, and that in my research I have not found homosexual men turning away from adult partners to children . . . I consider this totally unprofessional behavior on the part of Dr. Cameron and I want to bring this to your attention. He disgraces his profession.” - Dr. A. Nicholas Groth in 1984 after discovering that Cameron distorted his work.

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"Paul Cameron (Nebraska) was dropped from membership for a violation of the Preamble to the Ethical Principles of Psychologists - American Psychological Association, 1983

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The science and profession of psychology in Nebraska as represented by the Nebraska Psychological Association, formally dissociates itself from the representations and interpretations of scientific literature offered by Dr. Paul Cameron in his writings and public statements on sexuality. Further, the Nebraska Psychological Association would like it known that Dr. Cameron is not a member of the Association. Dr. Cameron was recently dropped from membership in the American Psychological Association for a violation of the Preamble to the Ethical Principles of Psychologists - Nebraska Psychological Association, 1984

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Dr. Paul Cameron has consistently misinterpreted and misrepresented sociological research on sexuality, homosexuality, and lesbianism" - American Sociological Association, 1985

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The Canadian Psychological Association takes the position that Dr. Paul Cameron has consistently misinterpreted and misrepresented research on sexuality, homosexuality, and lesbianism and thus, it formally disassociates itself from the representation and interpretations of scientific literature in his writings and public statements on sexuality. - Canadian Psychological Association, 1996
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Any organization that claims it has no active malice towards gays yet cites discredited Cameron based data is lying and desires the label of being a hate group. Plain and simple. Any politician who readily accepts anything these organizations tell them are lazy and equally disingenuous.