November 10, 2007

Anti-gay researcher speaks to racist BNP

Last month the Christian Council of Britain (CCB), a religion-based front group for the whites-only British National Party, began hosting a series of “public debates on morality and family values.”

The keynote speaker at the inaugural CCB conference in London was none other than Dr. Paul Cameron, the infamous anti-gay crackpot psychologist based in Colorado Springs, Colo. Under the guise of the Family Research Institute, his one-man statistical chop shop, Cameron churns out reams of pseudo-scientific “studies” invariably concluding that homosexuals are menaces to society. Cameron’s Oct. 26 lecture in London focused on his oft repeated, though thoroughly discredited “findings” that homosexuals are more likely to rape and murder children than are heterosexuals.

“For some reason homosexuals’ involvement in this horrid crime is especially high in Britain,” Cameron said.

Cameron used his appearance at the Christian Council of Britain event to promote a new Family Research Institute study based on “668 stories about the rape and murder of children in the major newspapers in the USA, Australia, Great Britain, Canada, etc.” The study concludes that 49% of British perpetrators were homosexual, versus an average of 28% in other Western countries.

This new study is similar in its deeply flawed methodology to Cameron’s infamous 1983 study claiming that homosexuals are “10-20 times more likely than heterosexuals to molest children,” a figure that is still frequently appears in anti-gay propaganda

A thorough debunking of Cameron’s various studies is available here.

Cameron based that finding on a 1978 study by Nicholas Groth, the highly respected director of the Sex Offender Program at the Connecticut Department of Corrections. Groth had interviewed 175 convicted child molesters and found that more of them had molested boys than girls. Cameron’s statistic is derived from the false assumption that men who molest boys are gay, despite the fact that Groth’s original study found that none of the men identified himself as homosexual. Instead, the pedophiles were either heterosexual outside of their criminal behavior or were what Groth termed “fixated pedophiles with no interest in sex with adults.”

Groth was outraged and filed a formal complaint with the American Psychological Association that led to Cameron losing his professional accreditation. “Dr. Cameron misrepresents my findings and distorts them to advance his homophobic views,” Groth wrote the APA. “He disgraces his profession.”

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9 comments:

Jeffrey Marshall said...

Dr Cameron - to all appearances a fairly close friend of Dorothy - is a notorious homophobe. Why is this not surprising?

Anonymous said...

Trust the BNP to take us back forty years for gay rights. God, what a bloody party.

Anonymous said...

The BNP trying to get the anti-gay vote? Why, when half of them are gay or bi?

Anonymous said...

It's another case of Griffin and co saying "Do as I say and not as I do"

Anonymous said...

KO and DG's PR people Walk Towards the Light (Barnes) and Brighton Rock (anonymous shithead) have got this on Stormfront.

Now come on you've gotta be paying them for the free publicity.

Maybe they should start a group called Stormfront Friends of LUAF?

Anonymous said...

can someone tell me if black country bnp have lost the plot ? simon smith gives up his seat and moves back to the planet zarg,james lloyd looses his pub and his seat for non attendance and gobby lisa runs off with a foreign lesbian ?

Unknown said...

@ WAM

Stormfront Friends of LUAF is the fasted growing group on the far-Right today. As of this morning. SFoLUAF had more members than Solidarity and ABEX combined.

SFoLUAF's constitution is a brief affair:

1) Member of SFoLUAF shall visit the LUAF blog as often as possible;

2) Members of SFoLUAF shall attack all other persons on Stormfront who visit the LUAF blog as "reds", "traitors" and "trolls";

3) Members of SFoLUAF shall ensure that a minimum number of Stormfront threads include a mention of LUAF;

4) Members of SFoLUAF shall attack all other persons on Stormfront who begin threads which mention the LUAF blog as "reds", "traitors" and "trolls";

5) Members of SFoLUAF shall ensure that a minimum number of Stormfront posts include a mention of those who contribute to the LUAF blog;

6) Members of SFoLUAF shall attack all other persons on Stormfront who make posts which mention those who contribute to the LUAF blog as "reds", "traitors" and "trolls";

7) Those who call members of SFoLUAF "hypocrites" for their principled stance in seeking always to publicise the LUAF blog on Stormfront are Reds, Traitors and Trolls and the Biggest Hypocrites who ever lived.

8) Who are these men in white coats?

Anonymous said...

while stormfront appears to have the crazies, i note that on the bnp 'chucklevision' posted yesterday there is a 10min video from dicky the diva.

He starts of his speech to the trolls by telling them what he used to earn as an 'artist' and that he is now 'surviving' on £20,000 per annum can i assure the residents of B & D that hell would freeze over before he got that much from the public purse. But i do hope the residents start asking when he is going to start earning the money he does get, by doing the job he is being paid for which is representing the ward, residents complain that they cannot get in touch with him, he is not turning up to council meetings, but he can pop over to Bedfordshire to give a 10min drunken speech over there.

Still what more can you expect.

Anonymous said...

The Scumfront fuckwits are too thick to notice that the article comes from another site. It's not the first time. Dumb dumb dumb.