How 'gay rights' is being sold to AMERICA

[GloriaPatri4]

**THE MARKETING OF EVIL
******How ‘gay rights’ is being sold
to America
Exposed: Powerful manipulation techniques behind radical homosexual agenda

War conference

In February 1988, some 175 leading activists representing homosexual groups from across the nation held a war conference in Warrenton, Virginia, to map out their movement’s future. Shortly thereafter, activists Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen put into book form the comprehensive public relations plan they had been advocating with their gay-rights peers for several years.

Kirk and Madsen were not the kind of drooling activists that would burst into churches and throw condoms in the air. They were smart guys – very smart. Kirk, a Harvard-educated researcher in neuropsychiatry, worked with the Johns Hopkins Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth and designed aptitude tests for adults with 200+ IQs. Madsen, with a doctorate in politics from Harvard, was an expert on public persuasion tactics and social marketing. Together they wrote “After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s.” “As cynical as it may seem,” they explained at the outset, “AIDS gives us a chance, however brief, to establish ourselves as a victimized minority legitimately deserving of America’s special protection and care. At the same time,” they warned, “it generates mass hysteria of precisely the sort that has brought about public stonings and leper colonies since the Dark Ages and before. … How can we maximize the sympathy and minimize the fear? How, given the horrid hand that AIDS has dealt us, can we best play it?”

Kirk and Madsen’s “war goal,” explains marketing expert Paul E. Rondeau of Regent University, was to “force acceptance of homosexual culture into the mainstream, to silence opposition, and ultimately to convert American society.” In his comprehensive study, “Selling Homosexuality to America,” Rondeau writes:

The extensive three-stage strategy to Desensitize, Jam and Convert the American public is reminiscent of George Orwell’s premise of goodthink and badthink in “1984.” As Kirk and Madsen put it, “To one extent or another, the separability – and manipulability – of the verbal label is the basis for all the abstract principles underlying our proposed campaign.” Separability? Manipulability? Allow me to translate this psychological marketing jargon: We can change what people actually think and feel by breaking their current negative associations with our cause and replacing them with positive associations .

One infamous incident was the assault on New York’s famed St. Patrick’s Cathedral on December 10, 1989. While Cardinal John O’Connor presided over the 10:15 Sunday morning Mass, a multitude of “pro-choice” and “gay rights” activists protested angrily outside. Some, wearing gold-colored robes similar to clerical vestments, hoisted a large portrait of a pornographically altered frontal nude portrait of Jesus

“The radical homosexuals turned a celebration of the Holy Eucharist into a screaming babble of sacrilege by standing in the pews, shouting and waving their fists, tossing condoms into the air,” recounted the New York Post. One of the invaders grabbed a consecrated wafer and threw it to the ground.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46887

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[Eileen_T]

Not just America, we seem to have imported the agenda into New Zealand.

We cooperate everytime we watch a TV program or movie that ‘normalises’ homosexuality and accepts their portrayal of ‘gays’ as victims.

And I refuse to allow myself to be labelled homophobic just because I consider homosexuality (the act not the person) to be a grave moral disorder.

How about this: “When I am labelled homophobic I feel threatened by hate language.” Do you think it might work?

I have a friend who has studied this and is working on a claim that she is being victimized because of her Christian beliefs whenever these things come up.

 

[Gerry_Hunter]

“After the Ball” is out of print, as far as I know, but I have a copy, and have read it.

It is a blueprint of deceit, manipulation, and coersion, and is being followed pretty well to the letter throughout the Western world. Sometimes I marvel at how successful the campaign of the gay rights folks has been, when the battle plan was so plainly made public.

Blessings,

Gerry

 

[goofyjim]

But should we be any more accepting of divorce and remarriage? I believe the churhc hands out annulments too easily. I keep on seeing these threads as though this sin of homosexuality is the worst out there. Fornication and the others are just as reprehensible. Take it from someone who has been sexually inactive his whole life. I am seeing so much hypocrisy from all these threads and am becoming very sick of it. Mind you I am not gay, do not go out of my way to make any gay friends, but some of these threads give up all hope on these people. I do not find that Christ like. I agree 100% that the behavior is a sin but I will not write them off as hopeless.

 

[Benedictus]

goofyjim:

I am seeing so much hypocrisy from all these threads and am becoming very sick of it. …] I do not find that Christ like.

Thank you. I was beginning to think I was the only one who felt the same way as you.

I find a lot of what I read here rather disturbing. Every time I come here, I’m reminded of what Ghandi said when he was asked why he wasn’t a Christian. The wording varies a little based on the account, but he said something to the effect of “I would be if it weren’t for the Christians.”

P.S. WND is not in any way a reliable source of news.

 

[Aaron_I]

I agree. But know that we don’t give up on them. Look up the group Courage, a support group for homosexuals who are seeking treatment (as opposed to pity). Now these are people I sincerely admire. What we do give up on is the acceptance of homosexual acts and the gay culture, we never give up on the actual people. If we didn’t care about them, we wouldn’t bother writing about it.

Also you are totally correct about people ignoring other sexual sin. Premarital sex is always wrong, as is contraception. The reason that these issues receive less attention is that whereas Protestants are our allies against abortion and homosexuality; they themselves accept contraception and probably (but not sure) don’t have too many qualms about premarital sex. But that’s the problem they run into for eliminating a visible church.

Yes, divorce and remarriage is too common, and I won’t even imagine how easy it would be to obtain an annulment in Boston or any other coastal diocese. The problem lies in the activist priests who feel they are helping the people, or maybe they’re just being “nice”.

Ultimately I agree with most of what you say. Just don’t think that in preaching the truth we are preaching hate. The parents who love their children punish them and restrict their freedom. The parents who give their children complete freedom doubtless feel a warm, fuzzy feeling about their kids, but it is nothing compared with agape (sacrificial love).

 

[goofyjim]

Aaron I.:

I agree. But know that we don’t give up on them. Look up the group Courage, a support group for homosexuals who are seeking treatment (as opposed to pity). Now these are people I sincerely admire. What we do give up on is the acceptance of homosexual acts and the gay culture, we never give up on the actual people. If we didn’t care about them, we wouldn’t bother writing about it.

Also you are totally correct about people ignoring other sexual sin. Premarital sex is always wrong, as is contraception. The reason that these issues receive less attention is that whereas Protestants are our allies against abortion and homosexuality; they themselves accept contraception and probably (but not sure) don’t have too many qualms about premarital sex. But that’s the problem they run into for eliminating a visible church.

Yes, divorce and remarriage is too common, and I won’t even imagine how easy it would be to obtain an annulment in Boston or any other coastal diocese. The problem lies in the activist priests who feel they are helping the people, or maybe they’re just being “nice”.

Ultimately I agree with most of what you say. Just don’t think that in preaching the truth we are preaching hate. The parents who love their children punish them and restrict their freedom. The parents who give their children complete freedom doubtless feel a warm, fuzzy feeling about their kids, but it is nothing compared with agape (sacrificial love).

But in the past I have seen hate towards homosexuals such as the condemned movement in Bayside, New York, which contends that the Blessed Mother said AIDS is a punishment for homosexuality. What effect would you expect this to have on someone who is confused and seeking help?

The group Courage does not seek treatment for change of orientation, BTW. It simply supports those who are practicing abstinence of the lifestyle.

 

[Benedictus]

Aaron I.:

Protestants are our allies against abortion and homosexuality

It depends upon which Protestants you mean. For the many of them, they’re not allies. They’re just enemies of our enemies.

It’s like the intelligent design thing. Intelligent design isn’t really a scientific theory, but it’s the messengers, the Fundamentalists and Evangelicals, who are the real problem.

 

[Eileen_T]

goofyjim:

But should we be any more accepting of divorce and remarriage? I believe the churhc hands out annulments too easily. I keep on seeing these threads as though this sin of homosexuality is the worst out there. Fornication and the others are just as reprehensible. Take it from someone who has been sexually inactive his whole life. I am seeing so much hypocrisy from all these threads and am becoming very sick of it. Mind you I am not gay, do not go out of my way to make any gay friends, but some of these threads give up all hope on these people. I do not find that Christ like. I agree 100% that the behavior is a sin but I will not write them off as hopeless.

I was just following the thread when I commented on this one, but I totally agree with Goofy Jim. It is easy enough to make comments on a Forum such as this, not so easy perhaps to speak out to people you know.

I risked alienating a friend who had separated from her husband and commented that surely God did not expect her to be celibate for the rest of her life (annulment was not an option). I told her that, actually, that was what God did expect of her unless she reconciled with her husband.

I have also spoken out against divoce and remarriage (I refused to attend my brother-in-law’s wedding to a divorcee) and I refuse to allow unmarried couples to share a bed in my house.

I don’t condemn the people, just the sin. Interestingly, I am still on friendly terms with these people because I spoke to them with respect and love.

Oh yes, and I tell people why I believe contraception is wrong and refuse to tell “little white lies” when my family don’t want to talk to someone on the phone (e.g. “Tell them I’m not here”).

Sin is sin and all sin offends God and causes alienation with Him.