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THE TRUTH ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY
Genetics & Homosexuality Masters and Johnson reported that homosexuality is
entirely a learned phenomenon without any physiological basis. They
propose that persons are born with no particular predisposition toward
either homosexuality or heterosexuality but simply with an undirected
sexual potential, which then becomes channeled by various learning
experiences in either a homosexual or a heterosexual direction. The Human Genome Project identified all the genes in
human DNA and found no homosexual gene. Evan Balaban, a neurobiologist
at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, noted that the search for
the biological underpinnings of complex human traits has a sorry
history. In recent years, researchers and the media have proclaimed the
"discovery" of genes linked to alcoholism and mental illness as well as
to homosexuality. None of the claims has been confirmed (as quoted in
Horgan, 1995). It is not scientifically accurate to refer to a "gay
gene" as the causative agent in homosexuality. Dr. Simon LeVay’s research (1991) centered on finding the difference between homosexual and heterosexual brains. The brains studied were from 41 cadavers; 26 of these men who had died from AIDS related diseases (19 homosexual men, six heterosexual men and one bisexual man). LeVay acknowledged that his results could be considered speculative and that sexual orientation may not be related to the difference in the size of the anterior hypothalamus of the cadavers. Simon LeVay, "A Difference in Hypothalamic Structure Between Heterosexual and Homosexual Men," Science 253 (1991): 1,034-1036. LeVay said: "My study doesn’t actually even address whether one is ’born that way.’ I didn’t look at these people’s brains before they were born." He also admitted that he co-founded the Gay and Lesbian Education organization in order to bring about change. Karen Oslund interview with Simon LeVay, "Of Brain Structures and Sexual Politics," Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, (1997, Winter), p. 21. Dr. Bill Byne, a neuroanatomist and psychiatrist on the
faculty at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, was unable to
verify LeVay’s research. LeVay said he was disappointed at the lack of a
resounding confirmation of a "gay gene." Dr. Simon LeVay said: "It’s important to stress what I didn’t find. I
did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for
being gay. I didn’t show that gay men are born that way, the most common
mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay
center in the brain." Furthermore, Hamer said, "Homosexuality is not
purely genetic ... environmental factors play a role. There is not a
single master gene that makes people gay." No single gene determines a particular behavior. Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse said: "The frequent claim by 'gay' activists
that it is impossible for homosexuals to change their orientation is
categorically untrue." The sad reality is that such claims only diminish
the desire of persons to seek help in leaving homosexual behavior.
Scientific data simply does not support the innate immutability claim."
In 1993, Dr. Dean Hamer reported, "We have now produced evidence that one form of male homosexuality is preferentially transmitted through the maternal side and is genetically linked to chromosomal region Xq28. "…it appears that Xq28 contains a gene that contributes to homosexual orientation in males," Hamer concluded from his study. He said his results were highly significant statistically. Dean H. Hamer et al., "A Linkage Between DNA Markers on the X Chromosome and Male Sexual Orientation," Science 261 (1993): 325. George Rice and his colleagues from Canada examined Hamer’s "gene Xq28" and observed in the journal Science: "These results do not support an X-linked gene underlying male homosexuality." Other researchers refuted Hamer as well. Wickelgren, Ingrid (1999), "Discovery of ‘Gay Gene’ Questioned," Science, 284:571, April 23. Rice, George, Carol Anderson, Neil Risch, and George Ebers (1999), "Male Homosexuality: Absence of Linkage to Microsatellite Markers at Xq28," Science, 284:665-667, April 23. Byrd, A. Dean, Shirley E. Cox, and Jeffrey W. Robinson (2001), "Homosexuality: The Innate-Immutability Argument Finds No Basis in Science," The Salt Lake Tribune, (2001, 27 May). Homosexuality is probably caused by multiple factors.
Genetic and pre-natal hormonal influences may predispose or place people
at greater risk for developing homosexual attractions. However, current
research indicates that post-natal environmental influences must also be
present in order for the homosexual attractions to be manifested. Some
environmental and psychological factors that may play a causal role in
the development of homosexuality include: (1) cross-gender, effeminate
behavior in childhood, (2) gender-identity deficits, (3) hostile,
detached, or absent fathers (which leads to "defensive detachment" from
the father and other males), and (4) overly close, controlling or
dominating mothers. "The removal of homosexuality from the DSM 2 (American
Psychiatric Association) was all the more remarkable when one considers
that it involved the out-of-hand and peremptory disregard and dismissal
not only of hundreds of psychiatric and psychoanalytic research papers
and reports but also of a number of other serious studies by groups of
psychologists, psychiatrists, and educators over the past 70 years. It
was a disheartening attack upon psychiatric research and a blow to many
homosexuals who looked to psychiatry for more help, not less." When the claims of a "gay gene" were refuted
scientifically, mainstream publications buried the story. The New
York Times ran the story on page 19: "Underscoring the difficulty
scientists face in finding genes that underlie complex human behaviors,
a team of researchers are reporting Friday that they have been unable to
confirm a widely publicized study linking male homosexuality to a small
region of one chromosome." Immediately after Dean Hamer’s research was published,
however, a media explosion ensued. USA Today’s Kim Painter was
the first to report on the newly published data, in 1993: "A
predisposition for homosexuality appears to be written into the very
genes of some men. And they get the key genes from their mothers. … The
possibility of obtaining our findings by chance is extremely unlikely’
-- below 1 percent, says lead author Dean Hamer." The article never
mentions the problems Hamer raised about the study. Other newspapers
followed suit and, it seems, the conclusions made on just this one
experiment were regarded as scientific fact. An article in Time
magazine soon followed, reporting that the studies of family trees and
DNA make the case for genetics as the cause of male homosexuality.
Homosexual Behavior A U.S. Justice Department study found an epidemic of
violence between homosexuals: an annual average of 13,740 male victims
of violence by homosexual partners and 16,900 victims by lesbian
partners. Callie Maire Rennison, "Intimate Partner violence and Age
of Victim, 1993-99," Bureau of Justice Statistics: Special Report,
(2001, October). By contrast, the 2005 statistics for hate crimes
based on sexual orientation totaled 1,213 victims. Lesbian relationships were significantly more violent
than male homosexual relationships. Lie and Gentlewarrior (1991)
surveyed 1,099 lesbians and found that 52 percent said they had used
violence against their female partner and 30 percent said they had used
violence against a nonviolent female partner. Lie, Schilit, Bush,
Montague and Reyes (1991) documented rates of verbal, physical, and
sexual abuse that were significantly higher in their prior lesbian
relationships than in their prior heterosexual relationships: 56.8
percent had been sexually victimized by a female, 45 percent had
experienced physical aggression and 64.5 percent experienced
physical/emotional aggression. Reports of violence victimization by men
were all lower than reports of violence victimization in prior
relationships with women (41.9 percent). During the heyday of the 1970s, 15,000 men visited the baths every weekend in San Francisco, and probably more frequently in New York. The men in these core groups could easily have had sex with several partners per visit, making it possible to have had more than a thousand sex partners in a year. It was among this core that AIDS first appeared. G. Rotello, "Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men," (New York: Dutton, 1997); 62. Studies on the size of homosexual populations vary, but
the numbers are generally low, as low as 1 to 3 percent of populations
around the world. A coalition of 31 leading pro-homosexual activist groups
submitted a friend of the court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the
Lawrence v. Texas case in 2003, claiming that 2.8 percent of men
and 1.4 percent of women are homosexual. In a sample of 350 lesbians, 78.2 percent had been in a
prior relationship with a man.
A national survey of lesbians published in the Journal
of Consulting and Clinical Psychology found that 75 percent of the
nearly 2,000 respondents had pursued psychological counseling of some
kind—many for treatment of long-term depression or sadness. According to a study in the Netherlands where
homosexuality has been accepted and mainstreamed for years, homosexual
men scored significantly lower on five out of eight dimensions,
indicating a lower level quality of life. Compared to heterosexual men,
homosexual men evaluated their general level of health and their mental
health as less positive, reported that emotional problems more often
interfered with work or other daily activities, that physical health or
emotional problems interfered with normal social activities, and felt
less energetic. Psychological health problems including multiple drug
use, partner violence, history of childhood sexual abuse, and depression
interface to sharply increase high-risk sexual behavior and HIV
infection rates among homosexualand bisexual men in the U.S. Homosexuals & Hate Crimes The 2000 FBI Hate Crimes Report lists 8,063 "bias
motivated" incidents. Of these, 1,299 were crimes based on sexual
orientation. Most of these offenses were low-level – about a third of
these incidents fell into the nondescript category of "intimidation." In
2005, there were 7,163 "bias motivated hate crimes" and 1,017 (13.8
percent) were attributed to sexual orientation (28 percent qualified as
"intimidation"; 30 percent occurred in the victims’ homes). In 2004, one murder in the United States resulted
from a bias against homosexuals – out of an estimated 16,692 murders.
Health Risks Centers for Disease Control epidemiologist Laurie Linley
and colleagues found the rate of new HIV infections for male homosexuals
to be nine times higher than for women and heterosexual men. Homosexual sex is associated with deadly diseases such
as HIV, AIDS, anal cancer, other sexually transmitted diseases,
increased mental illness and a reduced life span of eight to 20 years.
Epidemiologists estimate that 30 percent of all
homosexual males will be HIV-positive or dead of AIDS by the time they
are 30. The likelihood of a heterosexual man or woman being infected
with AIDS is 7 in 10,000. The incidence of AIDS among 20-30-year-old men
is roughly 430 times greater than among the heterosexual population at
large. HIV/AIDS is rampant in the homosexual community. Epidemiologists
estimate that 30 percent of homosexually-active men will be HIV positive
or dead of AIDS by the time they are 30. A report from the Centers for Disease Control showed
that more than three-quarters of the homosexual men studied were unaware
they were carrying HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Ninety percent of
homosexual black men who have the virus did not know they had the virus
until researchers told them. Through its National HIV Behavioral
Surveillance system, CDC found that 25 percent of the MSM surveyed were
infected with HIV and 48 percent of those infected were unaware of their
infections. During fiscal year 2000, the United States spent $10.8
billion on HIV/AIDS patient care. That’s $1,359 per month per HIV/AIDS
patient. The median age of death for those who regularly engage
in homosexual behavior leaned in the direction of less than 50. The data
suggest a 20- to 30-year decrease in lifespan among homosexuals. Dr. Joel Palefsky, a leading expert on anal cancer,
reports the incidence of anal cancer among homosexuals is 35 times
greater than that of the general population. This rate doubles for those
who are HIV positive. Risky Behavior Clinicians estimated an incidence rate of substance abuse among
homosexuals to range from 28-35 percent. This estimate contrasts with an
incidence of 10-12 percent in the general population. Research confirms that homosexuals molest children at rates vastly
higher than heterosexuals. Pedophilia and homosexuality tend to occur in the same
men because these individuals are generally less resistant to factors
that divert psychosexual development from the species-typical outcome of
sexual interest in receptive, physically mature females. A study of 229 convicted child molesters found that "86
percent of offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or
bisexual." A study found that 46 percent of homosexual men and 22
percent of homosexual women reported having been molested by a person of
the same gender. This contrasts to only seven percent of heterosexual
men and one percent of heterosexual women reporting having been molested
by a person of the same gender." "Individuals from 1 percent to 3 percent of the
population that are sexually attracted to the same sex are committing up
to one-third of the sex crimes against children." Homosexual Parenting & Homosexual Adoption The largest comprehensive comparative study was based
upon teacher-reports as well as interviews with the students and their
parents. 58 elementary school children being raised by homosexual
couples were closely matched (by age, sex, grade in school, and social
class) with 58 children of cohabiting heterosexual parents, and 58
children of married parents. Children with married parents did best at
math and language skills, second-best in social studies, were most
active in sports, experienced the highest levels of parental involvement
at school and at home (their parents also most closely monitored them at
home), and had parents with the highest expectations for them. Children
of cohabiting heterosexuals were in-between, while children of
homosexuals scored somewhat higher in social studies, lowest in math and
language skills, were least popular (often socially isolated), most
restrained and formal, experienced the lowest levels of parental
involvement both at school and at home, did more household tasks, and
were more frequently tutored. Their parents less frequently expressed
high educational and career aspirations for them. In fact, teachers said
children of homosexuals were ‘more confused’ about their gender. Compared with children from traditional families,
children from nontraditional families showed more psychological problems
as rated by their parents and more internalizing behavior as rated by
their teachers. Boys from nontraditional families were especially at a
disadvantage; they showed lower self-concept, more externalizing, poorer
classroom behavior, and lower grade-point averages. Girls from such
families were less popular with peers. "Twenty-nine percent of the adult children of homosexual
parents had been specifically subjected to sexual molestation by that
homosexual parent, compared to only 0.6 percent of adult children of
heterosexual parents. Having a homosexual parent(s) appears to increase
the risk of incest with a parent by a factor of about 50." The video "Other Families" indicated that the reactions
of the young adults who were raised by lesbians ranged from blasé
acceptance to anger at being burdened by their mothers’ choices. A survey taken in 1999 showed that 86 percent of people
worldwide agreed that "All things being equal, it is better for children
to be raised in a household that has a married mother and father." Homosexual relationships are characteristically unstable
and fundamentally incapable of providing children the security they
need. "Homosexuals … model a poor view of marriage to children
by teaching that marital relationships are transitory and mostly sexual
in nature, sexual relationships are primarily for pleasure rather than
procreation, and monogamy in marriage is not the norm [and] should be
discouraged if one wants a good ’marital’ relationship." Twelve percent of the children of lesbians became active
lesbians themselves, a rate that is at least four times the base rate of
lesbianism in the adult female population. Fiona Tasker and Susan
Golombok, "Adults Raised as Children in Lesbian Families," American
Journal of Orthopsychiatry 65(2) (1995): 213. Sixty-four percent of
young adults raised by lesbian mothers reported considering having
same-sex relationships. Only 17 percent of young adults in heterosexual
families reported the same thing. There are no homosexual parenting studies that a) take a
nationally representative sample of babies born to or adopted by gay
parents and married mothers and fathers and b) follow them
longitudinally while c) controlling for Marriage An Arizona Appeals Court ruled that the State of
Arizona’s ban on same-sex "marriage" is constitutional and that the
concept of marriage remains between a man and a woman. "Recognizing a
right to marry someone of the same sex would not expand the established
right to marry, but would redefine the legal meaning of ’marriage,’"
stated the court. A pattern of "high fidelity" was documented among
married Americans. "The vast majority reported having only one sexual
partner during the previous 30 days (98.8 percent), 12 months (96.3
percent) and five years (93.6 percent). Consequently, "most people were
not placing themselves or their partners at high risk for exposure" to
AIDS. Because of "the therapeutic benefit of marriage," rates
for alcoholism, suicide, schizophrenia and other psychiatric problems
run lower among married men and women than among their unmarried peers.
Married people enjoyed "continuous companionship with a spouse who
provides interpersonal closeness, emotional gratification and support in
dealing with daily stress." A review of more than 130 empirical studies from the
1930s to 1990 indicated that married people generally lived longer, were
more emotionally and physically healthy, happier and more likely to
recover from cancer than unmarried people. A wide body of social science literature characterized
marriage as a powerful protector of public health. Children raised by
their own two married parents lived longer, had fewer illnesses and
accidents and enjoyed better health than children raised outside of
intact marriages. Both men and women who stay married enjoyed powerful
health advantages: longer lives, better health, better-managed chronic
illness, less likely to require extensive (and expensive)
hospitalization and nursing home care and became disabled less often
than single or divorced people. Married fathers can exercise an abiding, important and
positive influence on their children and are especially likely to do so
in a happy marriage. Homosexual Activism Homosexual acts are unhealthy. There are numerous
reasons to oppose sexual orientation codes in schools. Sexual
orientation codes: A) lead to escalating homosexual activism in schools;
B) are used to discriminate and propagandize against students and groups
that oppose homosexuality; C) may open schools up to lawsuits from
parents whose children are misled into dangerous behavior; D) draw more
homosexual teachers to the school and encourage homosexual teachers to
be activists in the classroom; E) can lead to the adoption of
pro-homosexual curricula; F) are used to justify the pro-homosexual
indoctrination of young children; G) encourage school children to
embrace homosexual, bisexual and transgender identities and then proudly
share them with other students. Peter J. Leif Mitchell, community educator/trainer for Planned
Parenthood of Connecticut and a GLSEN national board member, said
in his presentation to Massachusetts teachers and students, "Strategies
for Combating the ’Religious Wrong’ in your community": "Focus on
Violence Prevention. Always go back to the issues of safety to explain
why Gay/Straight Alliances need to be formed. Violence helps us! It is
very important to tie the Religious Right to hatred." In March 1995, GLSEN’s Executive Director Kevin Jennings, in his
speech, "Winning the Culture War," spoke about how he was able to delude
the Massachusetts legislature into adopting the pro-homosexual agenda
for the schools in their state. "In Massachusetts the effective
reframing of this issue was the key to the success of the Governor’s
Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. We immediately seized upon the
opponent’s calling card – safety – and explained how homophobia
represents a threat to students’ safety by creating a climate where
violence, name-calling, health problems, and suicide are common. Titling
our report ’Making Schools Safe for Gay and Lesbian Youth,’ we
automatically threw our opponents onto the defensive and stole their
best line of attack. This framing short-circuited their arguments and
left them back-pedaling from day one." The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Educational Network (GLSEN)
presents itself as a civil rights organization seeking "tolerance" and
"understanding" for a victim group. But it is, in fact, a radical
organization that has clearly embraced the queer-theory worldview. It
seeks to transform the culture and instruction of every public school,
so that children will learn to equate "heterosexism" -- the favoring of
heterosexuality as normal -- with other evils like racism and sexism and
will grow up pondering their sexual orientation and the fluidity of
their sexual identity. One of the major goals of GLSEN and
similar groups is "to reform public school curricula and teaching so
that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender—or LGBT—themes are always
central and always presented in the approved light." The GLSEN teachers’
manual that says that middle-schoolers "should have the freedom to
explore [their] sexual orientation and find [their] own unique
expression of lesbian, bisexual, gay, straight, or any combination of
these." In the year 2005, the FBI Uniform Crime Report listed a total of 123 incidents of hate crimes based on sexual orientation within U.S. schools and colleges. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 70 million students were enrolled in schools and colleges. The incidence rate of 123 crimes relative to 70 million students is 0.0000017 percent. Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Federal Bureau of Investigation. School "Enrollment, 2005 American Community Survey," United States Census Bureau. The North American Man-Boy Love Association’s goal is
"to end the extreme oppression of men and boys in mutually consensual
relationships by: building understanding and support for such
relationships; educating the general public on the benevolent nature of
man/boy love; cooperating with lesbian, gay, feminist, and other
liberation movements; supporting the liberation of persons of all ages
from sexual prejudice and oppression."… "We support the rights of youth
as well as adults to choose the partners with whom they wish to share
and enjoy their bodies." … "NAMBLA is strongly opposed to age-of-consent
laws and all other restrictions which deny men and boys the full
enjoyment of their bodies and control over their own lives." … "We call
for fundamental reform of the laws regarding relations between youths
and adults." In 1953, W. Cleon Skousen wrote "The Naked Communist," a
book which revealed the 45 goals of communism. Goal No. 26 is to
"Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as ‘normal, natural,
healthy.’" Goal No. 39 is to "Dominate the psychiatric profession and
use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those
who oppose Communist goals." Goal No. 40 is to "Discredit the family as
an institution." In an interview, Dr. Charles Socarides spoke of the impact on
removing homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: "In
some ways, the gay community in this country are like a bunch of
confused kids. They knew they had these mysterious sexual compulsions.
They knew they weren’t happy. And then the nation’s psychiatrists said,
in effect, ‘Hey, you’re okay. Go out and have fun. … The APA decision
led to a number of decisions by policymakers all over the country. They
decriminalized sodomy in half of the country. That led to the rise gay
bathhouse culture. And that fueled the century’s most horrific plague,
the plague of AIDS." Dr. Charles Socarides explained how those sympathetic to homosexuals
acquired power in the American Psychiatric Association: "At the national
level a group of politically active psychiatrists—some of them gay—was
forming. They called themselves the Committee for a Concerned Psychiatry
(CFCP). Over the next few years their lobbying and their electioneering
led to a seizure of the presidency and the chairs of the APA. They gave
strong support to Alfred Freedman in his election as president of the
APA, and it really made a difference: in an election where more than
10,000 voted, Dr. Freedman won by two votes. Then the CFCP helped to set
up John Spiegel and Judd Marmor in the chairs, ready to move up into the
presidency—which with the support of the CFCP, they did. Then each of
them—Freedman, Spiegel and Marmor—later delivered what the CFCP wanted;
they each played important roles in the move to delete homosexuality
from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual." In a four-year period from 1970-73, homosexual activists
protested at the annual conventions of the American Psychiatric
Association. The disturbances began with angry homosexual activists
denouncing presenters and threatening violent disruptions. These
confrontations were directed by militant outside consumer groups with no
stake in maintaining the stature of organized psychiatry. Demonstrators
confronted Irving Bieber and other psychiatrists, hurling accusations
and profanities at them. Agitators took over a meeting and denounced
aversive treatment techniques. Homosexuals seized a microphone and
demanded to be heard, greatly enraging psychiatrists. Despite
psychiatrist Kent Robinson’s ability to persuade the APA to include
homosexual speakers, the 1971 national conference in Washington was
again disrupted by well-organized activists. The intruders intimidated
an exhibitor into withdrawing from the site. The pandemonium created in
these years led some psychiatrists to seek airfare refunds. The 1972 APA convention in Dallas was indicative of the
change forced by hostile activists. There were no presentations that
were antithetical to the views of homosexual activists, but there was a
session arranged to present the homosexual activists’ point of view. A
cloaked, hooded speaker identified as "Dr. Anonymous" claimed that he
and 200 fellow psychiatrists were homosexual and that some of them were
members of a Gay Psychiatric Association, which met secretly during APA
meetings. Homosexual demonstrators also began a routine of maintaining
their own booth in the exhibit area. When it was revealed that some
prominent psychiatrists were homosexuals, it became much harder to argue
that homosexuality was a disability and that being homosexual was
dysfunctional. The angry demonstrations of the early 1970s gave way to
presentations by homosexuals and their supporters which were designed to
serve as alternatives to psychoanalysts speaking about curing
homosexuality. A subsequent convention included a carefully moderated
session featuring a debate by homosexual professionals and
psychoanalysts. Pro-homosexual psychiatrists soon became more
influential in the APA than those believing homosexuality was a
pathological condition. On December 15, 1973, the board of trustees of the
American Psychiatric Association capitulated to the demands of
homosexual demonstrators. The homosexuals labeled unyielding
psychiatrists as "war criminals." Under the duress of harassment,
trustees declared that homosexuality was no longer an "illness." A
resulting referendum on the issue, demanded by outraged members of the
association, was conducted by mail and was partially controlled by the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. The homosexual advocates won the
vote and the new official definition of homosexuality as a disorder was
changed to include only those who were "unhappy with their sexual
orientation." Historian Enrique Rueda wrote that the vote "was not the
result of scientific analysis after years of painstaking research.
Neither was it a purely objective choice following the accumulation of
incontrovertible data. The very fact that the vote was taken reveals the
nature of the process involved, since the existence of an orthodoxy in
itself contradicts the essence of science." "There is no question that one of the top priorities of
the homosexual movement is to force a 'redefinition' of the American
family away from the traditional husband-wife-children model to a more
'functional' definition based on the notion of economic unit or any
other basis that does not require heterosexuality as its foundation. The
notion that a family must involve persons of both sexes is profoundly
inimical to the homosexual movement ... As early as 1970, elements
within the homosexual movement had identified the family as inimical to
its interests. At a convention in Philadelphia, the 'Male Homosexual'
workshop included the following as one of its demands: 'The abolition of
the nuclear family because it perpetuates the false categories of
homosexuality and heterosexuality.'" Communist Party leader Henry Hay, founder of the
Mattachine Society in 1950, became known as the "Father of the Modern
Gay Movement." The Mattachine Society’s purpose was to undermine the
Judeo-Christian moral consensus in respect to homosexual relations.
Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams, The Pink Swastika, 301. Hay is
regarded as the man who first organized homosexuals as a political
minority. He was an advocate of pedophile rights and the North American
Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). Hay advocated homosexual separatism,
and he strongly opposed those who preferred to deny NAMBLA permission to
participate in homosexual pride parades. When Hay died in 2002,
mainstream media obituaries ignored his ties to NAMBLA. The Stonewall riot of 1969 by homosexuals who
counter-attacked a police raid in a New York City bar became the new
symbol of the "gay rights" movement. In its wake, Gay Liberation Fronts
sprang up across the United States, using methods of intimidation and
coercion to achieve political gains. They targeted the medical
community, whose increasing effectiveness in treating homosexual
disorders threatened the logical premise of the movement. Gay Liberation
Fronts stormed San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago conventions of
psychiatry, medicine and behavior modification, shouting down speakers
and terrorizing audience members. The American Civil Liberties Union Lesbian & Gay Rights
Project states: "The groups represented here are parts of a large civil
rights orchestra. We play different instruments – lobbying, electoral
politics, impact litigation, grassroots organizing, public education,
media advocacy and more – and we are dedicated to playing them
well. While our organizations vary in focus and strategies, we share a
number of common priorities that will help shape and unite our work in
the months and years to come." "The first homosexual rights organization in the United States was an
American chapter of the German-based Society for Human Rights (SHR). The
German SHR was founded in 1919 by Hans Kahnert and was a militant
organization led by 'Butch' homosexuals. Many of the early Nazis were
also SHR members. The American SHR was started December 10, 1924 in
Chicago, by a German-American named Henry Gerber." The ACLU has offered material support to those who openly preach
pedophilia and arguably encourage kidnapping, rape and murder. A NAMBLA publication, "The Survival Manual: The Man's Guide to
Staying Alive in Man-Boy Sexual Relationships," is also referred to as
"The Rape and Escape Manual." Its chapters explain how to build
relationships with children, how to gain the confidence of children's
parents, where to go to have sex with children and not getting caught.
The manual provides advice for those who get caught, on when to leave
America and how to rip off credit card companies to get cash to finance
their flights. According to homosexual writer and activist Michelangelo
Signorile, the goal of homosexuals is: "[You need] To fight for same-sex
marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the
institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as
a way of adhering to society’s moral codes but rather to debunk a myth
and radically alter an archaic institution. . . . The most subversive
action lesbian and gay men can undertake . . . is to transform the
notion of ’family’ entirely." In 1987, homosexual activists Marshall Kirk and Hunter
Madsen wrote a manifesto called, "The Overhauling of Straight America"
that described how the homosexual movement was to swing public
perception. They outlined the following steps: capture the media and
desensitize the public to homosexuality, portray the opposition as evil
and homosexuals as victims, silence the opposition through name calling.
They furthered the idea that if homosexuals can be cast as victims in
need of protection then straights will be inclined by reflex to assume
the role of protector. Paula Ettelbrick, former legal director of the Lambda
Legal Defense and Education Fund, has stated, "Being queer is more than
setting up house, sleeping with a person of the same gender, and seeking
state approval for doing so... Being queer means pushing the parameters
of sex, sexuality, and family, and in the process transforming the very
fabric of society." Homosexuals are one of the most affluent groups in
America. Their average household income is $55,430 compared to the
national average of $32,286. Nearly 60 percent are college graduates
compared to the national average of 18 percent. Forty-nine percent are
in professional and management positions comparedto the national average
of 16 percent. Almost 66 percent go on vacations overseas compared to
the national average of 14 percent. Joe Di Sabato, president of
Rivendell Marketing Company, said, "you’re talking about two people with
good jobs, lots of money and no dependents. This is a dream market."
MasterCard and the Dallas Gay Alliance Credit Union began offering
homosexual-oriented credit cards, and many businesses began advertising
in homosexual publications in the 1990s. Eric Pollard founded the homosexual activist
organization ACT-UP’s Washington, D.C, chapter. In an interview in the
Washington Blade, he said that he and other group members learned to
apply "subversive tactics, drawn largely from the voluminous Mein Kampf,
which some of us studied as a working model." Civil & Legal Rights Claims When the issue of homosexuals routinely being denied the
right to visit their partners in hospitals was raised during debate over
the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, the Family Research Council did an
informal survey of nine hospitals in four states and the District of
Columbia. None of the administrators surveyed could recall a single case
in which a visitor was barred because of their homosexuality, and they
were incredulous that this would even be considered an issue. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force cut in half its
coverage of health insurance premiums for domestic partners of its
employees, calling the premiums "prohibitively expensive."
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