Difference between revisions of "Homosexual Agenda"

From Conservapedia
Jump to: navigation, search
m (Strategies and psychological tactics: grammar , formatting)
m (See also)
Line 124: Line 124:
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
 +
*[[ACT-UP]]
 
*[[Anti-Defamation League]]
 
*[[Anti-Defamation League]]
 
*[[Homosexual belief system]]
 
*[[Homosexual belief system]]

Revision as of 13:23, June 30, 2009

Decision screen.jpg
Homosexuality

Choices
Causes
Genetics
Ex-homosexuals
Abuse
Overcoming
Therapy
Outing

Society
Teenagers
Domestic violence
Schools
Murder
Anti-gay blogs

Health
Disease
Mental
Smoking
Drugs

Views
Media
Homophobia
Pride
Gay rights
Bible
Agenda
Revisionism
Against
Beliefs
Don't ask, don't tell

Laws
Homosexuality laws
Civil union
California ban

History and
International

History of homosexuality
Anglophones
Greece
Rome
Atheist suppression

See also
Research
Statistics
Lesbianism
Animals
Quotes
Cross dressing
Brokeback Mountain

The homosexual agenda, or homosexual ideology, consists of a set of beliefs and objectives, and the strategies used to implement such. This article notes that the goals and means of this movement include indoctrinating students in public school, restricting the free speech of opposition, obtaining special treatment for homosexuals, distorting Biblical teaching and science, and interfering with freedom of association.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia referred to the "so-called homosexual agenda" in Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) (dissenting opinion).

The Homosexual Agenda

A primary goal of the homosexual agenda is to promote the lifestyle in public schools. This occurred quickly and intensely after gay marriage was imposed in Massachusetts, where homosexual relationships are taught to children as young as kindergartners, as recounted by the decision of Parker v. Hurley.[1]

This agenda is seen to be overall implementing a marketing strategy explained in a book called After the Ball, by gay rights activists Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen in the late 1980s, in which a six-point plan was set forth as to how they could transform the beliefs of ordinary Americans with regard to homosexual behavior in a decade-long time frame:

"The agenda of homosexual activists is basically to change America from what they perceive as looking down on homosexual behavior, to the affirmation of and societal acceptance of homosexual behavior." [2] "Thus propagandistic advertising can depict all opponents of the gay movement as homophobic bigots who are 'not Christian' and the propaganda can further show them [homosexuals]] as being criticized, hated and shunned..."[3]

Focus on the Family provides additional quotes from After the Ball, outlining key points of the homosexual agenda:[2][4]

  1. "Talk about gays and gayness as loudly and as often as possible."
  2. "Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers."
  3. "Give homosexual protectors a just cause."
  4. "Make gays look good."
  5. "Make the victimizers look bad."
  6. "Get funds from corporate America."

United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote:

Today's opinion is the product of a Court, which is the product of a law-profession culture, that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, by which I mean the agenda promoted by some homosexual activists directed at eliminating the moral opprobrium that has traditionally attached to homosexual conduct.[5]

Vic Eliason of Crosstalk America rightly points out that if all Americans turned homosexual it would only take a few generations for the United States to lose most of the population of the country through lack of procreation. This would make the US more vulnerable to attack by our enemies.

Goals

The goals of the homosexual movement include:

  1. Destroying Christian morals
    • Changing the definition of marriage, even if doing so infringes on the religious rights of Christians not to recognize it as anything other than sin [6]
  2. Promote pseudoscience that legitimizes homosexuality, such as claims of a never-identified gay gene[7]
    • Censoring evidence that the "gay gene" is a hoax[8]
  3. Censoring speech against homosexuality by branding it to possibly be "hate-speech"[9][10][11]
    • Censoring biblical statements condemning homosexuality[12]
  4. Establishing affirmative action for homosexuals[13][14]
  5. Expand hate crimes legislation to include sexual orientation[15]
  6. Ending the military's and Boy Scout's restrictions on homosexuality[16]
  7. Corrupt Christian youth[17]
  8. Promote homosexuality in schools[18]
    • In places like Massachusetts and California, where the gay lobby is the strongest, it starts as early as pre-school. They tell seven- or eight-year-old boys, "If you only like boys, there's a chance you may be homosexual," or "If you only like girls, maybe you are lesbian." Well, at that age, all members of the opposite sex "have cooties."
    • You're planting a seed that can totally mess up the normal development process later, when at 12 or 14, kids enter the age of sexual confusion and discovering the opposite sex. [19]
  9. Force businesses to accommodate their lifestyle[20]
    • Suing an online dating website for discrimination[21]
  10. Getting more rights in prison
    • Gay and Lesbian Prisoners in California Allowed Conjugal Visits [22]
  11. Legalization of recreational or "party" drugs [23]
  12. Undermining the resolve of latent homosexuals so that their will becomes too weak to resist the temptations of homosexuality[24]
  13. Pushing for legalized adoption by gay individuals and couples[25]

The state-by-state push for same-sex marriage can be viewed as a means to the above goals, or a goal in itself.[26] An example of this would be the recent New Hampshire law that makes same-sex civil unions legal[27]

Although notable gains toward achieving its goals continue to be manifest, homosexual activists have recent been expressing a high level of and dissatisfaction against the Obama administration. Massresistance.org, an organization which opposes the homosexual agenda in Massachusetts, commenting on such, noted that the President has,

  • signed an order extending federal benefits to same-sex "partners";
  • pushed an extreme hate crimes bill in Congress;
  • declared his intention to repeal the Defense of Marriage,
  • pushed a pro-homosexual and transgender version of EDNA.
  • appointed radical homosexual activists to high level positions, including Harry Knox, of the homosexual lobby group Human Rights Campaign, and Kevin Jennings, founder of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which targets kids in the public schools.
  • declared February to be "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month."
  • ordered the State Department to allow gay couples to use their "married" names (from "marriages" or civil unions) on US passports.[28]

Strategies and psychological tactics

Homosexual activists are seen to often compare their quest for equal rights to that of others.[29] However, this argument is countered by the observation that blacks were able to peacefully argue that mankind should not be "judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"[30], as the former yields no certain moral distinction. In contrast, homosexual activists are seen to seek acceptance of an immoral practice(s), and to overall engage in certain coercive and deceptive means to do so. This is evidenced to include attempts to controvert the consistent teaching of the Bible on homosexual relations,[31] as well as the use of a demonstrative manner of protests, which appear to be designed to censure and intimidate those who oppose them in any way.[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]

Often cited as an early example form of this strategy was the role of homosexual activists in persuading the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders (DSM-II). Dr. Ronald Bayer, though being himself a pro-homosexual psychiatrist, described this removal as being the result of power politics, threats, and intimidation, rather than any new scientific discoveries.[42] In so doing, like slavery before it, the homosexual agenda is seen to threaten basic freedoms, principally the First Amendment.[43]

The charge of "homophobia" has also been increasingly evidenced as being part of a means of intimidation used in promoting the homosexual agenda. Due to what homophobia has been made to denote, that of being a repressed homosexual, or possessing an irrational fear of being approached by homosexuals, or of being a bigot persecuting victims, the widespread use of the term "homophobic" attaches a powerful stigma to anyone who may even conscientiously oppose the practice of homosexuality, thus silencing many who might otherwise object to it.[44]

In relation to such oppression, psychologist Nicholas Cummings, former president of the American Psychological Association (APA), observed, "Homophobia as intimidation is one of the most pervasive techniques used to silence anyone who would disagree with the gay activist agenda." As an example of such fear within the APA, in addressing 100 fellow professionals Cummings related that while writing "Destructive Trends in Mental Health," with psychologist Rogers Wright, a number of fellow psychologists were invited to participate. However, these flatly turned them down, as they feared loss of tenure, loss of promotion, and other forms of professional retaliation. "We were bombarded by horror stories," Dr. Cummings said. "Their greatest fear was of the gay lobby, which is very strong in the APA.[45]

While not all homosexuals agree with such tactics, it has been promoted by leading homosexual activists. The aforementioned book, After the Ball, is widely regarded as the handbook for the gay agenda, in which Harvard trained marketing experts and social scientists Marshall Kirk (1957 - 2005) and Hunter Madsen advocated avoiding portraying gays as aggressive challengers, but as victims, while making those who opposed them as evil persecutors. As a means of the latter, they promoted jamming, in which Christians, traditionalists, or anyone else who opposes the gay agenda are publicly smeared. 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.

Jam homophobia (i.e., disagreement with homosexual behaviors) by linking it to Nazi horror, was the strategy of 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. Thus, "propagandistic advertisement can depict homophobic and homohating bigots as crude loudmouths..."[46]

What is seen by some as Kirk and Madsen most revealing admission is their statement, [O]ur effect is achieved without reference to facts, logic, or proof. "...the person's beliefs can be altered whether he is conscious of the attack or not"[47]

Marshall Kirk died in 2005 at the age of 48. The cause of death has not been publicly revealed.

Author Robert Bauman additionally records, It makes no difference that the ads are lies . . . because were using them to ethically good effect, to counter negative stereotypes that are every bit as much lies, and far more wicked ones. [48]

Noted homosexual activist and pornographer Clinton Fein, in his article, The Gay Agenda stated, Homophobic inclinations alone, even without any actions, should be criminal and punishable to the full extent of the law.

Erik Holland, author of "The Nature of Homosexuality," perceives that homosexuals have become so reckless in labeling others homophobic that "anyone who questions their labeling someone a homophobe himself. Even quoting factual statistics about the connection between homosexuality and AIDS is allegedly homophobic." In addition, according to pro homosexual author Vernon A Wall, "even acceptance of homosexuality can be seen as a form of homophobia, because to talk about the acceptance of homosexuality is to imply that there is something about homosexuality that needs acceptance."[49]

It may be speculated that if the liberal use of the term homophobia is not primarily a psychological tactic, then it indicates a psychological condition on the part of those who use it, in which they imagine that those who oppose them are fearful of them, or of being one.

Influence in the Academic World

Professor Jerry Z. Muller described in an article titled, "First Things" (Aug/Sept. 1993), how the homosexual lobby has gained widespread acceptance in the educational realm.

[Their] strategy has been remarkably successful. With a rapidity largely attributable in large part to a total lack of articulate resistance, homosexual ideology has gained an unquestioned and uncontested legitimacy in American academic life. Within the academy, as within nonacademic elite culture, the definition of opposite to homosexuality as "homophobia - a definition which implies that it is impossible to give good reasons for the cultural disapproval of homosexuality - is the best evidence of the success of this strategy.[50]

Opposing Christian Agenda

Liberals are critical of Christian groups that oppose homosexuality. These criticisms include Christian activities of:

  • Soliciting donations
  • Encouraging email activism
  • Producing and disseminating gay reform information
  • Influencing local media in what stories they produce
  • Lobbying local, state and federal government officials to vote in the desired way on pending legislation[51]

Opponents of the Homosexual Agenda

Some well known individuals/groups in the United States who actively oppose the homosexual agenda are: Focus on the Family, Peter LaBarbera's American's for Truth, the Traditional Values Coalition (Louis Sheldon is a chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition), and Matt Barber of Concerned Women of America.

References

  1. The Parker v. Hurley decision explained, "In January 2005, when Jacob Parker ("Jacob") was in kindergarten, he brought home a 'Diversity Book Bag.' This included a picture book, Who's in a Family?, which depicted different families, including single-parent families, an extended family, interracial families, animal families, a family without children, and -- to the concern of the Parkers -- a family with two dads and a family with two moms. The book concludes by answering the question, 'Who's in a family?': 'The people who love you the most!' The book says nothing about marriage."
  2. 2.0 2.1 After the Ball (1989), quoted from Winn, Pete (7-25-2003) [ Q&A: The Homosexual Agenda] Citizenlink
  3. After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90's, by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen (Author) (p. 152-153)
  4. Kirk, Marshall K. and Erastes Pill (11-1987) The Overhauling of Straight America Available at STRATEGIES OF THE HOMOSEXUAL MOVEMENT: "The Overhauling of Straight America"
  5. LAWRENCE et al. v. TEXAS at findlaw.com
  6. www.massresistance.org, Homosexuals begin campaign of terror over Prop 8 loss]
  7. [http://www.leaderu.com/jhs/satinover.html The Gay Gene? by Jeffrey Satinover, M.D.]
  8. Lesbian activists at Smith College riot, shut down Ryan Sorba speech on "The Born Gay Hoax" as police watch. See exclusive videos. Mass Resistance
  9. Video:Silencing Christians
  10. Homosexuality: It’s a Crime in England to State Christian Views
  11. Bishops fight for right to criticise homosexual lifestyle, 25th May 2009
  12. White, Hilary (04-21-2006) Court Upholds School Ban on "Homosexuality is Shameful" T-Shirt LifeSiteNews.com
  13. The Crimson Staff (10-13-2006) A Box of Their Own? (opinion) The Crimson
  14. www.afa.net, Homosexual Agenda Platforms from 1972 - 2000
  15. Pelosi, Nancy Office of (09-28-2004) Pelosi: "Hate Crimes Prevention Legislation is Right Thing to Do, Long Overdue" From the office of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
  16. Boy Scouts of Am. v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640 (2000) (Boy Scouts); Able v. United States, 155 F.3d 628(2d Cir. 1998) (military)
  17. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force:Youth in the Crosshairs
  18. Morrison v. Board of Education
  19. CitizenLink: QA: The Homosexual Agenda
  20. [http://www.thetaskforce.org/issues/nondiscrimination/ENDA_main_page Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) | National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
  21. Fox News - eHarmony to Provide Gay Dating Service after Lawsuit
  22. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,277137,00.html
  23. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_pills
  24. http://www.thetaskforce.org/activist_center/resources_and_tools/challenge_exgay
  25. http://www.thetaskforce.org/issues/parenting_and_family
  26. Lewis v. Harris
  27. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/01/new_hampshire_law_makes_same_sex_civil_unions_legal/
  28. update@massresistance.org 6/24/2009 11:56 PM
  29. Miner, Homosexuality, Civil Rights, and the Church
  30. Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
  31. [1]
  32. http://www.leaderu.com/socialsciences/sellinghomosexuality.html
  33. http://www.article8.org/docs/gay_strategies/after_the_ball.htm
  34. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89526
  35. http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08c/Prop8/church_attacks.html
  36. http://rebuildtheparty.ning.com/video/exodus-protest-park-street
  37. http://theway2k.vox.com/library/post/homosexuals-persecuting-christians-and-mormons.html
  38. http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsSep1993.htm
  39. http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08050205.html
  40. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95296
  41. Muehlenberg, Bill, Another Nail in the Christian Coffin, 4 June 2009
  42. Exposed: The Myth That Psychiatry Has Proven That Homosexual Behavior Is Normal
  43. Adams, Guy (11-8-2008) Mormon stars face backlash after gay marriage ban The Independent
  44. [http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/narth/1995papers/socarides.html Thought Reform And The Psychology of Homosexual Advocacy Charles W. Socarides, M.D.]
  45. [Psychology Losing Scientific Credibility, Say APA Insiders http://www.narth.com/docs/insiders.html]
  46. http://www.leaderu.com/socialsciences/sellinghomosexuality.html http://www.article8.org/docs/gay_strategies/after_the_ball.htm
  47. After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90s, p. 152-153 (1989, Doubleday/Bantam)
  48. The Gentleman from Maryland: The Conscience of a gay Conservative, by Robert Bauman, 1986, page 163.
  49. http://www.homosexinfo.org/Homophobia/HomePage
  50. Homosexuality, by F. Earle Fox, David W. Virtue, p. 12
  51. Concerned Women For America About page

Further reading

See also