Tucson’s “Cool Church” Promotes Paul Cameron

Jim Burroway

July 2nd, 2007

The Arizona Daily Star, my adopted hometown newspaper, has a front-page article this morning on Tucson’s “Cool Church,” a franchise of four churches spread around the city which tries to be hip and relevant to young people. But pastor David McAllister seems to think that aligning himself with a holocaust revisionist is part of what makes his church “cool.”

The church’s web site sports an article called “Facts on Homosexual Sex,” in which they repeat Paul Cameron’s lifespan statistics:

A study of 6,714 obituaries in gay newspapers across the U.S. revealed that 3% of 6,574 gays and 20% of 140 lesbians had died violently:

  • 1.4% of gays and 7% of lesbians were murdered (rates over a hundred times those of non-gays);
  • 0.6% of gays and 5.7% of lesbians committed suicide (rates dozens of times those of non-gays); and
  • 0.6% of gays and 4.3% of lesbians died in motor vehicle accidents (over 17 times the rate of non-gays)

These events, coupled with various STDs (especially AIDS) gotten from other gays, resulted in a median age of death of 40 among gays and a median age of death of 45 among lesbians. In the same study, comparison samples of married men had a median age of death of 75 and married women a median age of death of 79. Dr. Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute.

I have already dealt extensively with Cameron’s Obituary Study. Remember, this is a man who was not only kicked out of the American Psychological Association and censured by three other professional associations, he thinks that the Nazis’ concentration camps were effective in changing gays to straights. He once told an audience that exterminating gay men in America might be “a plausible idea.” While he has backed away from that, he has nevertheless proposed draconian measures against gays and lesbians in his own manifesto published on the Family Research Institute web site.

So, um, yeah. How cool is that?

Emily K

July 2nd, 2007

When abominations like this are discovered, does anyone notify the church of their error? Or is there really no point?

homer

July 2nd, 2007

The cool kids I went to school with were often nasty bullies too.

Emily K

July 2nd, 2007

How about they exhibit some REAL honesty and mention the fact that Lesbian sex has the least amount of risk (disease, etc.) associated with it? Or that homosexual sex is the least likely sex act to result in having an abortion?

Liadan

July 2nd, 2007

I get the impression that they sort of inherit their “facts” from someone or somewhere else without ever questioning where they come from, or whether they’re accurate or not. After all, they confirm what they already believe to be true– why would they bother to check them?

Less malice, more sloth.

Denise

July 2nd, 2007

Homer, the cool kids were like that when I was in school, too, and I don’t imagine it’s changed much. They knew I was “different” somehow, and it didn’t matter how.

Scott

July 2nd, 2007

The “cool kids” can often be found at local gay bars about 5 years after they beat you up.

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