Selling Homosexuality to America

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

[apackof2]

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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[Sir Francis Dashwood]

"...if homosexuality is genetically identified..."

Child molestation, rape, murder and suicide are not a genotype or a phenotype, neither is homosexuality a genotype or phenotype.

It is a willful perversion of human anatomy.

While some human behavior is hormonal and genetic (a woman crabby during menstruation, for example), it is not a perversion of human biological facts to say she was born that way (that is, to menstruate).

Rosie O'Donnel for instance...

Everything about her is a lie. She is not a parent - - there are no children that are the product of her ovaries. She wants children but claims she is homosexual - - the desire to have children is a heterosexual desire. Rosie just can't make up her mind. By definition, homosexuals do not reproduce - - it is self-imposed sterility.

No person can ever have a "sex change." The use of the language has been so twisted by the leftist radicals, that in our touchy-feely world, many blindly accept some of these erroneous terminologies.

XX or XY chromosones can't be changed after conception when mitosis begins.

The physicians who do "sex-change" operations should not be allowed to practice medicine. The same goes for breast implants: instead of lawsuits against Dow-Corning, the doctors who implanted the silicone bags should be held liable...

They are still genetically male or female. They are sterile. XO (Turner syndrome), XXY (Klinefelter syndrome), XXX (poly-X syndrome), and XYY (Jacob syndrome). No matter how many X chromosones there are, any individual with a Y chromosone developes into a male. These abnormalities are so few, only one in thousands occur.

So much for the "gay" gene - - it does not exist.

[tdadams]

Inherited or inheritable, it doesn't matter. Most reasonable people realize that sexual orientation is no more a chosen behavior than is left-handedness. And just like being left-handed, rare does not equal abnormal.

Some people really need to ask themselves why they're so consumed with other people's sex lives.

[apackof2]

It really has nothing to do with a "sex life" but the results of immorality on a nation

Homosexulaity is abnormal, self defeating because of the inability to reproduce, its preverse

And if its "reasonable" to say it that homosexulaity is inherited, prove it!

But of course you can't so clinging to unfounded personal opinions is REASONABLE?

[sweetliberty]

"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."

I wouldn't be too sure about that. In the first place, as a Christian who reads and believes in the Bible as the Word of God, I can find nothing scripturally to support that God creates a person to be a slave to what HE calls a sin. I don't pretend to understand the whys and wherefores of much that God does or allows, but I do know that He does not allow a temptation without a means of escape because He says so and He cannot lie.

"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it]. (1 Corin. 10:13)

It isn't like a child born with a disease or deformity. These things may, in fact, have a genetic component, but are in no way condemned as sinful. A person may even be born with a genetic predisposition to alcoholism because of the way in which his body processes alcohol. Is the predisposition a sin? Of course not, but being a drunk is, and an alcoholic is no more excused of his behavior because of that predisposition than anybody else who who drinks to excess.

In the second place, just suppose that science "proved" the existence of a gene that predisposes toward homosexuality. Given today's political climate, do you really think for a minute that the queers would sit still for future queers being eliminated? That would be predicated on the fundamental assumption that homosexuality is abnormal, which is exactly the opposite of what they're putting all this energy into making you believe. No, I think it would give them political carte blanche to actually "select" FOR it, breeding little genetic mutants in petri dishes to be implanted in host mothers. It has fallen to us at this point in time to change the direction this ship is heading and if we fail to do so, I truly fear for the world our progeny will inherit.

[sweetliberty]

"Some people really need to ask themselves why they're so consumed with other people's sex lives."

It's really quite simple. Normal, decent people have a natural desire to protect their children and a very big part of that is assuring that they grow up in a healthy society. There is nothing healthy about homosexuality and its pervasiveness in our culture. I think most of us can honestly say we really don't care what anybody does in the PRIVACY of their homes and bedrooms, but when they take it into the streets and the schools, the courts and the workplace and even into the churches, then it becomes EVERYBODY'S concern and if you really can't see that then you are part of the problem.

[PurVirgo]

I truly fear for the world our progeny will inherit.

Why? By your own words, you know that He who is all power knows already our plights. It is up to us to accept (i.e. not judge!) the world and it's problems (including our own shortcomings) in preparation for the next life.

[sweetliberty]

"It is up to us to accept (i.e. not judge!) the world and it's problems"

We are not called to accept sin nor to condone sinful behavior in our midst. While we are not to judge the heart of another for only God can know it, we ARE to judge actions that are unacceptable and drive it away from us. God has always warned His people to put corruption away from them lest they themselves be corrupted.

[tdadams]

In other words, you have no problem with someone being a homosexual as long as they pretend they're not. Charming.

[sweetliberty]

I have a problem with someone being a homosexual for the simple reason that I care about them as individuals with great potential and as human beings created in the image of God who grieve Him by their defiance of Him. On an individual level, if I know someone is homosexual, I can pray for them.

On a more personal level, what they do IN PRIVATE is between them and GOD. It is none of my concern, but as I said before, when they take their BEHAVIOR into the public arena, then it becomes everybody's problem. It isn't a matter of them pretending. That's like saying that keeping a drunk driver from behind the wheel of a car when he's drunk is making him pretend he isn't drunk. If you can't see the difference, then it is because you choose not to.

[tdadams]

I have a problem with someone being a homosexual for the simple reason that I care about them as individuals with great potential and as human beings created in the image of God who grieve Him by their defiance of Him.

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.” - H.L. Mencken

when they take their BEHAVIOR into the public arena, then it becomes everybody's problem.

What behavior are they taking into the public? I don't know where you live, but I live in a big city and I've never seen a gay couple fornicating in public.

[sweetliberty]

You are being deliberately obtuse and contentious. You obviously see only what you want to see, therefore furthur posts to you would be a waste of time.

[tdadams]

You are being deliberately obtuse and contentious.

Absolutely not. You're being a hysterical busybody.

Tell me seriously, have you ever seen two homosexuals in public having sex? Your objection is supposedly about them taking their sex lives into the public. It would seem to be a pertinent question.

[PurVirgo]

we ARE to judge actions that are unacceptable and drive it away from us.

this I agree with. However, the only unacceptable actions I can judge, and therefore drive away are my own. Oh, but if I COULD deal with problems outside of me, I most certainly would. But I can only keep my side of the street clean, not yours.

[sweetliberty]

So I take it you don't mind if next year's "pride in perversion" parade marches in front of your house watched by your kids and/or grandkids. I guess you don't mind if acceptability of homosexuality is pushed on school children under the guise of tolerance. I guess that means you don't mind if the Bible read from the pulpit in your church is revised so that homosexuality is no longer a sin. I guess it's okay with you that the courts protect their "right" to be in YOUR face but doesn't protect your right to tell them what you think of their "lifestyle." Maybe you're not disturbed by some cross-dressing faggot working alongside you and getting special concessions made that provide for his sham "marriage." Maybe you have no problem with these people targeting your children as an outlet for the predatory instincts of some of them under the guise of free speech. Maybe it is perfectly acceptable to you that they make a mockery of love and marriage and tradition and Christianity and family and morality. Those things are NOT okay with me, and I think they are not okay with the majority of Americans. You're entitled to your opinion, but I am entitled to think you're dead wrong.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

"By definition, homosexuals do not reproduce - - it is self-imposed sterility."

It doesn't stop them from recruiting for their chosen perversions.

[Old Professer]

Truly reasonable people don't buy arguments that begin with:
Most reasonable people...

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Truly reasonable people don't buy arguments that begin with: Most reasonable people...

But, this is not the central question, is it?

Reasonable vs. logical.

"Reason" is subject to individual interpretation. Logic whether propositional or categorical, has a set method for arriving at a conclusion.

Aristotle's categorical logic is a brilliant system to evaluate claims of "reason."

[FreedomPoster]

Interestingly, I have an M.D. friend who has a gay male doctor as a partner in the practice (*not* his "partner"). He made exactly that analogy to me, that homosexuality isn't normal, and if it it genetic, it is like Down's syndrome - it's not a trait you'd wish to be passed along.

Try putting forth that idea in a neutral forum where there are lefties present who have bought into the homosexual agenda. You'll take some heat, let me tell you. ;-)