Hate Group Designation
The Southern Poverty Law Center has listed FRI as an anti-gay hate group because of Cameron's discredited research and claims about LGBT people. According to the SPLC, Cameron's "continued demonization of LGBT people and the shoddy and suspect research methods he uses to advance his claims have earned his Family Research Institute (FRI) a place on the SPLC’s anti-LGBT hate group list." Among FRI's claims are that the primary activity of the gay rights movement is “seeking to legitimize child-adult homosexual sex.” In a similar vein, Cameron has said “the rise of the gay rights movement, homosexual rape of men appears to have increased.”
Other organization continue to cite FRI's discredited research including the American Family Association, Coral Ridge Ministries, Concerned Women for America, Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, the Family Research Council. The Illinois Family Institute has also cited FRI's research, but no longer does.
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