Family Research Institute

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The Family Research Institute ( FRI ), formerly known as the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality ( ISIS ), is an American evangelical religious organization. It is a non-profit organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado .

aims

The self-declared mission is "... to generate empirical research on issues that threaten the traditional family, particularly homosexuality, AIDS, sexual social policy, and drug abuse" (... to promote empirical research on issues that threaten the traditional family. Threats are especially homosexuality, AIDS, sexual social policy and substance abuse). The FRI is part of the Christian Right , which tries to influence the political debate in the USA. In its own words, the FRI strives to "... to restore a world where marriage is upheld and honored, where children are nurtured and protected, and where homosexuality is not taught and accepted, but instead is discouraged and rejected at every level." (To maintain a world where marriage is upheld and honored, where children are nurtured and protected, and where homosexuality is neither taught nor accepted, but rejected on every level). The Boston Globe reported that the FRI's 2005 budget was less than $ 200,000.

The FRI is headed by psychologist Paul Cameron . He had studied at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1966. Cameron founded the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality (ISIS) in 1982. This later became the FRI.

history

In 1984, the Nebraska Psychological Association distanced itself from the works and claims of Dr. Paul Camerons.

In 1986 the American Sociological Association (ASA) rejected Cameron's work, particularly with regard to sociology. The FRI and its research have been cited by several organizations: American Family Association , Coral Ridge Ministries , Concerned Women for America , Americans for Truth About Homosexuality . The Illinois Family Institute quoted the FRI but has given it up.

Judgment as a hate group by the SPLC

The Family Research Institute has been classified as a homophobic hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center . The reason given was Cameron's research, which is under great criticism from a scientific point of view. The SPLC accused the FRI of continuing demonization of the LGBT community.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Official website ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved June 20, 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.familyresearchinst.org
  2. ↑ a b c Michael Kranish: Beliefs drive research agenda of new think tanks . In: Boston Globe , July 31, 2005. Retrieved August 31, 2006. 
  3. ^ American Sociological Association: Official Reports and Proceedings . (PDF) In: Footnotes . 15, No. 2, February 1987, pp. 13-16, page 14 . Retrieved January 31, 2009.
  4. ^ A b Schlatter, Evelyn: 18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda . In: Intelligence Report . Southern Poverty Law Center. 2010. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
  5. ^ Family Research Council . In: Groups . Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved October 2, 2012: "During his years at the FRC, Knight penned anti-gay tracts that used the research of thoroughly discredited psychologist Paul Cameron, head of the Colorado-based hate group the Family Research Institute"
  6. ^ Southern Poverty Law Center: Active US Hate Groups in 2006: Colorado . 2007. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 22, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.splcenter.org
  7. ^ Lynda Waddington: Groups that helped oust Iowa judges earn 'hate group' designation . In: Iowa Independent , November 23, 2010. Retrieved November 25, 2010. 
  8. ^ Rob Boston: Religious right roundup: Texas governor holds bill signing at Fort Worth church school in bid to corral evangelical voters. . In: Americans United for Separation of Church and State (Ed.): Church & State . July – August 2005. "The figures are based on research by anti-gay activist Paul Cameron that was discredited years ago."
  9. ↑ Rostow, Ann: Our enemies list: Richard Nixon may have given enemies lists a bad name, but it's good to know about who is trying to fight equality at all costs. Here are some who plan to derail LGBT America in 2006 . In: The Advocate . January 31, 2006. "Cameron, 66, is a discredited psychologist who has made it his purpose in life to disseminate wildly inaccurate" facts and figures "about gay men and lesbians under the auspices of the Family Research Institute, a nonprofit corporation he founded in 1982. "
  10. ^ A b Anti-LGBT Propagandist Published Again in Academic Journal . In: Hatewatch . Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved October 2, 2012.