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To: havewelostamerica?
According to former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, (appointed by Reagan) Paul Cameron advocated as early as 1983 for the extermination of gay men. In an interview with Penthouse Forum magazine he lobbied for the forcible tattooing and quarantine of people with AIDS, then said, "It probably would be a lot cheaper to just exterminate male homosexuals." (See Mark E. Pietrzyk, "Paul Cameron, professional sham," The New Republic, October 3, 1994.)

Revisiting the New Republic's attack on Paul Cameron(from the link):

<<<<*Pietrzyk claims that Cameron advocated the "extermination of male homosexuals."

Response: The Forum interviewer remarked that many societies have considered homosexuality a capital crime. Noting that it would be cheaper to kill homosexuals in primitive societies than jail or quarantine them is hardly an endorsement. In fact, Cameron is quoted in the same article as saying that such an idea is "not politically, ethically or socially acceptable" today. Where former Surgeon General Koop got his information is mystifying. He never asked Dr. Cameron whether he advocated such a policy.>>>

As for Dr. Cameron losing a court case, he has done better since then. He and his son took the side that the Massachusetts Sodomy laws should stay, while various groups said that they should thrown out. The Massachusetts Sodomy laws were not thrown out (they were modified).

According to Dr. Cameron, Dr. Koop has misconceptions about the psychologist.

Incidentally, much play is made that Dr. Cameron is allegedly a gay basher; however, the author of this New Republic article (under its then homosexual editor, Andrew Sullivan) is a member of the Log Cabin Republicans. This group was not identified as the homosexual wing of the Republican party so the Pietrzyk's own bias is not apparent to the New Republic audience.

I gave this rebuttal link at the beginning of my posts here, but here it is again.

102 posted on 08/31/2002 5:06:52 PM PDT by UbIwerks
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