Discredited anti-gay researcher Paul Cameron was guest speaker at a meeting of the Christian Council of Britain last month. Cameron used the opportunity to claim that homosexuals are responsible for 29 percent of child rapes and murders.
It is hard to say which is worse: Paul Cameron aligning himself with the far-right, nationalist Christian Council of Britain, or the Christian Council of Britain aligning itself with the virulently homophobic Paul Cameron. We know all about Cameron, but here’s a sample of where the CCB is at:
The Christian Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland resolved that it recognises that all men are of one blood (or proto-race) in Adam through to Noah; and that from that one race divergent sub-races have historically devolved – Russian doll-like – (Genesis 11:1-9) so that we are now different, though related, races and nations of men, all of whom God has made (Psalms 86:9); which are each to bring their glory into the kingdom of God (Revelation 21:26). The Christian Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland therefore resolved to recognise the godly importance of race and nation as groups based on this historical and providential process of objective descent: giving rise to different organically-formed communities; sharing and passing-on common genetically inherited (physical, intellectual and character) features, together with cultures, mores, relationships, loyalties, memories, and identities-in-common; and ultimately – by the will of God – national homelands, where an ongoing connection between land and people has developed, and can be encouraged and preserved (Acts 17:26). The Christian Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland recognises these facts and privileges, especially with regard to the historic British people whose land this is. The Christian Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland therefore resolved especially to welcome the British as such a People, and as individuals, into membership.
In other words, other races and cultures are fine; just don’t let them into our country. Elsewhere, CCB founder Reverend Robert West said that “the mixing of races challenges the glory of God”.
The CCB grew out of the racist British National Party (BNP), to which West – a councillor in his native Lincolnshire – later defected when he was ousted by the Tory Party. See these documentaries for evidence of the BNP’s ugliness, which it tries hard to disguise. British religion blogger Richard Bartholomew has documented the CCB, West’s career and the BNP connection extensively, beginning here.
What are we to conclude? That evidently neither Paul Cameron nor the Christian Council of Britain are fussy about the company they keep.
The 209 homosexual perpetrators accounted for …
… A steady growth in the proportion of perpetrators who were boyfriends [of the mothers] or stepfathers [of the victims] was noted.
Wow. In a tiny three paragraph press release he still manages to show the absolute lunacy of his claim.
These men were in sexual relationships with women and evidently not with adult men. But because some of the children they had access to and abused were boys, Cameron calls them homosexual perpetrators.
Clearly he’s long given up on pretending to be a legitimate researcher.
To expect anything approaching logic or science out of Paul Cameron at this point is just lunacy. The man doesn’t seem even vaguely acquainted with truth.
The Christian Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland resolved that it recognises that all men are of one blood (or proto-race) in Adam through to Noah; and that from that one race divergent sub-races have historically devolved – Russian doll-like –
Russian doll-like??!! So, according to the Christian Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, if you screw off my head you’ll find a smaller person of a different race inside me?
I wonder how many of the 29 percent were actual gay-identified men and how many were deep closet cases. Maybe that statistic would tell us something about the dangers of self deception and denial. But that would certainly be counter-productive to his intentions to acurately represent statistics. That study better not make the trip back with him.
Sean,
Those who work with children will tell you that predators who prey on boys are very seldom sexually attracted to men and most often pick their victims, male and female, based on availablity and likelihood of success. And married men know that they are less likely to be suspected of molesting a boy than they are a girl. A boy in many ways is an easier target.
These are not gay men. Nor are they closeted same-sex attracted men.
I’m sure you’ve all noticed that this is exactly the same theology of nationhood that led in the 20th Century into “German Christianity” and Apartheid.
When I’m back in this morning I will blog this and also make sure that those in my neck of the woods know about this.
Be assured that for once I am completely with you on this. Shame on Cameron.
As promised – https://www.peter-ould.net/2007/11/06/the-bnp-does-apartheid/
Not to mention it was used to defend slavery and Jim Crow.
I’m reminded of the words of the trial court judge who, in Loving v. Virginia, sought to protect marriage from those whom the state found unworthy of marriage, i.e. couples of mixed race:
The language of bigotry always seems to be the same, doesn’t it.
Skemono,
I think what makes Kuyper more subtle (and dangerous) is that his theology is one that doesn’t rest upon racial understandings. One could use Kuyper’s incorrect theology to maintain any form of inequal power structure (class / caste).
Lutherans have struggled with these ideas since Luther’s “Two Kingdoms” papers.
I am surprised at the Kuyper connection. He always has been and still is held in extremely high esteem by Reformed evangelicals.
Yes, but his theology on spheres of power is actually quite dangerous.
Of course, it’s not all Reformed Evos who hold him in high regard.
True, that.
Hm. Yes, I see your point. It can be used to justify segregation of any two spheres, not just race.
I am used to hearing about heterosexual privilege above homosexual equality. But is this not an ego inflated show of racial supremacy?
If it is not for the mixing of racial cultures the Bible would not even reach the Gentiles from the Jews, let alone the British.
The CCB would not even exist for them to spell out this kind of discriminative rubbish.