-Caveat Lector- I didn't write this, but it speaks the truth, and there's some good links at the end: Gay [Homosexuals] righters no longer seek just tolerance but endorsement CONTROVERSIAL radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger has launched her new television show to much furor and fanfare --- but gay [homosexual] activists and their allies in the fashionable elite are hoping it's a short-lived debut. They are aggressively working to force her off the air by pressuring advertisers to drop her show because of comments she's made about homosexuals, including calling homosexuality a "biological error" and saying that gay behavior is "deviant" because it deviates from the heterosexual norm. Now, it's true that "Dr. Laura" sometimes makes even her admirers wince at her tone or choice of words. But admirers she has. Every day millions of Americans tune in to her top-rated talk show on which she champions traditional values. I'm often one of them, and I hardly remember Dr. Laura discussing homosexuality. But to hear the gay [homosexual] movement and their allies tell it, these comments, which they themselves keep repeating, are a daily call to arms, not a rapid response once offered in the crush of a three-hour radio broadcast. This is not to minimize Dr. Laura's beliefs on the matter. Like tens of millions of Americans, including myself, she simply believes that homosexual behavior is morally wrong. But the activist community is desperate to move the issue away from her mainstream-though-politically-incorrect views on the issue and focus only on a few biting comments they can evidence as her "hate-filled homophobia." But there is really no way in which Dr. Laura could have discussed her beliefs on homosexuality that would have caused the activists to behave any differently. They simply won't tolerate a person of her stature offering a notion of anything less than a full moral endorsement of gay behavior. For no longer is the homosexual movement about tolerance, about being treated fairly, with respect and equality under the law, something all decent Americans should and do embrace. It is about forcing all of us to morally affirm the gay lifestyle - even when our own deeply held religious or moral beliefs teach otherwise. Consider the most "in-your-face" strategy possible: public, practicing gays forcing themselves into the ranks of the Boy Scouts of America, a private service organization that has admirably trained and encouraged young men for a century, and which doesn't admit open homosexuals. The Scouts had never made a public display of their moral stance, but the activists did - they sued. Yet when the Supreme Court recently affirmed the right of the Scouts as a private organization to decide their own moral course, that was, well, intolerable. So now when it comes to the Boy Scouts, according to a recent report in the Christian Science Monitor, "... Gay-rights groups across the nation are working to paint the 6 million-strong organization as a bastion of bigots undeserving of community support." That's tolerance? The gay [homosexual] movement consistently maintains that not embracing homosexual behavior is akin to racism. But this is condescending to both racial minorities and gays. It may well be that sexual orientation is deeply ingrained - those of us who believe in original sin know that's true of the sin with which we all struggle - but behavior is not ingrained. And as a consortium of scholars once wrote in an issue of "First Things" on the matter as excerpted in the Wall Street Journal: "Any discipline of denial or restraint has been popularly depicted as unhealthy and dehumanizing. We insist, however, that it is dehumanizing to define ourselves by our desires alone." Nevertheless, the gay-rights [[ homosexual-rights] movement is even intent on crushing any notion that homosexual behavior can be changed, no matter how much a gay man or woman wants that change. That's one premise in a book overtly sympathetic to the homosexual movement, "Just the Facts," backed by a coalition of educators and gay organizations and recently distributed to every public school district in the United States. JWR columnist Mona Charen quotes Kevin Jennings, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, as saying of the book that "gays [homosexuals] need to receive support from their schools. They need to receive affirmation." Bingo. It's not tolerance the movement seeks any longer. It's full moral endorsement even at the cost of riding roughshod over deeply held religious beliefs and freedom of association and expression. The losers here include not only those who hold traditional moral beliefs and truly seek a fair and tolerant society, but also those many gays [homosexuals] who believe in tolerance and so want no part of the activist homosexual agenda. I can't find any winners. JWR contributor Betsy Hart, a frequent commentator on CNN and the Fox News Channel, can be reached by clicking here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- They are aggressively working to force her off the air by pressuring advertisers to drop her show because of comments she's made about homosexuals, including calling homosexuality a "biological error" and saying that gay behavior is "deviant" because it deviates from the heterosexual norm. What we're really trying to see is, 'Are there individuals who give a pretty convincing report that they have changed in a fundamental way their sexual orientation, and has it been sustained for many years? ...' I'm personally convinced that many of these individuals have maintained and made major changes in their sexual orientation. Pete Winn, "A Crack in the Wall? A respected psychiatrist rethinks homosexuality," CitizenLink: Family Issues in Policy and Culture, February 21, 2000 Many gay people want to use this research to promote gay rights. If gay people are 'born that way,' then discrimination against them must be wrong. ... A gay or lesbian person's public identity, sexual behaviors, romantic relationships, or decisions to raise children are all choices. No theory suggests that these choices are genetic. Michael Bronski, "Blinded by Science," The Advocate, February 1, 2000, p. 64. But the activist community is desperate to move the issue away from her mainstream-though-politically-incorrect views on the issue and focus only on a few biting comments they can evidence as her "hate-filled homophobia." Homosexuals comprise about 1.4% of the population in America but commit over half of all child molestations. They are 12 times more likely to molest children than heterosexuals. Homosexuals killed 68% of the victims of mass murders in the U.S. during the past 17 years. Homosexual sex is often violent. A third of gays and lesbians admit that hurting or being hurt is a part of sexual fun. 1 H.A. Dobbs, "Homosexuals," in The Firm Foundation (October 1992), p. 2. The "hate crime" hyperbole has also obscured the real problem of violent crimes that don't lend themselves to a politically correct morality play. The facts suggest that homosexuals are not at special risk from violence. The sad truth is that homosexuals are at much greater risk of harm from their own behavior than from bias-related attacks: Between 21,000 and 25,000 homosexual men died of AIDS each year from 1991 through 1995* - 10,000 times the number of deaths due to "anti-gay" attacks. Bias-related violent attacks against homosexuals comprise a minuscule portion of violent crime. *Table 23, "Estimated deaths of persons with AIDS, by age group, sex, exposure category, and year of death, 1991-1996, United States," Centers for Disease Control HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, Vol. 9, No. 2, p. 29. In October 1998, the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) and the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank, held a joint conference to discuss the threat posed by the homosexual rights movement to the family and American culture. At the last minute, the conference had to be relocated to a different hotel, since the originally planned hotel refused to allow the conference after receiving bomb threats. The conference went ahead at the new location, but not without disturbances and threats of violence from homosexual rights activists. In addition, the Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution condemning the conference. It is relevant to note that the Claremont Institute is not an extremist organization that promotes "gay bashing" or other unsavory measures. It is an academic organization, and a number of prominent political scientists in the United States are associated with it. For no longer is the homosexual movement about tolerance, about being treated fairly, with respect and equality under the law, something all decent Americans should and do embrace. It is about forcing all of us to morally affirm the gay lifestyle - even when our own deeply held religious or moral beliefs teach otherwise. Prof. Erler also presents a concise summary of the natural law argument for the family and against homosexuality. "The distinction between the sexes exists by nature and the specialization of the sex act exists by nature. This means inevitably that the family exists by nature and the morality that grows up around the family also exists by nature. It is not a matter of tradition or culture, but nature. If there is no objective ground for morality that can be derived from the principles of human nature, then all morality -- as the homosexual liberation movement would have us believe -- is merely a matter of what you choose to accept". Thus once homosexuality has overturned traditional sexual morality, there is no rational basis for opposing any form of sexuality, no matter how vile it may be. The acceptance of homosexuality will place society onto a slippery slope that leads invariably down to greater depths of depravity. The Scouts had never made a public display of their moral stance, but the activists did - they sued. Yet when the Supreme Court recently affirmed the right of the Scouts as a private organization to decide their own moral course, that was, well, intolerable. So now when it comes to the Boy Scouts, according to a recent report in the Christian Science Monitor, "... Gay-rights groups across the nation are working to paint the 6 million-strong organization as a bastion of bigots undeserving of community support." "Gay Rights" Strategies Involve Conscious Deception And Wholesale Manipulation of Public Opinion http://www.leaderu.com/marco/special/spc15.html Edward Erler, a professor of political science at California State University, San Bernardino,makes a striking point about the homosexuals' public relations success: "Homosexuals have been the victors in perhaps the greatest propaganda war ever waged. They have appropriated the word 'gay' to describe activities that are anything but gay, and they have invented the impossible word 'homophobia' to describe a mental condition that conveys the implication of 'irrational' opposition or hostility to homosexuals. And homosexuals, although well organized and generally affluent, have been able to portray themselves successfully as a 'powerless minority.' These have all been ingredients in a highly successful propaganda war designed to transform the legal, political, and moral landscape of America" The gay movement consistently maintains that not embracing homosexual behavior is akin to racism. But this is condescending to both racial minorities and gays. It may well be that sexual orientation is deeply ingrained - those of us who believe in original sin know that's true of the sin with which we all struggle - but behavior is not ingrained. Time and time again, scientists have claimed that particular genes or chromosomal regions are associated with behavioral traits, only to withdraw their findings when they were not replicated. 'Unfortunately,' says Yale's [Dr. Joel] Gelernter, 'it's hard to come up with many' findings linking specific genes to complex human behaviors that have been replicated. 'All were announced with great fanfare; all were greeted unskeptically in the popular press; all are now in disrepute. C. Mann, "Genes and Behavior," Science 264 (1994): 1687. The Biological Research on Homosexuality http://www.narth.com/docs/bioresearch.html And as a consortium of scholars once wrote in an issue of "First Things" on the matter as excerpted in the Wall Street Journal: "Any discipline of denial or restraint has been popularly depicted as unhealthy and dehumanizing. We insist, however, that it is dehumanizing to define ourselves by our desires alone." Radical Lesbian Festival Featured Homosexual Acts Performed in Front of Children http://www.americansfortruth.org/michfest.html Nevertheless, the gay-rights movement is even intent on crushing any notion that homosexual behavior can be changed, no matter how much a gay man or woman wants that change. That's one premise in a book overtly sympathetic to the homosexual movement, "Just the Facts," backed by a coalition of educators and gay organizations and recently distributed to every public school district in the United States. National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) -- a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to the research, therapy and prevention of homosexuality http://www.narth.com/ TOP 10 STRATEGIES USED BY HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS IN SCHOOLS http://www.frc.org/insight/is99f4hs.html JWR columnist Mona Charen quotes Kevin Jennings, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, as saying of the book that "gays need to receive support from their schools. They need to receive affirmation." HOW TO PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN FROM PRO-HOMOSEXUALITY PROPAGANDA IN SCHOOLS http://www.frc.org/infocus/if99j1hs.html 1 Posted on 09/20/2000 13:30:40 PDT by Manny Festo http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39c91e707e73.htm ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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