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Facing The Truth About Homosexual Behavior
Traditional Values Coalition ^ | January 29, 2002 | Rev. Louis P. Sheldon

Posted on 01/29/2002 5:13:49 AM PST by simicyber

Traditional Values Coalition

Opinion Editorial

For publication on or after
Tuesday, January 29, 2002

Facing The Truth About Homosexual Behavior

By Rev. Louis P. Sheldon
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: http://www.thebodyofchristwebsitering.com/tvc1/pdf_files/OverhaulingStraight.pdf

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: www.traditionalvalues.org.


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To: Illbay
I propose that all public schools be ELIMINATED...

...no matter what the people of your community think! The Libertine Fascist Front has spoken!

The "people of your community" pay for their public schools, by taking money from unwilling participants at gunpoint. Perhaps this fact had escaped that bowl of grey mush you call a brain.

41 posted on 01/29/2002 6:09:44 AM PST by OWK
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To: Savage Beast
From what I have observed, I think that homosexuality is inherent in a certain percentage of a given population and cannot be changed.

That may be true in some cases, but Yahoo ran an article last year reporting a study that showed a 15-fold increase in homosexual sex among women over the last decade. This is clearly a culturally influenced change in behavior, caused primarily by the explosion of pornography, in all likelyhood (more women are obviously going "bi" - BOING!!!). Now, there are homosexuals who seem to be that way by nature, but alot of it is cultural.

42 posted on 01/29/2002 6:11:30 AM PST by helmsman
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To: OWK
I think this inablity to see that these 'consenting adults' are forcing what should be their private sexuality into our public lives and our living rooms is pathological.

Quite simply, if it were private then how would any of us know about it? The fact is that it is no longer private. Being private doesn't serve the agenda. They are attempting to use the government to make homosexuality the legal equivalent of heterosexuality so as to force us to acknowledge some nonexistant moral equivalency between the two. They'll never do that, of course, but they will be able to use the force of government to further marginalize and isolate people of faith.

43 posted on 01/29/2002 6:12:29 AM PST by FormerLib
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To: ethical
Has noting to do with "violating" anyone's rights.

Imprisoning people for private acts in their own house is a clear violation of rights.

But if the destruction of the family, the church and society concerns you,

These are all worthy institutions. Its up to individuals who cherish these to preserve them(not the government) - that includes a majority of Americans.

if the premature death of men and women concerns you,

People who die becasue of their choice of lifestyle is sad, but really none of my concern.

if rampant disease (including more hepatitis than they have assigned letters to) concerns you,

This is disease caaused by a lifestyle. Don't engage in that behavior, and it will be of no concern.

if the molestation of young children and the deliberate sexual perversion of the young concerns you then homosexuality will concern you.

Molestation is a crime, whetehr its done by a queer or a straight person. Given that 95% or more of the population is not queer, an overwhelming NUMBER of molestations are done by straights. Don't confuse crimes with private activities.

44 posted on 01/29/2002 6:13:04 AM PST by FreeTally
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To: Arthur McGowan
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.

Treatment of diseases by taxpayers (socialized medicine) is inherently wrong in itself, and should not be used as an excuse to commit another wrong (government control of the private sex lives of consenting adults).

And intentional transmission of disease (or transmission of disease by silent but knowing sexuality) should be criminally accountable (whether homosexuals or heterosexuals are the perpetrators).

45 posted on 01/29/2002 6:13:23 AM PST by OWK
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To: Illbay
Wrong. It harms families, and it harms communities. Although you'd love to continue to pretend that virtually everything "consenting" you do is your selfish right no matter the harm, ultimately you'll be proven wrong.

So you are suggesting what?

That the private sexuality of consenting adults should be subject to government regulation, permission, and criminalization?

That's what it sounds like you're saying.

46 posted on 01/29/2002 6:15:50 AM PST by OWK
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To: ethical
But if the destruction of the family, the church and society concerns you, if the premature death of men and women concerns you, if rampant disease (including more hepatitis than they have assigned letters to) concerns you, if the molestation of young children and the deliberate sexual perversion of the young concerns you then homosexuality will concern you.

Are you seriously suggesting that all homosexuals are promiscuous, devil-worshipping, disease-infested, child-molesters?

Think.

47 posted on 01/29/2002 6:17:44 AM PST by OWK
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To: FreeTally
Imprisoning people for private acts in their own house is a clear violation of rights.

If it was private, how is it that they can be prosecuted in the first place? Every criminal sodomy case that I've seen referenced on this board since I've been here has not resulted from a private act. Since you can't be referring to anything going on in the present, were you referring to something that someone else suggested?

48 posted on 01/29/2002 6:18:04 AM PST by FormerLib
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To: OWK
The idea that homosexuality in the private bedrooms of consenting adults is a pantload. The cost of keeping an AIDs patient alive is financialy crippling to the state, Insur. co., and any living relative. AIDs is just one of the many disease that come's with promiscuous homosexl. behavior.

Don't forget that the gay community can not reproduce therefore they must recruit, and they target the young, while they're still impressionable.

Rampant homosexuality has been at the core of almost every society that has collapsed from within.

It doesn't matter from a Christian or Darwinism point of view, either way it is a lose, lose situation. From a Christian point of view, we must remember that God love's the sinner, but hate's the sin

49 posted on 01/29/2002 6:19:10 AM PST by dagoofyfoot
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To: Khepera
Arrest and prosecute homosexuals the same as we do for people who have sex with animals or children. There is no difference as they are all deviants who deserve jail time. If they are in the privacy of their own bedrooms and between consenting adults then I would ask “Why then, do we know about their activities?” The answer is simple; “Its because it is not private” They seem to want everyone to know about it.

Apparently, you missed the rise and fall of your dream regime.

50 posted on 01/29/2002 6:21:14 AM PST by OWK
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To: OWK
Government is the problem here.... not the solution.

A nice post, but I disagree. The government is not the problem, homosexuals are the problem. If they want to pursue their sexual proclivities in silence, attending their homosexual clubs, steam baths, private parties, at home trysts, whatever....SO BE IT. They have always been able to do this.

It is their drive to get special attention, to get rights for being perverted, to numb down those revolted by homosexual activity until they deem it an acceptable practice, in other words, their drive to come OUT OF THE BEDROOM or OUT OF THE CLOSET and still be treated as others, that is the PROBLEM.

I don't WANT to know your sexual proclivities. I am certain you don't want to know mine. Homosexuals are citizens. They need no other rights than that. If they are upset that many of us find their sexual perversion offensive...tough. By keeping it quiet and out of our faces, they won't have to bear the consequence of their CHOICE to indulge in such crap.

51 posted on 01/29/2002 6:22:28 AM PST by Republic
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To: simicyber
The only people that should accept homosexual behavior should be atheist.There is not a religion of any kind on the face of the earth that has be around for 300 years are longer that does not condem this behavior.I know today some religions accept it but if there is a God,Allah or Supreme being it will be handled in due time and so will those who allow it!
52 posted on 01/29/2002 6:24:21 AM PST by gunnedah
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To: dagoofyfoot
The idea that homosexuality in the private bedrooms of consenting adults is a pantload.

No, it isn't.

The cost of keeping an AIDs patient alive is financialy crippling to the state, Insur. co., and any living relative. AIDs is just one of the many disease that come's with promiscuous homosexl. behavior.

Then stop paying those costs. Government socialism is the problem here. Not homosexuals per se. I don't want to pay the medical bills for drug abusers, homosexuals, promiscuous heterosexuals, or anyone else for that matter. The issue here is government socialism, not homosexuality.

Don't forget that the gay community can not reproduce therefore they must recruit, and they target the young, while they're still impressionable.

Then prosecute and imprison anyone who has sex with children. But these people are called "pedophiles", not homosexuals. Sadly heterosexual pedophiles exist in even greater numbers.

Rampant homosexuality has been at the core of almost every society that has collapsed from within.

Hmmmm... you must have some information I am unaware of.

It doesn't matter from a Christian or Darwinism point of view, either way it is a lose, lose situation. From a Christian point of view, we must remember that God love's the sinner, but hate's the sin.

But you seem to be quite comfortable hating both.

53 posted on 01/29/2002 6:26:20 AM PST by OWK
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To: helmsman
I agree with you.

I really do not like having pornography flaunted publicly. I am libertarian (or libertine) enough to think that people should have some sort of access to pornography if they want it in private. But I definitely do not like it made public. I do not want children watching it, and I do not like it forced upon me.

I feel the same way about homosexuality.

I remember, in Amsterdam, standing in the checkout line of a grocery store, with my son, both of us unable to avoid seeing a prominently displayed magazine on the cover of which was a close-up of a woman performing fellatio. I was offended. (And I am not easily offended.) If people want to watch such things in private, fine! But I hated having it forced on me--especially when I was with my son!! I could have just as easily been with my daughter!!!

54 posted on 01/29/2002 6:26:46 AM PST by Savage Beast
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To: OWK
I am you just need to read.
55 posted on 01/29/2002 6:30:05 AM PST by Khepera
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To: OWK
Apparently you have lost your argument and are resorting to name calling.
56 posted on 01/29/2002 6:31:00 AM PST by Khepera
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To: helmsman
Promiscuous heterosexuality is, by far, the greatest threat to marriage and the family, not gayety.

Your point is well taken.Once you arrive at the point that gratification is the desired end,how you get there becomes less and less important.What homosexuality brings into the equation is sado-masochism.

57 posted on 01/29/2002 6:32:46 AM PST by kennyo
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To: Republic; owk
I'm with you on this, it's the other side of the coin I think.

In privacy who cares what you do with the full consent of the other participants, those that do care have a problem and should go to a shrink.

But, the current homosexual movement isn't private anymore. I got one word for anybody that thinks it is: Stonewall. The rest of us in this country have a right to NOT see pale men wearing buttless chaps parading down the road, the rest of us in this country have a right to NOT have biker dykes handing little girls vagina shaped lollipops.

There are 3 rules to American society that a significant portion of the gay/ les movement have completely forgotten:
Don't scare the horses
Keep it away from my children
Keep it out of my church

Simple rules. Good rules. I'm not saying gays should stay in the closet, that's wrong. I am saying gays (and most of them do this BTW, it's the pride marchers that are a problem) should deal with their sexuality on the same level straight America does; that being you keep it behind closed doors where it belongs. There's no reason to be marching down the street wearing nothing but your sexual accoutrement. It's rude, it's wrong and one of these days somebody is going to decide they can't take this crap anymore and go after the "parade" with a baseball bat.

What we really need is for the "normal" members of the gay community to take over these events. I know there's got to be Log Cabin Republicans reading this: get out there in those marches wearing your 3 piece suits, show the world that gay doesn't have to mean freak.

58 posted on 01/29/2002 6:36:14 AM PST by discostu
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To: OWK
STATEMENT:"Homosexuality....does not violate the rights of anyone..."

Reply: It violates my Will(and the Will of the majority) Under modern theories of law "Will" is the basis of law see e.g. CC 22 "Law is an expression of will.

STATEMENT:"...provided it is practiced privately among consenting adults."

REPLY: A phrase loaded with assumptions e.g. tomorrow the legislature decrees an adult is a male ten years old. Unless the two practitioners are identical twin sodomites raised in a house and never going out they must meet somewhere outside the home. Their "courtship" in public is offensive. My 17 year old daughter has the "right" to be free from the sight of their courtship.

STATEMENT: " I think this obsession with controlling the private sexuality of consenting adults..."

REPLY:" I think this obsession with removing laws as to consenting adults is pathological.

STATEMENT:" I think this obsession with controlling the private sexuality of consenting adults..."

REPLY: This assumes the function of law is to control behavior. Where in the hell did you pick up this assumption. There was an older theory-no longer followed, that the function of law was social control. The law gives freedom. For the sodomite-as does any criminal-has choice. To do or not to do.

59 posted on 01/29/2002 6:36:30 AM PST by HENRYADAMS
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To: Savage Beast
I remember, in Amsterdam, standing in the checkout line of a grocery store, with my son, both of us unable to avoid seeing a prominently displayed magazine on the cover of which was a close-up of a woman performing fellatio. I was offended.

That is an outrage. Children have a right to their childhood, but apparently not in the Netherlands. Is this kind of thing typical in that country - this public display of hard pornography? If it is, do you know where I could find a nice place to live over there? Kidding, kidding...

Seriously, I agree with your points. Adult material is just that - for adults.

60 posted on 01/29/2002 6:38:17 AM PST by helmsman
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