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Why Gays Have So Much Influence on Our Culture
American Thinker ^ | 02/03/2014 | Alicia Colon

Posted on 02/03/2014 5:32:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind

We've had the Gaymmys; we've had Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson suspended for expressing unfavorable comments about anal intercourse; HBO has a new series, Looking about three gay men looking for love. It seems as though just about every television show, whether comedy or drama now has a gay character as a regular.

It's not surprising that homosexuality has become mainstream in our culture because nearly everyone has a relative or friend who is gay and we have been deeply influenced by those words of Harvey Fierstein who said, "I just want to be loved. Is that so wrong?" What we have failed to realize, however, is that there has never been anything morally wrong about loving anyone, same sex or not.

But love is not what is behind the gay rights movement; it is a powerful marketing tool, though, much better than using words related to the specific sexual acts that trouble many observers.

One of the most intriguing and illuminating articles I have ever read about this polarizing issue was written by a gay Catholic man, Ronald G. Lee, originally published in the New Oxford Review. Lee formerly lived in Austin, Texas, and regularly visited Lobo's, a gay book store:   

Looking inside from the street all you saw were books. It looked like any other bookstore. There was a section devoted to classic "gay" fiction by writers such as Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, and W.H. Auden.... But if you went inside to browse, before long you noticed another section, behind the books, a section not visible from the street. The pornography section.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: gays; hollywood; homosexualagenda; homosexuality
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To: SeekAndFind

Anybody else notice the last name of the author?


21 posted on 02/03/2014 6:13:38 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: SeekAndFind

G*D has used This passage as a Judgement for the late-20th early 21st Century United States:
Romans 1 18-32(KJV)
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.


22 posted on 02/03/2014 6:14:01 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Just one more :”The Log Cabin Republicans of New York State also took issue with the candidate.
“Carl Paladino’s statements are unfortunate and show he lacks an understanding of what it means to be gay,” said Gregory T. Angelo, chairman of the group. “I think gay men and women — my neighbors and your neighbors — would be much better off and much more successful if they were allowed equal rights and the option of getting married and raising a family. I don't want New Yorkers to be brainwashed into thinking that ignorance is an equally valid and successful option. It isn't.”

Paladino defends comments, decries behavior at gay pride parade(CNN Oct 2010)

23 posted on 02/03/2014 6:16:30 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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To: SeekAndFind

They have a lot of power because they gravitate towards the septic sewer called Hollywood. Americans no longer view the perverted degenerates who populate the entertainment establishment as the disfunctional imbicles they are. They have become role models for too many young Americans. And so the Sodomite Community uses Hollywood as a vector to disseminate their pestilence.


24 posted on 02/03/2014 6:21:12 AM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: MortMan

There is nothing wrong with loving others. But (or should I write “butt”?) there is a LOT wrong with having sex with anyone we are attracted to, or having sex and calling it love.

The homosexual lobby uses ‘love’ instead of ‘sex’, but it is sex that they want. And anyone who equates love with sex is a depraved person.

It is hard to believe a popular Broadway musical once included the words, “To love, pure and chaste, from afar”...


25 posted on 02/03/2014 6:23:59 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Liberals are like locusts...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Did anyone find selecting Queen Latifah to sing the national anthem at Superbowl a bit on the nose?


26 posted on 02/03/2014 6:40:28 AM PST by School of Rational Thought
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To: SeekAndFind
Ronald Lee is right: this is just a carefully crafted and managed illusion that homosexual behavior is "just like any other loving behavior." Even most Freepers fall for this lie when they admit, "I don't care what homosexuals do in the privacy of their own homes." Such an attitude amounts to capitulation to the sodomite agenda.

We used to properly have laws against such anti-social, immoral, and destructive behavior - behavior that is PROVEN to be a public health hazard.

27 posted on 02/03/2014 6:58:08 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Several possibilities, but all stem from where we are in the story we were born into.

We ate the apple, accepted the lie and became god unto ourselves, so we decide what our morals are.

In the meantime, today's Noah is close to finishing the new ark.

28 posted on 02/03/2014 6:58:42 AM PST by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Homosexuality has become mainstream in our culture.
LOL only in Hollywood the place is a zoo for humans.


29 posted on 02/03/2014 6:58:58 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: School of Rational Thought

I thought Renee Fleming sang the National Anthem?


30 posted on 02/03/2014 6:59:33 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: MortMan

I am a Man and I have Loved a Man for years. He is Jesus Christ.


31 posted on 02/03/2014 7:04:25 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: SeekAndFind

The “profanity” with gays, the sad thing is that TV DEFINES our culture...


32 posted on 02/03/2014 7:28:49 AM PST by exinnj
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To: sickoflibs

Russia gets it right on banning these displays.


33 posted on 02/03/2014 7:35:37 AM PST by TigerClaws
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>> But love is not what is behind the gay rights movement

Love doesn’t require sodomy.


34 posted on 02/03/2014 7:43:01 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Gays have the money. They can buy influence and define the agenda with that.

They represent 3% or our population (US Census data) but control a disproportionate amount of political discussion. They may have two highly placed members in the hildabeast and obummer.

35 posted on 02/03/2014 7:47:07 AM PST by pfflier
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To: SoConPubbie
DO YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, RIGHT NOW?

STOP USING THE WORD "GAY."

USE THE WORD HOMOSEXUAL.

IT IS LIKE WINNING A SMALL BATTLE EVERY TIME YOU DO.

ARE YOU WITH ME?

(You will find it infuriates the left when you deny them their effort to redefine language...)
36 posted on 02/03/2014 7:57:54 AM PST by golux
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To: SeekAndFind

New world order has actively been promoting immorality since the enlightenment.

Trace key figures in NWO British East India Company, and others, and how they took over education in the UK and on the Continent starting in the early 1800s.

NWO supports artists, authors, other key thinkers in society that support their agendas.

The British and European upper classes in the 1800s became progressively open about their own heinous immoralities.

Why do elite financiers want this immorality ? Because people who are enslaved to their own grossly immoral acts are easy to control and manipulate.

If one’s friend is addicted to chocolate cake, one can get just about anything from them by plying them with chocolate cake, threatening to remove the chocolate cake, etc.

These financial elites are the “power behind the throne”.

NWO has always owned and operated (therefore controlled) publishing firms. Who gets published has long been under their control. This makes people write what NWO wants to hear. NWO is very much into the idea of the “self-fulfilling prophecy” concept of basic, simple, mind control, i.e., repeat what you want to happen often enough and people start to think it’s going to happen and then people actually unwittingly start helping to make it happen.

Communism / socialism is only a front for the wealthy elites of New World Order. So communism / socialism, per se, is not the root cause of anything.

Look up Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Note Beatrice’s father’s family were New World Order merchant financiers going back generations. These two old “communists” never renounced their wealth.

They are just two key people - their are many others.

Most of the UK/US literary figures of the 1800s were grossly immoral in one way or another, were socialist/communist. It’s not by chance. The New World Order-controlled publishing business, which now means movies/internet/TV/etc. has been pushing immorality for centuries.


37 posted on 02/03/2014 7:58:31 AM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: golux

Homosexual is too correct, let’s just call them “homos”. That should piss the libs off.


38 posted on 02/03/2014 8:01:30 AM PST by Ditter
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To: golux
STOP USING THE WORD "GAY."
USE THE WORD HOMOSEXUAL

You're right ... it does make them angry. I think it's because "gay" is descriptive of lifestyle while "homosexual" is descriptive of behavior. You see, judging people is arguably "wrong", while judging behavior is a sign of wisdom.

39 posted on 02/03/2014 8:06:17 AM PST by glennaro
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To: glennaro

Truth always makes leftists mad.


40 posted on 02/03/2014 8:07:04 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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