Paul Cameron's World
· archived 5/22/2026, 2:11:08 AMcached html E-Mail This Paul Cameron’s World The SPLC said in 2005 that Cameron’s theories on homosexuality “echoes Nazi Germany.” They didn’t know the half of it. Cameron himself turned to a notorious concentration camp commandant to validate this theories. Jim Burroway May 14, 2007; revised May 22, 2007 The original version is available at Ex-Gay Watch You can learn more about how Paul Cameron’s history of deliberate misrepresentations got him in trouble with the psychological and sociological professions in “Paul Cameron vs. Professional Ethics.” In 2005, the Southern Poverty Law Center described Paul Cameron’s theories on homosexuality this way: “Cameron’s ‘science’ echoes Nazi Germany in that these disparaging descriptions of homosexuals are reminiscent of themes found in the ugly history of anti-Semitism…”. But as we shall see, Cameron does much more than just echo Nazi Germany in his theories on homosexuality. And the SPLC didn’s have to compare his theories to anti-Semitism to hear those echos. It turns out that Cameron himself is much more direct, employing a bit of holocaust revisionism to advance his cause. And the surprising thing is, this evidence has been right there all along on his web site, largely unnoticed for eight years. But before we examine his retelling of the gay experience in Nazi Germany, let's take a few moments to explore a little bit about what goes on in Cameron’s world. And let’s begin with a recent e-mail exchange between Paul Cameron and Dr. Warren Throckmorton, associate professor of Psychology at Grove City College in northwestern Pennsylvania. Cameron’s Latest Missive Dr. Throckmorton is not exactly a gay-rights advocate himself. He’s a conservative Christian who supports values-based therapy — therapy which can include sexual orientation therapy — for those who are trying to reconcile their sexuality with their religious beliefs. In 2004, he produced the video “I Do Exist” which portrays several people who claimed to have changed their sexual orientation. But Dr. Throckmorton doesn’t fit the mold of your typical anti-gay activist either. He proposed a set of ethical standards which would place the client’s values over those of the therapist, even if the religious views of the client are gay-affirming. He publicly broke with NARTH over their reluctance to distance themselves from a NARTH advisory board member who defended slavery. He’s also denounced other anti-gay leaders when they misrepresent legitimate social science research to advance their political causes, even though he is personally sympathetic to many of those causes. So when news of Paul and Kirk Cameron’s latest “gay Scandinavian lifespan” study began to hit the conservative circuit, Dr. Throckmorton reviewed their paper and wrote a devastating analysis. You can read our analysis of Paul and Kirk Cameron’s how Paul Cameron’s “Federal Distortion of Homosexual Footprint” in our special report, Paul Cameron’s Footprint. Now whenever a credible authority challenges his work, you can count on Paul Cameron to respond with his own inimical flair. Sure enough, his response arrived on May 2nd, and that response — like so many others he’s made before whenever anyone had the nerve to challenge him — provides a disturbing glimpse into what makes the man tick. Cameron began his reply by bragging, “I was the first scientist to document the health effects of second-hand tobacco smoke.” Apparently he’s quite proud of that achievement: I generated the first published facts that implicated exposure to second-hand smoke as a correlate of lowered health. I also was fairly active in the media — proposing social policies to diminish smoking on the basis of my research. Today you pretty-much live in my world — a world that I had a significant part in conceptualizing and bringing about. “Today you pretty-much live in my world…” An interesting phrase that begs the question: exactly what does Cameron’s world look like? “My World” We can begin to acclimate ourselves to Cameron’s world by returning to Cameron’s response to Dr. Throckmorton. And pay special attention to some of the particular phrases Cameron sprinkles throughout his rebuttal (all emphases are mine): Our methods and credentials are being impugned primarily because we have come to believe — on the basis of empirical research — that homosexual practice is injurious to society. Further, that we as a culture will pay a stiff penalty for elevating homosexual expression to the status of a powerful ‘right.’ So I ask the following question: Is it fair to give those who live parasitic lives ‘Super Rights?’ After all, it is the duty of every member of society to contribute to the commonweal. Yet the empirical evidence indicates that those who engage in homosexuality 1) contribute less and cost more in goods and services, 2) disproportionately disrupt social functioning, and 3) have few children while being more apt to harm them. Thus, homosexuals not only fail to ‘pay for their keep,’ but by ...