Posted on 06/07/2006 7:09:25 AM PDT by Antoninus
Excerpt from the book Twice Adopted by Michael Reagan, son of President Ronald Reagan. Michael Reagan was molested as a child by his male camp counselor:
A GAME OF TRUTH-OR-DARE
Kids who have been molested can’t even express what happened to them. They don’t have the understanding or the vocabulary to put it into words. Big people think little seven-year-olds can just got o an adult and say, “Hi, Mom. Hi, Dad. I was molested.” Bud kids don’t know words like molested and sexual abuse and child pornography. They don’t know how to explain to their parents that they have been raped.
When I was molested, I knew that what I did was wrong, but I didn’t know why it was wrong or even what it was called. But I was scared to death that if anyone ever found out about it, I would be labeled. What would that label be? I didn’t know. I had never heard the word homosexual. But I knew that the label, whatever it was, would mean I was bad. It would mean that I had been touched by a man. It would mean I’d be hated and condemned for the rest of my life.
As I look back and remember the guilt and fear I went through at that time, I realize that this experience I went through relates to something our society is going through today, more than fifty years later. I’m talking about the controversy over same-sex marriage. As I write these words, it unfortunately looks like our society is on the verge of accepting gay marriage. Let’s look, for a moment, at what that means.
If same-sex marriage becomes accepted as having equal validity with traditional heterosexual marriage, what kinds of social pressure will our children and grandchildren have to face? The gay community will tell you that the reason they want to be accepted is that they are born gay. There is no evidence to support that claim, but let’s accept it for the sake of discussion.
Now, if homosexual marriage becomes accepted as the moral and legal equivalent of traditional heterosexual marriage, then a time will come in the future when our children and grandchildren will no longer have to be born homosexual to engage in homosexual behavior. Because homosexuality and heterosexuality are equivalent, sexual practice will become a matter of choice not orientation. Guys can marry guys, girls can marry girls, or anyone can marry the opposite sex if they choose – these choices will all be on an equal footing.
There will come a time, not too far down the road – and the beginnings of this trend can already be seen – when the gay community will make young people feel guilty about stepping into marriage with the opposite sex until they have tried it with the same sex once. You’ve heard of the game of truth-or-dare. It’s a popular party game among teenagers. They player must choose a challenge – to tell the truth (usually of a sexual or embarrassing nature) or accept a dare.
If our society goes down the road that I see ahead of us, then a lot of kids will be enticed into have a homosexual experience on a dare. They will be told, “How can you know if you’re straight or gay if you never tried gay sex?” And why shouldn’t they try gay sex? There is no stigma to it. Gay sex and gay marriage are the exact equivalent of straight sex and straight marriage. There will only be one response that carries a stigma, and that is the response called “homophobia.” If kids don’t at least try a homosexual experience once, they’ll be labeled “homophobic.”
What happens to your kids or grandkids after they try a homosexual experience on a dare? They will experience guilt and pain in the aftermath, just as I did. The second they have had a sexual relationship with the same sex, in their own minds and in the view of society, they will be labeled homosexual. They’ll never rid themselves of it. They will live with the guilt and the pain that I have lived with all my life.
That’s why today I can honestly say on my show, “I admit it; I am homophobic. If I wasn’t homophobic before, I am today. I have a great fear of a homosexual community teaching my grandchildren that it’s OK to be gay even if you don’t think you’re born that way.”
The book Twice Adopted by Michael Reagan is published by Broadman & Holman Publishers.
"We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us."
Thank you for the post and ping.
Good informative read. Hits the nail on the head regarding specifically the need to legitimately discriminate against those suffering the homosexual disorder e.g. no homosexual male Boy Scout Leaders...
Whoever thought we'd come to a day where two guys having dinner together are automatically assumed to be sodomizing each other?
Exactly. I have a business partner who works near San Francisco. I can't call him my "partner" any more. So he's now my "associate". And we don't go anywhere "nice" for dinner... just the two of us. That would be a date.
What the heck is wrong with the world. God, bring your justice quickly!
In any debate, if you can argue the latter, the former is just a bonus.
If you cannot argue the latter, the former is not likely to stand to scrutiny either.
Hooters should still be safe.
Thank you Antoninus.God bless him. Wow .
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