Same Sex Marriage: 'Thoroughly Tiresome,' by Design

American Thinker ^ | 03/20/2014 | Doug Mainwaring

[SeekAndFind]

Published in 1989, After the Ball is a seminal work which laid out a comprehensive plan to establish the “normalcy” of gays and lesbians and secure broader acceptance and rights.  It is subtitled, How America Will conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90s.

The manifesto was laid out by a pair of Harvard graduates.  Marshall Kirk (class of 1980) became a researcher in neuropsychiatry.  Hunter Madsen (class of 1985) received his degree in Politics and went on to work on Madison Avenue and become an expert in public persuasion tactics and social marketing.

Today, twenty-five years after its publication, what is most striking about their work is this:  Their ambitious plan, with a few verb tense changes, could be repackaged and sold as a History book, presenting a very accurate picture of what we have all witnessed happening over the last quarter century. Perhaps the only aspect of the plan that can be faulted just a little is its timeline.  It took twenty five years, not ten, to achieve its goals. Not bad.  Still an A+.

American folklore tells us that a young Yale student named Fred Smith penned a paper for an economics class in the early 1960's outlining an overnight delivery service for the computer information age.  That paper, rumored to have received a C+, became FedEx.

The success of the plan laid out in After the Ball parallels that of FedEx, only it was not a business plan; it was a wildly successful social psychology/marketing plan.  And it has changed American society every bit as much as FedEx has, and in the long run, probably far more.

[SoFloFreeper]

Interesting. How sad that God’s church isn’t countering this perversion with the truth from His Word.

[Psalm 144]

Lamps are going out in many places.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping to post #2.

[MeshugeMikey]

Those willing to STAND for God’s Truth are few and far between.

The WORD and the word...”gay” OIL and WATER

[Theo]

Maybe your particular congregation or denomination. But Christ’s Church is actively promoting real marriage and challenging fake marriage.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***How America Will conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90s.***

Fear? Hatred? Aw common! More like DISGUST and REPULSION!

Those that fear sodomites are probably PARENTS, and those that hate sodomites have mostly been NON church going working men.

TRUCKERS really hate sodomites because they infest many of the rest stops on the interstate highways. Rest areas draw sodomites like flies to an outhouse.

[Vaduz]

Normalcy” of gays and lesbians LOL you can’t make that stuff up.

[HiTech RedNeck]

“Gay” is sad.

The habit once seriously fallen into is notoriously difficult to part from, but not impossible. And a once-for-all forgiveness is promised at the Cross if its sacrifice is accepted.

Sin is a mispurposing of faculties to a goal that is less than the dignity God had in mind for them. “Gay” people sadly throw themselves into trashiness. Their problem is not too much a sense of honor, it is too little and the wrong kind.

Heaven really does have a better idea. One of the main problems is that heaven’s advertising agency (the body of all Christians, the church) are doing a very poor job of it. They treat sexual honor lackadaisically and then wonder why the “gay” world isn’t taking the gospel seriously. Folks, when the gospel power makes you pure then you won’t need to harangue. The power of the purity will show.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Truckers often do go to church as they can if they can. Schedules make it difficult.

One big problem here is that the devil often makes truckers and other symbols of virility into idols to “gay” people. The devil is filthy beyond belief and nothing is too good for him to turn into a travesty.

That said, maybe there could be such a thing as a trucker gospel witness ministry to these sad captives of Satan. Instead of being macho through an illusory, derived power, Jesus shows them how to be real men again. In Christendom, problem = opportunity.

[dfwgator]

"Your story has become tiresome."

[HiTech RedNeck]

I recently heard from a Christian friend that one of the major outreaches had quit! Is this so?

It’s to burn with indignation. Can’t heaven do a better job than this?

[MeshugeMikey]

“They treat sexual honor lackadaisically”

there are so many Lukewarm Christians today!

[HiTech RedNeck]

I think the good news is that the society is getting so blatantly ungodly that Christians won’t be able to be part of the woodwork any more.

It is easy to tell the world that it’s wrong. It’s harder to sell them on how to get right. There is a tendency to just want to launch broadsides of hellfire to all comers, as if the goal were to debate away all foes to Christendom, but the story of Jesus is that of a message caringly tailored to each comer.

[MeshugeMikey]

Well put.

[RobinOfKingston]

How sad that God’s church isn’t countering this perversion with the truth from His Word.

"God's church," at least here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, got subverted by the evil twins, The Johnson Amendment and 501(c)3 tax-exempt status.

But, in exchange, we Christians got a few bucks off our tax bill when filing our 1040s. Comfort begets complacency.