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The Gay Culture In Their Own Words
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| March 2004
| Sharon Hughes
Posted on 02/13/2005 10:25:28 PM PST by Mockingbird For Short
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Sharon Hughes
The Center for Changing Worldviews
Posted March 8, 2004
The Gay Culture
In Their Own Words
When we look at the changing worldviews around us there’s nothing like direct quotes to bring out the reality of the mentalities that exist around an issue to validate things as they really are or were. As America is being forced to address the legality of gay marriage, the two core issues surrounding this lifestyle - the causes and morality of homosexuality, are also being discussed once again. What should the attitude of law and public policy be toward homosexuality is being debated in academia, legislatures, on news programs and at dinner tables across America.
In today's postmodern society, which has let go of it's moral compass and is leaning more and more towards making decisions based on feelings and a "let live" attitude, it is especially important to know and communicate the facts effectively. As in all issues of great importance, this issue requires a knowledge of history, stated motivations and agenda of its advocates, the existing law and its basis, and the voice of wisdom based on time-tested (and dare I say, biblical) truth. To make a decision based on emotion or what we think apart from the facts is, to say the least, faulty.
While it is not the intention of this article to provide each of the elements I've just mentioned, I have listed a few websites you can use in your own research to help insure your worldview on this issue is based on facts and not feelings.
The Advocate http://www.advocate.com/ is the national magazine for the gay rights movement, and it's online version is probably their main news source. For instance, today's issue has several articles about President Bush's calling for a constitutional amendment to defend traditional marriage. They say "children will listen and hear that gay people are not part of the American family," that "the America created by our Constitution is not the country George W. Bush wants to preserve and protect. He just wants to be President of the United States of Americans He Likes." It also has several articles by Republicans, such as Patrick Guerriero, the leader of the nation’s largest gay Republican group, the Log Cabin, who is "furious over President Bush’s endorsement of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage."
Then there is the ACLU's site http://www.aclu.org/LesbianGayRights/LesbianGayRightsMain.cfm which advocates "Get Busy, Get Equal." The Lambda Legal site http://www.lambdalegal.org/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html which is the "national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, the transgendered, and people with HIV or AIDS through impact litigation, education, and public policy work."
You can see Glaad's media awards http://www.glaad.org/ and go here http://www.ngltf.org/ for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Policy Institute, the movement's think tank. Or to http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/home.html for Glsen's site which "envisions a future in which every child learns to respect and accept all people regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression." Youth.org www.youth.org is an online source of youth gay sites.
This site http://www.true-spirit.org/programming/03workshoplist.htm lists the workshops available at a True Spirit conference on such subjects such as the risk of breast cancer even after "...FTMs, transmen, or anyone born female-bodied who uses testosterone," and intersex activism ideas for "changing our world." WorldNetDaily wrote an article post last year's conference which had workshops on "How to Do SM [Sadomasochism]" and one devoted to "polyamory," an activist term for multiple-partner sexual unions, entitled "Turning girls into boys" at http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26569 . Also, an article on the ethics of doctors surgically changing young women's bodies can be read at http://www.americansfortruth.com/HRCTrueSpirit2002.html.
I would recommend reading "The Overhauling of Straight America: Waging Peace Part Two" written in 1987 which outlines the agenda and recommended steps to be taken in order for America to accept homosexuality as normal... " To desensitize the public is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen emotion...if you can only get them to think that it is just another thing, with a shrug of their sholders then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won. http://www.defendthefamily.com/_docs/resources/8142838.pdf
I highly recommend the Pro-Family Law Center's website http://www.abidingtruth.com which has a tremendous amount of research on the issue, as well as Changing Worldviews' Follow the Facts page under Dr. Christopher Wolfe's interview with us at http://www.changingworldviews.com/FollowTheFacts.htm#82 for additional resources such as People Can Change http://www.peoplecanchange.com/ and Is Homosexuality Genetic? http://www.narth.com/menus/born.html.
And, as suggested in my opening sentence, let me close with just few random quotes of gay rights advocates which express the Gay culture... in their own words:
"There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex…(but) they should draw the line at goats." -Elton John
"Just simply to say that it goes against tradition and the teaching of the church and Scripture does not necessarily make it wrong." -Bishop V. Gene Robinson of the Episcopal Church (newly ordained openly gay bishop)
I'm a transgender activist. Not only that, I'm part woman, part man. Something out of science fiction. I'm a little bit of both, and I like it that way. I identify with a lot of you lesbians out there, since I live as a woman and love women. But I love both men and women, so I guess I really identify with you bisexuals. I think I could pass as just about anything, but who...cares, anyway?
-Nancy Nangeroni, Boston's Pride event
"Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers?" -Elayne Boosler
Just for the record, former Vice President Al Gore was the first vice president to speak at a gay rights event, where he said, "It is time for all Americans to recognize that the issues that face gays and lesbians in this country are not narrow, special interests, they are matters of basic human and civil rights."
Ad on a sign at a recent gay pride parade…”We are teachers…we are gay…and we teach your children.”
-Promted thoughts from my interview with Professor Christopher Wolfe on 3/10/04, which you can hear online at http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/changing_worldviews/Archives.asp
© Sharon Hughes 2004 Reprinted with Permission
Sharon is the President of The Center for Changing Worldviews, and hosts Changing Worldviews TALK Radio which is heard on KDIA AM1640 San Francisco/Vallejo; KGDP AM660 Santa Maria, CA and WITA AM1490 Knoxville, TN, as well as online daily at Oneplace.com. Her column appears on several online news sites including CaliforniaRepublic.org, ChronWatch.com, MichNews.com, NewsBull, NewsWithViews.com, RenewAmerica.us and others. For further information go to www.changingworldviews.com or comment at http://changingworldviews.blogspot.com
Contact sharon@changingworldviews.com
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: gayculture; gaylifestyle; homosexual; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; nihilism
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To: DirtyHarryY2K
A concise summary of gay-activist websites.
Also note the quotations at the end of the article!
To: Mockingbird For Short
I like the title "The Gay Culture In Their Own Words". You could have just sumed it up by saying:
The Gay Culture in their own words: Yes we are fags.
The rest just takes up space, time, text, harddrive space, and website bandwidth.
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02/13/2005 10:33:47 PM PST
by
Next_Time_NJ
(NJ demorat exterminator)
To: DirtyHarryY2K; Clint N. Suhks; gidget7; nicmarlo; EdReform; scripter; longtermmemmory; Antoninus
Sorry about some of the HTML that didn't clean up well. One of the most significant quotations at the end SHOULD read:
Ad on a sign at a recent gay pride parade:
"We are teachers; we are gay; and we teach your children."
To: Mockingbird For Short
"Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers?" -Elayne Boosler Hate speech! Intolerant! Mean-spirited!
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02/14/2005 3:00:06 AM PST
by
ViLaLuz
To: Mockingbird For Short; scripter; Clint N. Suhks; ArGee; lentulusgracchus; SweetCaroline; ...
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posted on
02/14/2005 8:35:02 AM PST
by
EdReform
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To: EdReform; scripter
Here's a GOOD MORNING BUMP to both of you.
The gay blades have been busy haven't they. That's a good thing, the more they expose themselves the more people realize how much of an AGENDA they have.
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posted on
02/14/2005 8:43:53 AM PST
by
SweetCaroline
(Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and lean yourself upon him... Psalm 37:7)
To: Mockingbird For Short
if you can only get them to think that it is just another thing, with a shrug of their sholders then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won. ....sad to admit this has worked on my young adult children.
BUT, MOM, THEY ARE JUST NORMAL PEOPLE WHO LOVE SOMEONE OF THE SAME SEX"
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posted on
02/14/2005 8:54:47 AM PST
by
SweetCaroline
(Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and lean yourself upon him... Psalm 37:7)
To: Mockingbird For Short
To: SweetCaroline
BUT, MOM, THEY ARE JUST NORMAL PEOPLE WHO LOVE SOMEONE OF THE SAME SEX" I don't know how old your young adult child is, but the correct answer is:
It's not about who they love, honey, it's about who they have sex with and why. Your (mom/dad) and I love lots of peoplel, including you children. But our sexual love is reserved for each other as G-d intended it to be. One of the evidences that homosexuals have a problem is that they can't seem to see the difference. (Of course, a lot of heterosexuals have this problem too.) Sex is a very special act that creates a permanent bond between a man and a woman so they will become a family. Everyone is born either a man or a woman and can only form such a bond with a person of the opposite sex. People who think otherwise are just confused. A man can no more "marry" a man than he can a goat.
Shalom.
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02/14/2005 9:14:48 AM PST
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ArGee
(Having homosexual sex makes as much sense as drinking beer through your a$$.)
To: Mockingbird For Short
Lord help us!! A lot I have of course seen before! To this: ""To desensitize the public is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen emotion...if you can only get them to think that it is just another thing, with a shrug of their sholders then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won. "" I say NEVER!
Elton John? There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex;(but) they should draw the line at goats." -Elton John
That about says it all as far as what the gay agenda wants! Doubt they would stop at goats! Sick Sick Sick!
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02/14/2005 9:34:08 AM PST
by
gidget7
To: ArGee
THANKS for the help ArGee I have tried everything I can think of to open their eyes. They live in the city of liberal idiots "SANTA CRUZ"and plan to send their daughter to the other evil city BERKLY (SP) and want my finacial help. I told them it would be a cold day in HE!!. I told them to go to the other grandmother who started this mess,a flower child from Haight-Asbury back in the 60's, who of course thinks I'm evil because I have money and don't have to live off the state as she does.
I GAVE UP IT'S NOT WORTH THE HASSLE!
I do pray for their souls.
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02/14/2005 9:42:53 AM PST
by
SweetCaroline
(Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and lean yourself upon him... Psalm 37:7)
To: SweetCaroline
I have tried everything I can think of to open their eyes. There is none so blind as he who will not see.
I do pray for their souls.
Then you have enlisted the aid of the One who can open the eyes of the blind. That is the best thing you can do.
Shalom.
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posted on
02/14/2005 10:24:22 AM PST
by
ArGee
(Having homosexual sex makes as much sense as drinking beer through your a$$.)
To: ArGee
My favorite phrase "LET GO LET GOD".
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02/14/2005 10:28:52 AM PST
by
SweetCaroline
(Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and lean yourself upon him... Psalm 37:7)
To: SweetCaroline; ArGee
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02/14/2005 3:47:49 PM PST
by
EdReform
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To: Mockingbird For Short
Every person is born heterosexual at birth.... Scientific fact.
Something goes awry during development and some develop a condition they do not ask for but then must stuggle with. They are called to overcome the abnormal sames sex feelings that result... not succumb as they have been led to believe. It's a travesty we've led them to believe this these past 40 yrs due to the sensitive nature of sex.
Pray for the truth to be reveled to them. Understand their struggle. Show them 'how' to overcome this unwanted condition. 'Change is very real and possible' otherwise the activist wouldn't be fighting so hard against it.
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02/14/2005 4:13:47 PM PST
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dcnd9
To: EdReform
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In December, People asked President and Mrs. Bush about civil unions. "Is a couple joined by that kind of legal arrangement as much of a family as, say, you two are a family?" "Of course," President Bush replied. Bushs acknowledgement (despite his support for an anti-gay constitutional amendment) has set an important new minimum standard for future dialogue surrounding same-sex couples and families, one that reflects an evolving public respect for our relationships that even those who seek to codify discrimination against us cannot easily ignore. This revolution in understanding and respect has been made possible by millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans who are coming out, being out, and living the truth of their lives for others to see. By families unafraid to publicly declare their love for and commitment to one another. By people unwilling, by word or deed, to tell future generations that our relationships are deserving of anything less than acceptance, respect and celebration. And by an orchestra of organizations committed to the strategic advancement of our movement. But at the end of the day, our movement must be more than a collective noun. It must also be an action. Even the most vibrant, vital community can, over time, settle into a status quo. A movement cannot. And the success of our movement is measured not only in the hearts and minds we change, the allies we engage and the civil rights we secure, but in the strength of our collective commitment to the pursuit of enduring social, political and legal change that moves us ever closer to true equality. Each of us. Each of you. Get involved. Learn more about the work of our movement's local, state and national organizations. Invest in that work. Encourage your straight friends and family to do likewise; give them the opportunity to invest in our future and theirs. Champion equality and respect in your community. Engage new allies at home, in your workplace, in your place of worship, at your school. Stand up. Spread the word. Share your story. By virtue of who we are, were a community. But it is by virtue of the decisions we make that we become part of a movement a civil rights movement working together to create a better, more hopeful world limited only by our ability to envision its promise and experience all that it has to offer. ________________________________________ American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Lesbian & Gay Rights Project Equality Federation Freedom to Marry Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Leadership Institute (Victory) Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Lambda Legal Log Cabin Republicans Mautner Project National Association of LGBT Community Centers National Black Justice Coalition National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) National Center for Transgender Equality National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) National Gay and Lesbian Task Force National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC) Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) Sigamos Adelante: National Latino/Hispanic LGBT Leadership Stonewall Democrats |
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To: EdReform; nicmarlo; Clint N. Suhks; DirtyHarryY2K
Please see article from ACLU above, and note this paragraph:
In December, People asked President and Mrs. Bush about civil unions. "Is a couple joined by that kind of legal arrangement as much of a family as, say, you two are a family?" "Of course," President Bush replied. Bushs acknowledgement (despite his support for an anti-gay constitutional amendment) has set an important new minimum standard for future dialogue surrounding same-sex couples and families, one that reflects an evolving public respect for our relationships that even those who seek to codify discrimination against us cannot easily ignore.
Give 'em an inch, and they'll take a mile. This just sickens me.
To: EdReform; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; stage left; Yakboy; I_Love_My_Husband; ...
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
If you want on/off the ping list see my profile page.
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02/14/2005 11:44:11 PM PST
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DirtyHarryY2K
(''Go though life with a Bible in one hand and a Newspaper in the other" -- Billy Graham)
To: SweetCaroline
My favorite phrase "LET GO LET GOD". If only Adam had seen that bumper sticker. ;)
Shalom.
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02/15/2005 5:15:42 AM PST
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ArGee
(Having homosexual sex makes as much sense as drinking beer through your a$$.)
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