Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 01:20:10 -0600
From: summers@rt66.com (Bob Summersgill)
Subject: Re: Articles 4.7.97.3

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>CORRECTION
>  A March 10 letter to the editor claimed that Paul Cameron, a Colorado-based
>researcher on issues involving homosexuality, had been expelled from the
>American Psychiatric Association and the American Sociological Association.
>The writer has since acknowledged he was in error. Records indicate Cameron
>was dropped from membership in the American Psychological Association in
>1984. Cameron says he resigned from the association in 1982. Cameron was
>never a member of the American Sociological Association.


Your correction provides a distorted view of Cameron, while being almost
technically accurate. The original author was on track about Cameron.

In a 1984 letter to APA members, the American Pychological Association
wrote that:

"On December 2, 1983 the Board of Directors took the following action:

        "Paul Cameron (Nebraska) was dropped from membership for a
violation of the Preamble to the _Ethical_Principles_of_Psychologists._"

While the investigation and decision were being made, Cameron attempted to
resign from the APA. Resigning while under investigation is not allowed by
APA rules.

Cameron then tried to pass himself off as a Sociologist.

A resolution adopted by the American Sociological Association in August,
1985 states:

        WHEREAS Dr. Paul Cameron, a psychologist, was dropped from membership
        in The American Psychological Association for violation of the Preamble
        to the Ethical Principles of Psychologists;

        WHEREAS Dr. Paul Cameron has consistently misinterpreted and
        misrepresented sociological research on sexuality, homosexuality, and
        lesbianism;

        WHEREAS Dr. Paul Cameron has repeatedly campaigned for the abrogation
        of the civil rights of lesbians and gay men, substantiating his call on
        the basis of his distorted interpretation of this research;

        WHEREAS the American Sociological Association is on record as opposing
        oppresive actions against lesbians and gay men and affirming its
        commitment to their civil rights;

        THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: THAT the Association reaffirms its opposition
        to efforts to undermine the civil rights of lesbians and gay men through
        the distortion of sociological concepts and the falsifying of
        sociological research; and

        THAT the Association articulates this opposition by charging the
        Committee on the Status of Homosexuals in Sociology with the task of
        critically evaluating and publicly responding to the work of Dr. Paul
        Cameron.


Further, The Nebraska Psychological Association passed two resolutions
critical of Cameron, one in 1982 and one in October 1984. The latter one
said that the organization "formally disassociates itself from the
representions and interpretations of scientific literature offered by Dr.
Paul Cameron in his writings and public statements on sexuality."

The Midwest Sociological Society passed a resolution in April of 1990
censuring Cameron.

A. Nicholas Groth, Ph.D., who Cameron quotes as proof for his claims,
publicly stated "[Cameron] misrepresents my findings and distorts them to
advance his homophobic views."

Federal Court District Judge Jerry Buckmeyer's statements regarding Baker
v. Wade [106 FRD 526 (1985)]--called Cameron "disreputable" and wrote:
"...Dr. Paul Cameron--the basis of the claim that Drs. Simon and Marmor
committed fraud in their testimony--has himself made misrepresentations to
this Court. ... There has been no fraud or misrepresentations except by Dr.
Cameron, the supposed 'expert' for District Attorney Hill."
Buckmeyer provides several examples of Cameron's fraudulent testimony and
other fraud perpetrated by Cameron.

Cameron fabricated a story of a child being mutilated by a homosexual man
inorder to defeat a proposed human rights ordinance in Lincoln Nebraska.
Lincoln police found absolutely no evidence of such an attack. [The Lincoln
Star, May 8, 1982]

Cameron himself is an advocate of concentration camps for homosexual men,
castration and extermination as a final solution. He advocates these ideas
and more in an interview by Dawn Stover in Forum Magazine, November, 1985:

"It probably would be a lot cheaper to just exterminate male homosexuals,"
Cameron told me. "Moses said, 'If you ever catch one, kill him.'" Cameron
said Moses was "far from foolish" and that extermination is "one viable way
to deal with homosexuality."

I would be happy to provide the source material for these points, as well
as many others, too numerous to recount here.

Bob Summersgill, publisher of the New Mexico Rainbow,
The newspaper for the Lesbian and Gay communities of New Mexico.
summers@rt66.com      http://rt66.com/summers/bob.html

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