A. Nicholas Groth, American Family Association and a Time Line

First, from the Department of Freudian Slips and Giving People Enough Rope to Hang Themselves, I bring you . . . Peter LaBarbera:

"I think the corporate world is now in a rush to embrace the gay agenda fully," he offers. "They don't see a downside, and it's up to pro-family Americans to create a downside." - List of 'Gay'-Friendly Companies Continues to Grow, Agape Press, September 21, 2006 (http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/212006f.asp)

And speaking of our friend Peter, an earlier post (What exactly is a "headless monster?") featured his usage of a discredited study in order to claim that gay men molest children at high rates. For those who remember this post, the bone of contention in the study was that one of the sources, A. Nicholas Groth, demanded that his name be taken off of the study since its espoused a theory that his work contradicts.

In looking over the studies of other so-called "pro family" groups, I found something interesting. It is so interesting in fact that it can only be shown through another one of my timelines:

August 21, 1984 - A. Nicholas Groth complains to the Nebraska Board of Examiners of Psychologists that a certain researcher by the name of Paul Cameron is misusing his work to make the claim that gay men molest children at a high rate. (http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/Articles/000,010.htm)

October 19, 1984 - The Nebraska Psychologists Association pass a resolution distances itself from Cameron's work. (http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/Articles/000,010.htm)

June 2001 - The American Family Association publishes Homosexual Agenda Targeting Children Part 4: Access to children: homosexuality and molestation. The piece pushes the same theory Cameron did. And also includes some references to Groth's work, excluding the fact that he found in his study that homosexuality and pedophilia are not linked. (http://www.afa.net/homosexual_agenda/childrend.asp)

June 10, 2002 - A. Nicholas Groth writes a letter to Timothy Dailey of the Family Research Council demanding that any reference of his work be removed from Dailey's piece, Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse, because the study contradicts his work. (http://www.hrc.org/Content/ContentGroups/News_Releases/20021/Researcher_Cited_in_Anti-Gay_Report_Criticizes_the_Study_as_Biased_and_Misleading.htm)

September 22, 2006 - The American Family Association study remains on the website intact and unchanged. The references to Groth's work remain, excluding the fact that his study found that homosexuality and pedophilia are not related.