Posted on 06/04/2005 9:43:30 AM PDT by CHARLITE
This week, many an unsuspecting American family will travel to Walt Disney World, where they will find themselves at the epicenter of a recurring cultural earthquake. There, at America's favorite family destination, hordes of homosexuals will congregate at Pleasure Island for an annual exercise in societal entropy. "Gay Days at Disney" they call it -- though it is anything but.
"Gay" in the current vernacular is, of course, the term used by the fashionably PC to describe homosexuals. In dictionaries just a couple of decades ago, however, this same adjective meant "happy" or "a state of high spirits." A century ago, the primary definition was: "licentious, lacking moral restraints, leading a debauched or dissolute life." The Gay '90s, for example, were the final decade of what Mark Twain dubbed "The Gilded Age," an era of unmitigated opulence and unrestrained immorality among a subculture of the elite.
In light of this earliest definition, we're reminded of the inimitable words of that great American philosopher, Yogi Berra: "This is like deja vu all over again." Indeed, today's "gay" culture is equally dissolute, and its agenda is anathema to the bedrock institution of our past, present and future -- the American family.
Leading the charge in homosexual advocacy are groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, and their strategy has heretofore been an effective one. The ACLU will select cases in U.S. Circuit Court venues where the Left has installed a majority of judicial activists -- those who do the bidding of constituencies like homosexuals, in effect ignoring the Constitution and legislating by judicial fiat. It is these same judicial activists who affirm such issues as same-sex "marriage" and same-sex partner benefits.
The homosexual legal agenda notwithstanding, the question all enlightened Americans should be asking themselves in order to understand better the moral implications of this agenda is, which definition of "gay" applies to the homosexual subculture in America? In order to answer this question, one must gain some insight into the pathology of homosexual behavior.
The shifting paradigm of sexual morality is a source of much controversy in America. Homosexuals, though less than 3% of the population, are at the center of this controversy. The secular rights of consenting adults are in contest with the timeless natural order of the family and society.
To discuss the issue of homosexual normalization, we must move beyond the "pro-this/anti-that" labels and dispel a false dichotomy -- one that has infected our dialogue on the issue of homosexuality. Homosexual advocacy groups often rebut dissenters by branding them as pharisaical, intolerant and judgmental -- ad hominem accusations which serve only to preclude a consequential discussion of the issue. Of course, one's heartfelt disagreement with the social agenda of homosexual advocates has no direct correlation with one's capacity to love or have compassion for others. Nor is such dissent necessarily related to judgment, which is God's alone. Rather, it is about discerning between right and wrong and obedience to objective truth -- as opposed to conformity with a contemporary code of relativism whose tenets are "tolerance," "diversity" and "inclusion."
From a Judeo-Christian perspective, it should be noted that objective truth does not constitute law without grace. In fact, law in the absence of grace is meaningless -- little more than oppression. However, grace in the absence of law is, likewise, meaningless -- little more than licentiousness. Law and grace are, in fact, different sides of the same coin.
Understanding aberrant sexual behavior is the critical first step toward healing it. Homosexuality is sometimes a promiscuous lifestyle choice. Often, however, as understood by many medical and mental health specialists, gender-disorientation pathology is associated with childhood or adolescent sexual and/or emotional trauma and/or abuse. Additionally, homosexual modeling by an authority figure -- often an influential person with access to the victim through the family, church, school, neighborhood or media -- can result in gender-disorientation pathology.
Homosexual victims often compensate and cover their pain by manifesting some degree of narcissism -- an unmitigated expression of self-love. They compulsively indulge in aberrant sexual behavior to avoid reconciling the pain of abuse or homosexual modeling.
Additionally, while there was rampant speculation a decade ago about a "homosexual gene," that theory has been repeatedly rejected by both the scientific community and national homosexual advocacy organizations. It should be noted, however, that some children may be genetically predisposed to exhibit masculine or feminine characteristics associated with the opposite sex -- putting them at greater risk of being targeted by homosexual predators and more susceptible, psychologically, to homosexual modeling.
It is no small irony that the most outspoken advocates for the homosexual agenda are equally outspoken about environmental issues -- preservation of the natural order. Even the most humanist of these advocates must acknowledge the obvious -- that homosexuality is a clear and undeniable violation of the laws of nature.
Given insight into the pathology of gender disorientation, to abandon, under the aegis of "love, compassion and inclusion," those who struggle with homosexuality, is tantamount to abandoning a destitute soul in a gutter.
In the final analysis, there is nothing "gay" about being afflicted with gender disorientation pathology. Nor is there anything redeeming about those who would use a family theme park to advance the homosexual agenda.
(For a comprehensive response to the homosexual agenda in the church, visit http://FederalistPatriot.US/papers/03-32_paper.asp.)
Quote of the week...
"We know that obligatory homosexuals are caught up in unconscious adaptations to early childhood abuse and neglect and that, with insight into their earliest beginnings, they can change. ... But, when homosexuality takes on all the aspects of a political movement, it, too, becomes a war, the kind of war in which the first casualty is truth, and the spoils turn out to be our own children. ... In a Washington March for Gay Pride, they chanted, 'We're here. We're queer. And we're coming after your children.' What more do we need to know?" --Charles Socarides, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
On cross-examination...
"The assumption I am now challenging is this: that every desire for change in sexual orientation is always the result of societal pressure and never the product of a rational, self-directed goal. This new orthodoxy claims that it is impossible for an individual who was predominantly homosexual for many years to change his sexual orientation -- not only in his sexual behavior, but also in his attraction and fantasies -- and to enjoy heterosexuality. Many professionals go so far as to hold that it is unethical for a mental-health professional, if requested, to attempt such psychotherapy. ... Science progresses by asking interesting questions, not by avoiding questions whose answers might not be helpful in achieving a political agenda." --Robert Spitzer, professor of psychiatry, Columbia University
Mark Alexander is Executive Editor and Publisher of The Federalist Patriot, a Townhall.com member group.
"The Federalist - Topical Essays - Homosexual Advocacy in the Church" The shifting paradigm of sexual morality is a source of much controversy in Western culture, and thus, in the Christian Church. Homosexuals, though less an 3% of the population, are at the center of this controversy. The secular rights of consenting adults are in contest with the timeless Judeo-Christian foundation for the family and society.
"The Homosexual Movement: A Response" Homosexual behaviour is a phenomenon with a long history, to which there have been various cultural and moral responses. But today in our public life there is something new, a novum whi demands our attention and deserves a careful moral response.
"Homosexuality — Fact and Fiction" If homosexuality is neither a normal nor a healthy lifestyle — as I believe this article demonstrates — then the most loving thing we can do is to help homosexuals realize this and offer them our help and encouragement. But millions of people in our society believe that homosexuality is a healthy and acceptable alternative lifestyle. This debate over the acceptance of homosexuality in our culture is one that has been clouded with many misrepresentations and inaccuracies.
"That Which Is Unnatural" The gay rights movement does not just want the right to privacy and to be left alone. Attempting to promote their cause as a civil rights instead of as a moral issue, they want special legal protection for, and cultural acceptance of, their lifestyle. Even many Christian churches have condoned or are sympathetic to homosexuality, ignoring the Bible's teachings concerning our sexuality.
Searching for Truth in Lifestyles: Homosexuality and Christian Morality" Contending that compassion for individuals should accompany a firm moral stance, Dr. Thomas Schmidt builds a case against homosexual practice.
Ditto.
Good analysis. Refreshing change from all the drivel by that Leftist troll. Notice the date of membership was Nov. 2004. Carolina?
Could it be John Edwards in drag as a "conservative" pretending to defend the Constitution as Leftists will often do?
Edwards is actually a terrible debater and uses the same unspecified double-talk I studied in behavioral psychology. Claiming victory when indeed they lost, like the Cheney debate. Remember? Same psyche profile here, textbook case...
I kind of think he (Edwards) is a pretty boy queer type, look at that dumb pig of a wife he has... don't blame him for being so insecure about his homosexuality really.
They do fear the reach of this weblog... you are right about that one... and I will tell you why...
The MSM perverts have lately started a big buzz about weblogs and will never mention this one... I will bet a lot of them are here of late to disrupt any way they can...
Oh, here is the link...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1414484/posts
No, God did not "make" them love their same sex. God's Will is revealed in His word and homosexual sex is condemned as an abomination. It is black and white, the interpretational and linguistical gymnastics of "gay theologians" aside.
You mentioned in one of your postings you had a family member who has struggled with this their whole adult life—so I certainly understand your empathy. You might consider investigating the links to some of the organizations I posted on this thread. There are many who have come out of this lifestyle who head these organizations; their personal testimony in defiance to the homosexual lobby's arguments otherwise.
Homosexuality is a highly sexualized variant of narcissistic personality disorder. Narcissists are often well-organized, intelligent and energetic in pursuing their dreams of self-idealization. Homosexuals are no different from other narcissists in this regard, as a group, having high income and achievement levels despite their obviously aberrant psychosexual behavior.
"If it were as simple as that wouldn't homosexuality be gone...would it have ever begun?"Right.I believe there is a genetic component(influencing sexual orientation),but there has got to be something else.You bring up other inherited traits....How about schizophrenia,manic depression,alcoholism,etc?How about a combination of genetics and pre-natal influences?More questions than anwsers,but i'd bet my last dollar genetics plays a big part.
Most of them are well-educated and enjoy a higher than average income. They also have more expendible income which goes to fund gay advocacy groups.
Simply put....they've "perfected" the old addage "the squeaky wheel gets the grease".
Inherited traits and pre-natal influences...I bet my last dollar too.
The standard Leftist entitelment mentality... textbook classic...
One very well known lesbian writer and talk show host, Tammy Bruce, explains that the outspoken gays "just want acceptance and approval."
Well, before they began this "in your face" program of demanding this and that, I think that they might have been better off than they are now, although I have absolutely no statistics which would indicate whether or not the lamentable activity of "gay bashing" has increased or decreased since this group became more vocal.
Char
I disagree with you.
This is because they are exhibitionists and also evangelizing for their cult of perversion...
Why ask a question you already know the answer to?
(/sarcasm) Wow, you have a great sense of humor Dash!
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