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Welcome to Call to Decision
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By
Michael S. Heath, Executive Director
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Gay
Pride: Tactics of Tyranny
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The following
article is from the excellent online resource for
truth regarding the gay rights movement, Americans
for Truth.
 There
is a yawning chasm between the values and
priorities we piously claim as our national
heritage and those we have chosen to live by.
Our
survival as a democracy is in our hands. We too must
come out of the closet of cloistered Christianity
and come to the rescue of our constitutional rights.
By Lee Taylor
Gay pride was not born in a vacuum. Timing and
social upheaval formed the vortex in which it was
born and bred. Hanging from the shirttails of the
Civil Rights, women's liberation, and anti-war
movements, it exploited the vulnerability of a
nation in turmoil. Fueling its fraudulent claims and
outrageous demands from our national guilt complex
and introspective conflict of values, the Gay
Liberation Front exploded onto the American scene.
The soul-searching '60's exposed a nation fraught
with self-doubt, self-recrimination, anxiety,
addiction and ideological conflict, a nation at odds
with itself. The sexual revolution accelerated the
erosion of both marriage and the family as we
struggled with the values and priorities of our
national identity.
We were still recovering from the Viet Nam War and
had only begun to realize the implications of racial
integration when homosexual opportunists executed a
strategically timed and targeted blitzkrieg on
American society. We were caught napping, and the
initial homosexual coup was a resounding success.
Adopting the Civil Rights, anti-war and women's
liberation movements as its own, forming its
political platform by drawing heavily from each, the
Gay Liberation Front took aim at our Christian
values and democratic institutions.
Beginning with the 1970 Annual Convention of the
American Psychiatric Association, held in San
Francisco, exploiting the guerrilla theater tactics
of disruption, threats and verbal abuse, the storm
troopers of the Gay Liberation Front established a
political beachhead within the medical arena, which,
in 1973, eventuated in the "normalizing"
of homosexuality. Through meticulous design and
systematic orchestration, the Gay Liberation Front
quickly expanded its political base by enlisting the
services of the public media in establishing a new,
politically ingenious, homosexual vocabulary.
Designed to eliminate all negative connotations and
supply its arsenal with symbolism more seductive in
the promotion of its agenda, gay semantics
discovered respectability for a terminal life style.
Capitalizing on the potent political clout of the
public media and entertainment industry, the
homosexual campaign expanded to include federal,
state and regional politics, legislative, judicial
and executive branches of government, government
health agencies, institutions, research centers and
foundations, the military, mainstream religion, and
the politicizing/dogmatizing of science and
education, subsidized by federal and state tax
revenue in the war against American institutions.
Within less than a quarter of a century, one per
cent of the population had taken the rest hostage, a
politico-moral coup unprecedented in the history of
this country.
Gay pride history, methodology, alliances, agenda,
political conquests and ultimate goals are no
secret. This information has been made available in
abundance from both sides of the battlefield, easily
accessed, extensively researched and documented. The
baffle cry of gay pride is blatantly clear:
"We're here! We're queer! And we're going to
win!" We can read it in the gay, secular and
religious press. Homosexuals are out of the closet
and parading their perversion in the streets. They
are highly motivated, well financed, politically
astute, effectively organized, and dedicated. To
underestimate the capacity or goal of this enemy is
to guarantee defeat. They have thrown down the
gauntlet, hurling their deadly agenda directly in
the face of this nation's democratic institutions,
constitution and family values. We are under attack
and will not survive unless we fight! We have been
ambushed on all major fronts and our ability to
prevail has already been severely sabotaged. How did
this happen? In what way have we nurtured the enemy
we now must defeat? We are a young, adolescent
nation, and the chapter we are now writing has been
written before by much older nations, nations which
no longer exist. They too danced to their demons and
were buried by them. Is it too late for us to learn
from history, or will we follow this diabolical
trail to our own demise?
There are laws which govern everything in our
universe, absolute laws, waiting to be discovered
and respected, designed by the Creator for the
unfolding of creation. These laws are immutable, in
noncompliance with the reckless egoic ultimatums of
any political, religious or moral invention. These
laws work with or without our approval. They are
completely reliable. To the extent that we
understand and follow them, we live and are
fulfilled. We have been far more successful
discovering and obeying the laws of physics than the
laws of our souls. We have become far more familiar
with outer space than inner space. The values and
priorities taught and lived by the Son of God have
all but died on the back burner of American culture,
quite predictably leaving us all but dead. Our
blind, pretentious egos may come dressed in
religious rhetoric from either the right or the
left, but the laws of God don't bow to politically
correct values and priorities. The mandate of Jesus
Christ was not to appear successful or sound
dedicated. It was to follow Him. If we had been
following the values and priorities which we're so
fond of claiming in our Judeo-Christian patriotism,
over half our marriages would not have ended in the
divorce court, and our families would not be
suffering the tragic fragmentation, dysfunction and
alienation they now suffer. These two institutions
were in major trouble long before we first heard the
word "gay."
It wasn't the integrity and social responsibility of
followers of Jesus Christ who created the need for a
Civil Rights movement in America. It was the
hypocrisy of those who claimed freedom and justice
for all but their Black brothers and sisters. For
that rejection of our democratic and Christian
values we paid and continue to pay a very painful
price. We were forced to confront our pious,
patriotic pretense, to choose between our
"omnipotent" egos and God's laws for our
survival.
There is a yawning chasm between the values and
priorities we piously claim as our national heritage
and those we have chosen to live by. We have a
time-honored tradition of moral schizophrenia, a
hero-worshipping, egoic, success cult, which we have
traditionally concealed within the garment of
Judeo-Christian patriotism. We raise our hymns of
God and country to the sky, but the laws of God,
which govern our existence and chance of survival,
remain constant in spite of our 'holy"
gestures. Possibly we are just beginning to discover
that our hi-tech goddess is not worthy of worship,
that we are being forced to choose between success
and survival, between the profit margin and the
preservation of our race. We live in an image
culture where nothing fails like success. It was
into this moral schizophrenia that the gay pride
movement most effectively opened fire, establishing
an appealing rationale for its momentum.
It is much too late for the hermeneutics of pious
patriotism. This has failed to convince Native
Americans, Blacks, Mexican Americans, or any
minority group experiencing the violence inherent in
our pretense. Gay activists have made political hay
out of such empty semantics. The sacred institutions
of marriage and family have been under attack for
decades, and born-again Christians and those at the
opposite end of the politico-religious spectrum have
not been exempt from the consequences. Our banner
may be a different color, our politics a different
stripe, our semantics a different sound, but we have
played the success cult game to the edge of a
national abyss, and it has been our self-serving
egos, not the Spirit of God, who have been in the
driver's seat. To blame gay activists for destroying
marriage and family values is tantamount to blaming
a sinking ship on the rats which desert it. We, by
default, share in this blame game.
Borrowing from over four centuries of
politico-religious suffering in Northern Ireland,
the 1993 Seattle Gay Pride Parade declared a Holy
War on all who opposed their agenda. Quite
consistent with the all too familiar political
strategy of piggybacking much older, historically
significant struggles for justice, implying
legitimacy and power through association, the gay
pride movement now demands a complete restructuring
of American institutions and ideology in compliance
with its agenda. The tactics of tyranny are in
place. The values and institutions essential for the
survival of American democracy are the target. As
Christian people with a mandate to follow Jesus
Christ, we are challenged to move quickly beyond our
religious rhetoric and walk our talk. We have no
other choice. Our options are being systematically
eliminated. We must become strategically and
aggressively involved at the local, state, and
national level in every political organization,
every government institution, agency, bureau and
lobby. We must consistently impact our local school
board meetings, city council, precinct caucuses and
health services. We must recognize religious
organizations which have become advocates for the
gay agenda and cut off all forms of support. We must
counterattack the public media and entertainment
industry, demanding an end to their pro-gay agenda,
boycotting their sponsors. We must act out of
educated awareness, integrity and compassion in this
war. The most socially responsible and compassionate
way to defeat this enemy is to destroy its agenda
and treat its disease. Our survival as a democracy
is in our hands. We too must come out of the closet
of cloistered Christianity and come to the rescue of
our constitutional rights, our democratic form of
government, our family values and our diminishing
freedom. We must follow the mandate of God's laws
and ACT.
Lee Taylor is a Bellingham, Washington-based writer
who was once a United Church of Christ minister who
was forced to resign for refusing to perform
"same-sex marriages." He can be reached at
leetaylor411@comcast.net.
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| Calling
all Watchmen on the Wall
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 In
a blog
entry entitled "Darkness" Rev. Ron
Pinkham discusses the properties of light. He
writes, "The tragic irony of spiritual darkness
is that "men love darkness" (John 3:19)
until they come to Christ."
Rev. Pinkham is on the board of our Christian
Education League. He is joining three other
pastors today in Washington D.C. at the Family
Research Council's Watchmen on the Wall Conference.
This meeting is designed specifically for pastors.
We live in a nation that is, to quote Judge Robert
Bork, "Slouching toward Gomorrah."
Pray that our pastors will be inspired to act and pray
as they meet in Washington D.C. this week. We
all need to join our pastors in helping people come to
Christ.
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Morning on WVOM
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 I
will be on WVOM 103.9FM in Bangor this morning at 7:05
talking about the radical
pro-homosexual stand of Republican Senator Susan
Collins. She didn't mention that she is to the
left of her democratic opponent, Tom Allen, on
"gay" issues in her Republican convention
speech this past Saturday. The Maine press has
also ignored the issue, with the exception of the
League's online RECORD.
While Senator Collins openly supports cross-dressing, Allen
may not. He upset cross-dressing men
recently by supporting a gay rights bill that didn't
include them.
Senator Collins has a written policy that guarantees
that men who like to wear dresses will get
preferential treatment in her Senate office.
Listen in this morning if you're in the WVOM listening
area. Ric Tyler and George Hale want to discuss
whether Mainer's should care about the stand Collins
takes on this matter.
You can listen to a
seventeen minute interview, with no commercial breaks,
that I did with George and Ric a couple weeks ago here.
We discussed gay rights.
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Following are a
sample of the comments we've received in the past
day.
The more of this type of effort the better.
We're sending a check. -- Received
via website in response to announcement of Relief
Fund effort by the League
I'm proud of the League's stand on gay rights.
I'm also very pleased with the Relief
Fund effort. You guys do the right things.
It's my privilege to support you. My check is in
the mail.
-- Received via phone call
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Civic League of Maine | 70 Sewall Street | Augusta | ME |
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