# Don't Mess With Texas Stupidity: Paul Cameron fucks yet more kids out of foster homes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 28, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-texas-stupidity-paul-cameron-fucks-yet-more-kids-out-of-foster-homes/301495 "2005-04-28T04:17:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-texas-stupidity-paul-cameron-fucks-yet-more-kids-out-of-foster-homes/301495/61 "2005-04-29T05:58:40Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > A foam party is where you close off a room at a discotheque, wheel in a big soap-bubble canon, fill the room to chest depth with foam, put on loud techno music, and invite in a whole passel of gay men in bathing suits or less. God _ **dammit** _, why did I have to get stuck with straight parents? If I’d been raised in a proper same-sex home I could’ve been indoctrinated into this lifestyle so much sooner. Seriously, though: people think that’s fun? Ah well. Different strokes, I guess. So to speak. As it were. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-texas-stupidity-paul-cameron-fucks-yet-more-kids-out-of-foster-homes/301495/62 "2005-04-29T06:55:27Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > Seriously, though: people think that’s fun? Ah well. Different strokes, I guess. So to speak. As it were. Are you kidding? Dancing in a room crowded with nearly naked gay boys, covered from the nipples down with all-concealing foam? Honey, it’s _fun._ ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-texas-stupidity-paul-cameron-fucks-yet-more-kids-out-of-foster-homes/301495/63 "2005-04-29T07:53:19Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Are you kidding? Dancing in a room crowded with nearly naked gay boys, covered from the nipples down with all-concealing foam? Honey, it’s _fun._ Is the foam edible? Just askin, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-texas-stupidity-paul-cameron-fucks-yet-more-kids-out-of-foster-homes/301495/64 "2005-04-29T12:30:21Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > Is the foam edible? Just askin, that’s all. I really don’t think they’re all that concerned with eating the _foam_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kearse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f04885/32.png) [@Kearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kearse)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-texas-stupidity-paul-cameron-fucks-yet-more-kids-out-of-foster-homes/301495/65 "2005-04-29T16:53:40Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > My search skills aren’t really up to the task during a time period that I might be exptected to pick up the phone at any moment, but would somebody be kind enough to post links to some threads that discuss the influence exerted by the state of Texas on the nation’s textbook supply? **Kearse** appears to be in need of some education. > > BTW, **Kearse** IANAD, but you might could use some liberal applications of artificial skin-thickeners if you’re going to hang around in the BBQ Pit. I’m fine with the “heat” or tempo of the Pit. I just don’t exactly get off on ad hominem attacks. If others want to come at me with that in mind, fine. I never said Texas did not influence Textbooks. I believe we do. As I believe Texas is at fault for a whole passle of things. My Cali reference was in jest. The one thing to which he clarified ( not in the OP mind you) later was the fact that he was bashing all Texans, along with the State. I think he was a jackass for doing so. Maybe he was mad, whatever. Instead of showing the class of an apology he tries to defend himself, and others jump aboard (not too surprising). That is what I find/found assinine. ---
**Author:** ![Kearse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f04885/32.png) [@Kearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kearse)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-texas-stupidity-paul-cameron-fucks-yet-more-kids-out-of-foster-homes/301495/66 "2005-04-29T17:05:38Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > [1](http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3641) > [2](http://www.constitution.org/reform/us/tx/textbook/textbook.htm) > [3](http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=19504) > [4](http://www.tfn.org/publiceducation/textbooks/process/index.php) You do realize that you linked an article that claims Texas and California are the two biggest…yadda yadda Thus my point. But thanks for the links. Texas Board of Education makes the determination in Texas of what books to buy (since someone asked earlier). As far as fucktard goes, Pit Texans as a whole if you wish (that is your right). Be aware that those in glass houses should not throw rocks, fucktard :wally ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-texas-stupidity-paul-cameron-fucks-yet-more-kids-out-of-foster-homes/301495/67 "2005-04-29T17:27:56Z")
> [@Kearse](#): > > As far as fucktard goes, Pit Texans as a whole if you wish (that is your right). Be aware that those in glass houses should not throw rocks, fucktard :wally [Henry Higgins]_“This is what the Texan population, calls an elementary education…”_[/Henry Higgins] ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-texas-stupidity-paul-cameron-fucks-yet-more-kids-out-of-foster-homes/301495/68 "2005-04-30T03:37:46Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Are you kidding? Dancing in a room crowded with nearly naked gay boys, covered from the nipples down with all-concealing foam? Honey, it’s _fun._ _perks up_ Any chances there are a few bisexual lads in there? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-texas-stupidity-paul-cameron-fucks-yet-more-kids-out-of-foster-homes/301495/69 "2005-04-30T18:50:34Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Are you kidding? Dancing in a room crowded with nearly naked gay boys, covered from the nipples down with all-concealing foam? Honey, it’s _fun._ Especially with a snorkel and an underwater camera. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-texas-stupidity-paul-cameron-fucks-yet-more-kids-out-of-foster-homes/301495/70 "2005-04-30T20:12:45Z")
> [@Blalron](#): > > Look fucktard, when the fucking democratically elected **government** of Texas implements a bigoted policy, it is **perfectly** appropriate to pit the entire collective entity known as “Texas.” You are correct. Because Texas, unlike any other state in the US, requires legislators to win 100% of the vote to get their seat. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-texas-stupidity-paul-cameron-fucks-yet-more-kids-out-of-foster-homes/301495/71 "2005-04-30T20:34:59Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > You are correct. Because Texas, unlike any other state in the US, requires legislators to win 100% of the vote to get their seat. And if that doesn’t work, gerrymandering is always an option. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-texas-stupidity-paul-cameron-fucks-yet-more-kids-out-of-foster-homes/301495/72 "2005-05-01T07:10:09Z")
Here’s [an article](http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB111461604615918400-H9jeoNklah4m52vbH6Iaa2Gm4,00.html) about this case in particular and Cameron’s studies in general. The article attacks _Psychological Reports_ yet doesn’t mention that it is essentially a vanity press (as the editor hedges around, citing “We try to come down on the side of one of the basic tenets of science – free speech for the author” as their “review process”. (PR will print anything for $200 per page and yet it’s still listed as a “scholarly” journal on databases; it has next to no respect in academia.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-texas-stupidity-paul-cameron-fucks-yet-more-kids-out-of-foster-homes/301495.md?page=3)