Official Pre-Press Release of My Book

This press release has already gone out to various folks:

Upcoming book exposes religious right’s love of junk science

Author claims “pro-family” groups rely on bad studies for their claims about the gay and lesbian community

March 29, 2007 - - According to an upcoming book, the religious right routinely smear the gay and lesbian community through junk science and distortions.Freelance author Alvin McEwen spent two years studying religious right claims regarding the gay and lesbian community. He claims to have found a disturbing pattern of deception which he will reveal in Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Exposing the Anti-Gay Industry.

“James Dobson and other members of the religious right claim to operate from a Biblical standpoint,” McEwen, ‘but their behavior has been anything but Christian. They have created a litany of lies which they use to defeat pro-gay laws and ordinances."

One item McEwen’s book examines is the religious right’s dependency on the work of researcher Paul Cameron. Cameron’s studies supposedly prove that the majority of gay men are pedophiles who have a short life span. However, his work has been discredited on a number of occasions and led him to receive a dismissal from the American Psychological Association, censure by other organizations, and public rebukes by such people as former Secretary of Education William Bennett.

“But the religious right constantly cite his work while omitting his sordid history, which they are fully aware of,” McEwen said. “The majority of their claims about the gay and lesbian community are rooted in some form or another from his distortions.”

Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters also reveal several incidents in which legitimate researchers, psychologists, and physicians have gone on record complaining as to how the religious right distorts their work.

One case, McEwen said, involves a claim that a 1997 Canadian study proves that gay men have a short life span.

“The religious right always fail to mention that in 2001, the authors of the study said that their work was being distorted,” McEwen said.

And this is not an isolated incident.McEwen said that other times in which there have been complaints about distortions, so-called “pro-family” groups either ignored the researchers or accused them of having a “pro-gay” bias.

Other topics covered in Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters are the six distortion techniques of the religious right and how they distort sexual health information.

Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters will be available for sale later this year through various online bookstores.

“At the very least, this book is a way for the gay and lesbian community to educate themselves,” McEwen said.

Anyone wanting further information, including how to receive press packets and excerpts or to be put on a list so they can be informed when the book is available for sale can email Alvin McEwen at CharleKenghis@aol.com

Progress of the book can be checked via http://holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com/