Democracy, which Rushdoony called “the great love of the failures and cowards of life,” would be replaced by strict Old Testament law — meaning the **death penalty ** for homosexuality, along with a host of other “abominations,” including heresy, astrology, and (for women only) “unchastity before marriage.”
In 2002, Moore wrote a lengthy concurrence in a custody case involving a lesbian mother. After describing homosexuality as “abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature,” Moore asserted that “[t]he State carries the power of the sword, that is, the power to prohibit [homosexual] conduct with physical penalties, such as confinement and even execution. It must use that power to prevent the subversion of children toward this lifestyle.”
Save Our Children’s primary tactic was fear mongering. Gay people were “sick,” “perverted,” “twisted,” and a threat to American families.
“Homosexuals cannot reproduce,” Bryant often said, “so they must recruit. And to freshen their ranks they must recruit the youth of America.”
Save Our Children distributed a press kit with a paper titled, “Why Certain Sexual Deviations Are Punishable By Death.” Homosexuality was, of course, among those deviations. So was “racial mixing of human seed.”
Cameron’s “studies” falsely concluded that gay people were disproportionately responsible for child molestation, for the majority of serial killings, and for the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Gay people, according to Cameron’s research, were obsessed with consuming human excrement, allowing them to spread deadly diseases simply by shaking hands with unsuspecting strangers or using public restrooms.
“Of all the vices,” Cameron concluded in a pamphlet called Medical Aspects of Homosexuality, “only homosexuality constitutes a conspiracy against society.”
Cameron’s brand of “science” echoed Nazi Germany. “These themes of disease and seduction are strongly reminiscent of older, anti-Semitic discourse,” writes Didi Herman in The Antigay Agenda. “Jews historically were associated with disease, filth, urban degeneration, and child stealing.”
After being expelled from the American Psychological Association in 1983 for violating ethical standards in his anti-gay publications Cameron began referring to himself as a sociologist — until the American Sociological Association passed a 1986 resolution declaring, “Paul Cameron is **not a sociologist, and [this group] condemns his constant misrepresentation ** of sociological research.”
In 1986, Summit Ministries, a right-wing Christian group in Colorado, distributed a booklet called Special Report: AIDS, co-written by Cameron, Summit leader David Noebel and Wayne Lutton (Lutton would later be an editor for an anti-immigrant hate group, the Social Contract Press, and act as editorial advisor to the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens).
In July 1998, Pat Robertson warned the citizens of Orlando, Fla., that if Disney World didn’t cancel “Gay Day,” their city would be subject to God’s wrath, in the form of "terrorist bombs, earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor."
“I’ve never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry,” said the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart. “And I’m gonna be blunt and plain: if one ever looks at me like that, I’m gonna kill him and tell God he died.”
