Selling Homosexuality to America

CBN ^ | 7/11/03 | Craig von Buseck

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Selling Homosexuality to America

By Craig von Buseck
CBN.com Producer

In this exclusive interview, Paul Rondeau talks about his in-depth study, Selling Homosexuality to America, which was recently published in the Regent Law Review.

CBN.com – In his recent study, Selling Homosexuality to America, marketing expert Paul Rondeau explains, "Among America's culture wars, one of today's most intense controversies rages around the issue alternatively identified, depending on one's point of view, as "normalizing homosexuality" or "accepting gayness." The debate is truly a social-ethical-moral conceptual war that transcends both the scientific and legal, though science and law most often are the weapons of choice. The ammunition for these weapons, however, is persuasion."

This article and interview explores how gay rights activists use rhetoric, psychology, and the media to frame what is discussed in the public arena -- and how it is discussed. "In essence," Rondeau points out, "when it comes to homosexuality, activists want to shape 'what everyone knows' and 'what everyone takes for granted' even if everyone does not really know and even if it should not be taken for granted."

"The first strategy of persuasion," he goes on to say, "is to establish a favorable climate for your message so that the communicator (marketer) can influence the future decision without even appearing to be persuading ... This is at the heart of the homosexual campaign: to get consent via social construct today to determine whose idea of personal freedoms will prevail in our legal codes tomorrow."

Paul Rondeau has been a senior sales and marketing management professional with industry leaders for over 25 years. He holds an M.A. in Management, with a specialty in persuasive communication. Currently, he is a doctoral student in communication studies with a focus in rhetoric and persuasion.

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[PurVirgo]

Well, I have to say that reading that brings me joy and hope. WHat would bring me more joy is if she gave a testimony to the gay community, to let them know there is a way out.

I hope I didn't come off as a wierdo to you, I don't like homosexuality any more than you do. =) But I also don't always like to pray for my enemies, either.

[sweetliberty]

Actually, she moved away. I don't know if she ever became a priest or deacon, but based on our discussions and her reading material, I think it's a safe bet to assume that she she chose to minister to homosexuals. It was where her burden lay. And one thing I do know, no one can reach out to another in any sin or pain like one who has been in the same place.

[PurVirgo]

I beleive we have just found our commonality!!

[PurVirgo]

youve got mail

[F16Fighter]

"Is There a 'Gay Gene'?"

I can't imagine Richard Simmons' genetically EVER had a chance at muscling up at Golds Gym, and playing stud-muffin to the ladies...

Just my two cents.

[PurVirgo]

oh, and Re- "bug chasers", I'm finding it very hard to practice non-judgement

[sweetliberty]

"I can't imagine Richard Simmons' genetically EVER had a chance at muscling up at Golds Gym, and playing stud-muffin to the ladies..."

LOL! Well, maybe if he'd lay off the estrogen injections....

[F16Fighter]

"What I am trying to say is that when and if homosexuality is genetically identified, the behavior will be bred out of the human species."

Take genetics out of the equation, and the "behavior" of homosexuality will still be around.

Today, gay is not only no longer considered taboo, it in fact has gained social acceptance as merely just another "sexually experiental option" -- thanks to American Psychiatric Association, the state-sanctioned sex-ed and moral relativism agendae promoted so heavily by the gay-infested National Education Association, and of course the Howard Sterns of the "entertainment" world.

[Imagine]

Homosexuality is deviant sexual behavior and a mental illness.

Homosexuals: 1) subject their body parts to uses nature did not intend, such activities often presenting immediate risk to the participants; 2) are prone to greater suicide, depression and other mental disorders and deficiencies than the heterosexual population at large; 3) are prone to far greater sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, than the (normal) heterosexual population; 4) molest young people (pedophilia) at a far greater rate than heterosexuals; 5) engage in degrading sexual promiscuity, oftentimes engaging in risky sex with many partners during the same event; 6) are engaged in aggressive and widespread efforts to indoctrinate our children by introducing the homosexual lifestyle using public schools as the primary indoctrination “vehicle” and likewise, through the movie/music/TV industry, with the dual goals of gaining school-age acceptance of homosexuality and encouraging sexual activity among children, especially same-sex experimentation; 7) view most everything through a mindset heavily biased in favor of the homosexual lifestyle and culture, which renders them mostly useless when asked to opine on matters that normal heterosexuals better resolve.

The mental deficiencies described herein applying to homosexuals shall not be confused with the deficiencies associated with the left wing democrat/socialist/marxist/ feminist/environmentalist minds, etc., which have their own distinct set of mental disorders.

This doesn't even touch on what the Bible has to say about homosexuality.

[I got the rope]

I never said that. Sure we recognize other peoples faults, but I don't think He wants us to judge them for it.

Sure he does. (Luke 17 1-4) Where did you get that from? You should be careful when you speak to others about Christ. Don't confuse his words to fit an agenda. This is dangerous. Mark 14:21

See, when I'm judging you, I'm obviously not looking at my own faults. However, when I see a shortcoming in another person, then I must examine myself so that I don't have to be that way. People can be axamples, either positive or negative. Just as I learn from people how to act, I also learn from others how not to act. *LOL* My endeavor is to be a positive one, though.

So what are you doing? Making up your own morality as you go? All the while trying not to offend anyone. This is not how Christ wanted us to live. Did he not say. "Do you think that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division." Luke 12:51

[ItsJeff]

Well, maybe if he'd lay off the estrogen injections....

That raises an interesting issue. There may not be a "gay gene," but you can certainly tell a homosexual when you see one. Not because of how he dresses or what he says. But there is a certain sameness in their mannerisms. The wrist. The lisp. It's considered a stereotype, I guess, but it's true.

When we were young, we could all easily identify the gay kids. They didn't like sports, they were kinda prissy. We even had a name for them. We called them "sissies."

And these kids were in every city, town, village and hamlet in America.

So if there's no gay gene, then what is it that made so many kids have this in common.

[I got the rope]

So if there's no gay gene, then what is it that made so many kids have this in common.

Good post. I am a scientist myself. Although I am not a clinical researcher, I too believe that there is a definite imbalance somewhere. Liberals and the APA are stifling research IMHO with their apologetics.

These people need help and they are probably not getting the help they need when we normalize this perversion.

[sweetliberty]

Not all sissy boys grow up to prefer sex with men and not all tomboy girls grow up to be lesbians. Boys and girls all have both male and female hormones the balance of which varies from person to person and can account for boys and men seeming more effeminate when in fact they aren't. Same with girls. On the other hand, you're right about homosexuals being easy to spot, but if you really notice, it isn't always because they fit the stereotype, although they often do. It is kinda hard to describe actually, but I can usually spot them a mile away. It seems to me more like a certain "quality" that emanates from them rather than any specific behavior.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Unnatural means atypical, artificial...

Homosexuals are atypical.

Artificial is anything outside of the biological human reproductive process in regard to reproductive anatomy.

Perversion.

[Jorge]

That raises an interesting issue. There may not be a "gay gene," but you can certainly tell a homosexual when you see one. Not because of how he dresses or what he says. But there is a certain sameness in their mannerisms. The wrist. The lisp. It's considered a stereotype, I guess, but it's true.

With all due respect this is nonsense.
Anybody who's been around knows that men often exhibit these mannerisms yet are totally hetero in their sexual attractions.

And many men who are totally gay, who aren't the least bit attracted to women, exhibit none of these feminine mannerisms you mention.

[I got the rope]

Anybody who's been around....

and so it begins.

[tdadams]

Please know what you're talking about so you don't perpetuate myth and ignorance.

The Rolling Stone story that's referenced in the link you posted was debunked before it even hit the newsstands. The writer admitted that the character he profiled was mostly a fictionalization of mere anecdotes he'd heard second hand, and the doctor who was cited as the basis of the "25% of new infections from bug chasing" completely denied he said anything of the sort.

All this is well known by now, but apparently for those who want to slander and promote bigotry, the truth is no obstacle to spreading bellicose rhetoric.

[steve86]

Repeat after me: "gene for homosexuality" is part of the homosexuality agenda with NO BASIS IN FACT

Look, I don't have any mutt in this race and won't engage in a flame war but I remember some research from a couple of years ago that showed lesbians had a fairly consistent difference in phenotype: Something about the length of their middle finger! (compared to heterosexual women) [This is not a joke!]. Not sure if this is known to correspond to a difference in genotype but you would assume it does.

Definition of Phenotype from:

http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/ahp/BioInfo/GP/Definition.html

This is the "outward, physical manifestation" of the organism. These are the physical parts, the sum of the atoms, molecules, macromolecules, cells, structures, metabolism, energy utilization, tissues, organs, reflexes and behaviors; anything that is part of the observable structure, function or behavior of a living organism.

[sweetliberty]

The article states that he changed the 25% but still said the rate is higher than people think. Show any other proof that the story has been debunked or that the websites mentioned in the Rolling Stone don't exist and promote "bug chasing".

[Old Professer]

Most idiots respond to reason by changing the subject.