What it has to do with, is trying to tie a homosexual person to every non-homosexual in the country, to blackmail non-homosexuals emotionally into turning their backs on sexual morality in order to protect the homosexual person in the family -- and the family.
It's well known, for example, that social conservatism found its first strong articulation in the speeches of Barry Goldwater, when he ran for president in 1964, particularly from one speech he gave about three months before the nominating convention in the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Later on, one of Barry's family "came out", whereafter he took a libertarian stand on homosexuality, modifying his views to protect a family member. He did the same thing on abortion, because one of the women in his immediate family had had one. Late in life, his views on both subjects became very well known because of the activities of liberal (gay) polemicists.
A precis article on Goldwater's views was published by U.S. News & World Report in 1998:
U.S. News & World Report
June 8, 1998
SECTION: U.S. NEWS; Pg. 12
HEADLINE: Mr. Right
BYLINE: By Michael J. Gerson; Mike Tharp
HIGHLIGHT:
Barry Goldwater created, yet stood apart from, modern conservatism
BODY:
....It was during the 1980s and 1990s that Goldwater developed a reputation for apostasy. He defended legal abortion and homosexual rights and criticized the religious right, famously arguing that Jerry Falwell deserved "a swift kick in the ass." Some conservatives felt betrayed, while liberals applauded. But many of his oldest associates discerned no change at all, seeing a culmination of the frontier libertarianism on which he was raised--a visceral opposition to government's poaching beyond the fence of privacy. Charles Lichenstein, the research director for his presidential campaign, summarizes the Goldwater philosophy vividly: "If I want to go to hell, I want to go to hell in my own way." Goldwater's views were never religiously rooted, and his resentment of moralism was based, in part, on family experience. His first wife helped found Planned Parenthood in Arizona. His daughter had an illegal abortion in the mid-1950s. A grandson is gay and HIV-positive. "I know for a fact," says Lichenstein, "that his views against outlawing abortion were exactly the same in '64 as in the '70s and '80s. But it wasn't an issue then."...
Gays have been expressing an acute interest in using Mary Cheney in precisely this way, to attack the Cheneys and the Bush Administration on issues of interest to gay NGO's ever since Cheney became the likely vice-presidential nominee. Here is an excerpt from a gay e-zine article that ran in 2000; bad guys' names are bolded:
One gay Republican who's certainly inside is vice-presidential nominee Dick Cheney's daughter Mary.She attended the convention and appeared on stage with the candidates' families following Bush's acceptance speech the final evening. It was not immediately clear if her life partner, Heather Poe, was present. Mary Cheney declined all requests for interviews.
On the convention's final day, there were a smattering of unconfirmed reports that Mary Cheney will formally join the Cheney campaign staff.
"We understand they [Dick and Mary Cheney] love each other very much," said Human Rights Campaign (HRC) spokesman David Smith. "She often times goes on trips with him and they're very close. Both her parents have known that she's gay since the early 90s. She lives with her partner and I understand her and her partner go over to the home quite often, they get along as a family. The parents are comfortable with it and so is she.
"The crux of it is, it's going to focus attention on Bush's anti- gay policy positions, and Cheney is going to look quite mean if he comes out and says: 'Yeah, I support a law that bans my daughter from adopting a child. I don't support a law that would protect my daughter from discrimination,'" Smith said.
HRC Executive Director Elizabeth Birch added: "Mary Cheney is a bright and articulate woman. She is highly impressive. The issue will be whether she is locked away in a vault in terms of her public-policy positions that are well-known."
Until recently, Cheney worked for the Coors brewery as the head of its gay and lesbian outreach efforts. "I talked to her," Birch said. "I told her we wanted to be supportive and that I felt that merely directing all inquiries to the campaign was not going to work for very long because this is a radar-jamming moment where with someone with a record like Dick Cheney's, it is remarkable and interesting that he has such a dynamic [euphemism for "gay"] daughter. She cut her teeth on advocating for gay Americans as consumers. She's a quasi-public figure. The press will want to write about that."
Dick Cheney's record on gay issues includes supporting the military gay ban and voting against the Hate Crimes Statistics Act in 1988 as a congressman. George W. Bush is on record opposing job protections for gay people and gay adoption. He scuttled hate-crime legislation in Texas and has vowed to abolish the position of White House liaison to the gay community.
In an interview with journalist Cokie Roberts, Dick Cheney's wife, Lynne, seemingly attempted to shove Mary back in the closet. When Roberts said Mary is an open lesbian, Lynne shot back: "Mary has never declared such a thing. I would like to say that I'm appalled at the media interest in one of my daughters. I have two wonderful daughters. I love them very much. They are bright; they are hard-working; they are decent. And I simply am not going to talk about their personal lives. And I'm surprised, Cokie, that even you would want to bring it up on this program."
But Mary has declared such a thing, repeatedly. For instance, she told Girlfriends magazine, "The reason I came to work here [at Coors] is because I knew several other lesbians who were very happy here."
Strategist [Mary] Matalin acknowledged Mary Cheney's sexual orientation and told this reporter: "Mary Cheney knows how to speak knowledgeably, reasonably, calmly and confidently on gay issues and [she] has. I hope she does. I don't know what her demands for privacy will be." [Emphasis added]
Source: "DID THE GOP REACH OUT TO GAYS?", by Rex Wockner [story originally filed Aug. 5, 2000], published online by The Wockner Wire column at 365Gay.com.
Archive link: http://members.aol.com/wockner/gop.html
The significance of this excerpt is to show the propaganda interest of the Human Rights Campaign in particular (the Log Cabin Republicans have recently distanced themselves from the HRC on "outing" Mary Cheney for political mileage), that it goes back four years, and the reference by slugtrail generator Elizabeth Birch to "jamming".
"Jamming" is a term also used by homosexual archpropagandists Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen (the pseudonymous "Erastes Pill") in "Overhauling Straight America", the Washington, DC Guide article that they later rewrote into After the Ball. "Jamming" refers to a specific propaganda technique of great value, the purpose of which is (utterly without reference to merit or truth) to make people defensive, uncertain, and nervous about their moral values and opinions. It's a form of moral and emotional blackmail that feeds back negative judgments of the targets' own self-worth, based on their opinions -- in order to induce them to jettison their opinions. "Jamming" has nothing to do with "the truth", but is an open, polemical attack on a person or persons that is comparable to mugging rather than to honest discussion or debate. And it is right at the top of Elizabeth Birch's agenda.
Thank you for a very informative post.
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Homosexual Agenda Ping - I haven't pung the list to many of these Cheney/F'nKerry threads. There have been many, with not a lot of light shed.
But lentulusgracchus has posted a lot of very good information - check out his comments!
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