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Doug Henwood wrote:
> [from a right-wing PR house]
>
> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:46:12 UT
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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%)."
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