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CDC: "GAYS MORE LIKELY THAN STRAIGHTS TO BE MENTALLY ILL?"
Dr. Paul Cameron, Chairman of the Family Research Institute in Colorado Springs is conducting talk shows to discuss a suppressed a new study that concludes homosexuals are more likely than heterosexuals to be mentally ill.
The study was conducted by The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Cameron believes the recent findings have been kept quiet due to their politically sensitive implications.
ABOUT DR. PAUL CAMERON-
Dr. Paul Cameron is a Researcher/Clinician and a reviewer for the prestigious Canadian Medical Association Journal and has been a Reviewer for: American Psychologist and British Medical Journal. His specialty is in sexual social policy and the social and personal effects of various habit-systems (e.g., drug abuse, smoking, homosexuality). He has advance expertise in philosophic, economic, and sexual factors as they bear upon personal & collective health and cultural viability.
Having received his Ph.D from The University of Colorado in Social Personality Psychology, Dr. Cameron is a leading expert on sexual and homosexual research, trends and behavior.
Since 1982 Dr. Cameron has been the chairman of Family Research Institute, Inc. of Colorado Springs. He has taught courses on human sexuality, counseling, marriage & the family, personality and gerontology.
The following is a brief article written by Dr. Paul Cameron that may be helpful with show preparation:
Weird Behavior Among Gays Due to Mental Illness? By Dr. Paul Cameron
Colorado Springs - Ever wonder how sane people could do what gays do in Gay Pride parades? The nudity, the sex acts, the weird costumes? A new Centers for Disease Control study provides one answer: more gays are mentally disturbed.
Dr. Paul Cameron -- Chairman of the Colorado-based Family Research Institute -- announced today the publication of a report that sheds new light on the mental health of homosexuals. This scholarly report - which appears in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Reports -- is an analysis of a 1996 study by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was, for a time, withheld from the general public, probably because of its explosive content. In fact, the CDC has thus far declined to publish most of the results of the sexual questions posed by the study. According to Cameron, this study is the largest comprehensive random sex survey in U.S. history.
The facts are straight forward. When tested for 4 different kinds of common mental illness, gays scored higher. Indeed, 17% of gays v. 11% of straights tested as disturbed on at least one of the tests administered by the CDC. As usual, women more frequently tested disturbed than men (8% of men; 13% of women). And also as usual, homosexuals more frequently tested as disturbed (16% of gays, 19% of lesbians).
"Disturbed people do crazy things," said Dr. Cameron, who headed the three man team that published the study. "This craziness isn't due to discrimination. Blacks have been discriminated against for hundreds of years, and if anything tested a tad less disturbed. Thus, 10% of Blacks v. 11% of whites tested as disturbed, and only 4% of blacks v. 5% of whites had seen a mental health professional in the past 12 months. 12% of gays had been to a shrink in the past year (10% of gays, 14% of lesbians). Indeed, virtually every major sexuality survey that has looked at the issue has reported the same thing - homosexuals are more frequently mentally 'off.' In the CDC study, gays were twice as apt to report at least 2 problems with cigarette use (41% v. 18% for straights) and pot use (12% v. 5%). Blacks were no different than whites in problems with cigarettes (18% v. 18%) and just slightly more apt to report problems with pot use (6% v 4%)."