Paul Cameron and Family Research Institute officially drop any 'research' pretense

First, by saying being gay is just as bad as murder...

Paul Cameron’s Family Research Institute is upset that Marvin Olasky of the Religious Right-aligned WORLD magazine dared to criticize Uganda’s draconian anti-gay bill, which recently passed parliament but has been blocked by the president, at least for now.

In a response on its website, Cameron’s group took issue with Olasky’s claim that the bill is “harsh and unlikely to be effective,” saying that harsh measures are needed to curb homosexuality…just like murder:

Laws against murder are harsh and unlikely to be effective (in completely stopping murder). But such laws educate as to what is ‘correct’ and serve as a disincentive to commit murder. Just because we cannot specify how many lives were saved by a particular law hardly means the law was ineffective. Surely the fact that people still commit murder, rape, or theft would not cause Dr. Olasky to label them as “ineffective” and not worth having.

And then top it, in the same page no less, by saying being gay is WORSE than murder...

Homosexuality violates God’s first commandment to ‘be fruitful,’ and is at the very heart of Biblical denunciation of rebellion against God (see Deut 32 and Romans 1). Homosexual lust led to the painful incineration of 26 brave Ugandan Christian boys and young men. It cannot be ignored without substantial intellectual and moral peril. Arguably Christianity’s greatest preacher, John Chrysostom, called it the worst sin, worse even than murder. While every sin in Scripture is not to be carried into public law, if this sin is not, what would Olasky nominate and how would he justify it?

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/family-research-institute-applauds-uganda-anti-gay-bill-calls-homosexuality-worse-murder

Proposal: Change their name to the How to wage genocide against Families you don't like Research Institute.

Also, this historical inaccuracy must be discussed. "Homosexual lust led to the painful incineration of 26 brave Ugandan Christian boys and young men." This was perpetrated by Mwanga II, and no, it was not about homosexual lust, he was a sociopathic tyrant and rapist who continued his father's legacy of playing into religious wars between Christians and Muslims. In this case, he used rape as a weapon (He considered it legal to kill any person he deemed fit and so forced Christian converts into a harem and then used the concept at that time that it was treachery to refuse a king's wishes). Mwanga II also had 16 wives and 10 children (With his first child being born AFTER he burned the 26 converts alive that Cameron mentioned), so he doesn't exactly strike me as some sort of gay militant. Well, what can you say? Cameron fails as a psychologist, a sociologist, and a historian.