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:
Try reading the thread.
You'll see a desire to imprison people for the crime of homosexuality, on prominent display.
And this is well within your rights.
It is also within your rights to strenuously oppose them, provided you do not violate their rights in the process.
And what do you call their rights?
Tell that to Jesse Dirkhising
I most certainly did not. You want to prohibit a certain type of public behavior by one group of people that you feel is completely acceptable public behavior in a heterosexual group of people.
What part of "equal" (as in "equal rights") don't you understand?
Here's the easy question to ask yourself: would that kind of behavior be tolerable if the title of the march were "Normal Everyday Person Pride"?
If you want to get a group of heterosexuals together to stage a parade where you bring your wife and your kids out in public to demonstrate the love and affection that exists in a heterosexual, married environment, by holding hands with your wife and kids and giving her the occasional peck on the cheek as you march down the street, then I think you will not have wasted your time. You will have made a strong statement to the homosexual community about 1) your beliefs as to correct and God-ordained family relationships, and 2) proper public displays of affection.
But, instead, it seems you'd rather just pass laws that put people in jail and see to it that vengeance is exercised right now.
Be an example, not a judge. "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." Judgment is in the hands of God; your job is to attempt to save people before then and not to be in a hurry to convict. Whose side are you on?
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Would you care to clarify your statement for me?
Are you suggesting that every homosexual is a pedophile?
That's a bit silly on it's face, don't you think?
Aren't they the same as yours?
But does this make homosexuality a crime?
Or does the crime remain pedophilia?
I have no obligation to sit idly by while objectivists try to hijack conservatism.
Shall we also discuss the pretty thought held in common by Margaret Sanger and Ayn Rand that charity is cruelty?
You may start a thread. What you may not do is control all sides of the discussion. I would like you to make an honest revelation as to the totality of your belief structure so that your fellow posters may see it all. I cannot compel you. Mine is Roman Catholicism. Am I a witch doctor, therefore? And, what's your agenda?????
The private practice of homosexual sex (in recent times) ended in the late 1960's. Homosexual activists took it out of the bedroom (the closet) and demanded the PUBLIC affirmation of homosexual sex along with special legal rights. It has long since become a very public agenda in government, in the courts, in schools, in the church.
There is only one way. Repeal the laws the same way they got there and through the same govt that put them there. There is no other way.
Everything else is just talk. Same old big talk day after day. No action. And those laws stay on the books while we talk big. Why? Unless we enlist the govt to remove these unconstitutional laws...they remain. And that's bull s...!
I perceived your statement to be a threat against me.
I'm more than happy to give you the opportunity to correct my misunderstanding (if that's what it was).
Ohhh, I just have to...no, I can't...but it's funny...how could I even...no...it's, er Free Republic...a family board...fine, then...hrumph.
After lenghty deliberations, I have decided against making a funny out of the quoted statement.
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