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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1995)
ju st o u t ▼ n o M m b tr 1 7 , 1 9 0 5 ▼ 1 9 INDEPENDENTLY SPEAKING P EA C E O F M IN D W ITH Miát'Mimblinci Epitome of evil Paul Cameron continues to influence minds despite having been publicly discredited MARK HUCKINS Founder FREE M EA SU R IN G FREE IN S T A LLA T IO N On purchase over $500 Not valid with any other offer Expires 11 /30/95 Mt^Miniblind Y \ • Pleated Shades i • Silhouettes •D uettes • Vignettes • Verticals • Wood Blinds by Marvin Liebman too late, however. The ballot was defeated, and od has given you a long life. I hope discrimination against homosexuals is still legal in he gives you another year so that Lincoln. you can atone.” These were the last In 1985, U.S. District Court Judge Jerry words I heard from Paul Cameron, Buschmeyer, in his opinion striking down a Texas professional homophobe, as he left sodomy law, berated Cameron as an expert witness me at National Airport in Washington, D.C., after by saying that his testimony was filled with “fraud” returning from a Chicago television show on which and “misrepresentations.” Under oath Cameron we both appeared. testified, among other things, that “homosexuals Cameron earns his living exclusively as an are approximately 48 times more apt to commit “expert” on homosexuality. He has his own tax- crimes than is the general population” and that exempt Family Research Institute which is con “homosexuals abuse children on a proportionately cerned, in large part, with homosexuals. He is greater incidence than do heterosexuals.” regularly hired to provide “expert” opinion on Cameron served as AIDS advisor to the infa homosexuality by various government and private mous U.S. Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-Calif.), agencies, college forums, community groups, and and came up with the phrase, “AIDS is God’s by trial lawyers representing individuals seeking plague on homosexuals.” In a July 1986 appear custody of their children from lesbian or gay ance in Louisville, Ky., Cameron suggested that spouses. He is invited to appear on radio and TV people with AIDS be branded with the letter A on shows to express his “point of view.” their foreheads, be placed under house arrest, and Paul Cameron is important because he repre be imprisoned if they attempted to leave home. In sents the core attitude of millions and millions of various pamphlets and news God-fearing people in the letters, distributed through United States towards their As we waited by the desk of out the country by Cameron’s homosexual compatriots— the hotel the TV company Family Research Institute, he an attitude that is based on cites “statistics” to prove that fear, bigotry, ignorance and had arranged, Cameron the majority of women who the out-and-out lies, spread commented, “I certainly claim they were raped are by Cameron, which they ac lying in order to get attention cept as the gospel truth. He hope they didn ’t put us and that “ 17 percent, or pos is listened to by these mil both in one room. That sibly as many as 33 percent, lions in spite of his record would be rather awkward, of gays enjoy ingesting feces of professional corruption as part of their everyday sex and incompetence— in spite don't you think?” I assured practices—and, in an aver of the fact that he is a certi him that I would pay any age year, ingest fecal mate fied public liar. rial from 19 different men.” Let’s look at just a small thing, anything, to ensure I first spoke to Cameron part of the record. that I didn’t have to sleep when we both arrived in Chi C am eron was d e next to him. cago. He seemed pleasant nounced and expelled by enough as we made small the American Psychologi talk in the limousine provided by our hosts. As we cal Association in 1983 for blatant violation of the waited by the desk of the hotel the TV company had spirit and the letter of the organization’s “Ethical arranged, Cameron commented, “I certainly hope Principles of Psychologists,” i.e., responsibility, they didn’t put us both in one room. That would be competence and legal standards. He claimed that rather awkward, don’t you think?” I assured him his expulsion from the association was the work of that I would pay anything, anything, to ensure that a homosexual cabal. This further endeared him to I didn’t have to sleep next to him. But, as our his supporters. desultory and ever more awkward conversations Two years later, Cameron was expelled from continued—mostly emanating from Cameron— in the American Sociological Association, which the limo going to the TV station, in the green room stated, “Dr. Paul Cameron has consistently misin waiting for the show to start, going to the airport the terpreted and misrepresented sociological research next day, I realized that Cameron was the epitome on sexuality, homosexuality and lesbianism...and of evil. has repeatedly campaigned for the abrogation of Cameron is a living monument to the connec the civil rights of lesbians and gay men, substanti tion, networking, and inclusiveness of bigotry. He ating his call on the basis of his distorted interpre is not alone. His phony statistics, his surveys, all tation of this research.” the stuff of his “new science,” are believed by too In 1985 and 1986, Cameron published two of many in this country. It is a cliché, perhaps, to his own studies: “Child Molestation and Homo compare Cameron’s so-called scientific work to sexuality,” and “Homosexual Molestation of Chil- the Nazi “science” of racial purity, but how can one dren/Sexual Interaction of Teacher and Pupil.” His not see the parallels? findings were totally debunked by an authority on Cameron is an expert— at spreading hatred, whom Cameron relied heavily to prove his theories fear and loathing of homosexuals. He, and those and findings— Dr. A. Nicholas Groth. Groth pub that take this charlatan seriously, are our enemies. licly repudiated Cameron’s methods and results They are also the enemies of the United States and and underscored his own findings that hetero the “American family” they hold so dear. sexual men account for over 90 percent of child A final case in point: During the TV show’s molestation. audience participation period, Cameron was asked On May 8,1982, in the Lutheran Chapel of the a question. “What would you do if your son came University of Nebraska—as the voters of Lincoln, to you and said, ‘Dad, I’m gay.’ ” Without hesita Neb., were debating a ballot question dealing with tion, Cameron answered, “I’d ask him to leave.” discrimination against homosexuals—the Lincoln “Your own son?” “Certainly. If he decided to Star quoted Paul Cameron as saying, “Right now, become homosexual, he would no longer be my here in Lincoln, there is a 4-year-old boy who has son.” had his genitals almost severed from his body in a Paul Cameron is a man beyond the boundaries public restroom in a homosexual attack.” Cameron ’ s of decency, compassion, and certainly any family charges were investigated by the police and two values. Personally, I don’t believe that—even in a local newspapers and were found to be absolutely hundred years—Cameron would ever, or could groundless. Cameron confessed as much, and pub- ever, atone for what he has done and continues to licly disavowed his charge by saying, “It appears \ triy informant made a mistake.” His retraction was . t t f c W ****** G » 9 •«*> s. 9 * $50 OFF ».9 »fe*.** 4 %[ F i l l MEASURING • FREE INSTALLATION Portland • Beaverton Washington Co. Lake Oswego • West Gresham • Hoppy Vancouver • Clark Cty. 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