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:
And you as a consumer of television programming, have the right to turn off the television, refuse to purchase products from the sponsors of such programming, start a competitive network, protest, and otherwise oppose this kind of programming.
What you do NOT have the right to do, is enlist the help of government guns to prohibit it.
I'm totally opposed to this nonsense that often comes from the Gay rights movement of trying to push homosex on the rest of the country, especially through school sex ed programs. Not only is it ridiculous and impossible, but it gives people like Rev. Sheldon an arsenal of armor piercing rounds to shoot back with. Having said that, I simply can't understand, for the life of me, why so many conservative Christians focus so passionately on homosexuality as the chief cultural threat to defeat. Promiscuous heterosexuality is, by far, the greatest threat to marriage and the family, not gayety.
So far, this is the most intelligent post toaday!
Me too, but my suggested answer to that problem, is the elimination of the socialist construct known as "public schools".... not government control of homosexuals.
Well, I contend that queers are so bitter that they have been inflicted with a disease that is caused by their lifestyle, that they would like every segement of society exposed to it so it won't be called a "gay disease". Just MHO.
Oh, absolutely. And, yes, people should be able to ride any way they like without fear of imprisonment.
It seems to me that same-sex attraction, like other biological characteristics, probably forms a bell-curve. The 2 1/2 to 5 % of the population at one end of the curve are obligate heterosexuals, the 2 1/2 to 5 % at the other end obligate homosexuals. The remaining 90-95% are in the middle. However, behavior and conditioning are strongly skewed toward heterosexuality by other factors, including cultural pressures, desire to procreate, etc., et al.
There are other causes of homosexuality as well.
Negative conditioning, for example: A victim of heterosexual childhood abuse, for one example, may find it impossible to relate sexually and emotionally to members of the opposite sex in a healthy way, and may be driven to homosexuality.
Isolation from normal heterosexual access is another--prisons, for example.
Evidently, cultural structuring and conditioning can be a cause. We see this in the reports from Afghanistan and other Islamic countries, and this probably also played a role in ancient Greece.
I believe homosexuals when they say that they have always been this way and cannot change.
This is by no means an endorsement of homosexuality or any homosexual agenda! I particularly do not advocate the public flaunting of homosexuality, and I think that whether or not homosexuals should serve in the military is a decision that should be made by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to what is best for the defense of the country, in their judgment, and that their decision should be final.
My primary caveat is that there should be absolutely NO tolerance of homosexual pedophilia (which I would define as any homosexual overtures (or more) by anyone 18 or over with anyone under 18) - it should be a capital crime and zealously prosecuted. Homosexual pedophilia should not be equated with heterosexual 'statutory rape' situations involving girls or boys in their teens, assuming physical maturity - there's nothing deviant about it. (I'm not talking about the more traditional heterosexual pedophila of adult men and prepubescent females - that's also intolerable).
There are a number of distinctions that should be drawn, but rarely are:
There is behavior that is criminal;
behavior that is not criminal, but not socially acceptable or even tolerable;
behavior that is tolerable, but not socially acceptable; behavior that is socially acceptable but not admirable;
behavior that is acceptable or admirable that is required;
there is behavior that is admirable, but not required; and
behavior that is especially admirable, but goes so far beyond what is expected that it is heroic (superogatory acts).
Notice that the law can only sanction criminal acts, those which are prohibited. What has happened in the past decade of Clintonism is that people are seriously arguing that any behavior that is not illegal is acceptable. This is arrant nonsense. There are many areas where the use of the power of the state is inappropriate, but private, voluntary social sanctions (e.g. refusing to trade, snubbing, etc.) are appropriate.
Provided it does not lead to any diseases that can be transmitted to nonconsenting persons, and whose treatment has to be be financed by taxpayers.
You can choose your actions. You're not free to choose the consequences.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen was once asked, "What is the secret to becoming a popular preacher?"
"Easy. Preach about the sins they don't commit."
OWK: "THEY'RE STATISTS! BURN THEM!!!"
In the existing system we have, the govt. should not be promoting deviant reckless behavior and their philosophy, religion--life style!
...no matter what the people of your community think! The Libertine Fascist Front has spoken!
There should be no tolerance of ANY pedophilia, heterosexual, or homosexual.
Children are not capable of understanding the implications and consequences of consenting to sexuality, and therefore cannot express consent. Hence anyone engaging a child in sexual activity is doing so in the absence of consent (even if operating under the pretense of consent).
In my opinion, pedophiles should suffer profoundly harsh punishment.
(and for the record, I made it very clear in my previous posts that I was discussing consenting adults)
Good to speak with you my friend.
I see that Ellen's show is being cancelled (again). Seems that a lot of Americans just aren't interested in having a camel in the tent.....
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!
All these problems are limited to or caused by homosexuals?
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