The proprietor of the Family Research Institute, Paul Cameron, has been tagged by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "[echoing] Nazi Germany in that [his] disparaging descriptions of homosexuals are reminiscent of themes found in the ugly history of anti-Semitism, where Jews were historically associated with disease, filth, and child stealing." At the time the SPLC's report was issued, there was some concern over this characterization as violating Godwin's Law which, in a nutshell, says that specious Hitler references are an automatic argument-loser. (Image: Nazi Swastika as it appears in Paul Cameron's newsletter)
Well it turns out SPLC was right on the mark, though they may not have realized it at the time. In the March 1999 issue of his monthly newsletter, Cameron appropriated the so-called research of Rudolph Hoess, one of the architects of the Final Solution. Only Cameron didn't identify the mass murder for who he was--an SS officer whose innovations in the art of mass killings at Dachau and Sachsenhausen led to his promotion to camp commandant at Auschwitz by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Cameron himself has, in fact, called for the extermination of gay people on numerous occasions; he demurs when asked about it, saying it's just one "plausible option."
We know there are crazy people out there all over the place, so why is Paul Cameron worth talking about? It's because Paul Cameron's so-called research is quoted on a daily basis by the religious right and many prominent Republicans in their quest to dehumanize, demoralize, and suppress gay and lesbian people. Whenever you hear the right wing claim that gay men don't live past their 40s, or that gay people are more likely to be child molesters, or that gay people recruit others, it's Cameron's hate screed that they are quoting. As Cameron's pseudoscience has been repeatedly debunked, and Cameron himself has been exposed as the hateful neo-Nazi that he is, many of these Christians and Republicans have stopped quoting him by name--but they still quote his numbers.
For a full report on Cameron's paranoid and hateful little existence, check out Paul Cameron's World on Box Turtle Bulletin--the definitive web site on Paul Cameron, written by fellow Kossack Jim Burroway.