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:
I'd wager that we agree on far more than not.
So you're going to "outlaw" public schools, for example. So my community gets together and says "well, we're going to have a public school." So the Libertine Gestapo marches, and burns out this "statist cell," eh?
What hypocrites.
All monothematics--QUACKS---have that vice.
No doubt, I just mean that most of our conversations have been spent vehemently arguing about religious issues.
So it's pleasant to be on the same side of an argument with you. Lead the charge, I'm right behind you on this. (that's probably not the right choice of words for a thread with homosexual in the title :))
Yes. In the same way that they see their parents driving the family minivan, but know they can't do it themselves. Adulthood and childhood are two different worlds. They must be kept seperated in most matters, not just sexuality.
So, what is the practice of homosexuality? It is sodomy. What is sodomy? It is anal sex. What is anal sex?
Are you implying that heterosexual romping is any less gorey to describe in detail? Would you be comfortable watching Larry Flynt do Rosie O'Donnell doggie, and then have to describe what you saw on national television?
Btw, is Genesis 18-19 at all informative to those of you who have never yet read it?
I have read the Bible, both the Old and the New Testaments, as well as much of the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. If I don't believe, as many don't, that it is the revealed will of God and an accurate account of history in every case, does that make my opinion illegitimate?
And we're going to take your money at gunpoint to fund it. And we're going to teach ideas that are absolutely contrary to everything you stand for. And if you don't like it, you can kiss our a$$.... cause we're the majority after all.
Great position you're advocating.
You're a socialist.
Her followers are not at all necessarily homosexual but they certainly have no moral objection to those who are, likewise with adultery. It is hard to worship la Rand while recognizing marriage as a contract. Rand is quite confused on matters of this sort. La Rand was a very jealous ideological taskmaster and would brook no heresy. To be a Randian one must learn to slavishly adapt to the values (???) of the Randian cult. She excommunicated Murray Rothbard for marrying an Episcopalian, no less.
Randianism, aka Objectivism, is more than just economic libertarianism or even libertarianism as to your personal "lifestyle." If you really want to be a Randian (and I am not suggesting that you do but rather that OWK is), it is regrettably necessary to regard religion as "the witch doctor." As with Margaret Sanger, don't believe me. Read Rand's shrill essays. She was the the ayatollah of godless capitalism. The godless part being at least as important as the capitalist part.
Finally, she urged people in her newsletter to vote against Ronald Reagan in 1980 because his election would be the worst thing that could possibly happen that year because he was opposed to abortion. To make a long story short, Ronald Reagan was elected and re-elected and probably did a better job than James Earl Carter did or Wally Mondale would have done even though both favored abortion.
As they say, the devil can quote the Bible to his own purposes. I have no doubt that OWK would abolish government schools as socialist institutions. That too is perfectly Randian but it is the advancing of moral degeneracy that was Rand's real forte. A close reading of her novels and their main characters also displays a soft spot for sado-masochism.
Many of us thrilled to Randian prose as unsophisticated teenagers. Most of us have grown up.
Actually, private sexuality is really not what the debate is about. Civil marriage is a public matter, as is the adoption of children. Sex acts in public bathrooms and parks are, obviously, a public matter.
The spread of disease is a public matter and the dissemation of accurate information concerning how the disease is spread is a critically public matter. How to prioritize the use of limited public money to contain and seek cures for all disease is a public matter.
What requirments to place on military personnel to have the most effective force is also a public matter.
I will grant you that the hiring and firing of one's employees is -- or should be -- a private matter.
Well, why not? It worked for the soft-porn industry. Noe Americans accept near-porno on network TV during children's viewing hours. If they'll tolerate that, why not try it for perverts? Hell, soon we'll see liberals demanding civil rights for pedophiles...... oops. Too late!
Then you should be in favor of passing a law to make it illegal for everyone to display pictures of either their "partner" or their wife and kids on their desk at the workplace, for example. Both are a declaration of one's sexual "orientation".
Why not actually discuss the substance of the thread?
I guess it's easier to engage in a bit of misdirection and subterfuge.
This thread was fine until you came along. Take your hysteria to people who want to hear it.
Apparently you would prefer to place the blame somewhere else when someone holds up the mirror to you and you find that you don't like what you see.
Do you actually think before you post stuff like this. Or is thinking just too difficult...
George Bush -- talking through his hat with his gramscian-marxist "School to Work" program -- was very big on "returning control to the community". Surely if Bush can faintly discern the Feds' overreach of power in this instance, so can you.
It is not the job of the government to ensure the "rights" of education, healthcare, housing, security, prosperity, "happiness" (via all manner of base gratification and imposing of "personal values" on the rest).
Particularly when the government couches these "rights" in terms of the citizenry's "giving up civil liberties in exchange for" these new rights some think it's the government's job to provide.
This is the road to the welfare state.
It's very likely we can thank our Public Schools for turning out folks who'll scream "Fascist!" at the likes of OWK while defending the government's hand in the deconstruction of the American mind that is Public School Education.
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