'Gay Days'? The reality of gender-disorientation pathology - (strong arguments!)

TOWNHALL.COM ^ | JUNE 3, 2005 | MARK ALEXANDER

[CHARLITE]

This week, many an unsuspecting American family will travel to Walt Disney World, where they will find themselves at the epicenter of a recurring cultural earthquake. There, at America's favorite family destination, hordes of homosexuals will congregate at Pleasure Island for an annual exercise in societal entropy. "Gay Days at Disney" they call it -- though it is anything but.

"Gay" in the current vernacular is, of course, the term used by the fashionably PC to describe homosexuals. In dictionaries just a couple of decades ago, however, this same adjective meant "happy" or "a state of high spirits." A century ago, the primary definition was: "licentious, lacking moral restraints, leading a debauched or dissolute life." The Gay '90s, for example, were the final decade of what Mark Twain dubbed "The Gilded Age," an era of unmitigated opulence and unrestrained immorality among a subculture of the elite.

In light of this earliest definition, we're reminded of the inimitable words of that great American philosopher, Yogi Berra: "This is like deja vu all over again." Indeed, today's "gay" culture is equally dissolute, and its agenda is anathema to the bedrock institution of our past, present and future -- the American family.

Leading the charge in homosexual advocacy are groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, and their strategy has heretofore been an effective one. The ACLU will select cases in U.S. Circuit Court venues where the Left has installed a majority of judicial activists -- those who do the bidding of constituencies like homosexuals, in effect ignoring the Constitution and legislating by judicial fiat. It is these same judicial activists who affirm such issues as same-sex "marriage" and same-sex partner benefits.

The homosexual legal agenda notwithstanding, the question all enlightened Americans should be asking themselves in order to understand better the moral implications of this agenda is, which definition of "gay" applies to the homosexual subculture in America? In order to answer this question, one must gain some insight into the pathology of homosexual behavior.

The shifting paradigm of sexual morality is a source of much controversy in America. Homosexuals, though less than 3% of the population, are at the center of this controversy. The secular rights of consenting adults are in contest with the timeless natural order of the family and society.

To discuss the issue of homosexual normalization, we must move beyond the "pro-this/anti-that" labels and dispel a false dichotomy -- one that has infected our dialogue on the issue of homosexuality. Homosexual advocacy groups often rebut dissenters by branding them as pharisaical, intolerant and judgmental -- ad hominem accusations which serve only to preclude a consequential discussion of the issue. Of course, one's heartfelt disagreement with the social agenda of homosexual advocates has no direct correlation with one's capacity to love or have compassion for others. Nor is such dissent necessarily related to judgment, which is God's alone. Rather, it is about discerning between right and wrong and obedience to objective truth -- as opposed to conformity with a contemporary code of relativism whose tenets are "tolerance," "diversity" and "inclusion."

From a Judeo-Christian perspective, it should be noted that objective truth does not constitute law without grace. In fact, law in the absence of grace is meaningless -- little more than oppression. However, grace in the absence of law is, likewise, meaningless -- little more than licentiousness. Law and grace are, in fact, different sides of the same coin.

Understanding aberrant sexual behavior is the critical first step toward healing it. Homosexuality is sometimes a promiscuous lifestyle choice. Often, however, as understood by many medical and mental health specialists, gender-disorientation pathology is associated with childhood or adolescent sexual and/or emotional trauma and/or abuse. Additionally, homosexual modeling by an authority figure -- often an influential person with access to the victim through the family, church, school, neighborhood or media -- can result in gender-disorientation pathology.

Homosexual victims often compensate and cover their pain by manifesting some degree of narcissism -- an unmitigated expression of self-love. They compulsively indulge in aberrant sexual behavior to avoid reconciling the pain of abuse or homosexual modeling.

Additionally, while there was rampant speculation a decade ago about a "homosexual gene," that theory has been repeatedly rejected by both the scientific community and national homosexual advocacy organizations. It should be noted, however, that some children may be genetically predisposed to exhibit masculine or feminine characteristics associated with the opposite sex -- putting them at greater risk of being targeted by homosexual predators and more susceptible, psychologically, to homosexual modeling.

It is no small irony that the most outspoken advocates for the homosexual agenda are equally outspoken about environmental issues -- preservation of the natural order. Even the most humanist of these advocates must acknowledge the obvious -- that homosexuality is a clear and undeniable violation of the laws of nature.

Given insight into the pathology of gender disorientation, to abandon, under the aegis of "love, compassion and inclusion," those who struggle with homosexuality, is tantamount to abandoning a destitute soul in a gutter.

In the final analysis, there is nothing "gay" about being afflicted with gender disorientation pathology. Nor is there anything redeeming about those who would use a family theme park to advance the homosexual agenda.

(For a comprehensive response to the homosexual agenda in the church, visit http://FederalistPatriot.US/papers/03-32_paper.asp.)

Quote of the week...

"We know that obligatory homosexuals are caught up in unconscious adaptations to early childhood abuse and neglect and that, with insight into their earliest beginnings, they can change. ... But, when homosexuality takes on all the aspects of a political movement, it, too, becomes a war, the kind of war in which the first casualty is truth, and the spoils turn out to be our own children. ... In a Washington March for Gay Pride, they chanted, 'We're here. We're queer. And we're coming after your children.' What more do we need to know?" --Charles Socarides, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

On cross-examination...

"The assumption I am now challenging is this: that every desire for change in sexual orientation is always the result of societal pressure and never the product of a rational, self-directed goal. This new orthodoxy claims that it is impossible for an individual who was predominantly homosexual for many years to change his sexual orientation -- not only in his sexual behavior, but also in his attraction and fantasies -- and to enjoy heterosexuality. Many professionals go so far as to hold that it is unethical for a mental-health professional, if requested, to attempt such psychotherapy. ... Science progresses by asking interesting questions, not by avoiding questions whose answers might not be helpful in achieving a political agenda." --Robert Spitzer, professor of psychiatry, Columbia University

Mark Alexander is Executive Editor and Publisher of The Federalist Patriot, a Townhall.com member group.

[William Terrell]

Clarification: the right to marry someone they love.

And the someone loves their dog, their sister/brother? Should those that suffer from other mental disorders have the state sanctioned right to marry someone with the same disorder? Should bleeders have the state sanctioned right to marry?

We have a society to keep stable, here, for the good of all therein. Sanctioned and institutionalized homosexuality is either a major contributor to the destruction of non-invaded and conquered cultures in the past or an indicator it is crashing.

The sign of it is never good whether it is the engine or the speedometer.

[yetidog]

Disagreement noted, but I think it is erroneously based on equating love with "intimate physical acts." Perhaps the love and affection present in a long term gay relationship can be defended as love, but the abnormal oral and anal features of promiscious and short-term same sex "love" cannot.

[Charles Wickman]

Birth defects are abnormal.

Agree, and if we could "cure" homosexuality, and prevent others in the future from being gay, I would support research into this...
with reservations and concerns about eugenics etc.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Clarification: the right to marry someone they love.

Yeah, and so should Michael Jackson...

Some people love their sister. Some love their dog...

I just think you are a pervert weirdo...

[Charles Wickman]

did i mention i would keep laws against harming others, including dogs, children, and your sister?
i hope that is obvious

[squirt-gun]

No rational person can conclude that there is anything "gay," admirable, or worthy about homosexuality.

It is horrifying that many of our leaders in Church, government, education, and entertainment disagree and applaud this "Sad" and un-natural life style that is so distructive and disgusting.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Who is he that is not of woman borne?

[Charles Wickman]

I would love to talk about the subject with you little squirt, but my time here is over...

[Graybeard58]

There are quite a few of them coming out of the woodwork here on FR, usually recent members with marching orders from the Gaystapo...

I too have noticed more of the newer members defending the queer life style.

[Graybeard58]

I would love to talk about the subject with you little squirt, but my time here is over...

Maybe not over yet but with disparaging remarks like that to other members it may be drawing to an end.

[BobS]

"I too have noticed more of the newer members defending the queer life style."

Just tell them if they screw with the natural order of things 97% of us live by, they will get a big push back.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I too have noticed more of the newer members defending the queer life style.

It is too obvious to be ignored, isn't it?

In Plato’s Euthyphro, Socrates advanced argument that piety to many gods, who all want conflicting devotions and/or actions from humans, is impossible. Socrates exposed pagan esoteric sophistry.

Morality and all of its associated concepts are from the belief some higher power defines what is correct in human behavior. Today, "morals" are a religious pagan philosophy of esoteric hobgoblins. Transfiguration is a pantheon of fantasies as the medium of infinitization. Others get derision for having an unwavering Judaic belief in Yahweh or Yeshua, although their critics and enemies will evangelize insertion of phantasmagoric fetishisms into secular law.

Homosexual monogamy advocates are a cult of perversion seeking ceremonious sanctification for voluntary deviancy with anatomical function and are desperately pursuing some esoteric absolution for their guilt-ridden egos.

Was Freudian psychoanalytic theory of sexual stages in psychological development more accurate than accredited? The Michael Jackson Complex is fixation on mutilation of and deviance with human anatomy in the media. It is a social psychosis catering to the lowest common denominator and generated with Pavlovian behavioral conditioning in popular culture.

Should we really be canonizing special societal privileges in the law based on idolatrous fetishes? Perhaps homosexual marriage and civil union advocates could conclave to enshrine their own phantasmal state religion and consecrate Michael Jackson as its first ecumenical Pope!

[Eastbound]

"The shifting paradigm of sexual morality is a source of much controversy in America."

I don't think the immorality of less than three per cent of the population can be called a 'shifting paradigm.'

Remember the tater-scrubbing monkey story? The shift didn't come until it reached the fifty per cent mark.

That'll never happen. If it did, the human race would become extinct in a very short period of time.

'Nobody wants to produce
Instead they want to seduce
With a paradigm shift
Casting souls all adrift
We'd be putting our necks in a noose.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Leviticus 20:13:

If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

You wrote:

For whatever reason, God made some people love their same sex.

God does not call a particular behavior an abomination and then create people to practice it.

Homosexual activity is a chosen behavior. It is an abomination to God, and all who practice it are in mortal peril. And the day this nation goes so far at celebrating this abomination by legislating homosexual "marriage", thus perverting and twisting an institution created by God and an ordinance of God, is the day I hope I'm already dead.

A godless nation sanctifying homosexual "marriage"- no, I don't want to be around.

[KC_for_Freedom]

Yes, combat the FReeper, bring him over to the dark side. Use tolerance and civil rights arguements. "I only want to prevent gay bashing" BS. Assault on another is already a crime. If they are here, then its because they fear our reach.

[thombo]

Hope u don't mind some support."I think sadly that some people are gay from birth."I agree with your opinion.I think in time as we learn more about genetics there will be anwsers.I have a question.Let's assume that homosexuals reproduce less frequently than heterosexuals(a pretty safe assumption imo).In each succesive generation wouldn't there would be fewer and fewer homosexuals in the population?Eventually reaching the point of extinction of the homosexual trait.BTW to everyone else,i am not a Log Cabin Republican.

[IronJack]

what if gay marriage was to stabilize families?

Homosexual union cannot constitute a procreative family. It CAN provide a stable environment in which to raise children, but there seems little evidence that it WOULD. Most homosexual relationships are transient and concerned entirely with sexual gratification, not establishing a family unit (even one that is perverse). What if? I don't know. What if pigs could fly?

You have no evidence that it will dusrupt society by letting two women who love each other get married.

Yes, I do. By definition, it "disrupts" (your word, not mine) the tradition of marriage by forcing us to redefine it more broadly. An expansion of that definition, to respect the perverted wishes of such an insignificant minority, erodes the value of the tradition and gains us nothing.

"Marriage" is an institution consisting of two dimensions: one temporal, one religious. The state has no business proscribing the business arrangements between two people of the same sex. But neither does it have the right to enforce a religious validation of an abhorrent practice.

Homosexuals can be "married" in the eyes of the state without benefit of it being "marriage" in the strictest sense of the word. There is no need to redefine the yardstick to fit the measurement.

Why not impose harsh penalties for divorce?

Separate issue.

Wouldn't that help "stabilize" society?

Probably, but that isn't the issue here.

[Ender Wiggin]

bump for later

[IronJack]

I think we should allow gays to have the same rights that heteros have.

They already do.

[MHT]

Farmers don't control the media--gays do, from the film industry to visual arts to journalism, through direct participation and support of sympathetic co-workers.

As an aside, it was gay animators within the Disney organization that made DisneyWorld gay-friendly. To think that the same people that were making films that entertained the gullible minds of children and creating the fantasy of the "happiest place on earth" were doing some pretty deviant things for their own "entertainment".