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Time’s Pressing Agenda (pro-gay movement almost got ripped off its head)
Catholic Exchange ^ | November 2, 2005 | Eric Scheske

Posted on 11/02/2005 7:00:12 AM PST by NYer

11/02/05


Something big happened last month, and I don’t think a lot of people know about it. The mask that covers the modus operandi of the pro-gay movement almost got ripped off its head.

In its October 10th cover story, Time magazine ran a sickening article about gay teens. The story glowed over the prospect that more teens identify themselves as gay. It praised efforts to provide gay teens with scholarships and the proliferation of Gay Straight Alliance clubs in public schools. It dismissed professional and religious claims that homosexual orientation can be treated.

Anyone who knows Time magazine’s history wouldn’t be surprised. The rag has been a tool of the secularized Left for decades now. Purporting to provide objective news stories, it instead advances an agenda. In my opinion, a reader can trust it about as well as a viewer can trust the speakers at a national political convention.

But the gay teen article’s approach was surprising, even for Time.

It turns out that the journalist who researched and wrote the story is a homosexual with a long history of advancing gay causes, including the promotion of anonymous homosexual orgies and writing a guide to gay bathhouses.

That’s like sending Ann Coulter to research and write about the Bush White House. Do you expect muckraking journalism?

Thing is, Time’s deceit isn’t new. An incredible number of outlets in the mainstream media promote the political cause of homosexuality under the cloak of objective journalism. Many, like Time, do so intentionally; others, I suspect, just mindlessly regurgitate the same material and reflexively ignore other material.

When, for instance, is the last time you read or heard the following statistics discussed, much less reported and accepted as a fact?

Two well-designed major studies of young people with same-sex attractions published in the Archives of General Psychiatry revealed they were over 6 times as likely to have attempted suicide, 4 times as likely as their peers to suffer major depression, almost three times as likely to suffer generalized anxiety disorder, nearly 4 times as likely to experience conduct disorder, 5 times as likely to have nicotine dependence, 6 times as likely to suffer multiple disorders.
That passage is from Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons of the National Association of Research & Therapy of Homosexuality. I have no outside knowledge of NARTH, but similar statistics can be found in other sources.

And it’s those figures that make the Time piece and others like it disturbing.

It’s not about politics. It’s not about sexual freedom. It’s about mental health: the gay lifestyle defeats it. It’s about happiness: the gay lifestyle doesn’t promote it.

It’s about helping youngsters who may have a gay proclivity to avoid it.

Yet mainstream media is doing the exact opposite. It’s pushing children to it and praising their “coming out” efforts. This is exactly what the Time cover story did. It is happy that 13- 14- and 15-year-old children are announcing that they’re gay.

But why should the youngsters declare a specific sexual identity at all? They’re not even old enough to understand sex and its implications. Don’t we want to give them time to understand the implications, instead of cheering them on?

I don’t doubt that many of these teens do, indeed, have a homosexual inclination. Some people are born with a greater tendency. Just as some are born with a tendency to become alcoholics or to lust after women, some crave the same sex. As far as the phenomenon of sin goes in general, the homosexual phenomenon is not terribly unusual.

But we can’t forget that sin makes us unhappy. It’s not a difficult formula to remember: sin separates us from God, Who is the source of goodness, and from goodness, comes happiness. If we are separated from God, we are separated from goodness and happiness.

We shouldn’t create a societal situation in which any sin is encouraged and normalized for children who are at crucial stages of development. We did so with heterosexual sex, and the results have been horrible. We don’t need to repeat the mistake with homosexual sex.

Yet that’s what the mainstream media is doing, all under the guise of objective journalism.

Time magazine was just the most glaring example of it.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: boycott; gay; gayteens; homosexual; homosexualagenda; perversion; time; timemagazine
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Eric Scheske is an attorney, the Editor of The Daily Eudemon, a Contributing Editor of Godspy, and the former editor of Gilbert Magazine.

1 posted on 11/02/2005 7:00:14 AM PST by NYer
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2 posted on 11/02/2005 7:00:45 AM PST by NYer (“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion")
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To: DirtyHarryY2K; little jeremiah

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3 posted on 11/02/2005 7:01:58 AM PST by NYer (“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion")
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To: NYer
Nothing like inserting personal opinion and passing it off as a "mainstream" concept...

"I don’t doubt that many of these teens do, indeed, have a homosexual inclination. Some people are born with a greater tendency. Just as some are born with a tendency to become alcoholics or to lust after women, some crave the same sex. As far as the phenomenon of sin goes in general, the homosexual phenomenon is not terribly unusual."

4 posted on 11/02/2005 7:04:06 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (lex orandi, lex credendi)
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To: NYer
That’s like sending Ann Coulter to research and write about the Bush White House. Do you expect muckraking journalism?

As a matter of fact, you might: witness Ann's pointed criticism of the John Roberts nomination and the utter scorn [essentially justified, IMHO] she poured on Harriet Miers.

5 posted on 11/02/2005 7:11:35 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (read my posts on Today show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Permit me to amend my previous post to make clear that I don't think heaping scorn on Harriet Miers herself could by any means be justified, only on the decision to have nominated her.


6 posted on 11/02/2005 7:15:49 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (read my posts on Today show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
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To: NYer

There are some people out there who have an obsession with
gay related topics. Perhaps some people are Time are gay
themselves and just want to do stories with one hand on
the keyboard and the other hand...well you know where?


7 posted on 11/02/2005 7:17:36 AM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is the "F" word for liberals)
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To: NYer
..It turns out that the journalist who researched and wrote the story is a homosexual with a long history of advancing gay causes, including the promotion of anonymous homosexual orgies and writing a guide to gay bathhouses...

Hmmm... and they get 'sensitive' when called PERVERTS!...

Any wonder why the MSM is so anti-Republican?... I also heard a while ago of two lesbian editors at the Washington Post, who somehow went to Canada to get married... I mean this is not even a secret anymore...

And we all know that their total purpose in life is to force the rest of us to accept it... that is their whole reason for being... OH that and "Perversion PRIDE parade" - LOL

8 posted on 11/02/2005 7:18:22 AM PST by ElPatriota (Let's not forget we are all still friends despite our differences :))
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To: NYer
>Time’s Pressing Agenda

 
---------------------------------------------------------------
TIME does covers of
just about everything. Don't
let them freak you out.

9 posted on 11/02/2005 7:19:53 AM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: NYer

Another thing though. My kids 11,17 and 18 seem to put things down with the expression "gay." They call things
they are making fun of "gay." Maybe gays will have to come
up with a new name for themselves in the future.


10 posted on 11/02/2005 7:20:06 AM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is the "F" word for liberals)
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To: NYer

DSM used to catagorized homosexulity as a disorder, and it should be, it is more likeely to occur along with (comorbid with) a slew of disorders, it isn't a lifestyle is a mental illness.


11 posted on 11/02/2005 7:22:36 AM PST by x5452
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To: NYer

I think that everybody should let their dentists know that they do not appreciate seeing TIME magazine where children can get their hands on it. Let's totally dry up TIME's subscription base.


12 posted on 11/02/2005 7:24:36 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Nextrush

"gay" is late 70's, early 80's slang.


13 posted on 11/02/2005 7:27:25 AM PST by Rutles4Ever (Stuck on Genius)
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To: NYer; little jeremiah; Ernest_at_the_Beach; EdReform; PhilDragoo; devolve

This is one of the oldest tricks the MSM maggots do re pushing the sick Gay agenda.

For about 2 years I have been doing a regular search on Yahoo whenever I see one of these pro gay agenda pusher articles.

I enter the maggot's name (the maggot or maggots who wrote the sick article/oped and + Gay).

It is amazing how often the search will show either an admitted hostile gay agenda pusher or one who doesn't admit being gay while have years of pushing the gay agenda.

This same search can be used whenever a very vile hate GW article is posted. Often the search will show years of gay agenda pushing and GW bashing. The one that really stood out was the AP who wrote the lies about the crowd cheering when GW announced that Clinton had gone into the hospital.

That was a total lie by a maggot who had been pushing the gay agenda and hating GW for years. His boy friend apparently was a crew member on one of the plane's that crashed into the Trade Center buildings. Within hours after being confronted about this lying maggot, AP pulled its name from the story.

So when you read a disgusting article pushing the Gay Agenda, slamming GW and Christians, do the Yahoo search with the maggot's full name + Gay. The search results will often tell the truth about the maggot.


14 posted on 11/02/2005 7:30:03 AM PST by Grampa Dave (MSM pseudo reporters use "could, may, and might" when they are lying and spinning.)
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To: NYer

I can't help wondering if the apparent "increase" of teens who are coming out as gay in the U.S. is not so much a result of them discovering their "true sexual identity" as much as reacting to the daily bombardment they receive from the gay-friendly media. Impressionable youth who ordinarily would never consider being attracted to the same sex are now presented with a "lifestyle choice" that is increasingly being normalized by the secular culture.


15 posted on 11/02/2005 7:53:03 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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16 posted on 11/02/2005 7:56:09 AM PST by Coleus (I support ethical, effective and safe stem cell research and use: adult, umbilical cord, bone marrow)
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To: Rutles4Ever

It's showing a remarkable shelf life for slang.


17 posted on 11/02/2005 8:01:58 AM PST by eastsider
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To: NYer

>>>>The story glowed over the prospect that more teens identify themselves as gay. It praised efforts to provide gay teens with scholarships and the proliferation of Gay Straight Alliance clubs in public schools. It dismissed professional and religious claims that homosexual orientation can be treated.

Who is David Mixner?
(snip)

A big, garrulous man, with a robust laugh and a passion beyond measure, the author and political consultant, born in southern New Jersey on August 16, 1946, fell into the world of politics almost by accident. "I don't know why I got so much political success at such a young age," he says. He's never run for office ("Never will"), never accepted an political appointment, not even when his good friend Bill Clinton was living in the White House, and he has interests that reach far beyond the world of politics.

(snip)

I've been a political person for forty-four years -- started doing volunteer work for John F. Kennedy in 1960. My family were Irish-Catholic immigrants and it was an essential part of the Irish-Catholic experience to work for Kennedy if you were alive back then. I was heavily involved in the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. And I was head of the Vietnam Moratorium, which in the late sixties did all the big marches against the war in Vietnam. I got heavily involved in the campaigns of Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern and Robert Kennedy for president. I became very prominent politically and nationally as a young person -- of course that was the age of youth back then, "The Summer of Love." I'd been to jail a couple of times by then for civil rights -- all for the right things. I was in the closet until I was thirty.

(snip)

MIXNER: Light years ahead of where we were. Let's just sort of walk through it. I was one of the founders of the first gay and lesbian political PACs in history. And that partially came out of the fact of me coming out and becoming a victim -- "God, they're returning my money and they're not letting me play anymore" and " I'm a has-been at 30." My partner, Peter Scott, said to me, "You can either be a victim or you can fight back. What's the thing they respect more than anything else?" And I said, "Money." And he said, "Well, let's just speak their language." So we formed the first gay and lesbian PAC in history, called MECLA -- the Municipal Elections Committee of Los Angeles. It was the organization that HRC modeled itself after. We had the first big political dinner in Los Angeles. I'll never forget -- it made $40,000, an all-time record. And we couldn't believe it. Now, the other night, I sat in an audience in New York, where the gay and lesbian community raised $1.8 million for John Kerry in one night. And five days beforehand, the gay and lesbian community in the back yard of Senator Edward Kennedy raised another $300,000 for the fight against the amendment. And HRC in the last six months has raised a million to fight the amendment. And the Log Cabin Republicans raised almost a million to fight the amendment. Start adding it up -- we've almost raised $25 million this year alone. And back then we were thrilled with forty-fucking-thousand dollars. So look at how far we've come, that's my point.

(snip)

MIXNER: I don't want him to. I don't want him to even look back at that record. We're a whole different community than we were in the 1990s. I want him to have a whole different image of us. And I want us to force him to look at us differently. He's going to be tempted to look at what he knows. And what he knows is the community of the 1990s. But we're a whole different tribe now. And we cannot be the ones to push the Clinton analogy out there. We've got to say, "Oh, no, no, no, that was a decade ago, honey. Listen, Mary, it's a whole new world." It's not enough to be appointed deputy deputy deputy deputy. We want cabinet. We want money from the DNC for our Senate candidates.

Electing your own in the political process is still the most important thing. I've often said I didn't spend these last twenty some years fighting for someone to be the head of the gay and lesbian student alliance. I've been fighting for twenty years so they can be president. Of the United States. And I mean it. I don't know if I'll live to see it, but then I actually didn't think I'd live long enough to see a lot of the stuff I've seen. I've been caught by surprise by how much progress we've made. So who knows?

more: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=244#244

He was one of five key leaders of the Moratorium.
See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=1#1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=238#238
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=270#270


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=270#270
"I have written and spoken and marched against the war. One of the national organizers of the Vietnam Moratorium is a close friend of mine."

The friend he's alluding to would be David Mixner, one of five key leaders of the Moratorium, the other four being Jerome Grossman (founder), Sam Brown (primary organizer), David Hawk, and Marge Sklencar.

On a related note with respect to Kerry, in early 1970 while he was running for Congress Kerry became friends and political allies with Grossman and Brown. . .[SNIP]

The first paragraph ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=1#1 ) is a quote from Bill Clinton, not John Kerry. Hence what I was saying in the second paragraph was that Clinton knew Mixner. Kerry knew Mixner's associates Jerome Grossman and Sam Brown. I don't know if he knew Mixner; he may have.




http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1499463/posts
Time Magazine, School Event Expose Massive Cultural Campaign to Promote Homosexuality to Kids

(snip)

The TIME October 10 piece, “The Battle Over Gay Teens,” which includes not a single reference to the extremely dangerous medical consequences of homosexual behavior, especially for boys, includes these details:

• A cocktail party in Manhattan with billionaire liquor magnate Edgar Bronfman, Sr. and Clinton political strategist David Mixner was held in May to raise money for the Point Foundation, a scholarship program to turn “gay” kids into homosexual activists...

(snip)






For immediate release

Sunday, August 14, 1994

Contact: Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats
Post Office Box 11311
Salt Lake City, Utah 84147-0311
(801)461-5058 metropolitan Salt Lake City telephone number
(800)864-0310 national toll-free telephone number
Internet: glud@aol.com

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David Mixner fights gay political "under-representation"

SALT LAKE CITY - Shortly before President Bill Clinton announced his support
of a new "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" policy about gays in the
military, his openly gay college friend and campaign advisor David Mixner
told The Washington Blade that the president was "good, but far from perfect
on gay and AIDS issues."

The Los Angeles-based political consultant was expressing a widespread
opinion about how many bisexual, gay and lesbian people viewed President
Clinton more critically after his election than they did during his 1992
presidential campaign when he promised to lift the ban against gays in the
military completely, among other things.

"I find him to still be very popular in the gay and lesbian community, but
people are no longer willing to give blind faith. It is now more of an
alliance than a fan club," Mixner said.

That alliance is what gave one of Mixner's groups, Coalition '93, the chance
to encourage the appointment of more than 22 openly gay or lesbian staffers
to the Clinton administration including Roberta Achtenberg as the assistant
secretary for fair housing at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development.

But the government appointment of openly bisexual, gay and lesbian people is
only part of the fight for Mixner. As a director of the Washington,
D.C.-based Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, he hopes to take the success of
electing a supportive president and appointing administration staffers to the
ballot boxes of every state.

"Gay men and lesbians are the most under-represented group in electoral
politics," Mixner complains. Other Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund leaders point
out that of the 497,155 elected officials serving in the United States, only
70 are openly bisexual, gay or lesbian including two U.S. representatives and
12 state legislators. The Fund contributes much-needed money to the campaigns
of openly bisexual, gay and lesbian people.

Mixner has agreed to be the keynote speaker at the Gay and Lesbian Utah
Democrats 1994 Celebration which is planned for 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8
at the John W. Gallivan Utah Center at 36 East 200 South in Salt Lake City.
He plans to speak about "We're Our Own Best Hope - Coming Out In Politics."

"It's appropriate that one of America's most successful gay politicians will
be joining us to celebrate our most successful year," GLUD Chair Michael
Aaron said. "David Mixner works effectively and tirelessly to define
bisexual, gay and lesbian politics inside and outside the Clinton White
House, and as a director of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund."

The celebration is the group's fourth-annual reception and awards dinner, and
is a National Coming Out Day event. The black-tie-optional celebration has
attracted many elected and appointed public officials and candidates since
the first such event in 1990.

"We're very pleased to be offering again one of the few formal events in Utah
that brings together bisexual, gay and lesbian people and public officials in
a pleasant environment," GLUD Founder David Nelson said. "Our celebrations
have become known by many as one of the most enjoyable evenings of the year."

Tickets are available for $30 per person and $55 per couple. Tickets are also
available to GLUD members for $25 each. Ticket information is available by
calling (801)461-5058 or (800)864-0310. Seating is limited.



http://www.aim.org/aim_report_print/5_0_4_0/
AIM Report: Hillary Clinton's Biggest Cover-Ups
August 11, 2003

(snip)

Anti-Anti-Communist

In her book, however, Hillary does write about some of her radical associates. She notes a meeting in 1969 with David Mixner of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, an anti-Vietnam war protest group that came under investigation by the House Internal Security Subcommittee for its involvement with communists and backing from Hanoi. Mixner would go on to become a leading homosexual activist, adviser to and friend of President Clinton. He was credited with delivering some six million votes to Clinton in 1992.

(snip)


18 posted on 11/02/2005 8:41:12 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Coleus

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1514049/posts?page=18#18


19 posted on 11/02/2005 8:41:30 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: eastsider

Yes, it is! I haven't used that expression since I was in grade school.


20 posted on 11/02/2005 8:47:54 AM PST by Rutles4Ever (Stuck on Genius)
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