Posted on 02/14/2004 1:04:29 PM PST by scripter
In the past several days, the media have descended on Massachusetts like a flock of vultures on a wounded prey. The scenes inside and outside the Statehouse are described by many as "surreal." With the thousands of people and hundreds of cameras on Beacon Hill, the legislators say they have never seen or experienced anything like this before.
The hoopla, of course, is about "gay" marriage.
One of the greatest battles for America's future right now is being waged in Massachusetts – an outcome that will affect and possibly change our entire nation forever. Simply put, this battle is about one thing: do we or don't we, as a nation, embrace and accept the practice of homosexuality in America?
To observe the national media's biased reporting on this issue is disheartening, to say the least.
My wife, Irene, and I both led teams at pro-marriage rallies this past weekend in Hartford, Conn., and Boston, Mass. We were there. Yet the media's reporting was undoubtedly biased beyond belief. You would think they were at a different rally than we were. With upwards of 6,000 people rallying in support of marriage between a man and a woman in Connecticut and literally only a handful of homosexual protesters, the media gave all of the air time to the "gay" activists and their rally! The same angle was sadly taken in Massachusetts.
Watching the cable news programs and their reporting on America's homosexual dilemma isn't any better. It just shows how biased and one-sided the media really are.
Bill O'Reilly, host of "The O'Reilly Factor" on the Fox News Channel, on Feb. 11 featured Kevin Jennings, the executive director of GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network. Kevin discussed GLSEN's pro-homosexual curriculum being marketed to public schools all across America under the guise of "tolerance."
GLSEN's material instructs teachers how to teach America's children that "gay is OK." This material falsely equates homosexuality with heterosexuality – teaching we need to accept and embrace everyone for who they "really" are. Bill O'Reilly tragically bit the bait and once again displayed his personal bias, stating he believes all Americans should "pursue happiness."
But what does Bill O'Reilly's think "pursuing happiness" includes?
O'Reilly, watched heavily by conservatives and Christians alike, shocked America in September 2002 when he publicly announced his support of homosexual special rights in the nation's largest homosexual publication, the Advocate. His interview, one he probably wishes would just go away, caused a lot of controversy and dissent among his viewers.
To many, O'Reilly has sold out.
What Bill needs to realize is that he and others in the media are sending a very bad message to America and our children. Does O'Reilly actually think two men engaging in anal intercourse is something America needs to embrace, accepting this behavior in the homosexuals' "pursuit of happiness"?
Does Mr. O'Reilly actually believe a sexual, sadistic act by two lesbians or "gay" men known as "fisting" should be taught to America's teens? This is exactly what was taught during a workshop his guest's organization GLSEN co-sponsored and participated in.
The event, called "Teach Out," took place in March of 2000 in Massachusetts. Drawing national headlines and outrage, the event became known as "Fistgate."
GLSEN also provides a suggested reading list of books to America's youth – many of them containing blatant, pornographic stories of young boys who engage in oral sex and anal intercourse with older boys, as well as lesbian sex between young girls. Most parents are in the dark on the explicit, graphic homosexual content their children are reading. Linda Harvey, executive director of Mission: America has documented several of these and other troubling resources in great detail.
GLSEN is also responsible for encouraging GSA's or gay-straight alliances – "gay" clubs – nearly 2,000 of them – in schools across America. These clubs meet and encourage the students in their homosexual lifestyles – some even encouraging homosexual experimentation. I personally stopped one of these GSA's in Connecticut two years ago from taking their teenage club members on a "field trip" to Provincetown, Mass. – one of the largest homosexual subcultures in the Northeast.
Is this the message that Bill O'Reilly wants to send to America? Are these books he wants America's children to read? Is this what Bill O'Reilly wants to have his child taught? Are these the kind of clubs he wants America's youth to join? Does Bill O'Reilly look forward to the day when his child will walk down the aisle to be married till "death do us part" with his child's homosexual lover?
Bill O'Reilly, who fervently advocates for children by fighting the demeaning messages of Ludicrous, Janet Jackson, Snoop Doggy Dog, Little Kim and others, is being hypocritical and doing a great disservice to America by using his celebrity to endorse the homosexual lifestyle. Homosexuality is not only harmful to children and to society, but has also proven deadly for many.
O'Reilly, who professes the Catholic faith, knows his views are in direct rebellion with the Catholic church's teaching on homosexuality.
Father Harvey, a Catholic priest from New York who heads Courage, a Catholic ministry to those who want to overcome their unwanted same-sex attractions, says people such as O'Reilly are in grave error and have placed themselves "above the church."
The Vatican itself issued a statement months ago addressing politicians and public figures stating no professing Catholic could nor should support the homosexual lifestyle, same-sex unions or "gay" adoption. Yet even with stern warnings from Rome itself – O'Reilly's heart remains hardened.
Bill O'Reilly just doesn't seem to get it. He's right on so many issues, but on homosexuality he's dead wrong. As I've said time and time again, people such as Bill O'Reilly have fallen for the "Gay Spin Zone." Their reasoning is based on emotion, not on logic. It's based on "tolerance," not truth. It's based on believing a misinformation campaign being waged by "gay" activists – and the media are the major conduit.
Tragically, the message Bill O'Reilly is sending to America – is the wrong one.
Bill O'Reilly has had many opportunities to hear the truth about the homosexual lifestyle from many of his guests, including when I appeared on his show back in September of 2002.
Yet he didn't want to listen. He had other motives in mind. Yet as a former homosexual, I encourage Bill O'Reilly to listen and to examine the truth – to put aside his presuppositions and not to go by his emotions. Lives are at stake here – including America's children.
Those such as myself who take a public, principled stand against the embracing and promotion of homosexuality in America do so for a reason. We know the truths and facts about the homosexual lifestyle. I've been there personally and experienced it firsthand.
Our message is not one of hate, but hope. It is not one of discrimination, but of deliverance. A message that I perceived years ago as one of bigotry brought me a new beginning. This same wonderful hope awaits every homosexual man and woman – a chance to become the real men and women they were created to be.
As the issue of homosexuality continues to be at the forefront in America, the media – including Bill O'Reilly – have to be held to higher standards and called to report accurately, fairly and without bias.
Fox News claims to be fair and balanced. Then let America hear the truth, Mr.O'Reilly, about homosexuality. Respectfully, do as you say – "We report, you decide."
. . .Well, don't see him as spineless or even as one who masquerades.
Actually think on this and many other topics, B. O'R. is himself, a victim of the Liberal mind. He would have us call him 'nice'; when in fact, he is just blinded by the Liberal log in his own eye. . .
And the truth is, O'Reilly does not have to 'masquerade' as common folk; he never has pretended to be otherwise. What he is having trouble with as of late; is simply being humble about who he has become.
And of course, recognizing that Liberal mind renders one 'reason impaired'.
Oh come on!!!
I just ordered my O'Rielly coffee cup and tee shirt and calender and mouse pad and writing pen and multiple copies of his books and name and town, name and town, name and town...
That was certainly true in the cases of the Unabomber and Terry Nichols/Tim McVeigh. Ted Kacszynski (sp?) was still functional in society at the outset of his bombing campaign. John Gacy was a less convincing case, but he was able to function in society before he was arrested, even though afterward Illinois law officers who dealt with him described him as an extremely creepy guy. Ted Bundy also comes to mind, as does O.J. Simpson.
Actually, I disagree. I think the best argument against the homosexual lobby is a processual one: they are mugging popular consensus using propagandistic techniques which they cheerfully admit, among themselves, were lifted from Josef Goebbels. (This in "Overhauling Straight America", the prepublication serialization of After the Ball in the Washington, DC Guide.)
Society has the right to set its sexual and familial mores in legal stone: statutory rape, age of consent, gender of married couples, adultery and abandonment, and so on.
Against that just power, and against the 98% who aren't gay, the homosexuals are making behind-the-scenes, Byzantine power plays and shopping the courts for friendly judges, and all the while lying about it in media. Just the other evening, ABC's Rich Furey tossed softballs to a homosexual advocate from the HRC, and the woman lied about the consequences of the Massachusetts liberal justices' power play against the People of Massachusetts. Rich Furey must have known, but didn't ask her about, the practical consequences for severely dissenting populations in e.g. Utah and Texas, of the Massachusetts' justices' threatened creation by decree of homosexual marriage in Massachusetts. This is exactly what Evan Wolfson labored for all those years at Lambda Legal, as he describes here:
EW: You’ve raised a lot of important questions. These anti-marriage laws that the right wing has been pushing in their state-by-state campaign will be challenged once we win marriage somewhere. You can’t go into court and say, “My marriage is being discriminated against under this discriminatory anti-marriage law,” until you have one somewhere. Civil union is a marital status but not marriage, and therefore those laws ought not to be a barrier to the basic respect that every couple is entitled to for their legal commitment, and that every state owes to one another. We should fight to protect and build on civil unions as well as other family protections. Still, full marriage is the only gateway to a vast array of protections throughout our country. There is no easy way to replicate what comes with marriage. What’s more, marriage is an indispensable part of people’s vocabulary in talking about love, family, and commitment, and we ought to claim that vocabulary. It is a mistake to try to avoid talking about our lives in language that other people can understand. We need to seize and shape the discussion about our lives in the terms that people can relate to...... Let me sum up one more thing. Lambda’s vision of how we’re going to move this civil rights movement forward is that the work we do has to have three elements, and these all have to happen together. The first is that we really need to seize and shape the terms of the debate. We need to speak to nongay people and tell our stories in powerful, resonant terms. We need to talk about marriage, we need to talk about the Boy Scouts. Second, we need to engage nongay people. We really need to be out there asking for support, not just talking to ourselves. And third, we need to undertake careful legal and political action within the climate of receptivity that we are creating. GLR: Meanwhile, many states have passed laws that expressly pre-empt the recognition of gay marriages consecrated in other states. Isn’t this a violation of the “full faith and credit” clause in the Constitution, not to mention a law that pre-empts a purely hypothetical situation?
-- From Gay and Lesbian Review, Jan./Feb. 2001, "Why the Boy Scouts Case Went Down", interview with Evan Wolfson, Director, Marriage Project, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund (emphasis added)
http://www.glreview.com/issues/2001janfeb/features/feature15-1.html#article
Remember, they "went after" Newt Gingrich and Dick Cheney that way -- that is what PFLAG was founded for, to look for converts and "singers" among people who have gays in their families. The calculation is that people will deepsix their principles and morals before they put a relative over the side. The calculation appears to be right.
Maybe they should be strongly dissuaded from performing certain acts listed among the sexual esoterica. After all, they can't legally produce homemade $20 bills in the sanctity of the bedroom; why can't they be forbidden to spread fecal coliform and STD's around? If someone finds a gerbil up someone's colon, maybe that someone needs to give his colon a rest in jail for a while. To allow him to reflect on his folly, et cetera.
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Yep. That former homosexual was Stephen Bennett, the author of this article. He knows first hand where O'Reilly stands on homosexuality - he doesn't see the bigger picture.
Bill O'Reilly just doesn't seem to get it. He's right on so many issues, but on homosexuality he's dead wrong. As I've said time and time again, people such as Bill O'Reilly have fallen for the "Gay Spin Zone." Their reasoning is based on emotion, not on logic. It's based on "tolerance," not truth. It's based on believing a misinformation campaign being waged by "gay" activists – and the media are the major conduit.
And part of the reason "gay" activists succeed in accomplishing this is because the homosexual community is entrenched in the public education establishment. While the infestation of homosexuals in the Church is bad, the infestation in the education establishment is worse. From the public schools and universities, to the homosexual caucus of the National Education Association Union, to homosexual groups such as Kevin Jennins' GLSEN, PFLAG, OutRight SpeakOut, and others, the homosexual community's top priority is indoctrinating kids. And their focus now is on elementary school age kids.
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