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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyMay 24th, 2007
We reported earlier on an article appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle which drew a false link between the anti-gay positions of Focus on the Family and Nazi-revisionist Paul Cameron. The Chronicle followed up with a correction which provided a bit more information concerning Cameron’s status as a illegitimate researcher, but the link between him and Focus on the Family remained. Today, the Chronicle added an addendum to its correction:
Writings by Cameron, who split with Focus on the Family many years ago, are still relied on by many conservative Christians.
They say “close enough” applies only to horseshoes and hand grenades. Maybe we should add journalism. (Hat tip: Warren Throckmorton)
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Timothy Kincaid
May 24th, 2007
I think I’ll choose to believe it was my e-mail. :-)
Jim Burroway
May 24th, 2007
That’s the way I would interpret it! ;-)
Warren Throckmorton
May 24th, 2007
I think it was my email, but then maybe blogging is like hand grenades and journalism
Timothy Kincaid
May 25th, 2007
Throw enough hand grenades (or journalism) at anything and you’re going to have some effect
Phillips
May 26th, 2007
“*Pietrzyk claims that Cameron advocated the “extermination of male homosexuals.”
Response: The Forum interviewer remarked that many societies have considered homosexuality a capital crime. Noting that it would be cheaper to kill homosexuals in primitive societies than jail or quarantine them is hardly an endorsement. In fact, Cameron is quoted in the same article as saying that such an idea is “not politically, ethically or socially acceptable” today. Where former Surgeon General Koop got his information is mystifying. He never asked Dr. Cameron whether he advocated such a policy.”
And it was a resignation, not an expulsion, the APA president sent him a letter accepting his resignation letter (though they did ‘expell’ him after he made an utter fool of them in his editorial in the APA journal explaining his resignation).
A. McEwen
May 28th, 2007
if this is the case then why did he, in 2005 and in front of the Virginia Legislature, admit that he was dismissed from the American Psychological Association?
You can find this out by reading the following article – The Star Witness for bill’s sponsor faces harsh criticism from a Senate committee,
Dailey Press (Virginia) February 17, 2005
Nice try Mr. Cameron or whomever you are, but it’s not going to work.
Phillips
June 7th, 2007
He was ‘dismissed’, you can see the letter online. However, they had already accepted his resignation (also see letters online) a full year before that. He then, per request of the APA president at the time, submitted an editorial explaning his decision in the APA’s journal, and pretty much said they’d become more of a liberal PAC than a vehicle for honest reseach. It apparently sent them off…they even felt it necessary to send every single member a letter informing them of his expulsion.
a. mcewen
June 20th, 2007
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_cameron_sheet.html
the above link offers a correct explanation regarding Cameron’s claim that he resigned from the APA before beinig dismissed.
I suggest you read it, Phillips
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