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:
So you're saying that public schools are an inherent good, and God wants us to have them (but my atheism just won't let me understand)?
Is that your point?
Who exactly are "the gays"?
Are all gays identical?
Don't believe everything you read.
Particularly when it comes from California.
22. Law is a solemn expression of the will of the supreme power of the State.
22.1. The will of the supreme power is expressed:
(a) By the Constitution.
(b) By statutes.
22.2. The common law of England, so far as it is not repugnant to or inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States, or the Constitution or laws of this State, is the rule of decision in all the courts of this State.
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Henry, you need to read the above yourself.
-- The underlined portions clearly indicate that the 'will of the supreme power' of the state derives from common law, and from our constitutions, which are empowered by the people.
The state has only delegated power.
Some of the smartest, truly well educated people I've met started from one room country schools of the early/mid 1900's. Granted, they were 'public', in the sense that a group of neighbors got together, built a schoolhouse, and hired a teacher. -- But they were a far cry from the institutions we have now. - And the kids are the worse for it.
In those days, only larger communities had high schools, [many of which were private] and again, the smaller the school, the better educated the children, imo.
The state run, consolidated public school system is an observable failure.
From what I understand HIV/AIDS are quite prevalent among heterosexual populations in Africa; while I don't approve of promoscuous heterosexual anal sex any more than homosexual anal sex, it's not just a "gay" disease.
I would agree with you that it's not really proper for the government to be spending large amounts of taxpayers' money on AIDS research. I would differ, however, in suggesting that the expenditure of such funds justifies government restrictions on private homosexual behavior. If someone contracts HIV/AIDS through their own stupidity, they should face the consequences. Activities put at risk those who do not behave stupidly or immorally [e.g. donation of blood by someone known to be HIV-positive without the 'confidential do-not-use sticker'] should be punished, regardless of the sexual orientation of the person doing them.
I prefer "ambisinistrous," thank you very much...
As for the teacher issue, that's been covered too. Abram Blau's The Master Hand of 1946 describes a school in which 16 of 34 2nd graders wrote with the left hand. Why? Because the first and second grade teachers in the school were left-handed.
Make no mistake, we WILL steal your children. Sleep tight.
Yes, when you talk about the gay movement and aims.
Yes, when you talk about the gay movement and aims.
To say all gays agree with the aims of Act Up et al. would be no more accurate than saying all Blacks agree with the aims of Rainbow/PUSH.
In both cases, the organizations which claim to represent a large group of people act in a manner detrimental to the group they're supposed to help, and rely upon the media to foster the image of widespread support.
Now imagine that idiots like this poster are a majority of voters......oh wait, they already are.
Are you scared yet?
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When they start asking for help to leave the homosexual lifestyle. You don't judge it for them, you just help them when they ask.
One friend of mine said he had a complete mental and nervous breakdown. That was the thing for him. Of course, it almost destroyed him. It would be far better if the mentally ill could see the need for help, and get it, before things get that bad.
It's a difficult thing. There are the ill and the enablers, but there is also the fact that dealing with mental illness is not as exact as dealing with physical illness. But one thing I do know, it doesn't do anyone any good to tell them they really don't have a problem.
Happy lurking!
Shalom.
Yes, when you talk about the gay movement and aims.
Exceptionally silly response.
Congratulations.
There are many outstanding people educated by the public schools throughout our nation's history.
Most of the attackers of public schools simply don't know what they are talking about. Millions of children are educated every year successfully by them.
Could they be better? Sure. We should strive to make them better not wholesale lies and misconceptions about them. Or pretend there is a private alternative for the masses. There isn't.
Of course, your statement has no bearing on what I said. It is foolish to expect those who do not believe that mankind is primarily spiritual to understand those concepts which point beyond material or physical existence. People for whom faith in a higher being is important don't have to justify doing something for the future generations and can see beyond their individual existence. Whereas the materialist would just ask "Who cares? How will this affect me?"
Thus, spiritually inclined people understand that the establishment of school systems to train the citizens of the future is very important and cannot be entirely done by private endeavors. At one point in human history knowledge was hoarded and restricted to small groups as within the Mysteries. Teaching was thru individual Masters and not for the uninitiated.
Later it was restricted (not on pain of death for dissemination as in the Mysteries) and only spread amidst the wealthy or those sponsored by the wealthy. As the concept of equality (only spiritual equality makes any sense since obviously men are unequal in virtually every other respect), freedom (once again only comprehensible as spiritual freedom) and democracy spread so did the understanding that there would have to be wide public knowledge spread through public schools or our Republic would never succeed.
Those with no belief in a spiritual world have great difficulty in understanding much about how this world has developed. They cannot understand either freedom or equality. How can one explain events such as 9/11 without an understanding of the role of Evil in the affairs of mankind? And one cannot understand Evil unless he understands the concept of God.
I keep trying, but it never seems to happen for me.
Got any pointers?
And God said "let there be public schools, so that the majority may rob the minority of their property, to promote ideas they do not support".
You mean like the freedom to rob your neighbors, to advance ideas your neighbors oppose?
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