A Look at Criminality

In the last issue of FRR we began to summarize findings from the largest national random survey regarding adult sexuality ever conducted in the U.S. — 12,283 non-institutionalized adults questionnaired as part of the 1996 National Household Survey of Drug Abuse [NHSDA]. In this issue and the next, we return to the NHSDA, this time to look at results on criminality. Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

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The 1996 National Sexuality Survey

This issue of Family Research Report [FRR] will summarize findings from the largest national random survey regarding adult sexuality ever conducted in the U.S. — 12,283 non-institutionalized adults aged 18-59. These individuals took part in the 1996 National Household Survey of Drug Abuse [NHSDA], an on-going and periodic examination of American drug habits. Occasionally, the NHSDA includes supplementary ‘add-on' questions about particular topics. In 1996, this survey — for the first and only time, and with little fanfare — added a series of questions on sexuality. Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

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Judge Buchmeyer: A Liar

When the U.S. Supreme Court legalized sodomy in Texas in 2003, it finally fulfilled the wishes of Federal Judge Jerry Buchmeyer. On the Web you will find many references to Judge Buchmeyer, but he is best known for Baker v. Wade , in which he ruled that the Texas law against homosexual sex was unconstitutional. In that same decision Buchmeyer criticized Dr. Paul Cameron, chairman of FRI, as having misrepresented evidence. Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

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Homosexual Animals?

The New York Times is touting the existence of ‘gay penguins,' while yet another book is out ‘documenting' homosexuality in animals. Both the Times and the American Psychiatric Association [APA] feel that animals have a lot to teach us about sexuality. Are we serious? Animals teaching humans about sex? Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

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The High Cost of Sodomy: Part II

A fatal disease such as AIDS costs society more than medical care. Indirect costs also enter in. There is the cost of having raised and prepared the AIDS patient for productive work. Think of the food, medical care, education, etc. that it takes to get a child ready for employment in our modern society. Think of the lost productivity due to that individual not being alive or physically able to be employed in his 30s, 40s, 50s, or 60s. Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

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The High Cost of Sodomy: Part I

Late in 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court added sodomy to its list of newly protected activities. Unlike heterosexual sex, which is necessary to produce children, sodomy entertains its participants, but contributes nothing in return. Instead, sodomy costs society a great deal, both monetarily and otherwise. In fact, sodomy may be the most costly of the Court's recently created ‘rights.'

Of course, many of the costs associated with sodomy are ‘hidden' or difficult to ‘price.' How do we estimate the cost of having to re-organize society to accommodate changes in marriage and family law or practice, for instance? What about changes in public accommodations or discrimination law due to new ‘civil rights?' Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

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Federal Marriage Amendment: Our Position

Family Research Institute believes that the judicially-initiated assault on marriage is violative of good social order and will have a profoundly negative public health impact.

Only a man and woman can create a child. Experience and scientific evidence prove that the best place to rear a child is the family formed by the father and mother in marriage. The very future of society rests upon well-socialized children being produced to replace the dying, so the future of society hinges upon marriage. Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

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Gay Marriage Decision... What a Mass.!

After diddling for months, the Massachusetts Supreme Court acted to give gays the right to marry on November 18. Many observers, including conservative commentators, expected a decision much earlier, perhaps on the heels of Lawrence v. Texas . After all, the Supreme Court had paved the way by tossing out sodomy laws across America. Why wait on legalizing gay marriage? Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

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Is "Pedophilia" a Mental Disorder?

What is a “mental disorder?” You would think the answer would be simple: the absence of “mental health.” Right? Aye, but there's the rub. There is no agreed-upon definition of “mental health” (even as there is no agreed-upon definition of “healthy sexuality”). The definition of ‘mental health' is usually derived in a round-about way from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual [DSM] of the American Psychiatric Association. If the client doesn't have a designated pathology as listed in the DSM, he's probably OK. Yet this doesn't solve the question in any definitive way, since the DSM is changed periodically — 35 years ago homosexual behavior was a pathology, but today it's OK. And other ‘pathologies' are sure to follow this ‘it used to be a pathology, now it isn't' pattern.

Is ‘pedophilia' going to join this parade? It might. Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

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Mutilation for "Mental Health"

Across the western world, a growing number of people are voluntarily getting mutilated. Some are getting their genitals surgically altered, others are having their breasts, arms, or legs cut off.

Why are they doing these things? Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

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Supreme Validation of Sodomy, Part II
Failure of the Pro-Family Leadership

This is the second in a two-part analysis of the Supreme Court’s Lawrence v. Texas decision, handed down in June.

The Lawrence v. Texas decision was hailed by homosexual advocates as a monumental victory for the gay rights movement. And rightly so. As discussed in our last issue of Family Research Report (FRR), the Supreme Court established a fundamental new ‘right’ to sodomy in its ruling. It also did something else at least as devastating: the majority opinion broadly dismissed morality or historical precedent as a rational basis for law. In doing so, it established its dictatorship. Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

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Supreme Validation of Sodomy, Part I

On June 28, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that the U.S. birth rate had dropped to its lowest level on record. On the same date, the U.S. Supreme Court declared laws against same-sex sexual activity unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas. Both events illustrate the continuing deathward march of American social policy. By a 6 to 3 vote — wielding its dictatorial power — the Supreme Court overturned centuries of Christian-inspired laws against homosexual activity. In large part, the court’s decision stemmed from its contempt for, and desire to, diminish society. But its decision was also a failure of the current pro-family leadership. Attempting to enact a ‘marriage amendment’ to the U.S. Constitution as a ‘solution’ is a quixotic response. Instead, FRI proposes as a possible ‘fix’ laws against 1) anal-penile sex and 2) the supervision of children by homosexuals.. Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

The Plague, SARS, and Gay Rights

A plague is coming! Every epidemiologist worth his salt is worried.

And quarantine, discarded as 'unkind' and 'an affront to civil liberties' is making a comeback.

SARS, from the perspective of many epidemiologists, is the "first shot across our bow" from the conditions that almost guarantee a world-wide plague. Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

Child Molestation Among the Clergy

How often are religious leaders involved in child molestation? Roman Catholic priests have captured a great deal of attention since the late 1980s. Press reports and opinion pieces in the 1990s made it appear that child molestation was exceptionally frequent among priests. Speculation about ‘the cause’ ranged from the celibacy rule imposed on most priests, to the fact that, since most of those who were molested were boys, the priesthood had become densely populated with homosexuals. What are ‘the facts’ regarding child molestation by religious leaders? Are priests more apt than Protestant clergy to molest boys? Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

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Are Boys Safer in Boy Scouts Than in Big Brothers?

The Boy Scouts and Big Brothers both have long track records in serving our kids. But occasionally, in each, boys are homosexually molested by their leaders. To guard against this, both the Boy Scouts and Big Brothers run background checks on their leaders/mentors to exclude men with known sexual abuse histories. Notably different, however, is the way that each organization handles homosexuality. In the Boy Scouts, volunteers must subscribe in writing to a policy that explicitly prohibits homosexual leaders. By contrast, for the past two decades, the Big Brothers -- taking the lead of the National Association of Social Workers and the American Psychological Association -- has followed an explicit non-discrimination policy for those who practice homosexuality. Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...

Editor’s Note: Since FRI's Chairman, Dr.Paul Cameron, was personally involved in these matters, this report is written as a first person account

When a 16 year-old foster son was molested and raped by two gay foster parents in Vermont, Tom Moore, Deputy of the State’s Social and Rehabilitation Services, told me on June 25, 2002 that neither he nor the Commissioner knew of any evidence about the molestation rates of children by homosexual foster parents. He was apparently echoing his boss, Commissioner William Young, who the papers quoted as saying “I don’t know of any screening instrument for [sexual molestation]. Certainly, sexual preference doesn’t have anything to do with it, or religious beliefs or socioeconomic status. It’s so frustrating because there isn’t a predictor.” (Rutland Herald 6/21/02) Click here for the full article from the latest FRI Report...