Focus Makes 'Inaccurate' Statement

Cameron Questions Accuracy of
Focus on the Family Statement

To: National Desk

COLORADO SPRINGS, Co., Feb. 27/Covenant News Wire Service/ -- Dr. Paul Cameron, Chairman of the Family Research Institute, a Colorado Springs think-tank, termed a statement by a Focus on the Family spokesman “at best inaccurate.”

Cameron, who has published widely on homosexuality in professional journals, cited a statement by Jim Pfaff, an official spokesman for James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, which maintained that a bill before the Colorado Senate granting new rights to cohabiting homosexuals “is an alternative measure in that it provides reciprocal beneficiary contracts for adults in need.” In clarifying this statement, Pfaff said: “For example, you‘ll have a widowed husband whose sister-in-law is the best caregiver for the children living in the house and they have no romantic relationship. She is just functionally the best person to take care of those children. This bill would allow him to provide benefits for her because of her significant role within that family.”

“This bill, which Dr. Dobson supports, specifically forbids providing benefits to cohabiting couples who could be married,” Cameron pointed out. “Mr. Pfaff’s man and his widowed sister could be married. Hence, no benefits. So what Mr. Pfaff has said just isn’t true. His statement reflects a confusion about this legislation among the people at Focus on the Family.

Cameron said he was also troubled by the second part of Mr. Pfaff’s statement, which read: “This bill ? does not provide any benefits not already available to adults ? through means of durable powers of attorney and/or a contract -- all it does is it simplifies the way by which they can get those benefits on a fair basis.”

“This statement is likewise untrue,” Cameron said. “The bill ? strongly backed by Focus and Dr. Dobson -- would do two things for homosexual partners that no lawyer could do: (1) It would open the way for one partner to claim the other for health insurance purposes, and (2) it would give homosexuals -- and only homosexuals -- recognition for civil unions contracted in another state.”

Cameron called on Mr. Pfaff to retract these statements, “which are untrue and which serve only to further confuse a public already bewildered by Dr. Dobson’s support of this legislation.”

CONTACT:
Family Research Institute
Dr. Paul Cameron, Ph.D.
P.O. Box 62640
Colorado Springs, CO. 80962-2640
Ph. 303-681-3113, 303-886-1947 cell
Website: www.FamilyResearchInst.org

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