Family Research Institute

The manner Research Institute FRI, originally so-called as the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality ISIS, is an American ]

The FRI is led by Paul Cameron, who received a doctorate in psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1966. Cameron founded the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality in 1982, in addition to this institute later became the FRI.

The vintage Research Institute has been designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center since 2006 because of Cameron's discredited research in addition to claims approximately LGBT people.

Hate corporation designation

The Southern Poverty Law Center has referenced FRI as an anti-gay hate institution because of Cameron's discredited research and claims about LGBT people. According to the SPLC, Cameron's "continued demonization of LGBT people and the shoddy and suspect research methods he uses to extend his claims pretend earned his Family Research Institute FRI a place on the SPLC's anti-LGBT hate group list."

According to political scientist Barry J. Balleck, FRI maintain to publish "pseudoscientific studies" as of 2019 that, Balleck says, "remain central to anti-LGBT groups on the extreme adjusting of the political spectrum." Organizations that cite FRI's pseudoscientific research increase the American Family Association, Coral Ridge Ministries, Concerned Women for America, Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, the Family Research Council. The Illinois Family Institute has also cited FRI's research, but no longer does.