Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters has a great piece on the never ending efforts of the Christianists to recycle the discredited "research" - actually fabricated anti-gay propaganda - of Paul Cameron. This time the effort is being made by the equally anti-gay obsessed nutcase Scott Lively who I have written about before. Time and time again one will see Pat Robertson, Focus on the Family, Family Research Council and other virulently anti-gay organizations cite statistic that depict gays as diseased, child predators and other equally heinous things. Lively is a menace and his efforts to rehabilitate Cameron are despicable, yet all too typical of Lively and his rabid anti-gay allies. Alvin McEwen does a great job exposing the truth in his post. Here are some highlights:*
Author of a discredited book that tries to link the Nazi Party with the lgbt community (The Pink Swastika) Scott Lively has really reached the lines of lunacy.In a One News Now article, Free handbook on preserving traditional family values, Lively talks about a "textboook" he has authored, Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the Gay Agenda: According to Lively, the book is a useful tool for families with children in the junior high to high school range. He adds that the book takes a close look at how the homosexual movement pushes its agenda.
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This book is created by someone who knows that he is telling refuted lies and distortions. A perfect example of this is not only Lively's usage of the discredited work of Paul Cameron but his sad attempts to rationalize the usage.
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First of all, Lively is lying. Much of Cameron's work has been published in pay-for-pay publications.And while it's easy for Lively to dismiss repudiations of Cameron to the "nefarious work" of "gay activists and their allies," he conveniently does not mention a few facts: . . . And let's not forget the condemnations rained down on him by the medical community:
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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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Dr. Paul Cameron has consistently misinterpreted and misrepresented sociological research on sexuality, homosexuality, and lesbianism" - American Sociological Association, 1985.
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The groups run by Cameron and Lively (The Family Research Institute and Abiding Truth Ministries), by the way, are considered anti-gay hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. They have this classification not because they believe that homosexuality is a sin.
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It is important to know the truth about Lively and Cameron because their nefarious and dishonest anti-gay propaganda is repeated time and time again by Christianist organization who KNOW they are lying and simply do not care. Were they truly Christians, they obviously would honor the Commandment against bearing false witness and lying. Their total disregard for the truth exposes them for what they really are: lying snake oil merchants who peddle lies and hatred.
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