The purpose of my book, Making Gay Okay, is to see what natural reason can tell us about human sexuality and flourishing, most particularly in light of the claims
of homosexual activists.
In the dominant view
of homosexual activists, however.
Given the doubtfulness of Kinsey's data, and given the propensity
of homosexual activists to count as a homosexual anyone who has ever had a homoerotic fantasy, it would seem that some media accounts of homosexuality and the Catholic priesthood are greatly exaggerated.
Not exact matches
«The state must recognize the full citizenship rights
of inverts,» or
homosexuals, an
activist wrote in the year after the war.
As to same - sex marriage stabilizing
homosexual practices, this is
of course the argument
of Andrew Sullivan and some other gay
activists, although there is little or no evidence to support it.
But if there weren't something to the idea
of biological relatedness, why would
homosexual activists be celebrating this advance?
He is, according to National Journal, «perhaps the most extreme»
of a network
of U.S. evangelicals who, having failed in their crusade against all things gay at home, travel abroad to connect with anti-gay
activists and arm them with arguments that, for example,
homosexuals will seduce their children, corrupt all
of society, and eventually take over the country.
We take no particular pleasure in engaging the militant feminists and
homosexual activists, the Nietzschean deconstructionists and relativists, the enemies
of traditional morality and religious faith; indeed, the ongoing conflict with our various utopians and Gnostics is dirty business from which no one emerges with entirely clean hands or uncoarsened sensibilities.
On the matter
of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some
of the major texts employed by
homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is
homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology
of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds
of the period since Europe became Christian.»
But on the seventh point, having to do with sexuality and personal identity,
homosexual activists appear to be
of different minds.
Of course the
activists blame these pathologies on society's intolerance, but it is not intolerance that produces another and very basic reason why people hope their children will not be
homosexual.
Gilbert Baker is said to have gotten the idea for the rainbow flag from this flag in borrowing it from the Hippie movement
of that time largely influenced by pioneering
homosexual activist Allen Ginsberg.
Homosexual activists like the playwright Larry Kramer and the writer Gabriel Rotello, author
of Sexual Ecology — an important weaving together
of ecology theory, epidemiology, and sexual politics — have been ferociously attacked by their fellow gay
activists for publicly acknowledging that AIDS results as much from human behaviors as from specific microbes.
In particular, it is a response to the threat against the family represented by secular society's accelerating movement towards accepting what were, only a generation ago, simply demands by a small minority
of activists for the legalisation
of what they insist on describing as
homosexual «marriage».
But it turned out that an extreme feminism is only one form
of something with an interesting history and much wider influence, especially now that it has been taken up by
homosexual activists.
The Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) was set up in Scotland in 1974 by two
activists of the Scottish Minorities group, which became the Scottish
Homosexual Rights group.
Among secularists, gay
activists, liberal politicians, and the like, it is taken for granted that
homosexual urgings are «natural,» in the sense
of being innate (the word nature comes from the Latin natus, «to be born» as, in fact, does the word innate); and since the urges are natural in that sense (or so goes the claim), what's wrong with satisfying them?
Whether legal rights concerning
homosexual parenting and adoption are extended or limited, it is also clear that LGBT
activists will use
homosexual marriage as a Trojan horse in their greater efforts to deny natural sexuality, to erase sexual differences and replace them with orientations that make it possible to leave behind the «straitjacket
of nature» and to pursue the destruction
of the heterosexual foundations
of our society.
Why do those who reject marriage and prefer free unions demonstrate alongside
activists in favor
of homosexual marriage?
Why do those who reject marriage and prefer free unions demonstrate alongside LGBT
activists in favor
of homosexual marriage?
Whether legal rights concerning
homosexual parenting and adoption are extended or limited, it is also clear that LGBT
activists will use
homosexual marriage as a Trojan horse in their greater efforts to deny natural sexuality, to erase sexual differences, and to replace them with orientations that make it possible to leave behind the «straightjacket
of nature» and to pursue the destruction
of the heterosexual foundations
of our society.
Thus, by abandoning the man - woman distinction in favor
of the heterosexual -
homosexual distinction,
homosexual activists demand not parenthood (paternity or maternity), but the right to some new abstract parental status that reduces the role
of the «parent» to the exercise
of certain functions such as education.
I obviously do not wish to belittle the significance
of the deaths
of people in the other groups - ethnic Poles, Slovenians,
Homosexuals, left - wing political
activists, disabled people, Roma, and arguably also prisoners
of war from the USSR (my own grandfather was both a Jew and a soldier in the Red Army); and it's important to mention them as well.
Activist Mannan's magazine, Roopbaan, was launched two years ago and has become a platform for promoting the rights
of LGBT people in Bangladesh, where
homosexual acts are illegal.
WSJ - July 8 - Since India's Supreme Court re-criminalized gay sex in 2013,
homosexuals have increasingly become targets
of robbery and extortion, gay men and
activists say.
Simien's film takes place at Winchester University, a predominantly white, prestigious university where we're introduced to six significant characters: Sam White (Tessa Thompson), the biracial
activist who overcompensates her blackness; Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams), the black
homosexual who lives in an all - white residence building, and feels little sense
of belonging; Colandrea «CoCo» Conners (Teyonah Parris), the white - washed blogger who acknowledges racism yet chooses to ignore it in fear
of non-acceptance from the white majority; The Dean (Dennis Haysbert), who has worked hard his whole life solely to over-emphasize his superiority and intelligence towards white corporate men, specifically the president
of Winchester; The Dean's son Troy (Brandon Bell), who spends his college career doing things to make his father happy and impress the white majority; and Kurt Fletcher (Kyle Gallner), the privileged, ignorant son
of the President
of Winchester.
In the late eighties Keith Haring also embraced the symbolism used by the ACT UP
activist group, the pink triangle historically used to mark
homosexuals during the holocaust period and the SILENCE = DEATH slogan as an illustration
of the invisibility the AIDS victims have been experiencing at the time.