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:
After coming of age in the Clinton years I still have this ingrained notion that the "Left" will always be the main enemy of freedom.
But thanks for being the voice of reason here...
"An adaptation to what?"
The "adaptation" part is when they swap ends.
Haters of government constantly use such simplistic arguments "you disagree with me you are a socialist, communist, nazi etc." Of course, these types don't even know what those terms really mean and resist learning. They just make up their own definitions then pretend that everyone agress with their self-definitions. OWK is always doing this. However, I insist on precise, commonly accepted definitions of terms or I won't play.
Yup.
And unfortunately threads like this are all too common.
The last stats I recall seeing were that the public school students cost more by about $4000 a head per year to "educate" than private school students. Imagine what that money could be used for if it weren't hemmoraging into the pockets of the fatcats at the top levels of the administration bureaucracy, and financing the creation of the propaganda masquerading as knowledge that is typical fare ("standardized curricula") in public schools today?
Would you at least agree that Federal meddling in public schools should be eliminated? I would find them less objectionable if that were the case; even better if the states butted out as well and let local communities (townships, cities) decide for themselves how to best meet the literacy needs of their citizens.
Agree.
It would seem to present a difficult scnerio:
If sin were uniformly criminalized, wouldn't we all be in deeep doo-doo?
You did, as I quoted at #365. Stressed? -- Hell, -- you are practically foaming at the mouth. - Calm yourself.
Your statement inplied a background so retarded that it is hard to believe you ever met anyone who even had an education. One room schoolhouses, come on they don't exist except in very, very, small isolated communities in this century and are not only not a factor but rarely did a good job when they were in existence. Places where the schools are one room schoolhouses are the same places the kids are desperately fleeing because there is no opportunity to develop one self or find decent paying jobs. Places like this are dying all across the Midwest and one of the biggest reasons is their labor forces don't have enough education to interest modern industry which demands an educated workforce. But keep on praising the poor educational systems.
How strange, - first you say the local 'one room school' didn't exist, then you admit it is dying. -- Indeed it is, and our children are getting worse educations because of the mega-school concept.
Saying that I received an excellent high school education is "personal puffery"? This clearly indicates that you haven't met enough people if you think that is bragging. Some of us out there even have a college education and Masters Degrees. Imagine that. Private schooling is no threat to me as I indicated my youngest son goes to one. So that is a stupid comment.
My commment is stupid, because I had no idea of your school arrangements? What a self centered ass. - You just proved my point.
Unrealistic ideas are a threat to me, however, and the idea that private schooling is viable for the masses is totally unrealistic. Generally those holding such ideas are precisely those without much formal education.
Yep, a pompous ass, who is just doing what is right for the undereducated 'masses'.
Spare us, please. - Your type has spelled the ruin of public education, and now you want even more control.
Isn't worshipping a God other than the God of Abraham supposed to be a sin?
You might need to give this one a bit more thought.
All this conversation started when I merely mentioned that private education is not affordable for all and that not all public schools are bad many are very good and the best are at least as good as any private school.
I would not be upset to see the Dept. of Education dissolved and more local control. But even this is not a easily solved issue since some localities have to deal with problems created by federal policies i.e. immigration. Why should taxpayers in S. California have to shoulder the entire burden of educating illegal immigrants or legal ones for that matter?
Ordinary child abuse law can be logically extended to require parents to educate children.
Standards can be set, and be met/exceeded by individual means such as home schooling - or anything beyond.
And people, - communities have a perfect right to band together to provide public schools. -- But todays totally out of control tax supported bureaucratic nightmare of a 'system' must be corrected.
Stressed? Me? Not by a long shot. There is nothing you could say that would stress me. Heart rate slow, breathing calm, face not flushed. Calm, cool and collected.
Never said 1 room schools didn't exist. If there are any left they are clearly dying. Besides I was referring to the small communities as you could easily have determined with sufficient reading skills.
I will agree with you that some schools are too large.
No, your "commment" is stupid because it assumes I would discuss my high school education in order to "puff up" myself.
Sorry to intrude upon your delusions but I have never had anything to do with public education so couldn't have ruined it and most educators would hate me.
Of course, it is really silly to think that you would have a clue as to what is good or bad about education. Have you any yourself?
They shouldn't--this is why coercively funded public schools are fundamentally immoral; no one should have to support anyone else's education (other than that of their own kids, who they brought into the world and should thus be responsible for).
People seem to believe that since the public schools have turned away from their pasts and embraced leftwing propaganda as one of its major missions that means public schools are incapable of being reformed and returned to the right path. I don't believe that.
Church schools have an even more explicit "viewpoint" but that doesn't make them bad or good. You just happen to agree with that viewpoint. OWK would argue that it is just another form of propaganda. My youngest goes to a Lutheran high school and I don't mind the viewpoint it instills or tries to instill in him.
Since the states certify schools they will have some say over cirriculum, textbooks and standards. Problems arise when this is taken to an extreme.
Money spent on a real education saves far more in the long run when you consider the costs of just incarceration is over $25,000 per yr. per person. (And this does not consider the monetary and emotional costs to the victims of crime.) Money spent on real education pays itself back many times over.
You argue from an 'authoritive' viewpoint, - with yourself as the puffed up authority. Try some self control.
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