Posted on 01/29/2002 5:13:49 AM PST by simicyber
Traditional Values Coalition Opinion Editorial For publication on or after Facing The Truth About Homosexual Behavior By Rev. Louis P. Sheldon
Tuesday, January 29, 2002
Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition
Washington, DC – In 1987, a homosexual magazine called Guide published an article that laid out a detailed marketing plan for selling the normalization of homosexuality through the mass media. The article, "The Overhauling of Straight America,"* was eventually expanded into a full-length book called After the Ball: How America will conquer its fear & loathing of Gays in the 90’s.
Authors Marshall Kirk and Erastes Pill, writing in the Guide article, note the following: "In the early stages of any campaign to reach straight America, the masses should not be shocked and repelled by premature exposure to homosexual behavior itself. Instead, the imagery of sex should be downplayed and gay rights should be reduced to an abstract social question as much as possible. First let the camel get his nose inside the tent—only later his unsightly derriere!" The objective has been to portray homosexuality as a fixed, unchangeable sexual identity—one that is determined at birth. This is untrue, but the propaganda campaign has largely succeeded.
The plan was—and still is—to present the controversy surrounding homosexuality as a civil rights issue—not about dangerous and unnatural homosexual behaviors. In addition, this marketing campaign includes an effort to portray homosexuals as victims of an intolerant society who need special legal protections. Kirk and Pill note: "In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be cast as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined by reflex to assume the role of protector." Kirk and Pill also recommend smearing their enemies, comparing them to the KKK and Nazis. They write: "To be blunt, they must be vilified….we intend to make the antigays look so nasty that average Americans will want to dissociate themselves from such types."
This marketing plan—designed to hide the facts about homosexual behavior, to portray homosexuals as victims, and to vilify their enemies—has been wildly successful. A compliant mainstream media has helped homosexuals accomplish many of these goals. One major newspaper syndicate, for example, has given homosexual activist Deb Price a weekly column to promote Kirk and Pill’s propaganda campaign.
Fortunately, there are still voices of sanity who are speaking out against the effort to portray homosexual behavior as normal and determined by birth. One such individual is Dr. A. Dean Byrd, vice president of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). Dr. Byrd authored "The Innate-Immutable Argument Finds No Basis In Science." In it, he quotes a number of homosexual researchers and activists who admit that they can find no genetic basis for homosexual behavior.
One of those is Dean Hamer who tried to find a genetic cause for homosexuality by examining the DNA code at the end of the X chromosome. According to Hamer: "There is not a single master gene that makes people gay . . . . I don’t think we will be able to predict who will be gay."
The words of homosexual activist Camille Paglia are equally telling: "Homosexuality is not ‘normal.’ On the contrary, it is a challenge to the norm . . . Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction . . . No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous . . . homosexuality is an adaptation, not an inborn trait."
Dr. Byrd’s article is must reading for anyone who wants to understand the true nature and origin of homosexual behaviors. It deserves to be widely distributed to educators, legislators, and to editors and reporters. It is available at: www.narth.com/docs/innate.html.
*To read "The Overhauling of Straight America," go to: Traditional Values Coalition is an interdenominational public policy organization representing more than 43,000 churches across the United States. For more information, contact Sharone Carmona at 202-547-8570. TVC's Web site is:
Oh please... you make the following statement:
It violates my Will(and the Will of the majority) Under modern theories of law "Will" is the basis of law see e.g. CC 22 "Law is an expression of will.
And then expect to be taken seriously?
Come on.
And you are WRONG. Citizens have every right to enlist government guns to intervene, refute, reverse, legislate (or what ever entity they desire to use) to ensure the social moral standard that has been savaged by government at the behest of the homo lobby in the first place.
Your premise of 'no govt intervention' is a day late. And a day short of the radical, homosexual agenda, with which is slammed into every aspect of the social fabric of this country.
'Get the govt out of the schools' mantra you spew is unrealistic and rediculous on its face. You know full well, your so-called solution is not even probable in the future, let alone today.
Your solution is no solution at all. Nothing more than an ideal. An ideal you may not live long enough to ever see. That dog quit hunting when govt got into the business of 'public schooling'.
"the privacy of their bedroom" yada, yada, yada. That dog quit hunting too when they took their bedroom to the streats. The public (govt) schools K-12, State Universities, public libraries, tv's, radios, books, etc are NOT the privacy of their bedrooms. For every time you post that bleeding heart mantra you get 5,10,20, 50 etc replies refuting 'their bedrooms'.
After the same old mantra, same old, you post time after time, year after year re this issue...well...you figure it out.
'repeat it often enough and it becomes fact' is your goal?
I am beginning to understand why people like Trent Lott have a future in the GOP. Just sit down and shut up is your ideal...it is working out a lot better than everything OWK has proposed. But hey, I understand, you having to take control of your children's education is just too much to ask...you would rather come home and watch jerry springer on the tube. Being involved in a limited government is just too much to ask...you would rather just let everyone else handle your life for you...
No wonder the dems find it so easy to beat you guys over.
If your daughter has that right, then in the name of equal rights, all people must be prohibited by law from giving displays of affection in public.
Obviously, your daughter doesn't have that right. However, you do have the right to teach your daughter that homosexual behavior is wrong and sinful. But you don't have the right to insist that government back up your particular teachings and beliefs by enforcing laws that discriminate against certain select individuals, which don't apply to others.
Nobody cares what sodomites do in the privacy of their own bedrooms. The trouble only occurs when it becomes public knowledge. To keep it private and not public I would recommend enforcing the sodomy laws and prosecuting individuals who let their private lives become public. The sodomite community does not want that because they want to solicit deviant sex in public. In bars, in bathrooms, in parks, wherever they may be. They also want to solicit sex from our children as the push for lower ages of consent. They want to remove the stigma of sodomite sexual practices and have endorsement from government so that when our children resist they can say “but hey look the government says it is ok.” The sodomite lifestyle is not normal or healthy for society as a whole and should not be endorsed.
You twist the words and try to convince everyone that you are just for equal rights (as long as it happens to be homosexuals)...the issue is public rights, not private (behind closed doors) rights. Homosexuals want supremecy, not equality. A bunch of sick people (who need help) trying desperately to convince others to like them for their perversion.
Of course they do. They can establish whatever morally-constricting set of laws makes them happy.
But they can't do it and then still pretend to be lovers of liberty and equal rights and freedom of choice.
Well, they can pretend, but it doesn't make it true.
And you are WRONG. Citizens have every right to enlist government guns to intervene, refute, reverse, legislate (or what ever entity they desire to use) to ensure the social moral standard that has been savaged by government at the behest of the homo lobby in the first place.
You obviously don't understand what a right is. You do not have the right to initiate force (government force or otherwise) against an individual whose peaceful and private actions have not initiated force or fraud against you. Sorry, but your "because the majority says so" advocacy doesn't wash. (although both you, and the liberal left have been quite successful in destroying rights with it)
Your premise of 'no govt intervention' is a day late. And a day short of the radical, homosexual agenda, with which is slammed into every aspect of the social fabric of this country.
And the only reason they have been able to, is that the concept of rights (which prohibit public schools, socialized medicine, affirmative action, anti-discrimination laws, and forced associations) has been sytematically destroyed by advocates of government control, from both the left, and the right.
'Get the govt out of the schools' mantra you spew is unrealistic and rediculous on its face. You know full well, your so-called solution is not even probable in the future, let alone today.
That's because you're too lazy to do the right thing, and would prefer to enlist government yet again (and further erode rights in the process). Simply whining "it's too hard", doesn't mean it isn't right.
Your solution is no solution at all. Nothing more than an ideal. An ideal you may not live long enough to ever see. That dog quit hunting when govt got into the business of 'public schooling'.
And so you simply shrug your shoulders, and accept that we have them now, and rather than eliminate them, you seek instead to turn this fundamentally evil institution to your own purposes. Like I said.... you're lazy.
"the privacy of their bedroom" yada, yada, yada. That dog quit hunting too when they took their bedroom to the streats. The public (govt) schools K-12, State Universities, public libraries, tv's, radios, books, etc are NOT the privacy of their bedrooms. For every time you post that bleeding heart mantra you get 5,10,20, 50 etc replies refuting 'their bedrooms'.
Once again, get off your lazy ass, and argue for the morally correct thing. Elimination of government "education" factories, affrimative action, social programs, socialized medicine, forced associations, and anti-discrimination laws... (all of which violate legitimate rights) and homosexual activists would be powerless to force any agenda on anyone.
But of course that would take work, and it's much easier to whine "help me oh mighty state", unmindful of the fact that it is state subjugation of rights that got you into this mess. After the same old mantra, same old, you post time after time, year after year re this issue...well...you figure it out.
Hate to throw the cold water of science on this discussion, but I couldn't let this pass uncorrected. Think back to basic biology, at the simplest level, traits are determined by two genes, one from each parent. If the hetero gene is dominant (a reasonable assumption), then only a person with two gay genes will be gay. A straight person could have either two hetero genes, or one of each and be a "gay carrier." The idea that gays would be bred out of existence is false.
It's probably nowhere near as simple as that and there are probably several genes involved. I do agree with you that genetics most likely provide a tendency toward one orientation or another-- a sliding scale if you will. There are the die-hards (sorry) at both extremes, with tendencies getting fuzzier towards the middle. A person just gay of center might be able to happily marry and have kids. Too much past the midpoint, though, and eventually nature might overcome nurture. Most everyone has heard annecdotal evidence of a happily married man leaving his wife for the gay blue yonder.
It's only a theory, but it appears to fit the facts at hand. For analogy's sake, I liken it to left-handedness.
Of course, that's just my opinion...
an adaptation to immoral and disgusting activity.
So, when you appear in public with your wife and children in tow, making it clear for all to see that you are proudly heterosexual, I suppose you shouldn't be surprised if somebody takes after your parade, either?
You have every right to preach that homosexuality is an offense to God and that it prevents those who perform homosexual sexual acts from attaining eternal life, but you are not allowed to force them into heaven by taking away their freedom of choice.
What do you propose to do with the children of parents who have no money to spend for their childrens' education? Since incomes are dependent upon education reducing education will reduce income personally and nationally leaving everyone worse off.
Public education has been one of the principle reasons our nation advanced so far so fast and was a very significant force for unifying the nation and its people. (I forgot you hate that don't you?)
My youngest attends private school but there is no doubt that this is neither possible nor desirable for everyone.
It is a lie that public schools are necessarily socialistic (even Jefferson, your hero, understood the need for public education in a republic.) Historically were they very useful in countering the socialistic lies.
Where do you believe you would find enough competent teachers who would work for peanuts in a private school system when they can't even find them to work for the larger salaries in public schools? This is true particularly in math and science.
As soon as any advanced society becomes wealthy enough public education is the first thing it establishes. But, of course, the whole world is wrong since it universally rejects OWK's brainless and ill-conceived fantasies.
That would be great, but it ain't gonna happen now, tommorow or even 20 years from now. We are stuck fighting the lies of the homosexuals that are force-fed to students by the gay activists of the NEA. Pushing the gay lifestyle is the #2 call of the teacher unions, only trailing their fight against vouchers or any other free-market solution. The article as written is accurate and doesn't call for the jailing of gays or any other government coercion, although I can't speak to the motives of any poster or do I care to.
No, we simply think people who want to put homosexuals in concentration camps, are expressing a position equivalent to that of the nazis.
Not as long as you continue to accept their existence with a shrug of indifference, and seek to control them instead of eliminating them.
I go to college, I see the so called "education major" B.S. This whole "Dealing with children who have emotional problems at home 101."
I thought the purpose of a school was to teach? Not prepare tax payer funded baby-sitting institutions. Oh wait, I forgot that's the point, isn't it. People love having children they just don't want to deal with them do they. You and your fellow citizens can go right ahead and have your city establish public schools if you see fit. But some of us wish to be able to be educated outside of these institutions and flourish because of it. I should not have to prove to you that I have been educated. If I can hold my own in society than that is enough.
It is funny to watch some of you whine and scream about liberalism in this country then turn around and defend the same institutions of said liberalism.
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