SELLING HOMOSEXUALITY

Boundless (a Webzine) ^ | 7/10/02 | Matt Kaufman

[Propaganda]

breakem,

I have been following the exhanges and am greatly gratified by the discussion my article "Selling Homosexuality to America" has engendered here and elsewhere.

So many observations in this thread are on target...including your tongue-in-cheek (I suspect) comment about needing others' insights. If I might comment on American Dream. The overt theme played out over and over, just like the marine in American Beauty, is that critics of same-sex sex cover their own homosexual feelings by displaying "homophobic" tendencies, i.e., many critics are actually secret homosexuals who have internalized their feelings due to a homophobic society. Ergo, most critics are either actually homosexuals victimized by homophobes, are sick homophobes or both. (Take your choice since homophobia is an invented political, not psychological, condition.)

This is one of the most common Jamming techniques: The "homophobic" charactor is portrayed as someone no viewer would want to be seen as being like...even to oneself.

However, propaganda usually has multiple layers. While the overt message is obvious, I would suggest that it also distracts the viewer from the use of a military portrayal to frame the "unfairness" of not allowing open homosexuality in the military. The script connects this marines's behavior to military sexual "oppression" and infers that it is these sort of nasty, unlikeable people that are keeping the military "homophobic". While everyone is watching the obvious hetero/homo conflict play out in the family story, an underlying seed is left to sprout in the subconcious about the results of a "homophobic" military.

It sounds like many have made the time to read the orignal "Selling Homosexuality" article at http://www.regent.edu/acad/schlaw/lawreview/issues/v14n2.html. Thanks to everyone who has...for those who haven't, it's a free download and I hope you will find it is worth your time.

[Propaganda]

Is it only entertainment?

For 25 years apologists for TV violence have said there is no relation to crime. Now, a very major criminal study just released confirms what common sense told us in the first place...the more hours over a longer period time, the higher proclivity for violent crime.

How about when society is influenced enough to pass laws requiring your acceptance of homosexual behavior in the rental of your home, hiring of employees in your business, and education of your children? Or when simple expressions of your faith become defined in the media as hate speech?

Many claim it was the entertainment industry that contributed to an increase in young girls eating disorders by the images they portrayed for beauty.

Entertainment as education is a serious field of practical study. Entertainment is seldom, if ever, "just" entertainment.

[Propaganda]

Gay activists beat the drum for tolerance except for words like yours. That, they cannot tolerate.

[breakem]

Gee, I just wanted to poke fun at people who seem to know what directors/writers "really" mean.

[annalex]

In other words he [the ex-marine character in American Beauty] was there to Jam homohatred [i.e., opposition to homosexuality] by linking it to the military (Nazi horror).

He was linked to the Nazism explicitly, and not merely by being a rigid military type, first by including a German Luger in his gun collection and secondly, in case we miss that subtle point, a plate from his china collection had a swastika for ornament.

FreeTally, no matter how short the gay couple appearances are, they are central to the story, because, in a movie about disfunction, they are the only happy well-adjusted people. They represent the beautiful, peaceful, healthy, live-and-let-live, white-picket-fence American middle class life that everyone else doesn't have. They are in the movie to provide a contrast to dark and corrupt sexuality of the teenager girl, who brings everyone to ruin.

[bribriagain]

I agree (American Beauty). I got half way thru the flick and turned it off. Sicko's that produce this crap should be shunned.

[DoctorMichael]

Thank you! I couldn't have said it better myself. This was a horrid movie. The homosexual lobby and the homosexuals that are in charge of the large studios like Disney lobbied to get this film nominated as best picture of the year.

[annalex]

One other aspect of the movie is that it is a well done film from a purely technical artistic perspective. The story is told well, the characters look real (despite the contrived plot), the camera work is convincing and precise. For example, recall the image of a plastic bag dancing in the wind or the mixture of drab and pretentious in the interiors. Most gay agenda movies are plain unwatchable, but that one leaves an impression. I saw it about two years ago when it first came out in video and I still remember it well.

[DoctorMichael]

..........well done film from a purely technical artistic perspective..........

.......sometimes Satan assumes a "pleasing form".

[Jorge]

According to Debra Haffner, former head of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, scriptural passages positively portray “sexual contact and love between men.” David and Jonathan were lovers, and Abraham asks his servant to swear an oath by putting “your hand under my thigh” (Genesis 24:2).

Now they are trying to convince us that David who kept 100's of female concubines, and even commited murder to get another man's wife..was really a homosexual!!
Right.

[DoctorMichael]

........former head of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States.........

Nuff said.

[Propaganda]

SEICUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States) is a direct outgrowth of Alfred Kinsey's research team that published the famous sexuality research studies. Kinsey was a pederast and held group orgies with his researchers and their wives as part of the "sexuality research." The co-founders of SEICUS believe in adult/child sex as normal along with every other kind of sex. Dr. Mary Calderone, ex-Planned Parenthood, is included.

[AgThorn]

trying to follow the link to this original article and get a 404 error ... is there a corrected link??

[AgThorn]

broken link