Global 'gay' event targets Jerusalem

A massive, international "gay pride" event previously held in Rome, at the doorstep of the Vatican, has chosen Jerusalem as its next venue.

The InterPride celebration attracted about a quarter of a million homosexuals in 2000 and expects to host the largest "gay" event ever in the Holy Land in 2005, organizers say, according to the website Gay365.com

"An event of this magnitude has never occurred before anywhere in Israel," said Jerry Levinson, executive director of Jerusalem's Gay and Lesbian Center, Hagai El-Ad.

Levinson said his center, which will serve as the host organization, has its work cut out for itself because Jerusalem is intensely religious for Jews, Muslims and Christians.

Fierce opposition from religious organizations kept away "gay pride" celebrations of any kind in Jerusalem until last year.

The city was chosen after a successful lobbying campaign at the annual InterPride conference this month in Montreal, Gay365.com said.

Last year, an estimated 2,000 to 4,000 Israeli homosexuals marched through Jerusalem for the first time under heavy police protection and protest from ultra-Orthodox Jews and others.

The Orthodox Jewish groups condemned the June 7, 2002, march as blasphemy, warning it would drive holiness out of the city, the BBC reported.

Organizers called it a march against hatred fueled by intense religious opposition.

"We did not believe the day would come when this could happen in Jerusalem," one organizer declared to the crowd, according to the BBC.

"I think they have a problem, they have a perversion, it is a disgrace," he said. "Before, you would be ashamed of this. A person who had this problem used to hide in the street. Today they want to go out into the city streets and call it 'pride.'"

The organizers of World Pride Rome 2000 said they intentionally planned the event to coincide with the Roman Catholic Church's Jubilee Year, which drew millions of pilgrims to commemorate 2,000 years since the birth of Jesus Christ.

On its website, the International Lesbian and Gay Association urged activists to "Go to Rome, and show the Vatican" lesbian, 'gay,' bisexual and transgendered people "have as much right to freedom of association and expression in Rome as the Pope!"

But Jerusalem's Deputy Mayor Rabbi Haim Miller denounced the participants.
"I think they have a problem, they have a perversion, it is a disgrace," he said. "Before, you would be ashamed of this. A person who had this problem used to hide in the street. Today they want to go out into the city streets and call it 'pride.'"

I like this man. He speaks the simple truth.

No they don't.

I do believe that a "backlash" is coming down on perverts. People who have deviant sexual attractions and desires who should be ashamed, repentent and seeking help, and now "glorying in their shame" and doing everything they can to spread their infection, in every way. I think the tide may be turning. This article is a perfect example of how the homosexual movement is not about tolerance, acceptance, or any other of their smarmy, fake code-words. The "gay" agenda is about trashing the absolute moral standards that originate with the Supreme Godhead - that are extant in every religious tradition. Like a rebellious two year old, they want to destroy spiritual and religious tradition, defame religious institutions and natural institutions such as the natural family, and smash and pervert every beneficial and wholesome tradition that exists. They desire nothing less than wholesale destruction of civilization.

This is not a rant, nor is it exaggeration.

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:

[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture-- education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

Note # 26 for relevance to this thread.

Qwinn

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