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Posted on 11/15/2004 9:05:39 AM PST by gidget7
In the stillness of the night, what does a homosexual activist believe in now?
The record is clear. Two-thirds to three fourths of voters in at least 13 states this year chose to keep marriage traditional. They don't accept the "equality" of homosexual behavior with the lawful union of a man and a woman.
Those Americans who receive a paycheck from the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the American Civil Liberties Union or any other national or local homosexual rights group, may have always wondered, but now they know: They are dealing with formidable opposition.
In the kitschy cafes of Manhattan, or the trendy bars in Dupont Circle, or on Ivy League campuses, or in Episcopal churches in greater Boston, it may have seemed you were in the mainstream, Mr. or Ms. Activist, but it is now clear. You are not. You are far, far out of touch with real America, and so are your claims and assertions.
Do all these people actually "hate" you? Or are they stupid? Can you continue to say with sincerity that your Aunt Trish and Uncle Bob from Kalamazoo are the kind of dimwitted homophobes who will perpetrate hate crimes on the innocent homosexual? That their simple belief in the goodness of males and females as married people is a genuine threat to your survival?
Can you look yourself in the mirror and not realize that you are the face of the very power and oppression that you claim to be fighting against?
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They read the AIDS and sexually transmitted disease statistics, and are learning the truth about "gay" bathhouse behavior. They know about the quickie liaisons in public parks all over this country. They can see the hideous face behind the mask of "equality" and they know that our children are the ones most at risk.
I know that somewhere, there are "gay" activists who have their doubts. Who really do care about kids, and whose hearts break at the thought of child sexual abuse and exploitation. And they know that this movement is enabling it.
Next week, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force will meet in St. Louis for their conference, "Creating Change," with workshops on "civil rights" for not only adult homosexuals, but adolescents. Workshops will also be held by the bisexual caucus, the leather caucus, and those who advocate polyamory – sexual relationships among three or more people. Then the "genderqueer" caucus will also have a voice as, of course, will the transgendered – those who want to be the opposite sex. Whether it involves cross-dressing, hormones or surgery, it is claimed to be a "right" for teens as well as adults. Some groups say it's a right for children as well.
Is there any "gay" activist out there ready to quit this nonsense? There must be some who can step back, be objective and say, "You know, the majority of Americans may be correct. This stuff is awful." Is there any among them who can see how demeaning it is to every person who works for such "justice"? In their hearts and often quick intellects, can any among them finally connect the dots and see how this is not progress for our culture, but regress into barbarism?
I've debated a number of homosexual activists, and there are several for whom I had an immediate affinity. They may have secretly despised me and all I stand for, but outwardly we were able to relate as civil humans, chatting about homes, family, traffic, etc. And it must be that way for these folks throughout their lives as Americans, with neighbors, aunts, checkout clerks, cab drivers. Because the vast majority of Americans, even us conservative Christians, treat even those we know are involved in homosexuality with politeness.
And most "gay" activists know this. They know we are not the enemy. It is not us they are fighting, but the truth of God in their hearts, and all that acknowledgement of Him would do to their carefully crafted lives built on deception.
Humans all have a tendency to retreat to the familiar and the easy, even if it's painful and flawed, even if we know that change is a choice we do have. Alcoholics drink until terminal damage is done. The abused wife returns to the abuser. It's a lot of work to change, and the transition can mean loneliness, hardship and regret. Those who've left homosexuality say they did so with difficulty, having to unlearn habits of response and redirect emotions. It can't start without first, a different frame of mind.
Most of us are not fortunate enough to have Christ confront us directly as He did Paul on the road to Damascus. "Why are you persecuting Me?" Christ asked Paul in a vision. "I am Jesus Whom you are persecuting. It is hard to kick against the goads." And so Saul, the accessory to murder, became Paul, the greatest apostle. It started with a profound confrontation with truth, and deep repentance before the One he was really fighting.
When and if any should want to come before Him, no matter what they've done, He will forgive and repair. That miracle is open to all, without exclusion.
Won't you at HRC, NGLTF, GLAAD and the ACLU come and find the love and peace you've always wanted, now, in the real Christ?
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Linda Harvey is president of Mission America, a pro-family organization which monitors homosexual activism in youth culture.
hmmmmmmm will any of these activists actually honestly look and this and back down? I doubt it!
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Let us not forget those who consider someone HIV positive as being a carrier of "the gift". They are sought after by many to hook up with for the purpose of receiving the virus.
So sad. Believe it or not, my heart went out to those I saw interviewed. They seemed to be seeking martyrdom.
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It is sad yes. Now there is a new desease showing up due to homosexual sex. Even Scarier than it is sad!
This is one that really ticks me off ... I can't take my children to a public park that my tax dollars have paid for, because of the strong possibility of running into sodomy.
So to answer the question, "How shall they live?" I'll say either (a) celibacy, or (b) in another country.
Ain't that the truth.
AMEN to that!!!! Not only are they willfully passing AIDS and this new desease, among a lot of others, while demanding money to stop AIDS, they are taking more and more liberties away from the family.
This issue needs to die a swift death!!!!
Body Integrity Identity Disorder, or BIID, is a psychological condition in which the individual requests an elective amputation. Individuals with this condition experience the persistent desire to have their body physically match the idealized image they have of themselves. This desire forces individuals to deal with the paradox of losing one or more major limbs (i.e. arm[s] or leg[s]) to become whole. In their minds, “Less is more”.
I found myself musing that eventually they'll be demanding civil rights in the form of decriminalization of elective amputation.
Another reason to get a 2nd satellite dish for $100 and pay about $13/month for Sky Angel. And don't forget the A/V switchbox.
Shows like the one mentioned are all aimed at what should be called "Voyeur TV". This also applies to the so-called reality shows.
voyeur: noun: a person who gets sexual pleasure from secretly watching other people in sexual situations, or (more generally) a person who watches other people's private lives.
Yes I know. You are correct, and we do have 2 dishes. I never, as I said watch that show, and would turn off the tv completely before I would watch anything related to Reality TV!!
Anyway, as I became more and more Republican, I started doing Letters to the Editor for the local paper. I had one published about gay "rights" being a new kind of discrimination. Shortly thereafter, I had a friend of mine that I hadn't seen in years come down on me like a ton of bricks. I had seen him on and off for years, and while in retrospect there were comments that might have indicated he had "gone to play for the opposing team", it was nothing big. I had suspected he had become gay, but you know, it didn't matter to me. People in this forum can understand what he later couldn't: I thought his behavior was wrong, but I didn't reject him, so I never made an issue of it.
Anyway, once he found out how I viewed his adopted lifestyle, the guy when nuts. I was now a Nazi, a homophobe and worse. When I sent him a copy of my witness about coming to God (family muck, self-hatred, alcohol and food addiction), I received in return a registered letter informing me he had no interest in what I had to say, and that if I contacted him again he would see that I received a restraining order. (He works for Legal Aid...it is my belief that many people who grow up in really troubled home, as in his messily divorced one, end up in clergy, social work, or otherwise "saving the victims".) Even today, I still send him a faithful Christmas card every year...from a postoffice miles from my house in another zipcode, with no return address or signature. He should know that somebody cares about him...even if he's rejected God's love and power in his life.
I have had several friends who were homosexual over the years, and for most, the lifestyle ate them. Like any addiction, it started out as a part of them, but more and more it becomes everything. Every action of their life is seen through it, every choice revolves around it, and the whole choice becomes so all-encompasingly the central focus of their being that if you threaten it, you are cast into the abyss. I cared about my friend, I never rocked the boat in the years I saw him once and awhile, but when he found out I dared disapprove of his choices, that meant I rejected him. And of course, the real fact is that if he didn't drop me out of the lifeboat of his life, he would have to face the fact that I might be right...there might actually be a God who didn't want him doing what he was doing.
I don't hate anybody. But I do hate the sin that they do, and even worse, I hate them trying to re-invent God in an image that says He approves of what they are doing.
As I repeat over and over..."Judge not lest Ye be judged" is not a call that we are to be ostriches, with our head stuck in the sand, never daring to condemn what is wrong in this world. Imagine how it would be if the very Liberals who throw that in our faces followed that advice? No "Save the Whales!" No anti-smoking rallies! No Amnasty International! No Fat Cops! After all, how can they possibly judge other people's sins? Of course, the real answer is that Libs judge people every day. The real answer from Christ's toolbox is to judge people's fruits, and that we should judge the person lovingly, the way God does. I can look at a murderer and say that his actions are evil. As to what God will do with his soul or to punish him is God's job. If you judge a man's stealing to be evil, and tell him so, you may save him from further damaging his life by being thrown in jail. If I ignore his actions, because I can't judge, he goes on to be arrested and thrown in jail...is that kinder to him? The real answer is that I should judge others the way I want to be judged...I want my shortcomings lovingly pointed out to me by God and by those who care about me so I can learn and become a better reflection of Christ. (The Pharisees in Christ's time were getting ready to stone someone...in that context, you can see how Christ admonished them not to judge...in THAT fashion.)
In the end, it comes down to coming from a unstable home, of having conditional love from the world, and of choosing a way of life that "seems right to man" but isn't right with God. And when that one thing becomes everything you are, if the world declares the practice wrong, you have nowhere to flee. It must be the world that is wrong, because, when you are homosexual, it is all about you being more important than anything else in the world...even God.
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