The Power Of The Gay Agenda
By Randall Nunn (03/05/04)
After witnessing the spectacle of gay marriages in San Francisco over the last several days, and the copycat ceremonies in a few other locations, I began to ponder why the gay agenda seems to have such power. After all, gays represent somewhere between 2% and 4% of the population, although they would like us to believe that their numbers are even greater.
How could 2% of the population provoke such passionate dissension and get so much attention? Like other cultural issues of the moment, the gay agenda is magnified and given undeserved power by the liberal media, opinion leaders, the academic community and Hollywood. In other words, the same activists who are fighting tirelessly to save liberalism have managed to set the agenda once again by their unrelenting propaganda campaign broadcast by their allies in the media.
The gay marriage issue has finally roused the opposition and even President Bush sees the danger in letting this spectacle continue unopposed. The gay agenda has been pushed down the throats of Americans until they are sick of it. The number of sitcoms on television with gay characters and themes is out of all proportion to reality. The effort is a not-very-subtle attempt to brainwash the youth of this country and the unthinking into believing that gays are just like the rest of us and their lifestyle is “normal”. Most Americans know that it is not but have been intimidated by charges of homophobia and bigotry into not saying anything that might seem “narrow-minded” or “unsophisticated”. We begin to wonder if we are out of step and behind the times. Even major corporations join in this brainwashing effort, putting employees through mindless and intellectually insulting courses that seek to “sensitize” them so they can understand that the gay lifestyle is not (dare I say it?) “perverted” but is as normal as heterosexual relationships.
The gay “marriages” in San Francisco have been shoved in our faces. The gloating and glee with which the gays are flaunting their behavior and defying the law is offensive to most Americans. When Rosie O’Donnell goes to San Francisco to marry her partner, we know that she is taunting us and thumbing her nose at middle America and traditional American values. Yet Rosie gets the stage and the spotlight while the vast majority of Americans get little effective representation of their views in the media other than being painted as insensitive homophobes.
The gay agenda is simply part of the extreme left political movement. The media support has given it a false sense of credibility. The liberal opinion leaders have tried to intimidate and embarrass the rest of us into silence and acquiescence. We are told that we cannot discriminate against gays? Why not? We discriminate against many things in our lives every day. That is one of the rights of a free people. To choose those they will associate with and those they will have educate their children, or receive services from or work with. But we are told by the intelligentsia that we mustn’t be judgmental. We cannot make decisions in the workplace based on sexual orientation. Why not? The answer is because we have been coerced by the media, government bureaucrats, major corporations, academics and the elites into accepting this gay agenda whether we agree with it or not. And not just coerced into accepting it, but in keeping our mouths shut about it, lest we reveal ourselves as bigots and homophobes. Well, that is utter nonsense as many Americans are beginning to realize. And they are beginning to get their voices back and their courage. They are saying, “Enough is enough!” We have views, we have rights and we can live with gays in our society without being forced to accept their agenda as part of our belief system and culture.
But, in one sense, the spectacle in San Francisco has been beneficial. It has finally shown many Americans that this attempt at heterosexual “cleansing” will not stop until the 2% dominate our lives in so many ways that we would never have conceived possible 10 or 20 years ago.
Yes, we need an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to stop this shameful spectacle and to promote and protect family values. Not as the only values but as the predominant and legally recognized values.
There are still enough Americans not yet conditioned by the left leaning education system, the elitists and the pandering politicians, who can still remember when we could debate an issue and criticize a lifestyle without being shouted down as a “bigot”. Justice Antonin Scalia said it best in his dissenting opinion in Lawrence v. Texas, the decision that struck down the Texas sodomy law, when he said in referring to the homosexual agenda that “persuading one’s fellow citizens is one thing, and imposing one’s views in absence of democratic majority will is something else.”
The culture war now has an issue that on the one hand is as silly as the gays getting married in San Francisco but on the other hand is the perfect example of liberal arrogance and coercion. Thanks, Rosie, for slapping us in the face yet again and finally rousing us out of a media-induced stupor. The 2004 election will be about a lot of issues but the key issue will be whether we are free individuals living in a free society possessing the right to think for ourselves and speak freely on issues such as this, or whether we are putty in the hands of the elitists who will bend us to their way of thinking, if not through “reeducation” then through the coercion of fraudulently manufactured peer pressure and public opinion.
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