Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 13:09:25 -0600 (MDT) From: CENDO RICHARD Subject: "Another Payment by Norton to Discredited Gay "Expert" Cameron Disclosed" [published in 9/28/94 issue of OutFront. OutFront reserves publication rights in Colorado. All other rights reserved by author, who permits and encourages any and all publication and replication outside Colorado as well as replication within Colorado] Total Paid Tops 15K Another Payment by Norton to Discredited Gay "Expert" Cameron Disclosed At least another $67,000 has been paid to other "experts" advocating sex only for procreation, acceptance of bigoted jokes and reclassification of homosexuality as mental illness, reports show A Follow-Up Report By Richard Cendo Earlier this month, the Colorado Attorney General's office told OutFront that a discredited anti-gay psychologist was paid $10,125 by the state for "expert testimony" that was never used in the state's case to defend Amendment 2. People working for the Attorney General's office now confirm that Cameron was actually paid $15,649. The payments to the discredited psychologist, Paul Cameron, were for his advice in Attorney General Gale Norton's defense of Amendment 2. Despite the expenditure, Norton neither used Cameron as a witness nor filed any affidavit or deposition produced by his research, which has been repeatedly shown to be inaccurate and unreliable. OutFront reported two weeks ago that Norton paid Cameron $10,125 after the Attorney General's office disclosed that figure in writing. OutFront later obtained information from an independent source sshowing that Cameron was, in fact, paid $15,649.02 by Norton's office. When asked, the Attorny General's office said it made an accounting error. "It was a paperwork error on my part," said Norton's Administrative Counsel Paul H. Chan. Asked how he arrived at the incorrect $10,125 figure, Chan said, "Frankly, I'm not exactly sure what I did." After the initial story in OutFront, Carl Hilliard of Associated Press asked Norton about the payments of state funds to Cameron. I know affidavits were prepared," Norton told Hilliard, "but we did not use his testimony. It was not submitted, ultimately, as evidence." When asked why, Norton said, "I'll just say we did not use it." Described by Mark E. Pietrzyk in the Oct. 3 issue of the New Republic as a "virtual one-man propaganda press," Cameron was expelled from the American Psychological Association in 1983 after falsifying data he claimed to have collected about gays. In 1982, Federal judge Jerry Buchmeyer of Dallas discounted Cameron as a witness and accused him in writing of committing "fraud" "misrepresentations" and "distortions" in his testimony. The New Republic also called Cameron a "professional sham," said he served as scientific consultant to Colorado For Family Values, and said "the right wing's favorite anti-gay researcher and scholar makes it all up" Norton also paid at least the following amounts in state funds to the following "experts" on gays: Charles Socarides, campaigns to reclassify homosexuality as a mental illness: $5,426 Robert George, beleives sex should be restricted to married couples and only for the purpose of procreation: $12,746 Joseph Broadus, maintains that civil rights for gays would hurt blacks, $25,523.83 Robert Knight, heads Washington-based anti-gay lobbying group: $8,946 Harvey Mansfield, testified that gays, women and blacks should not get upset over derogatory jokes about them: $10,174 Judith Reisman, participated in a strategy conseference in May to repeal all rights for gays by the end of the decade: $4,417 Based on pretrial filings listing 41 witnesses, the above list represents less than 15 percent of the so-called experts Norton may have paid. To date, OutFront has been able to obtain payment documentation on only a portion of them.