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:
Incidentally, I understand that such practices still occur in underdeveloped countries, where children are put out to beg.
Once in Nepal, I watched, for a while, a woman begger (a rather young and healthy looking woman) who had a little boy asleep on her shoulder. It was a good sympathy-inducer--in me as well as everyone else. After a while, I realized that the child was drugged. I wondered if it was even her child. Someone told me that a few days earlier, a suspicious but charitable American woman gave her milk and food for the child. As soon as the American was out of sight, the beggar returned the milk and food to the store and got the money.
Owing to the huge population, and dearth of women, I would imagine that, like a ship at sea or a prison, it's not very safe to bend over for the soap in China right now.
Ministries like Kerusso Ministries and Exodus, International have help thousands leave that lifestyle, yet the liberal media refuses to report on this.
I've always thought this particular charge against homosexuals is hilarious. It implies that IF homosexuals could "reproduce," then they would do so, and then have sex with the children. But it also implies that heterosexuals, who CAN "reproduce," do so in order to have children with whom they can then have sex.
I support this Idea.
You propose to help them by putting them in prison camps?
Don't mention it. Just a little juvenile toilet humor between freepers. And, yes, population density will have to get very bad before I succumb to the advances of Bubba or his brethren. I'm sure he's heartbroken, but hey. Now, if he were to employ cheekless chaps in the seduction of helmsman, then maybe...er, no, probably not.
There is no easy way. We need to challenge the SAD propaganda at every opportunity. Too often they are given a pass. We should challenge them to prove what they say. Normally they can't. We should press that advantage. Then we should follow a two pronged strategy. 1) SAD can be treated and often cured, just like Alcoholism. Those who want to admit they have a problem and seek help must be able to count on an unlimited wellspring of compassion. We should do everything in our power to encourage them in seeking help and helping them through whatever trials come along. 2) Those who don't want help should not be given special treatment. Like the alcoholic or the schizophrenic or the person with multiple-personality disorder, they should be treated like people with disorders until they come to grips with what is wrong and seek help. Please note, treating someone with SAD as if they ahve a problem doesn't require being rude or obnoxious unless they become rude or obnoxious. And there is no excuse for violence of any kind unless you are endangered. The social non-acceptance that such a disorder should enjoin ought to be enough.
I haven't decided yet on your suggestion that they all be incarcerated.
How does that sound?
Shalom
Then I would suggest its time for your annual sense of humor checkup.
So therefore if we discuss heterosexuality, it too is no longer a private matter between consenting adults, and government would be justified in restricting it?
I'm sorry, I just don't follow the logic.
Gee, that's mighty nice of you.
Be sure and let us all know when you decide whether or not to imprison them.
Heterosexual behavior isn't disadvantageous. In fact, within marriage it is advantageous and should be encouraged. SAD is disadvantageous and should be discouraged.
Shalom.
I hate to bring it up, but anal sex is said to be very prevalent among hetrosexuals. It's another thing I don't hear much about among people who rail about anal sex. (I'm not implying that you do)
I think we agree on that. But to expect such actions to come from those currently holding office is not reasonable. People whose viewpoints conform to the viewpoints of those who put our Constitution in place must be elected to office. But expecting voters who have no understanding of the concepts of "liberty" or "equal rights" (as is evidenced on this thread) to elect the right kind of legislators, judges or law enforcement office holders is also not reasonable.
The first step is to re-educate the voters as to what it means to be a free people. It seems, however, based on the contents of this thread, that there are many voters out there that are extremely education-resistant and who prefer the socialist, nanny-state condition of affairs to continue, while claiming to be lovers of liberty. Until the voters are capable of recognizing the difference between liberty and slavery, things will never change.
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