WHY DOES DR. JAMES DOBSON SUPPORT S.B. 166?
Dr. James Dobson, host of the most listened to fundamentalist Christian radio talk show supports giving benefits typically given to traditional married couples to homeosexual or heterosexual roomates, or friends, but why? And is this good or bad?
r. Paul Cameron, a widely published researcher and Chairman of the Family Research Institute of Colorado Springs, is conducting Talk Show interviews challenging Dr. Dobson’s position.
The legislation Dr. Cameron is up in arms about is Colorado Senate Bill 166. Cameron contends that Dr. Dobson’s point person Jim Pfaff, who represented Dr. Dobson when the Colorado Committee on Business, Labor and Technology, took up the amended bill and testified that: “We at Focus on the Family strongly endorse this bill.”
Dr. Cameron stated, “Survivor benefits under Workman’s Compensation were designed to protect widows, widowers, and children in the event of a fatal accident. Dr. Dobson supports extending those rights to gay couples, as well as to certain other cohabiting adults. Cohabiting homosexuals tend to be young. Widows and small children need such benefits. But why should the rest of us pay to support young gays for the rest of their lives? It doesn’t make sense to burden the Workman’s Comp system further in order to please the gay rights movement.”
In a last-minute move, perhaps to make his bill more attractive to gays, Colorado Senator Shawn Mitchell amended it to give cohabiting homosexuals survivor benefits under Workman’s Compensation -- benefits exclusively reserved for the married under existing law.”
Cameron explains that Section 4. 8-41-501 of the code governing Workman’s Compensation limits survivor benefits to “[w]idow or widower,” “minor children of the deceased under the age of 18 years,” and, under certain circumstances, “minor children of the deceased who are eighteen years or over”.
“If Senator Mitchell’s bill becomes law,” said Dr. Cameron, “survivor benefits will be extended to homosexual partners as though they were ‘wholly dependent’ upon the deceased. This is more than unjust; it’s insane!”
ABOUT DR. PAUL CAMERON…
Dr. Paul Cameron is a Researcher/Clinician and a reviewer for the prestigious Canadian Medical Association Journal and has been a Reviewer for: American Psychologist and British Medical Journal. He has advance expertise in philosophic, economic, and sexual factors as they bear upon personal & collective health and cultural viability.
Having received his Ph.D from The University of Colorado in Social Personality Psychology, Dr. Cameron is a leading expert on sexual and homosexual research, trends and behavior.
Since 1982 Dr. Cameron has been the chairman of Family Research Institute, Inc. of Colorado Springs. He has taught courses on human sexuality, counseling, marriage & the family, personality and gerontology.