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Why Gays Have So Much Influence on Our Culture
American Thinker ^ | 02/03/2014 | Alicia Colon

Posted on 02/03/2014 5:32:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind

We've had the Gaymmys; we've had Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson suspended for expressing unfavorable comments about anal intercourse; HBO has a new series, Looking about three gay men looking for love. It seems as though just about every television show, whether comedy or drama now has a gay character as a regular.

It's not surprising that homosexuality has become mainstream in our culture because nearly everyone has a relative or friend who is gay and we have been deeply influenced by those words of Harvey Fierstein who said, "I just want to be loved. Is that so wrong?" What we have failed to realize, however, is that there has never been anything morally wrong about loving anyone, same sex or not.

But love is not what is behind the gay rights movement; it is a powerful marketing tool, though, much better than using words related to the specific sexual acts that trouble many observers.

One of the most intriguing and illuminating articles I have ever read about this polarizing issue was written by a gay Catholic man, Ronald G. Lee, originally published in the New Oxford Review. Lee formerly lived in Austin, Texas, and regularly visited Lobo's, a gay book store:   

Looking inside from the street all you saw were books. It looked like any other bookstore. There was a section devoted to classic "gay" fiction by writers such as Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, and W.H. Auden.... But if you went inside to browse, before long you noticed another section, behind the books, a section not visible from the street. The pornography section.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: gays; hollywood; homosexualagenda; homosexuality
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1 posted on 02/03/2014 5:32:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Totally political. We the people have no say. We're all criminals....guilty of homophobia....an actual crime in the idiotic world of "the law".

Russia got it right.

2 posted on 02/03/2014 5:36:51 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

Because we’ve gone insane as a society.


3 posted on 02/03/2014 5:42:08 AM PST by onedoug
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To: SeekAndFind

discontinued cable years ago. I don’t get abused by their propaganda

of course, if you see their propaganda, I would encourage you to note any advertisers and contact them. let them know that any company that supports the deviant lifestyle obviously has no desire for your business and you’ll be boycotting them and their products loudly unless they pull their ads


4 posted on 02/03/2014 5:43:00 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: onedoug

It starts with indoctrination in the schools.


5 posted on 02/03/2014 5:43:26 AM PST by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty and Let the the Stupid AmericanTaxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: SeekAndFind
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. (Psalms 2:1-5)

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. (Psalms 2:6-9)

Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. (Psalms 2:10-12)

6 posted on 02/03/2014 5:44:30 AM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: SeekAndFind

The left is anti-Christ.
The left seeks to use the power of the state to punish and exterminate those who oppose them, especially Christians.

Homos are a convenient vehicle through which to criminalize Christian beliefs.

QED


7 posted on 02/03/2014 5:44:44 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

Link to the full-text Free Republic thread.

8 posted on 02/03/2014 5:46:09 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

Mainstreaming homosexuality is one of the Communist Goals as stated in the 1963 Congressional Record.

Of course, communist sympathizers - i.e. education, “news” media and pop culture - has aided and abetted this infestation.


9 posted on 02/03/2014 5:48:48 AM PST by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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To: SeekAndFind
He answers it early on at the link:
It's not surprising that homosexuality has become mainstream in our culture because nearly everyone has a relative or friend who is gay and we have been deeply influenced by those words of Harvey Fierstein who said, “I just want to be loved. Is that so wrong?” What we have failed to realize, however, is that there has never been anything morally wrong about loving anyone, same sex or not.
But love is not what is behind the gay rights movement; it is a powerful marketing tool, though, much better than using words related to the specific sexual acts that trouble many observers.”

also they got away with equating gay behavior via feelings with American blacks as a persecuted minority, thanks to Obama especially in 2012.

There was no anti-gay lifestyle come-back to this argument(attempted), so it thrived.

10 posted on 02/03/2014 5:52:13 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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To: newfreep

Read Romans 1:18-32.

God shows his wrath on our country by allowing the “mainstreaming” of homosexuality.


11 posted on 02/03/2014 5:55:06 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: chicagolady

I coached HS baseball in SoCal from 2010-2013. The banter on the field was seldom directed at any one kid in general, aside from just razzing, but comments about homosexuality in general would often be bitter and biting. These kids did not seem to be getting the message.


12 posted on 02/03/2014 6:01:30 AM PST by onedoug
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I remember almost 4 years ago when Carl Paladino, the GOP NY State gubernatorial candidate took Andrew Cuomo to task for taking his underage kids to the gay pride parade where they were actually doing disgusting near porno things in public.

Guess who the mainstream media criticized?

Take a peek at some of the stuff they do IN PUBLIC here and tell me whether or not it is appropriate for children:

http://www.subchat.com/otchat/readflat.asp?Id=678074&p=3#678372

http://wonkette.com/426466/carl-paladinos-aide-was-licked-at-that-gay-pride-parade


13 posted on 02/03/2014 6:01:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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RE :”I remember almost 4 years ago when Carl Paladino, the GOP NY State gubernatorial candidate took Andrew Cuomo to task for taking his underage kids to the gay pride parade where they were actually doing disgusting near porno things in public.
Guess who the mainstream media criticized?”

Actually if you have those links it would be more informative than seeing vids of the homo's prancing around NY parade , YUK.

Lets see that debate.

14 posted on 02/03/2014 6:06:18 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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To: SeekAndFind

“who never even hint at any of the negative consequences that follow on a lifetime ...”

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/02/why_gays_have_so_much_influence_on_our_culture.html#ixzz2sGgPED3X
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Lifetime! hell, these people LOATH themselves anew after every sick coupling.


15 posted on 02/03/2014 6:10:53 AM PST by TalBlack
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To: SeekAndFind
I did find this w google

Tea Party hero Carl Paladino rages against 'disgusting' gay pride parades (Daily News Oct 2010)

16 posted on 02/03/2014 6:11:12 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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To: SeekAndFind

Solely because we refuse to fight back.


17 posted on 02/03/2014 6:11:17 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SeekAndFind
What we have failed to realize, however, is that there has never been anything morally wrong about loving anyone, same sex or not.

This assertion is categorically false for anyone who has a biblical moral sense. The fact that they want us to discard our biblical moral code for their "anything goes" code is why it upsets us all so badly.

18 posted on 02/03/2014 6:12:05 AM PST by MortMan (Is a delayed shower a "stay of exablution"?)
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To: SeekAndFind
Looking inside from the street all you saw were books. It looked like any other bookstore.

Some years ago I was at a midtown Atlanta hotel on business.

Wanted something to read, and there was a bookstore some blocks away. Walked over but was surprised almost every book was gay-oriented. Finally found the first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series.

Wasn't till I got back outside that I grokked the name of the place. Outwrite.

LOL

19 posted on 02/03/2014 6:12:24 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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Another :

Carl Paladino is right about gay pride parades and wrong about gay marriage.(Slate Oct 2010)

20 posted on 02/03/2014 6:13:35 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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