The Polil Power of Lbians, Gays, and Bisexuals | PS: Polil Science & Polics | Cambridge Core

Contents:

• EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
• THE POLIL POWER OF LBIANS, GAYS, AND BISEXUALS
• WHAT'S BEHD THE GAY AGENDA?
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY AND LBIAN AGENDA

EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS

” As prevly highlighted by the Whe Hoe, Departments and Agenci are already makg progrs areas towards the goals outled the Printial Memorandum, cludg: strengthen existg efforts to bat the crimalizatn by foreign ernments of LGBTQ+ people and expand efforts to bat discrimatn, homophobia, transphobia, and tolerance on the basis of LGBTQ+ stat or nduct; protect vulnerable LGBTQ+ refuge and asylum seekers; help ensure the Feral Government has a swift and meangful rponse to ser cints that threaten the human rights of LGBTQ+ persons abroad; and build alns wh like-md natns to unter discrimatn agast LGBTQ+ people around the world. Siarly, the attentn paid to the ocsnal electoral victori of openly lbian and gay ndidat distorts the realy that fewer than one tenth of 1% of all elected officials the Uned Stat are openly lbian, gay, or bisexual.

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").

THE POLIL POWER OF LBIANS, GAYS, AND BISEXUALS

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. 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.

WHAT'S BEHD THE GAY AGENDA?

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!

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

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.

GAY AND LBIAN AGENDA

Brown provis an example of the efforts of one homosexual advocy anizatn over the past two s: "This is the day of the 'queerg of elementary tns' —to quote the tle of a highly-praised book —and much of this is due to the fluence of GLSEN, the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutnal Network (pp. The goals and means of this movement clu doctratg stunts public school, rtrictg the ee speech of opposn, obtag special treatment for homosexuals, distortg Biblil teachg and science, and terferg wh eedom of associatn.

[7][8][9] For example, Rsia banned adoptn by Amerins as the Obama Admistratn aggrsively phed the homosexual agenda, and June 2013 a hoe the Rsian parliament passed legislatn to ban foreign adoptn by gay upl or sgle parents who live any gay marriage natn.