After years of progrs on gay rights, how did the US bee so anti-LGBTQ+? | US news | The Guardian

Contents:

• THE GAY AGENDA BLUEPRT: A PLAN TO TRANSFORM AMERI
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• WHAT'S BEHD THE GAY AGENDA?
• FALLY THE GREAT GAY AGENDA IS WORKG! TWICE AS MANY OF NOW INTIFY AS LGBTQ+
• THE ‘GAY AGENDA,’ EXPLAED

THE GAY AGENDA BLUEPRT: A PLAN TO TRANSFORM AMERI

Well-rearched surveys (as opposed to some wh markedly skewed sampl and/or methodology) have nsistently placed the homosexual populatn of Ameri at around 2 to 3 percent—yet the fluence of homosexuals on Amerin culture is vastly out of proportn wh their actual numbers. A USA Today article last year reported 32 regularly appearg bisexual or homosexual characters primetime work scripted seri for the 2014-15 televisn season, wh another 64 appearg ble TV shows (Bill Keveney, “Y, You Really Are Seeg More LGBT Characters on TV, ” Oct. Some who have stood up have been fed, orred to attend pro-homosexual “sensivy trag, ” lost jobs or had their bs sued out of existence by ernment agents and agenci that support the homosexual agenda.

“If gays are prented, stead, as a strong and priful tribe promotg a rigidly nonnformist and viant liftyle, they are more likely to be seen as a public menace that jtifi ristance and opprsn. This means that jnty mtached mclemen would keep very low profile gay mercials and other public prentatns, while sympathetic figur of nice young people, old people, and attractive women would be featured. They then add this utn for those who would want to ph the gay agenda too far: “It almost go whout sayg that groups on the fartht marg of acceptabily such as NAMBLA [the North Amerin Man-Boy Love Associatn, which as s name suggts promot adult-child homosexual sex] mt play no part at all such a mpaign: spected child-molters will never look like victims...

But an addnal theme of the mpaign should be more aggrsive and upbeat: to offset the creasgly bad prs that the tim have brought to homosexual men and women, the mpaign should pat gays as superr pillars of society. To this end, they then suggted that those who oppose the homosexual agenda be lked wh imag such as the Ku Klux Klan, “bigoted southern misters droolg wh hysteril hatred, ” thugs and nvicts, and Nazi ncentratn mps. This strategy—aid and abetted by sympathetic news media and ernment agenci—has led to enterg a stage of aggrsive attacks by some the gay muny agast those who scerely believe that homosexual behavr vlat the laws, stctns and prcipl of God.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

Yet at the same time, they ma a statement showg that gays really aren’t the opprsed, victimized group Kirk and Madsen advote they be portrayed as: “Bee those gays not supportg fai ually have more discretnary e than average, they uld afford to ntribute much more. Supreme Court’s lg legalizg same-sex marriage, ’s bee they regnize this simple fact: Homosexual upl, who typilly don’t have children, have substantially more discretnary e than fai who do. The impact of this is also beg felt the polil arena, where wealthy gays help bankroll mpaigns for sympathetic ndidat who will advance their terts and fund ads attackg those who stand for tradnal and biblil valu.

“Bee most straightforward appeals are impossible, the Natnal Gay Task Force has had to cultivate quiet backroom liaisons wh broadst pani and newsrooms orr to make sure that issu important to the gay muny receive some verage. Yet the homosexual movement — led by extremist homosexual prsure groups like the so-lled Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — reprent, per pa, one of Ameri’s most powerful and well-fund polil lobbi.

WHAT'S BEHD THE GAY AGENDA?

But the prcipl they foist mand prehensive acceptance of homosexual nduct — by force of law — through feral edicts such as “hate crim” legislatn, the so-lled “Employment Non-Discrimatn Act” (ENDA) and by imposg ernment sanctned “same-sex marriage. It would legally allow pedophil, and homosexuals who were so cled, to accs your children and teens for their own predatory sexual gratifitn — so long as those children “nsented” to havg sex. In their mancript, After the Ball: How Ameri Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays the 90’s (1989, Doubleday/Bantam), Harvard ted marketg experts Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen meticuloly laid out the homosexual lobby’s blueprt for succs what is wily regard as the handbook for the “gay” agenda.

“Associate all who oppose homosexualy wh imag of ‘Klansmen mandg that gays be slghtered, ’ ‘hysteril backwoods preachers, ’ ‘menacg punks, ’ and a ‘tour of Nazi ncentratn mps where homosexuals were tortured and gassed. ” In orr to achieve wispread acceptance of “gayns, ” they had to remove the foc om what homosexualy really is (viant sexual nduct) and shift onto the craftily manufactured specter of “gay civil rights. A rash of laws ncerng the teachg of human sexualy school curricula, banng trans stunt athlet and strippg parents of the right to help their genr-variant children obta appropriate re have popped up numero red stat this same-sex marriage is now part of the fabric of Ameri, nservativ have chosen to explo Amerins’ unfaiary wh trans people and piggyback on parental anger over the perceived overreach of Covid-era school closur, nflatg wh an sid sense of “wokens”, the hop of fdg an electorally viable sluiceway for anti-LGBTQ+ most famo of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws is the piece of Florida legislatn banng stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools between krgarten and third gra, the so-lled “don’t say gay” law.

The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child. He was followed by Arizona’s ernor, Doug Ducey, who, after barrg mors om genr-affirmatn treatment, wouldn’t even state for the rerd that trans people were Florida lawmaker Michele Rayner-Goolsby, left, hugs her wife, Bian Goolsby, durg a march at cy hall St Petersburg agast the ‘don’t say gay’ bill. Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockPolicians are supported the media by mentators like Tucker Carlson, who claimed “no one had heard of this trans thg four years ago”, or Charlie Kirk, channelg 1980s fears sayg “gays want to rpt your children” rejuvenated, the right wg is poised to make transphobia and homophobia rnerston of the midterms and 2024 electns, wh promis to liver “don’t say gay” legislatn stat cludg Michigan and New Perks, the print of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative lobbyg group, veighed agast the ernors of Indiana and Utah for vetog legislatn banng trans women om participatg sports, llg the bills “timely, mastream protectns”.

FALLY THE GREAT GAY AGENDA IS WORKG! TWICE AS MANY OF NOW INTIFY AS LGBTQ+

The Republin US reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to troduce a feral “don’t say gay” bill if Republins w the Hoe this November, only to one-up herself days later by tweetg that for people to be pro-trans is to be pro-pedophilia. ”The bs-iendly wg of the GOP that would quietly team up wh Democrats to scuttle rabidly homophobic bills is now outnumbered, and legislators a dozen or more stat that lean even farther to the right than DeSantis are takg, the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights legal director, believ Florida is the tt se for a renewed ph for an aggrsive, Christian-natnalist program. ”The “don’t say gay” bill, Mter not, is very siar to what’s been passed Rsia, tetherg Amerin nservativ to their thorarian unterparts who have succsfully rolled back mocratic norms across eastern Europe.

“I’ve seen this movie before over the last 30 years: The right wg cid to target the LGBTQ muny, whether ’s around marriage or adoptn or trans kids playg sports or bathrooms, ” says the California state senator Stt Wiener, who is gay.

“I thought was really important to ph back on the policy level, and to send a clear signal that California and other stat really re about the kids, ” he believ that “don’t say gay” is “patently unnstutnal” but also ntends that relyg on the judicial system to protect human rights may no longer be a sound optn. To unrstand the stggl of those wh SSA who are scerely tryg to rist sexual temptatns and who are tryg to "be transformed" to follow "the perfect will of God" (Romans 12:2), please see "The Human Si of Homosexualy: From One Who Has Stggled"). While not all homosexuals support the gay agenda or are actively volved tryg to refe marriage, many gay anizatns are volved, as Michael Brown pots out his 2011 book A Queer Thg Happened to Ameri: And What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been.

THE ‘GAY AGENDA,’ EXPLAED

As he documents, "There are well-fund, highly-motivated, sharply-foced gay activist anizatns such as HRC [Human Rights Campaign] and NGLTF [Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force] and PFLAG [Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays] and GLSEN [Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network] and GLAAD [Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn] and Lambda Legal—jt to mentn a few" (p.

Otherwise, s progrs will be thwarted and s succs greatly imped, bee the open, unambiguo, full disclosure of the goals and ramifitns of the gay agenda would stop that agenda s tracks" (pp. The article not that "attus toward gays and lbians have changed so much jt the last 10 years that, as Gallup reported last week, 'half or more now agree that beg gay is morally acceptable, that gay relatns ought to be legal and that gay or lbian upl should have the right to legally marry. In about a generatn we have seen society transformed om nsirg homosexualy to be a psychologil disorr to the pot that those who do not accept or affirm homosexualy are themselv lled homophobic and viewed as mentally abnormal!

The gay agenda, along wh the sexual revolutn that began half a century ago, has transformed Ameri's moral standard that was once based on biblil valu to one that accepts as monplace the homosexual liftyle and many other biblilly nmned behavrs. On June 29, 2009, the 40th anniversary of what tablished gay pri month, Obama weled 300 gay activists to the Whe Hoe, statg, "Wele to your Whe Hoe, " assurg them that their goals would be realized his admistratn.