The Business Roundtable has denied links to the Maxim Institute following its publication of a new book on the family, in which the author says she is "indebted" to Maxim for supplying her with statistics. Family Matters by Patricia Morgan was published by the Business Roundtable just before Christmas. While it contains no anti-gay material, Morgan's previous book Children As Trophies was a diatribe against same-sex parenting, published by the Christian Institute in the UK, which used statistics from discredited American junk scientist Paul Cameron to claim gays were more likely to molest kids. However, GLBT New Zealanders should not get hung up on “conspiracy theories” that the Business Roundtable has a secret antigay agenda, despite its recent publication of a major work on the family by an anti-gay British author, says its executive director Roger Kerr. "I think this book needs to be seen in terms of its contents," Kerr told GayNZ.com. "There ought to be, we hope, an interest in debate about the contents of the book, but not inferences from other things that are outside it – other academic connections she has etc. Everybody's got those kind of connections." Morgan says in the acknowledgements of Family Matters that she is "indebted” to the Maxim Institute for supplying her with statistics, but Kerr says they were not a major contributor to the book. "I think the key line of thinking that comes through much of the work we do [at the Business Roundtable] is a liberal perspective, and one that's all about how to maximise the freedom of people to make their own choices," he says. “Speaking personally, and I must emphasise this because we've certainly had no role in the prostitution or civil union debates, I'd be supportive of the Civil Union Bill, I think it's a step in right direction. I would support gay marriage, in fact, I'd go further."