Homosexuals Pursuing Stealth Agenda

The Christian Broadcasting Network ^ | October 14, 2003 | Paul Strand

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Homosexuals Pursuing Stealth Agenda

U.S. and Canadian courts have created a surge of momentum for the homosexual agenda. But what's so startling is how far they've advanced their agenda in the past few years.

CBN.com – WASHINGTON -- Homosexuals have won so many battles in legislatures, courts and the media, they can almost taste total victory just ahead. Gay rights lobbyist Toni Broaddus said, "We stand at this turning point in history. It's truly a historical moment."

Ben Bull, legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, a traditional values advocacy group, agrees.

Bull said, "The homosexual agenda is making major gains, just in the last 10 or 15 years."

Atlanta pastor D.L. Foster is an ex-homosexual. He said of homosexuals, "They have a plan. They are executing that plan with precision, and they are achieving astonishing results."

One of the places the homosexual agenda is making the most headway is right where you'd expect it. In the Golden State -- California.

From a popular gay beach in ritzy Laguna Beach to San Francisco's Castro Street, arguably the capital of Gay America, the gay banner -- the rainbow flag -- flies over city streets filled with same-sex couples holding hands. And even the billboards honor those who've come out of the closet.

Broaddus said if all the gay rights bills now before the California legislature pass, "...We will have the strongest set of civil rights protections in the country for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Californians."

In Sacramento, family rights advocate Randy Thomasson often fights these special rights for homosexuals because he believes they erode traditional family values. He cites the civil unions bill that just passed in California, giving gays marriage in everything but name.

"We're setting it up for children to become confused: should I marry a boy or a girl, a man or a woman?" Thomasson said.

CBN News asked Thomasson to reel off some of the latest advances for the homosexual agenda in California.

In the workplace: "Fines against businesses who don't hire transsexuals."

In adoption: "Gray Davis is allowing homosexual couples to jointly adopt children."

And in the schools:

"Transsexual teachers (are allowed)...And kids have to be taught to appreciate sexual orientation before graduation."

If recent history is any guide, where California goes first, America usually follows within a few years.

You can already see the gay rights advances showing up in other states:

--Various ones have legalized or are debating legalizing homosexual adoption.

--Some states have given domestic partners rights previously reserved for married couples.

--New York has just opened up the first high school exclusively for homosexual students.

--The University of Michigan is offering a course called "How to be Gay."

--And, any day now, the Massachusetts Supreme Court may well declare gay marriage itself legal.

And if that happens, both sides say they're ramping up for the ultimate fight: arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court the issue of gay marriage.

The reason that's considered the climactic battle is because if the nation's highest court approves same sex marriage, it's basically blessing homosexuality as equal in every legal and moral way to heterosexuality.

"We know that there's going to be a backlash, we know that we're going to be under attack from the right, but we feel like full equality is within our grasp," Broaddus said.

Ex-homosexual Jonathan Hunter of Desert Stream Ministries said,

"It's a mighty battle ahead."

How did this happen in a country where homosexuals were almost all in the closet as little as four decades ago?

In a book called "The Homosexual Agenda," two of Ben Bull's colleagues at the Alliance Defense Fund warn about a complex and well-thought-out strategy to make America "gay friendly" and hostile to those who resist.

These Christian authors quote extensively from "After the Ball," a 1989 gay manifesto that laid out this agenda.

But Broaddus denies such an agenda exists.

"There's no secret plan or even public plan at this point," he said.

But the authors of "After the Ball" discuss in the book a 1988 summit of gay leaders in Warrenton, Virginia, where the agenda was proposed.

These authors are a reportedly brilliant researcher into the brain, Marshall Kirk, and a Harvard-trained expert in public persuasion tactics, Hunter Madsen.

The two proposed using on straight America tactics remarkably similar to the brainwashing methods of Mao Tse-Tung's Communist Chinese, mixed with Madison Avenue's most persuasive selling techniques.

The purpose of this brainwashing?

The books says: "...using the very processes that made America hate us to turn their hatred into warm regard -- whether they like it or not."

First, the authors proposed homosexuals and their liberal allies should desensitize heterosexuals by getting homosexuality talked about as much as possible in the straight world.

"The main thing is talk about gayness until the issue becomes thoroughly tiresome," they said. "You can forget about trying right up front to persuade folks that homosexuality is a good thing. But if you can get them to think it is just another thing -- meriting no more than a shrug of the shoulders -- then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won."

And recently we have seen a tidal wave of gays and gay themes in the media.

"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" is one of America's most popular new shows. The same cable network highlights a homosexual dating show -- "Boy Meets Boy" -- and even a reality show about homosexuals making their wedding plans.

Cable hit "Queer as Folk" frequently features gay sex scenes.

The Oscar-winning "American Beauty" showed a homophobic, gun-toting Marine officer blowing away Kevin Spacey because he suspects his own son is being seduced by Spacey. All the film's lead characters were deeply dysfunctional, and the only well-adjusted couple was Spacey's gay neighbors Jim and Jim.

"In and Out" had wise and winning teacher Kevin Kline discover he's gay, and then mocked Middle Americans who have a problem with that.

And the good, kind, understanding homosexual next door has been seen in so many movies and TV series, he's become somewhat of a cliche.

But former liberal radio-talk show host Stephanie Miller disagrees there's a monolithic liberal media backing a gay agenda.

"What is this thing 'the liberal media'? Can you get on the Fox Network, can you get a radio show if you're liberal?...no," she said. "All Hollywood cares about is money, money, money...straight, gay, doesn't matter."

But these days some 30 regular homosexual characters are being beamed into your home by the major networks every week.

As Kirk and Madsen put it: "The average American watches over seven hours of TV daily. Those hours open up a gateway into the private world of straights, through which a Trojan Horse might be passed."

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MICHAEL STUPARYK/TORONTO STAR

Michael Stark, left, and Michael Lashner pop champagne
and kiss after their wedding ceremony yesterday.
Leshner called the ruling, "Day One for millions of gays
and lesbians around the world."

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(Toronto, Canada)

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first gay couple legally married in British Columbia

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"Tomorrow: Paul Strand looks at how this carefully-plotted agenda is also targeting your schools, your church and even your heart to get America's major institutions and its citizens to embrace and bless the homosexual lifestyle."

"Even if you're not in the Episcopal church it's been evident for some time that it's coming. And it'll be done through the courts..."

The homosexual community's infiltration of the church, in order to undermine and destroy its authority, has been part of a well planned and well funded campaign that has been going on for years.

An excerpt from: The Overhauling of Straight America:

"While public opinion is one primary source of mainstream values, religious authority is the other. When conservative churches condemn gays, there are only two things we can do to confound the homophobia of true believers.

First, we can use talk to muddy the moral waters. This means publicizing support for gays by more moderate churches, raising theological objections of our own about conservative interpretations of biblical teachings, and exposing hatred and inconsistency.

Second, we can undermine the moral authority of homophobic churches by portraying them as antiquated backwaters, badly out of step with the times and with the latest findings of psychology. Against the mighty pull of institutional Religion one must set the mightier draw of Science and Public Opinion (the shield and word of that accursed “secular humanism”).

Such an unholy alliance has worked well against churches before, on such topics as divorce and abortion. With enough open talk about the prevalence and acceptability of homosexuality, that alliance can work again here..."

An excerpt from: In Their Own Words: The Homosexual Agenda:

"Homosexual activist Michelangelo Signorile, who writes periodically for The New York Times, summarizes the agenda in OUT magazine:

...to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes, but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution... The most subversive action lesbian and gay men can undertake --and one that would perhaps benefit all of society--is to transform the notion of family entirely." "Its the final tool with which to dismantle all sodomy statues, get education about homosexuality and AIDS into the public schools and in short to usher in a sea change in how society views and treats us."

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Good v homosexuality ... last stand of the Bible quoters

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your church....while many of the parishoners of my former Catholic church are in denial, it is all ready there. That is why I left!

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"The homosexual movement has a history of trying to claw its way into places its agenda doesn’t belong, not for the betterment of mankind, but simply to legitimize and normalize perverse behavior. This is apparent in the all-too-common need of homosexuals to declare their sexuality rather than simply do the job they sign on to do.

This is extremely detrimental - first, it creates conflict with others as most believe homosexuality to be wrong, and it shows that the full efforts of the employed homosexual are not going towards performing the task at hand but largely to declaring their lifestyle. When it comes to serious concerns such as the Church, schools, and the Boy Scouts that involve our children, we can’t take the risk of giving them this power to destroy the values we as parents try to instill, nor can we put our country’s welfare at stake by turning these pivotal foundational institutions and our military into homosexual social experiments.

The homosexual movement is marked by two major tendencies: the tendency to continually infiltrate all good aspects of society; and once they have achieved that, the tendency to destroy this good. Public education, the Boy Scouts, the military, and now the Catholic Church have been targeted, and all have been hurt by the effects of homosexuality. The media and the Church must break its silence towards this enemy. If they do not, the people themselves must rise up and expose it..."

-- Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Homosexual Priests: A Time for Truth, The Washington Dispatch, May 6, 2002

"I would rather walk a mile barefoot on broken glass than endure a confrontation with homosexual zealots. However, that less painful path cannot be responsibly taken. What choice is there but to stand in opposition to homosexual activists with their in-your face arrogance, their malicious attacks on religion, family values and moral standards, and, in essence, their demand that American society be turned upside down and inside out to accommodate their sexual disorientations?"

-- Linda Bowles, Defending Dr. Laura and America, May 31, 2000

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