20 Facts About Paul Cameron

Paul Drummond Cameron was born on November 9,1939 and is an American psychologist.

Position statements issued by the American Sociological Association, Canadian Psychological Association, and the Nebraska Psychological Association accuse Paul Cameron of misrepresenting social science research.

Paul Cameron has been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-gay extremist.

Paul Cameron was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, on November 9,1939.

Paul Cameron received a BA from Los Angeles Pacific College in 1961, an MA from Los Angeles State College the following year and a PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1966.

In 1980, Paul Cameron left the University of Nebraska and took up private practice as a psychologist in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Paul Cameron has stated that his approach, emphasizing the harms he believed to be caused by homosexual behavior and its acceptance, was influenced by his work on the "lethal" behavior of smokers.

Police were unable to confirm the incident, and Paul Cameron acknowledged that he had heard the story only as a rumor.

Funding, according to Paul Cameron, was provided by businessmen including several Nebraska chief executives.

Under the banner of ISIS, Paul Cameron produced a number of "lurid pamphlets about the supposed social ills associated with homosexuality", containing numerous false or unverifiable claims.

Paul Cameron's publications have been cited as support by some groups who oppose same-sex marriage and allowing homosexuals to become foster or adoptive parents, including the Traditional Values Coalition.

Paul Cameron's testimony went unused, and the law was struck down by the Supreme Court.

Paul Cameron campaigned against a gay-rights initiative in Maine in 2000, testified in favor of the failed Virginia Anti-Gay Adoption Bill in 2005, and opposed a 2007 Colorado bill intended to allow cohabiting couples to adopt.

Paul Cameron was tricked into appearing in Sacha Baron Cohen's 2009 mockumentary film Bruno.

The American Psychological Association launched an investigation into Paul Cameron after receiving complaints about his work from members.

FRI has contended that Paul Cameron had already resigned from the organization in November 1982, citing correspondence from before his formal expulsion.

In March 2015, Paul Cameron sued the Polish gay rights organisation 'Pracownia Roznorodnosci' for calling him a 'homophobic liar'.

Similarly, critics have argued that obituaries in gay-themed newspapers, which Paul Cameron used to estimate homosexual mortality, do not provide a representative sample of deaths and ignore surviving members of the same generation.

Paul Cameron has misinterpreted some scientific literature which he says supports the idea that homosexuals are more likely to molest children.

However what Paul Cameron misses is that the keywords provided by authors in the same paper include homosexual pedophilia and pedophilia.