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Words are powerful - Thoughts shape - Ideas have consequences

Debra Rae

Author, "ABCs of Globalism"
Posted October 11, 2004

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A recent U.S. Surgeon General called homosexuality a “healthy part of our being”; additionally, the US Supreme Court has “discovered” in the Constitution an alleged “right” to consensual sodomy. It seems that Massachusetts Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall agrees with Socrates that homosexuality is “a superior form of love.” Those otherwise minded she calls “nuts.”

A Zogby-GLCensus Partners poll of over 1,500 identified legal recognition of same-sex marriage as a primary goal of the gay movement. “Marriage lite” promises all the perks of God-sanctioned matrimony minus need for divorce should same-sex couples wish to part ways. In tacit support of the aggressive UN global population-control agenda, gay activists link arms with “my body/my choice” feminists. Together, these serve sustainable society by slowing procreation—this, to afford Mother Earth the breather she professedly deserves.

Ninth-grade civics taught me, to the contrary, that the traditional family serves as basic unit of every healthy community. In partnership with UNESCO (education arm of the UN), Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment is a trendy program effective in linking progressive scientists with impressionable school children stateside and abroad. GLOBE prioritizes adoption of gay rights. Not surprisingly, a Zogby poll finds that already two-thirds of our high school seniors favor legalization of homosexual marriage. Even more favor homosexual adoptions, and fully 90% favor “hate crimes” laws. Accordingly, intensifying hostility to free exchange of ideas—this, by means of speech codes and anti-harassment laws—further silences politically incorrect viewpoints at higher education institutions.

Activists count on the “full faith and credit” clause found in the US Constitution. Through it, the possibility of same-sex marriage in one state may force legal recognition of that union by all others—but not everyone is applauding.

To Marry, or Not to Marry—That is the Question
Most would agree that Western culture is undergoing the ultimate “extreme makeover.” Homosexual marriage is now legal in British Columbia and Ontario, Belgium and Holland. Additionally, countries having ratified The Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) are compelled to conform to a radical feminist agenda inclusive of legalized lesbianism.

In 2003 the Massachusetts Supreme Court advanced the skewed sentiment that gay marriage serves to extend civil rights to disadvantaged groups (Goodrich v. the Massachusetts Department of Public Health). Authentic advocates of civil rights, as Alveda King, find this assertion not only presumptuous, but also downright offensive; moreover, polls conducted even by liberal newspapers like The Boston Globe reveal opposition to gay marriage by as much as a 2-1 margin.

A study released by the Center for the Study of Popular Culture revealed what David Horowitz calls “institutional leftism,” yet colleges and universities receive hundreds of millions of dollars and subsidies from taxpayers. If not ideologically, you and I clearly support the movement with our tax dollars. The NEA funds gay plays, as My Queer Body. Grants support the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Lesbian Visual Arts, and the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. Before long, a gaggle of gays are likely to go after the tax-exempt status of opposing groups.

Born Gay?
Although instrumental in removing homosexuality from the APA list of mental disorders (1973), Columbia University’s Dr. Robert Spitzer later assumed an unexpected posture. Surprising to some, he contended that reparative therapy counseling serves to shift one’s sexual orientation from gay back to heterosexual. This begs the question, “If it ain’t broke, why fix it?” The film I Do Exist gives narratives of five people who experienced profound personal transformations. If shifting is an option, as it clearly is, why promote coming out and identifying as gay as the only healthy response to same-sex attractions?

Coupled with belief that people are born gay, Spitzer’s dubious decree in 1973 jump-started the movement, so much so that, decades later, ecumenical groups, as Amazing Grace, and even mainline denominations give the thumbs up to alternative lifestyles. This is true despite X-chromosome and hypothalamus studies conducted by National Cancer Institute’s Dr. Dean Hamer and Salt Institute researcher Dr. Simon LeVay, respectively. Neither found genetic cause for being gay. A handful of additional studies were exposed later as being methodologically flawed and/or misinterpreted. Even some gay activists decry apparent hijacking from the National Cancer Institute millions in federal funds that are otherwise sidetracked into chasing an elusive gene link to homosexuality.

“How is this working for you?”
Since the late 19th century, with rise of a pioneer gay rights movement in Germany, pederasty (love between a man and youth, 12-18 years of age) has gained momentum, as evidenced by Demand #55 of the 1993 March on Washington, which insists on adult sex with children. Answering Dr. Phil’s signature question, “How is this working for you?” a 1998 Psychological Reports article shaves an estimated twenty-to-thirty years off life expectancy for the average homosexual. Executive director of Exodus International, Bob Davis suggests that gay men are six times more likely than straight ones to commit suicide.

No matter, while the Clinton/Gore administration was lauded as the most “inclusive,” some Republicans have followed suit. In an effort to build a GOP where “sexual orientation is not an issue,” Dick Cheney’s gay daughter has joined the advisory board of the Republican Unity Coalition.

Who Hates Whom?
Author of Canada’s hate-propaganda law, Svend Robinson believes vilifying gays to be reprehensible; however, he freely besmirches Christian leaders as “ecclesiastical dictators.” Those who refuse to celebrate so-called diversity are tagged “homophobes,” “breeders,” and “hate-mongers.” Activists from ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and OUT (Oppression Under Target) chant, march, and invade businesses and government offices all the while angrily thrusting their oft-vulgar signs into the faces of “intolerant” traditionalists.

Increasingly, intimidation tactics, as these, are being used. For opposing Missouri’s efforts to license gays as foster parents, a Christian social worker was outright fired. When family-friendly Dr. Laura Schlessinger was defamed and subsequently ousted from TV, shelters for neglected children actually refused her extraordinarily generous charitable gifts. In both cases, children—not gays—were victimized by diversity.

Getting the Show on the Road
One of the first scientists to expose the falsity that fully ten percent of us are gay was Dr. Paul Cameron. In reality, homosexuals constitute only 1.5 percent, or so, of the entire population, yet gays first and foremost persist in recruiting children. In 1993, the United Way granted $4,000 for public schools placement of books with gay themes—King & King, for one. A special school In New York City, called Harvey Milk, grooms uniquely selected (and some might add, privileged) gay, transgender, and questioning youth. In order to advance the homosexual message, other public schools rely instead on sex education/indoctrination, anti-bullying campaigns, and “safe” school campaigns. Ignoring parental protest, politically correct librarians see to it that the blatantly gay Washington Blade is easily accessed by teens.

How Shall We Then Live?
In the absence of a constitutional amendment, the Defense of Marriage Act (1996) is subject to challenge in the courts. For this reason, Executive director of the Alliance for Marriage, Matt Daniels has proposed this addition to the Constitution: “Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman”—not cohabiting couples or groups. Just as alternatives must be available to pregnant women in crises, homosexuals also need medics, as it were, to tend to their wounds in today’s culture war. Organizations as Exodus International, Spatula Ministries, and Genesis Counseling are good starts at providing much-needed support for recovering gays committed to finding their way home in these admittedly perplexing times.

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© Debra Rae 2004 Reprinted with Permission

Debra Rae received her Master of Education degree from the University of Washington, and her Bachelor of Theology Master of Ministries degrees from Pacific School of Theology. Her work spans pre-school through adult education, including teaching at the American School of Kuwait, during which time she tutored the daughter of Kuwait's Head of Parliament. After marrying Debra joined her husband in further exploration of Africa, Asia, East- and West- Europe, North- and South- Americas -- about 70,000 miles their first year of marriage! One trip featured a memorable jaunt on the elegant British Concorde. Her book, ABCs of Globalism has prompted numerous radio interviews aired across the nation, the Western Hemisphere, Russia, and the Middle East. And her latest, the ABC’s of Cultural-isms is its sequel.