Posted on 07/11/2003 2:12:34 PM PDT by apackof2
Selling Homosexuality to America
By Craig von Buseck
CBN.com Producer
In this exclusive interview, Paul Rondeau talks about his in-depth study, Selling Homosexuality to America, which was recently published in the Regent Law Review.
CBN.com In his recent study, Selling Homosexuality to America, marketing expert Paul Rondeau explains, "Among America's culture wars, one of today's most intense controversies rages around the issue alternatively identified, depending on one's point of view, as "normalizing homosexuality" or "accepting gayness." The debate is truly a social-ethical-moral conceptual war that transcends both the scientific and legal, though science and law most often are the weapons of choice. The ammunition for these weapons, however, is persuasion."
This article and interview explores how gay rights activists use rhetoric, psychology, and the media to frame what is discussed in the public arena -- and how it is discussed. "In essence," Rondeau points out, "when it comes to homosexuality, activists want to shape 'what everyone knows' and 'what everyone takes for granted' even if everyone does not really know and even if it should not be taken for granted."
"The first strategy of persuasion," he goes on to say, "is to establish a favorable climate for your message so that the communicator (marketer) can influence the future decision without even appearing to be persuading ... This is at the heart of the homosexual campaign: to get consent via social construct today to determine whose idea of personal freedoms will prevail in our legal codes tomorrow."
Paul Rondeau has been a senior sales and marketing management professional with industry leaders for over 25 years. He holds an M.A. in Management, with a specialty in persuasive communication. Currently, he is a doctoral student in communication studies with a focus in rhetoric and persuasion.
I wasn't on FreeRepublic during the Clinton years. Guess I missed some real good threads!
I've lurked other threads long enough to know that this is your M.O.
Me in "attack mode"? I can't believe you would say such a mean thing. I'm really hurt. (You must be thinking about somebody else )
Anyway..even if I was, you're the one who posted the verse that Jesus said we are not supposed to bring "peace" but should "divide".
So that means you are persecuting me for being a follower of Christ. Repent!
Fine. I'll concede. I apologize.
You don't sound very sorry to me. I think maybe you need to do penance. :)
Are you not a member of society? Are you not a citizen? Your vote could alter what some appointed black robe judge says about our culture. (i.e...sodomy) These "Ministers of Justice" were originally supposed to be of the greatest moral standing. The courts are now a joke, because they invent their own morality or laws out of thin air.
I think that the problem, our people don't know the course this perversion takes and how it manifests itself.
Thus we don't view it as a perversion of natural desires combined with rebellion, we view it as "natural". And nothing could be further from the truth.
I don't really have anything to base this on other than annedotal stores, but my guess is 95% raped when young and the other 5% just wicked. Which means I'm not unsympathetic to them, the damage inflicted on them wasn't their fault. But it is a perversion that spreads like a desease and it should remain a state's right to outlaw it.
I don't need to reference your previous post. If you say so I'll take your word for it.
But without being too nit-picky...I have to say that I'm not quite sure adultery and fornication are on "equal footing" with the practice of homosexuality.
I mean they're all sin...and God prescribes the death penalty for both adultery and homosexuality in the Old Testament.
BUT...it seems to me that homosexuality goes further than simple sexual immorality and disobedience to God...but also totally distorts God's design and created intent for human sexuality.
Now that doesn't mean that I think homosexuality is the worst form of sexual immorality around...I believe heterosexual pedophilia is worse because it violates even more standards of decency. As well as God's special care for children.
Jorge, why do I get the feeling that you are everthing but a follower of Christ. BTW...Catholics do Penance...and I'm not Catholic. If you are not going to accept my apology for hurting your feeling then I'll have to take it back and start flaming you. I don't want that. I don't want to have to follow you from thread to thread for weeks on end. I don't want to have to search for you at DU like some angry troll. Can't we all just get along.
I don't either.
But I do know that some sins have greater consequences than others when it comes to their destructive nature.
And God doesn't want us to destroy our lives.
While there is a hormonal influence traceable in a very rare percentage of homosexual behavior, the behavior is a complex mix of onset hormonal rage (prepubescent/pubescent) and choice in behavior patterns, IMHO. But how to explain the homosexuals who actually turn their lives around and away from the debasement of homosexual behaviors? You can tell a homo-activist by their insistence that this is not a genuine turnaround.
As human beings are exposed to notions of God and salvation, there is a very real tug of war between the 'adamic nature' we're all born with and the longing to commune with God, to be pleasing to Him not abhorent to Him. I think this is generated because of the human spirit within our human soul.
As the homosexual community seeks society's full affirmation for their deviant behavior, they cannot resolve the inner whispers in their human spirit ... they cannot mollify that which Holy God calls them to by forcing through their activism the acceptance and protection within this society or any society.
Much of the activist behavior of homosexuals is misdirected rage against God's still small voice calling them to reject the behavioral urges in favor of spiritual growth. Deviancy in sexual matters (whether adultery, or homosexual behavior, or addiction to pornography ...) is an immaturity in sexual development where sexual and social development run into the 'diety' needs of the adult human being with a spirit that will not be at peace until a relationship with the Creator is begun. It is the source of so many homosexuals that rage against Christianity. It is also the source of the demand to be accepted within a church community as if they are 'just like everyone else'. They are not like everyone else, unless everyone else is slave to addictive behaviors!
You wrote, "He wanted us to love him freely. Homosexual life is no life at all." As you know, when our behavior impedes our free association with Him, we are in a state of 'unrequited spiritual love', deep spiritual longing if you will, thus such a state in life is not 'aliveness', spiritually. I'm reminded of where Jesus said 'Let the dead bury the dead'.
And lastly, 'Many are called but few are chosen' and 'Faithful is He that calleth you, for He will also do it' (calls you to salvation for He will also save you). It is innate in so many to want to respond to God's still small voice by doing their own saving, being good enough to 'warrant' God's affirmation of them, not relenting to allow Him to also 'do it', to grace them with eternal life in Him. As Cain railed at God when told to bring a specific offering, 'I can bring what I have produced by my own efforts and it will be good enough.' But it never was.
Sure we can. But you need to lighten up just a tad first.
My response to you was meant to be tongue in cheek. Go back and read it again. It was a joke dude.
I'm not Catholic either.
I am rather surprised not only at your lack of sense of humor but also your hostility.
You judge me as not being a follower of Christ and then tell me that if I don't accept your apology you will "have to take it back and start flaming" me?
This is an example of what it means to be Christ-like?
I was trying to be light hearted and humerous with you... and unlike you, I've made no judgements about whether you are a follower of Christ or not.
Thank you for posting that link to my post. I stand by what I said....and I like the way I said it.
Of course if you disagree, by all means feel free to challenge it.
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