
HOW
SODOMY WAS SOLD TO AMERICA
Nicholas
Jackson
December 29, 2007
NewsWithViews.com
Sodomy,
n. A crime against nature. --American Dictionary of the
English language, Noah Webster 1828.
Words
mean something. Noah Webster knew that well. Just hearing the word
sodomy sounds harsh. This is evidence of how far we have slid.
“Whoever,
therefore wishes to ruin a nation, has only to get this vice
introduced; for it is extremely difficult to extirpate it where it
has once taken root because it can be propagated with much
secrecy… and when we perceive that it has once got a footing in
any country, however, powerful and flourishing, we may venture as
politicians to predict that the foundation of its future decline
is laid and that after some hundred years it will no longer be the
same…powerful country it is at the present.” (Sir John David
Michaelis, Commentaries on the Laws of Moses, 1814.
In
1988, 74.9% of the American Public thought that sex between two
people of the same gender was always wrong. By 1998, the
percentage had fallen to 54.6% (National Opinion research Center,
The University of Chicago.)
Perhaps
no other movement in the history of America has had so much
success in such a short time. We must examine the homosexual
agenda’s success in changing American Culture and attempting to
redefine the family, not only to understand how to combat it, but
to provide a glimpse of the potential of the American Church if
only we were so vocal and dedicated.
The
Homosexual Agenda
The
strategy was revealed 20 years ago in a 1987 article titled,
“The Overhauling of Straight America,” and a 1989 book titled
“After the Ball.” In which two radicalized homosexual
activists Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen published their plan.
Both Kirk and Madsen were highly educated men. Kirk was a Harvard
educated researcher in neuropsychiatry, and Madsen had a doctorate
in politics from Harvard, and was an expert on public persuasion
tactics and social marketing. (The Marketing of Evil, David
Kupelian, p.23)
Their
strategy was six fold:
1.
Talk about gays and gayness as loudly and often as possible.
2. Portray gays as victims, not aggressive challengers.
3. Give homosexual protectors a “just” cause.
4. Make gays look good.
5. Make the victimizers look bad.
6. Solicit Funds(Get corporate America and major
foundations to financially support the homosexual cause. (The
Homosexual Agenda: (Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious
Freedom Today. Alan Sears & Craig Osten, p. 18)
Let’s
briefly examine these strategies.
Firstly,
Kirk and Madsen in The Overhauling of Straight America, write in
regards to talking about gays and gayness, “The principal behind
this advice is simple: almost all behavior begins to look normal
if you are exposed to enough of it at close quarters and among
your acquaintances.” (Sears and Osten p. 18)
“The
main thing is talk about gayness until the issue becomes
thoroughly tiresome.” According to Sears and Osten this will
have one of two effects. “1. It convinces people that homosexual
behavior is just another lifestyle, or 2. causes them to get so
sick of the issue that they throw their hands up in disgust or
become exhausted and then withdraw. Either way the homosexual
activists win.” (Sears and Osten 17-18)
Portraying
homosexuals as an oppressed victim is the second part of Madsen
and Kirk’s strategy because it plays into all Americans sense of
fairness. This can be seen in the framing of the AIDS debate
(primarily spread by homosexual behavior) as a civil rights issue
(AIDS was formally called GRIDS, G stands for ‘Gay”) He who
frames the argument wins.
This
was also seen through the Matthew Shepherd murder case when two
non-religious men killed another man for drugs. The case was blown
up by the national media to be a homophobic hate crime spurred on
by “hateful” evangelicals preaching against sin. In the media
Christians are then compared to Hitler and the KKK, instead of
Mother Theresa, William Wilberforce (the Christian who abolished
the British slave-trade), and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
By
piggybacking on the civil rights issue and slandering blacks,
homosexuality has become the cause de jour to appeal to liberal
sensitivities of fairness and justice. The “Gay Rights” issue
is now seen as a “just cause.” Examples of this in Hollywood
are the film Philadelphia, where Tom Hanks is fired from his job
by discriminating hate-mongers, and Broke Back Mountain where
Heath Ledger can’t really live out the true love and life he
wants because of an oppressive society. Rather than showing two
men living in San Francisco with high discretionary income and a
lavish lifestyle they are shown as oppressed and victimized. This
idea of making the homosexual appear oppressed and the victimizer
bad can adroitly be perpetuated showing scenes of Fred Phelps, (of
God Hates Fags lore) protesting funerals which furthers the myth
that Christians are mean and bigoted people.
Lastly,
soliciting funds for radicalized homosexual groups has been widely
successful. Ford Motors, Kraft, Home Depot, Proctor & Gamble
and many more corporations indirectly or directly contribute to
the advancement of the homosexual agenda. They do this through
sponsorship, advertising, donations, and legislative endorsement.
Careful coordination with corporations and the media have been
tools in the propaganda campaign to mainstream homosexual sodomy.
These are the engines that drive the homosexual activist groups
such as GLSEN (which are proliferating our schools), and Equality
Forum (A lobbying and legislative homosexual group.)
Eric
Pollard, the founder of ACT-UP (a militant homosexual group)
claimed Hitler’s Mein Kampf as a model for the “gay” agenda.
(Sears and Osten, p. 26)
“Something
of even the most insolent lie will always remain and stick- a fact
which all the great lie-virtuosi and lying-clubs in this world
know only too well and also make the most treacherous use of… By
clever and persevering use of propaganda even heaven can be
represented as hell to the people, and conversely the most
wretched life as paradise.” (Mein Kampf)
Kirk
and Madsen reiterate Pollards ideas, “We have in mind a strategy
as calculated and powerful as that which gays are accused of
employing by their enemies. It’s time to learn from Madison
Avenue, to roll out the big guns. Gays must launch a large scale
campaign to reach straights through the mainstream media. We’re
talking about propaganda.” (Sears and Osten p. 27) So far they
are achieving their carefully laid out goals.
The
Human Face of Homosexuality
We
all know friends who are “gay,” and many are genuinely nice
people.
What
is the real face of homosexuality? Is it the radicalized
homosexual trying to legalize sex between men and boys (NAMBLA)?
Is it someone like Rosie O’ Donnell or Ellen? Or is it our
coworker or family member, our son or our daughter? Is it the
people who shut down the local parks for public sex within
eyesight of children, leaving condoms strewn around the park?
Perhaps it is all of these for sin has degrees of evil.
In
my own life I see various shades of this sin that traps so many. A
friend of mine once shared with me that he watched his father
commit suicide when he was 15. Since then he has engaged in
hundreds of acts with other men and is currently in a
“monogamous relationship.” Perhaps he is seeking the love of
the father he never got. Another young man I know suffered
seizures, and increasing paralysis, and died earlier this year
from AIDS which he contracted from earlier involvement in
homosexual sin. Two friends I know have parents that left their
families for another “same sex” partner. Their families have
been torn asunder. Behind the glitzy glamour of Hollywood are real
people with real sin which has real consequences. Who will speak
the truth to these people, to these families?
Counting
the Cost
Last
year I submitted a resolution to the State Convention of Ohio
Baptists urging Christian parents to pull their children out of
public school and either home school or provide Christian private
education. It was a wakeup call to pastors and parents in our
state newspaper due to the advancing homosexual agenda and
Darwinian dogma in public schools. Within the next few weeks
homosexual activists wrote in and repeated the tired old saw
calling me a bigot, or exclaiming that I was spreading hate. One
person said there was no gay agenda in schools that the only
agenda was for her to get up go to work and pay taxes like every
“normal” American. Being called names in a newspaper or blog
is a small price to pay. In the future it may not be so easy.
We
have already seen in Canada where a free speech chill has come
after the passing of hate crimes legislation. The same legislation
is being advanced in America (SB 777 in California, and through
hate crimes bills.) Canadian Pastors have been fined for speaking
out against homosexuality. Programs like Focus on the Family are
not able to be aired in Canada.
It
is time to count the cost. We have all the freedoms and
opportunity now to confront this sin. But time is running out.
Will we sit cowardly in our stained glass fortresses while Sir
John David Michaelis’ words ring prophetic towards America,
“that the foundation of its future decline is laid?”
If
a 1-2 percent minority can change the face of American Culture and
public policy, then anything can be achieved.
We
have both the numbers, and the truth. If speaking the truth is a
hate crime. Let us be found guilty.
It’s
time for Christians to “get after the ball.”
Resources:
1,
The Marketing of Evil, by David Kupelian
2, The Homosexual Agenda, by Alan Sears and Craig Osten