You've done a lot of good work on this subject, and I begin now to see the outlines of a coherent, forceful response to the reflexive pro-gay advocacy in the media.
You're welcome! Since you had posted those replies previously in the forum, I didn't think you'd mind me quoting them.
"You've done a lot of good work on this subject, and I begin now to see the outlines of a coherent, forceful response to the reflexive pro-gay advocacy in the media."
Thanks, but I feel this has been a group effort. Many FReepers have contributed. I've learned much here.
The homosexual community's biggest victory was taking over the APA and getting homosexuality removed from the DSM. As stated in the article The A.P.A. Normalization of Homosexuality, and the Research Study of Irving Bieber,
"Dr. Bieber describes the deletion of homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic and statistical manual as "the climax of a sociopolitical struggle involving what were deemed to be the rights of homosexuals."
Gay activist groups believed that prejudice against homosexuals could be extinguished only if, as homosexuals, they were accepted as normal. "They claimed that homosexuality is a preference, an orientation, a propensity; that it is neither a defect, a disturbance, a sickness, nor a malfunction of any sort." To promote this aim, Dr. Bieber reports, "Gay activists impugned the motives and ridiculed the work of those psychiatrists who asserted that homosexuality is other than normal."
A task force was set up to study homosexuality, but the members chosen included not a single psychiatrist who held the view that homosexuality was not a normal adaptation. There followed riots at scientific meetings by gay activists who increased the pressure on the Psychiatric Association...
Dr. Bieber pointed out that there were several other conditions in the DSM-II that did not fulfill the "distress and social disability" criteria: voyeurism, fetishism, sexual sadism, and masochism. A.P.A.'s Dr. Spitzer replied that these conditions should perhaps also be removed from the DSM-II -- and that if the sadists and fetishists were to organize as did the gay activists, they, too, might find their conditions normalized."
This set the stage for Kirk and Pill's campaign - The Overhauling of Straight America ( also see The Homosexual Propaganda and Media Manipulation Game ). More recently GLSEN, GLAAD, HRC, and a host of homosexual groups, have entered the fray.
The Church has been infiltrated and the homosexual community is hell-bent on indoctrinating public school kids. Read through the threads "Queering The Schools" and "Teaching Kindergarten Kids About 'Human Differences' and Homosexuality Isn't 'Easy' in Newton"
FReeper JesseHousman summarizes the homosexual agenda:
"It's just another milestone on the highway mapped out by those generals who march forward with the Homosexual Agenda For America tucked under their arm!
For over three decades, homosexual activists have tirelessly pursued their satanic vision of an America in which their behavior is affirmed and their critics are silenced.
The Supreme Court's ruling overturning sodomy laws opens the door to the complete triumph of the homosexual agenda -- and the end of free-speech rights for all who have faith-based objections to endorsing, funding or supporting homosexual behavior.
A six-point strategy was laid out by two homosexual leaders in the late 1980s, to radically alter America's understanding of homosexual behavior. How all six of these points are being carried out in present-day American culture.
Homosexual activists have made progress by infiltrating, influencing and intimidating people in every major power structure -- including the media, education, government, corporate America, and even the major churches.
Homosexual activists are using corporate employment policies to promote homosexual behavior -- and to stigmatize, isolate and silence employees who express opposition.
"Gay rights" legislation in many states sets severe punishments for those who do not agree with its demands while the homosexual agenda is being pushed to elementary school children, starting in kindergarten. Then there's the little-known proposal to implement a full-scale indoctrination of children to accept and affirm homosexual behavior. Unfortunately, the indoctrination in our public schools has been all too successful while liberal churches exist for little more than promoting homosexual behavior.
Homosexual propagandists have been extremely skillful in portraying anyone who opposes them as sympathetic to, or even complicit in, violence against homosexuals.
They have succeeded in "piggybacking" their agenda on legitimate causes such as equal rights for racial minorities and Hollywood helps by replacing old stereotypes with new ones that idealize homosexuals and demonize their opponents.
The fundraising power of the homosexual movement extorts money from corporations and foundations while, thanks to the Lavender Tower, homosexual behavior and its promotion have become pervasive at colleges and universities.
"Domestic partner" policies and "civil unions" are aimed at the wholesale destruction of marriage (as one influential homosexual writer actually boasted) are aimed at homosexual adoption: a devastating critique of the sloppy, poorly-documented studies that helped it gain acceptance."
more later...