Fourth Sunday after Pentecost 1987 "Overhauling of Straight America" was "unconstitutional". The 1996 Act states that in federal law, "the word 'marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife. "[1] It prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex "marriages" for the purpose of taxes, social security and other programs. Recent polls indicate that an increasing number of Americans find same-sex "marriage" acceptable, which tells us more about the moral bankruptcy of America than its present competence to recognize objective moral law. to pose the question: how is it that homosexuality and same-sex "marriage" is now accepted by so many individuals. of countless Catholic theologians and prelates in teaching true Catholic moral law, and the breakdown in authority since Vatican II. Modern Church leaders no longer discipline Catholic teachers who propound principles and practices contrary to natural and Divine law.[2]
particularly spelled out in the 1987 landmark article "The Overhauling of Straight America" by homosexual activists Marshall K. Kirk and Erastes Pill. ( "Erastes Pill" was the pen name for Hunter Madsen). Kirk was a Harvard educated researcher in neuropsychiatry; Madsen had a doctorate in politics from Harvard and was an expert on public persuasion tactics and social marketing. and to demonize opponents of homosexuality. The entire campaign is based not on intellectual arguments, but on emotional manipulation of the public. (Kirk & Madsen later expanded the principles in the article to a 398-page book After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90s). In order to convey the true spirit of the piece, we will rely as much as possible on direct quotation. To desensitize the pubic is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of keen emotion." par with preferences in ice cream flavors or sports. You prefer chocolate, I prefer butter pecan. You prefer hockey, I prefer baseball. No problem. from the average America. You can forget about trying to persuade the masses that homosexuality is a good thing. But if you can only get them to think that is just another thing, with a shrug of the shoulders, then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won. And to get to shoulder-shrug state, gays as a class must cease to appear mysterious, alien and contrary." The article calls for a massive media campaign to change the image of homosexuals, "and any campaign to accomplish this turnaround should accomplish six things." The acceptability of the new behavior will ultimately hinge on the number of one's fellows doing it or accepting it." A person may be offended initially by the novelty of it all, but the authors point out "as long as Joe-Six-pack feels little pressure to perform likewise, and as long as the behavior in question presents little threat to his physical and financial security, he soon gets used to it and life goes on." As time goes on, Joe-Six pack and his friends will become more tolerant of homosexuality as no more than an alternative, legitimate way of life. is to have a lot of people talk a great deal about the subject in a neutral or supportive way." The more it is talked about, the more the impression is created that public opinion is at least divided on the topic. "Even rancorous debates between opponents and defenders serve our purpose so long as 'respectable' gays are front and center to make their own pitch." talk, not homosexualist indoctrination. "In the early stages of any campaign to reach straight American, the masses should not be shocked and repelled by premature exposure to homosexual behavior itself. and gay rights should be reduced to an abstract social question as much as possible." At the time, the average American spent a good seven hours or more per day in front of the TV. "Those hours open a gateway into the private world of straights, through which a Trojan horse might be passed." homosexuals have to desensitize the mainstream. They applaud the fact that over the past 10 years (up to 1987) homosexual characters have become prominent in films and television programs. Will & Grace or The L Word; movies such as Brokeback Mountain, and likable homosexual characters with prominent roles in films such as Bridget Jones Diary and As Good As it Gets. Amiable homosexual characters increasingly feature in modern film and television, and it is no accident. religious authority is the other. When conservative churches condemn gays, there are only two things we can do to confound the homophobia of true believers. First we can use talk to muddy the moral waters. raising theological objections of our own about conservative interpretation of Biblical teaching and exposing hatred and inconsistency." with the latest findings of psychology. Against the mighty pull of institutional Religion one must set the mightier draw of Science and Public Opinion (the shield and swords of that accursed 'secular humanism'). Such an unholy alliance has worked well against churches before, on such topics as divorce and abortion. With enough open talk about the prevalence and acceptability of homosexuality, that alliance can work here again."[3] instead, as a strong and prideful tribe promoting a rigidly nonconformist and deviant lifestyle, they are more likely to be seen as a public menace that justifies resistance and oppression. For that reason, we must forego the temptation to strut our 'gay pride' publicly when it conflicts with the Gay Victim image. And we must walk the fine line between impressing straights with our great numbers, on the one hand, and sparking their hostile paranoia --'They are all around us!' -- on the other. use of symbols which reduce the mainstream's sense of threat, which lower its guard, and which enhance the plausibility of victimization. In practical terms, this means that jaunty mustachioed musclemen would keep very low profile in gay commercials and other public presentations, while sympathetic figures of nice young people, old people, and attractive women would be featured. (It almost goes without saying that groups on the farthest margin of acceptability such as NAMBLA, [North American Man-Boy Love Association] must play no part at all in such a campaign: suspected child-molesters will never look like victims)." "First, the mainstream should be told that gays are victims of fate, in the sense that most never had a choice to accept or reject their sexual preference. The message must read: 'As far as gays can tell, they were born gay, just as you were born heterosexual or white or black or bright or athletic. Nobody ever tricked or seduced them; they never made a choice, and are not morally blameworthy. What they do isn't willfully contrary - it's only natural for them. This twist of fate could as easily have happened to you!'" her recent music release, "Born this Way". Witness also the rabid hatred of homosexuals against groups such as Courage or Exodus Now that help men and women defeat their homosexuality. If homosexuality can be overcome, then this destroys the false argument that homosexuals are victims of fate who can do nothing to change themselves. Mr. and Mrs. Public must be given no extra excuses to say, 'they are not like us.' To this end, the persons featured in the public campaign should be decent and upright, appealing and admirable by straight standards, completely unexceptionable in appearance -- in a word, they should be indistinguishable from the straights we would like to reach. (To return to the terms we have used in previous articles, spokesmen for our cause must be R-type 'straight gays' rather than Q-type 'homosexuals on display.') Only under such conditions will the message be read correctly: 'These folks are victims of a fate that could have happened to me'." favorably on a strategy that makes them look like victims of some sort of plague, "but the plain fact is that the gay community is weak and must manipulate the powers of the weak, including the play for sympathy." to be their protectors must make it easier for those to respond to assert and explain their new protectiveness. Few straight women, and even fewer straight men, will want to defend homosexuality boldly as such. Most would rather attach their awakened protective impulse to some principle of justice or law, to some general desire for consistent and fair treatment in society. Our campaign should not demand direct support for homosexual practices, should instead take anti-discrimination as its theme. The right to free speech, freedom of beliefs, freedom of association, due process and equal protection of laws-these should be the concerns brought to mind by our campaign. arguments of its enemies. The homophobes clothe their emotional revulsion in the daunting robes of religious dogma, so defenders of gay rights must be ready to counter dogma with principle." to portray him as Everyman. But an additional theme of the campaign should be more aggressive and upbeat: to offset the increasingly bad press that these times have brought to homosexual men and women, the campaign should paint gays as superior pillars of society. Yes, yes, we know -- this trick is so old it creaks. Other minorities use it all the time in ads that announce proudly, 'Did you know that this Great Man (or Woman) was ____?' But the message is vital for all those straights who still picture gays as 'queer' people -- shadowy, lonesome, fail, drunken, suicidal, child-snatching misfits." "The celebrities can be straight" (such as Ed Asner) "or gay" To be blunt, they must be vilified. (This will be all the more necessary because, by that time, the entrenched enemy will have quadrupled its output of vitriol and disinformation.) Our goal here is twofold. First, we seek to replace the mainstream's self-righteous pride about its homophobia with shame and guilt. nasty that average Americans will want to dissociate themselves from such types.[4] gays be burned alive or castrated; bigoted southern ministers drooling with hysterical hatred to a degree that looks both comical and deranged; menacing punks, thugs, and convicts speaking coolly about the 'fags' they have killed or would like to kill; a tour of Nazi concentration camps where homosexuals were tortured and gassed. is seen pounding the pulpit in rage about 'those sick, abominable creatures.' While his tirade continues over the soundtrack, the picture switches to pathetic photos of gays who look decent, harmless, and likable; and then we cut back to the poisonous face of the preacher, and so forth. The contrast speaks for itself. The effect is devastating. They call upon homosexuals to contribute heavily to this campaign. "And because those gays not supporting families usually have more discretionary income than average , they could afford to contribute much more." "....by conversion we mean something far more profoundly threatening to the American Way of Life, without which no truly sweeping social change can occur. We mean 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."[5] criticize homosexual conduct and this "hate speech" allegedly leads to hate crimes and must be suppressed. This site equates opposition to homosexuality as equal to Hitler's slaughter of Jews in Europe. month in jail for criticizing homosexuality during a sermon he gave in his own church.[8] approved a resolution urging the local media not to carry advertisements by pro-family organizations that addressed hope for homosexuals to change. He was in court for two years and lost all of his appeals.[9]
my leg nor picks my pocket what difference is it to me?'" backs same-sex marriage and homosexuals serving openly in the U.S. military, was a sponsor of the 2010 Conservative Political Acton Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C, which is supposedly the largest conservative annual gathering in the country. CPAC ignored calls from genuine conservative groups not to allow GOProud to sponsor the conference.[10] Homosexuality is now being forced on the nations as a legitimate lifestyle, to the point where California just passed a measure that demands "Gay history" curriculum to be taught in its public schools.[11] There can be no doubt this is the plan homosexual activists and corrupt politicians intend to implement in all public schools throughout the nation. of youth and the persecution of Christians who uphold the Biblical condemnations of homosexuality.[12] [1] "House Speaker Convenes Bipartisan Group to Defend DOMA Abandoned by Obama", Life Site News, March 8, 2011. added to the lengthy list of social and ethnic groups that public schools must include in social studies lessons under a landmark bill passed Thursday by the California Senate.", CA Senate Bill Mandates Gay History in Schools," Associated Press, April 14, 2011 [12] Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinned exceedingly before the Lord. (Genesis 13:13) 24 The Lord poured down on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. He overthrew those cities and the whole region, all the inhabitants of the cities and the plants of the soil (Genesis 19:24-25); Just as Sodom and Gomorrah, and neighboring cities which like them committed sins of immorality and practiced unnatural vice, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. (Jude 7); For this cause God has given them up to shameful lusts; for their women have exchanged the natural use for that which is against nature; and in like manner the men also having abandoned the natural use of woman, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men doing shameless things and receiving in themselves the fitting recompense of their perversity. (Romans 1: 26-27) "....by conversion we -------------------------------
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