Balance
of Power
Americans
who self-identify as “gay” or lesbian comprise
roughly one to three percent of the population. Yet
the homosexual movement — led by extremist homosexual
pressure groups like the so-called Human Rights Campaign
(HRC) — represent, per capita, one of America’s
most powerful and well-funded political lobbies. Consider
that HRC and the HRC foundation alone have an annual
budget in excess of $50 million.
Through
a carefully crafted, decades-old propaganda campaign,
homosexual activists have successfully cast homosexuals
— many of whom enjoy positions of influence and
affluence — as a disadvantaged minority. They have
repackaged and sold to the public behaviors which thousands
of years of history, every major world religion and
uncompromising human biology have long identified as
immoral and sexually deviant.
The
Goal
As
with every major political movement, the homosexual
lobby is pushing a specific agenda. It is often called
the “gay agenda.” At its core is a concerted
effort to remove from society all traditional notions
of sexual morality and replace them with the post-modern
concept of sexual relativism. That is to say, when it
comes to sex, there is never right or wrong. All sexual
appetites are “equal.” If it feels good, do
it.
Ultimately,
the homosexual lobby’s primary objective is to
radically redefine our foundational institutions of
legitimate marriage and the nuclear family by unraveling
God’s natural design for human sexuality. In so
doing, they hope to elevate their own spiritual and
biological counterfeit and establish a sexually androgynous
society wherein natural distinctions between male and
female are dissolved.
This
creates cultural and moral anarchy.
Plan
of Attack
Ironically,
sexual relativists are anything but relative. They are
quite affirmative in principle. But the principles they
foist demand comprehensive acceptance of homosexual
conduct — by force of law — through federal
edicts such as “hate crimes” legislation,
the so-called “Employment Non-Discrimination Act”
(ENDA) and by imposing government sanctioned “same-sex
marriage.” All such government mandates grant special
protected “minority” status to those who define
themselves by aberrant sexual preferences and changeable
sexual behaviors. These laws put people with traditional
values directly in the crosshairs of official government
policy.
Throughout
society, homosexual activists demand that homosexual
behaviors not only be “tolerated,” but celebrated.
(That’s what the euphemistic slogan “celebrate
diversity” supposes). They have masked their true
political agenda by hijacking the language of the genuine
civil rights movement and through the crafty and disingenuous
rhetoric of “tolerance” and “diversity.”
Anyone
who believes the Biblical directive that human sexuality
is a gift from God, to be shared between man and wife
within the bonds of marriage, is branded “homophobic,”
“hateful” or “discriminatory.” They
are to be silenced by all means possible.
In
Their Own Words
What
you are about to read is just a quick, though disturbing,
glance behind the homosexual lobby’s lavender curtain.
Below
are two of the central demands put forth by homosexual
activists in their “1972 Gay Rights Platform”:
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“Repeal
all laws governing the age of sexual consent.”
(This should send a chill down the spine of any
parent. It would legally allow pedophiles, and homosexuals
who were so inclined, to access your children and
teens for their own predatory sexual gratification
— so long as those children “consented”
to having sex.)
-
“Repeal
all legislative provisions that restrict the sex
or number of persons entering into a marriage unit.”
(Once marriage is redefined, there can be no logical
or ethical objection to any conceivable “marriage”
combination, including polygamous “marriages.”
By watering down marriage, “gay” activists
and like-minded politicos [usually activist judges]
remove this foundational institution’s intrinsic
value.)
Here
are just a few of the demands the homosexual lobby put
forth during the 1987 (Homosexual) “March on Washington”:
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“The
government should provide protection from discrimination
based on sexual orientation in employment, public
accommodations and education just as protection
is provided on race, creed, color, sex, or national
origin.” ([ENDA] This would force all
religious business owners, landlords and schools
to abandon — under penalty of law — sincerely
held and constitutionally protected religious beliefs
and adopt a view of sexual morality that runs entirely
counter to central teachings of every major world
religion.)
-
“Anti-homophobic
curriculum in the schools.” (Translation:
pro-homosexual, government-mandated indoctrination.
This is already occurring in thousands of public
schools throughout America. Children are being force-fed
the absurd notion that male-male anal sodomy is
a perfectly acceptable, “alternative”
sexual “orientation.” This calculated
propaganda continues to expand, despite the fact
that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) has acknowledged that such behaviors place
participants at extremely high risk for dangerous
and often deadly infectious disease.)
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“The
government should ensure all public education programs
include programs designed to combat lesbian/gay
prejudice. … Institutions that discriminate
against lesbian and gay people should be denied
tax-exempt status and federal funding.”
(This means churches, religious schools and religious
businesses. Some jurisdictions, such as the state
of New Jersey, have already begun removing tax-exempt
status from church related ministries that refuse
to provide “commitment ceremonies” to
homosexuals.)
-
“Public
and private institutions should support parenting
by lesbian or gay couples.” (This is
now being mandated in many states such as California
and Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, Catholic Charities’
adoption service was recently forced to close down
because it refused to assign children to homosexuals
for adoption.)
The
push for federal “hate crimes” legislation
is another activist tool intended to silence traditional
views on human sexuality and sexual morality. Similar
laws have already been used around the world, and even
right here at home, to persecute Christians and other
traditionalists. For example, in 2004, 11 Christians
were arrested in Philadelphia and charged with a “hate
crime” for merely preaching the Bible at a public
homosexual street festival. They could have served up
to 47 years in prison.
More
recently, a Christian photographer was dragged before
the New Mexico Human Rights Division for refusing to
photograph a “commitment ceremony” for a lesbian
couple because lesbian behavior is inconsistent with
Christianity.
Such
stark examples of homofascist persecution continue to
mount. And they’re by design. Noted homosexual
activist and pornographer Clinton Fein addressed the
“gay” agenda in a 2005 article candidly titled,
“The Gay Agenda”:
-
On
“hate crimes” laws: “Hate
Crime laws are just the beginning. Once those are
passed either federally or in all 50 states, begin
campaign to eliminate homophobia entirely.”
-
On
“hate thoughts” and “hate speech”
laws: “Homophobic inclinations alone,
even without any actions, should be criminal and
punishable to the full extent of the law.”
-
On
influencing public policy: “Make sure
that gay representation permeates every level of
governance.”
-
On
“same-sex marriage”: “Demand
the institution and then wreck it. James Dobson
was right about our evil intentions. We just plan
to be quicker than he thought.”
-
On “gays” in the Church: “Reclaim
Jesus. He was a Jewish queer to begin with, and
don’t let anyone forget it.”
The
homosexual lobby’s goals have been clearly defined
for decades. But for any goal to be successfully achieved,
clever stratagem and sound methodology must be diligently
applied.
In
their manuscript, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer
Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90’s (1989,
Doubleday/Bantam), Harvard educated marketing experts
Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen meticulously laid out
the homosexual lobby’s blueprint for success in
what is widely regarded as the handbook for the “gay”
agenda.
They
devised a three-pronged approach that the homosexual
lobby has masterfully implemented in subsequent years:
Desensitization, Jamming and Conversion.
Kirk
and Madsen summarized their approach this way:
- Portray
gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers.
- Give
potential protectors a just cause.
- Make
gays look good.
- Make
victimizers look bad.
Desensitization
“Desensitization,”
wrote Kirk and Madsen, means subjecting the public to
a “continuous flood of gay-related advertising,
presented in the least offensive fashion possible. If
‘straights’ can’t shut off the shower,
they may at least eventually get used to being wet.”
As
previously stated, glamorizing and normalizing homosexual
conduct in our public schools is a full time endeavor.
But the schools represent only one field of battle in
the war over America’s body, mind and soul.
With
the aid of a willing mainstream media and a like-minded
Hollywood, societal desensitization has been largely
achieved. Blockbusters like Tom Hanks’ Philadelphia,
the late Heath Ledger’s Brokeback Mountain, and
television programs like Will and Grace and Ellen represent
a modern-day fairy tale, creating a dishonest and sympathetic
portrayal of a lifestyle which is emotionally, spiritually
and physically sterile.
Reality
is replaced with fantasy. Gone are references to, or
images of, the millions of homosexual men wasting away
in hospice due to behaviorally related diseases such
as HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis and Syphilis. (Unnatural behaviors
beget natural consequences. As Romans 6:23 says, “The
wages of sin is death.”)
And
gone are references to, or images of, men and women
trapped in the homosexual lifestyle who aimlessly seek
to fill a spiritual and emotional void through promiscuous
and meaningless sexual encounters.
The
homosexual group, GLAAD, even offers awards to the television
networks that most effectively carry the homosexual
lobby’s water. The more distorted and positive
the portrayal of homosexual conduct and the more frequently
the networks shows such portrayals; the more likely
networks are to win the coveted awards.
As
Kirk and Madsen put it, homosexuals should be portrayed
as the “Everyman.” “In no time,”
they said, “a skillful and clever media campaign
could have the gay community looking like the veritable
fairy godmother to Western Civilization.”
Prophetic
words from two very smart men.
Jamming
“Jamming”
refers to the public smearing of Christians, traditionalists
or anyone else who opposes the “gay” agenda.
“Jam homo-hatred (i.e., disagreement with homosexual
behaviors) by linking it to Nazi horror,” wrote
Kirk and Madsen. “Associate all who oppose homosexuality
with images of ‘Klansmen demanding that gays be
slaughtered,’ ‘hysterical backwoods preachers,’
‘menacing punks,’ and a ‘tour of Nazi
concentration camps where homosexuals were tortured
and gassed.’
“In
any campaign to win over the public, gays must be portrayed
as victims in need of protection so that straights will
be inclined by reflex to adopt the role of protector
... The purpose of victim imagery is to make straights
feel very uncomfortable,” they suggested.
But,
perhaps Kirk and Madsen’s most revealing admission
came when they said, “[O]ur effect is achieved
without reference to facts, logic, or proof.”
And
so words like “homophobe” and “heterosexism”
were pulled from thin air, not because they had substance,
but because they were effective jamming tools. Anyone
who holds traditional values relative to human sexuality
suddenly became a “homophobe,” a “hatemonger,”
a “bigot.”
Not
even churches are safe
“Gays
can undermine the moral authority of homo-hating churches
over less fervent adherents by portraying [them] as
antiquated backwaters, badly out of step … with
the latest findings of psychology. Against the atavistic
tug of ‘Old Time Religion’ one must set the
mightier pull of science and public opinion. …
Such an ‘unholy’ alliance has already worked
well in America against the churches, on such topics
as divorce and abortion. … [T]hat alliance can
work for gays.”
And,
oh, how it has.
Conversion
“Conversion”
means, in the words of Kirk and Madsen, “conversion
of the average American’s emotions, mind, and will,
through a planned psychological attack, in the form
of propaganda fed to the nation via the media.”
“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 — and only later his unsightly derriere!”
So,
as Kirk and Madsen both astutely understood and surprisingly
admitted, homosexual activism is really a big game of
“hide the ball.” In order to achieve widespread
acceptance of “gayness,” they had to remove
the focus from what homosexuality really is (deviant
sexual conduct) and shift it onto the craftily manufactured
specter of “gay civil rights.”
In
order to cut through much of the propagandist sugarcoating,
one need only consider what two men must actually do
in order to “consummate” a so-called “gay
marriage.” Kirk and Madsen understood that. Most
people are repulsed by the mechanics of homosexual conduct,
but everyone is for “civil rights.” Of course,
in reality, the homosexual lifestyle has nothing to
do with civil rights and everything to do with conduct.
Therein
lies the deception.
But
There’s Hope
There’s
hope for people who are trapped in the homosexual lifestyle
or who suffer from unwanted same-sex attraction. Part
of our fallen condition as humans is that we are all
subject to sin. Those who know the Savior of the world,
Jesus Christ, are no better or worse than those who
engage in homosexual sin.
But
through the loving and redemptive power of Jesus Christ,
we can all find salvation from sin. So can homosexuals.
“Gayness” is not an “immutable”
or unchangeable condition as homosexual apologists would
have you believe. People can find freedom from homosexual
behaviors and even from same-sex attractions. It’s
not easy, but untold thousands of former homosexuals
have done it.
There’s
also hope in the ongoing battle between the “gay”
agenda and our national moral integrity. Concerned Women
for America (CWA) endeavors on a daily basis to counter
this destructive movement throughout all facets of culture
and public policy.
With
God’s help, we can turn back the tide of sexual
and moral relativism that has both permeated our society
and offended our founding principles.
(For
more information about Concerned Women for America and
to learn how you can be part of unmasking the “gay”
agenda, please call us at (202) 488-7000 or visit CWA’s
website at www.cwfa.org.)
Matt
Barber
is one of the "like-minded men" with Concerned
Women for America. He is an attorney concentrating in
constitutional law and serves as CWA's policy director
for cultural issues.
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