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“We finally realize that recruitment is the only answer...lesbian goals must be to recruit more lesbians.” Homosexual activist Kathy McDevitt, in an appearance before the Davis City, California City Council in 1980. Davis Enterprise, October 2, 1980. “[I am] tired of the old chestnut that our movement for public acceptance has not increased and will not increase the number of gay men and lesbians in existence. ‘There are more of us than there used to be.’” Donna Minkowitz, “Recruit, Recruit, Recruit,” Advocate, December 29, 1992. |
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Face the Truth -- "Gays" Recruit
Every day in this country, hundreds of young people try
out homosexual behavior for the very first time. In some cases, these
experiments are with peers, but very often the sexual partner is an older
person (sometimes much older) who has already identified himself or herself
as "gay." Most of us think of recruitment as the seduction of an innocent,
perhaps emotionally vulnerable child or youth by an older sexual predator.
Consider, however, that even homosexual experimentation between peers
can be evidence of "gay" recruitment. Recruitment is a mental and
emotional process that begins long before the first sexual act occurs. In
the truest sense of the word, "gay" recruitment is a process of changing
someone's attitude about sexuality, rendering him or her more likely to
take that first step into the "gay" lifestyle. In some cases, recruitment
emboldens a person to initiate a homosexual contact, in others it simply
makes the person more susceptible to being seduced. In the relationship
between recruitment and seduction we are not necessarily talking about pedophilia
(adult/child sex), yet the process of "gay" recruitment is very similar
to a tactic of pedophiles that psychologists call "grooming." In "grooming,"
an adult sexual predator will sometimes spend years cultivating a relationship
with a child, leading him or her into a sexual relationship only after the
child has been thoroughly emotionally and mentally prepared. "Gay"
recruitment is like "grooming," but it doesn't only occur on a one-to-one
basis. The most insidious "gay" recruitment is being conducted by
"gay" propagandists as a nationwide marketing and public relations campaign.
In this campaign, all of our children are being "groomed" at the same
time: their attitudes about homosexuality are being changed by one-sided,
pro-"gay" propaganda in public education, in television programming, in
movies, in music, in advertising, and in every other attitude-shaping institution
influenced by "gay" activists.
Understanding this simple truth greatly increases our chances of protecting
our children from homosexuality. Recruitment begins in the mind
and in the emotions; it begins when a person is persuaded to consider
trying homosexual behavior. Not every young person who concludes
that "gay" is normal will experiment with homosexuality. Neither
will every child who experiments become exclusively "gay." Yet we
know that all children explore life's possibilities. When homosexuality
is presented as a normal option (instead of being discouraged), many will
experiment with it who otherwise wouldn't. Some of those will choose
to stay in the "gay" lifestyle, or remain trapped there by this strongly
addictive sexual behavior.
Social Conditioning Then and Now
Let's face it — much of what we believe and value is what
we have been conditioned to believe and value. That's not necessarily
wrong, provided that the things we believe are true, and the values we hold
are good. As we grow older, most of us test our beliefs and values
and, if need be, adjust them, having learned what is true and good. What
is important to consider here is that conditioning plays a major part in
shaping our attitudes, and that it works just as well in instilling false
beliefs and bad values when these have become popular. Most of us
were conditioned, as part of the training our parents gave us, to reject
sexual deviance. We learned our attitudes in many ways, and these
attitudes were generally reinforced by society, even after the "sexual revolution"
of the 1960s.
Partly because of this conditioning, most of us would not have seriously
considered experimenting with homosexual behavior. However, we must
not blindly assume that our children are being conditioned to our beliefs
and values about sexuality. Children today are growing up in a far
different social environment. Many of the moral values we take for
granted are virtually absent from their world. When we left for
school in the morning, our parents were justifiably confident that the
educational system and the larger society would serve to reinforce their
basic beliefs and values regarding sexuality. Today, that's just
not true. Teachers are as likely as not to be socially liberal activists,
possibly even "gay" activists. It has also become quite apparent
that the style-setters of the popular culture and the media are very pro-"gay."
If anything, today's educational system and its larger societal
context are working against parents and not with them.
Just because you wouldn't have experimented with homosexuality, it doesn't
follow that your child won't. On the other hand, if you did experiment
with homosexuality and stopped because you were ashamed or were otherwise
deterred by fear of social disapproval, consider what might have happened
to you if you had conducted such an experiment in today's "gay-affirming"
climate.
All Children Are Vulnerable to Recruitment
We mentioned in the introduction that "gay" science has
not established that homosexuals are "born that way." Let us assume, for
the sake of argument, that a biological cause for homosexuality could
be found. If so, it would only apply to some, and not to all homosexuals.
We know this because many "gays" openly reject the notion that they
were born "gay," proudly and defiantly affirming their conscious preference
for homosexuality. Many ex-"gays" admit that the "born that way" argument
was, for them, nothing more than a convenient lie. Even the most dyed-in-the-wool
"gay" activist, therefore, must acknowledge that at least some homosexuals
are not "born that way."
As to the issue of whether recruitment is possible, then, we can say
that some children (those who may have some predisposition toward homosexuality)
are more vulnerable than others, but that one does not have to be "born
that way" to become "gay." In other words, even if your child is
not biologically predisposed to homosexuality, he or she could be recruited
into the "gay" lifestyle under the right circumstances. This book will
help you to avoid those circumstances.
Not all champions of the "gay" movement are homosexuals. For various reasons, many non-"gay" people are active in the cause of legitimizing homosexuality to children. (We use the word, homosexualist to refer to anyone, homosexual or not, who works to legitimize homosexuality in our society. Many non-homosexuals are homosexualists. Conversely, many nonpolitical homosexuals are not homosexualists). Often non-"gay" homosexualists are more effective than "gay" activists in promoting homosexuality to young people because they appear to be impartial observers not affected by "gay" self-interest. It is likely that many homosexualists are actually "in the closet" homosexuals (a great many active homosexuals, even political proponents of homosexuality, are not open about their involvement in the "gay" lifestyle). Many others are relatives or friends of "gay" activists who have been emotionally coerced or otherwise persuaded to the "gay" viewpoint. Whatever their motive, non-"gay" homosexualists play a big part in recruiting children into homosexuality, even though they themselves are not homosexual. (When in doubt about whether advocates of the "gay" agenda are homosexual or not, it is advisable to use the term "homosexualist" to avoid possible legal problems — it is ironic that many aggressive non-homosexual defenders of the "gay" lifestyle consider the suggestion that they themselves are "gay" to be defamatory.)
If "gay" recruitment begins with a change of attitude
about sexuality, any endorsement that you as a parent give to "gay" propaganda
claims will make your child more vulnerable to the total recruitment strategy.
For example, the "gay" movement compares homosexuals to ethnic minorities
in order to create the idea in people's minds that disapproval of homosexuality
is just like racism. (Many parents have accepted this comparison without
really thinking about it.) Since racism is (thankfully) almost universally
condemned in America today, the person who accepts the "gay" racism association
will probably also condemn disapproval of homosexuality. Obviously,
someone who condemns disapproval of homosexuality is going to be both suspicious
of arguments against "gay" behavior and susceptible to arguments in favor
of it. Though the child may originally have no desire for or interest
in homosexual behavior, once having begun to actively defend homosexuality,
he or she will most certainly attract practicing "gays." At the same
time, the "gay"-positive child or youth will contribute to shifting the
attitudes of those in his or her entire peer group toward a pro- "gay" position.
The more closely that a young person begins to identify with the "suffering"
or "disadvantaged status" of "gays," the more vulnerable he or she will
be to seduction.
Equally damaging is the harm which such thinking does to a child's ability
to reason. It is self evident that homosexuality, even if caused
by a genetic defect, is a form of behavior. Not only is it a form of behavior,
but it is behavior with potentially life-threatening consequences. Being
Black or Asian or Hispanic is completely behavior-neutral. To equate discrimination
against harmful behavior with discrimination based on skin color is an
affront to logic. A child who is taught to accept such illogic will
be accepting of other faulty analogies and deceptive arguments.
Use Moderation in Teaching Nothing in the above sections is intended to suggest to parents that they should teach their children to hate homosexuals. Indeed, we must be very careful not to promote hostility to homosexuals as people, both for their sakes and for our children's. Our hostility, if we have any, should be directed at the "gay" movement and its destructive agenda. The more abusively some people treat homosexual individuals, the more likely they are to offend children's natural sense of justice and fairness and cause them to rush to the defense of homosexual victims. (The "gay" movement knows of this tendency in children — and adults — and exploits it to the fullest, even to the point of fabricating evidence.) Parents must keep two things in mind about this aspect of the issue. First, one can have sympathy for homosexuals, treating them in a way which protects their dignity without condoning their behavior. Any child with basic reasoning skills can understand this distinction. Second, even in situations where an individual has been inexcusably hatefully treated because of his homosexuality, his status of being a "victim" does not legitimize his homosexual behavior. We can compare this to the situation of a shoplifter caught red-handed and then severely beaten by a store security guard. The shoplifter is clearly a victim of unnecessary brutality, but no one would ever suggest that his crime should therefore be treated as normal and acceptable behavior by society.
Your greatest enemy in the fight to protect your child from homosexuality is the theory of "sexual orientation." Sexual orientation became the central marketing theme of "gay" public relations following the 1986 Supreme Court case of Bowers v. Hardwick. In Bowers, the court forcefully rejected the idea that homosexual sodomy deserves civil rights protection under the right to privacy and upheld the right of States to criminalize homosexual acts. The right-to-privacy argument, which had been used since the rise of the American "gay" movement in the 1940s, acknowledged that homosexuality was defined by behavior. After this argument was finally lost in Bowers, the powerful "gay" movement began promoting the view that homosexuality is not behavior but a form of identity. In this new theory, homosexuality was said to have little to do with the sexual act, and everything to do with a person's natural sexual "orientation" toward persons of the same gender. Thus, a person could be "gay" even if he or she never had a single sexual encounter. Moreover, since orientation is supposedly something deeply personal and rooted in a person's self-awareness, no one but the "gay" person can ever know whether he or she is homosexual. In one deceptive stroke, the "gay" movement turned public attention from what homosexuals do to what homosexuals supposedly are, making themselves the only ones who could define that identity.
Sexual orientation theory implies (contrary to the available evidence) that children who experiment with homosexuality or express homosexual feelings are "born that way."More importantly, it also implies that all other children are born with a heterosexual orientation and that neither homosexual nor heterosexual persons can change their orientation. Parents who have accepted the concept of sexual orientation (and those who haven't may be the exception) are thus lulled into believing that their "heterosexually oriented" children are safe from "gay" recruitment or homosexual experimentation. Our own parents would never have put up with "gay" activists coming into the schools to talk about their lifestyle with children, but many parents today just aren't concerned. They think they are helping their children to be tolerant of people who are simply different by an accident of birth. They don't think it is possible that their child could become "gay." But when a "gay" activist tells a classroom of middle-schoolers that, statistically speaking, ten percent of them are probably "gay," every one of those children immediately wonders if he or she might be among the ten percent (homosexuals actually account for less than two percent of the population). Most of them probably dismiss the idea eventually, but how many do not? Imagine being a 12-year-old boy who has been the target of playground bullies' taunts of "sissy" or "fag." Suppose the boy has recently been rejected by a girl he likes. Will he so quickly dismiss the question? Imagine a physically unattractive young girl who has been mocked and ridiculed by the same crowd of bullies and found solace in a deep friendship with another girl. Will she confuse her love of her friend with homosexual "orientation?" The Ultimate Recruitment Tool
Sexual orientation theory is the ultimate recruitment
tool of the "gay" movement. Since the supposed orientation is only
discovered through self-awareness, anything that can influence self-awareness
can influence orientation. Self-awareness is largely a process of
searching and experiencing our emotions. Now, nothing is more easily
manipulated in human beings than the emotions, and the most emotionally
malleable human beings of all are children. Remember that sexual orientation
theory doesn't define homosexuality by whether one engages in homosexual
acts, but by whether one has homosexual feelings toward someone of the same
gender. The average child with strong feelings of love or affection
towards a same-sex friend or adult role model is vulnerable (especially
during adolescence) to mistaking those normal and healthy feelings for an
innate homosexual "orientation." If this is true for the average child,
imagine how much greater the tendency if the child has a family with serious
problems, or an alcoholic parent, or a history of rejection by peers, or
a traumatic memory of having been sexually molested, or any other life complication
that renders his or her emotions volatile and confused.
Now imagine that you are a young person with deep-seated gender
identity confusion which began in early childhood. Perhaps you failed
to bond with your parent of the same sex at that critical point in infancy
when many psychotherapists believe gender identity is formed. Or
maybe you just happened to get too much of the wrong biological "stuff"
that characterizes maleness or femaleness (body size and shape, voice,
hormonal make-up). For you, sexual orientation theory has created
an almost unavoidable trap. You don't even have to have a homosexual
encounter to be assumed by others to be "gay." And although you
might otherwise have a very good chance to overcome the obstacles of your
birth and background and enjoy a normal sexual life, the presumption that
you are "born that way" may prevent anyone, even your own family, from
ever trying to help you.
Wake Up to "Gay" Recruitment in the Schools
As a parent, you should know that pro- "gay" presentations
are becoming very commonplace in public schools. (A book called School's
Out brags that homosexual teachers may be found in every school in America.)
These instructional sessions are not confined to high school or junior
high. A training video called "It's Elementary" teaches elementary
school teachers how to get the "gay" message into primary grade classrooms.
More subtle methods are used with preschoolers. Books like Daddy's
Roommate and Heather Has Two Mommies ostensibly teach children
about "alternative" families, and are objectionable on that basis alone
— but the real purpose of such books is to introduce young children to the
idea that "gay" is good. How much easier will it be for an adult predator
to seduce these children in later years after they have been conditioned,
virtually from infancy, to accept homosexuality?
Are these "gay" recruitment activities being carried out covertly by
a few renegade homosexualist teachers? Certainly not. There
are actual guidelines for promoting homosexuality in public schools which
have been openly adopted by the National Education Association, the largest
teacher's union in America.
When a child voices personal questions about the possibility
of being "gay" to school officials, the parents may never hear about it.
The child is often referred to outside "gay" counseling centers run
by active homosexuals. Such "gay" centers are the equivalent of military
recruiting offices whose purpose is to draw young people into the gay lifestyle.
These centers often distribute literature filled with graphic sexual
imagery, including drawings and photographs of men engaged in oral and anal
sodomy and of more bizarre perversions with names like "rimming" and "fisting."
If you think this kind of thing is a rarity in homosexual literature,
pick up any "gay" newspaper or magazine and thumb through it. (If
you don't know where to find one, check your local big-city library or community
center — these publications will often be very prominent among the stacks
of free newspapers, and are usually very accessible to children.)
Often the first time parents hear about a child's gender identity problem
is when the child or young person confesses it to them or "comes out."
This, of course, usually occurs long after the "gay" identity has solidified
in the young person's mind. For many people, once this has occurred,
it is too late. Once a person has been drawn in by the cult-like
seductiveness of the "gay" lifestyle, with its many reinforcements, he
or she is statistically likely to remain in that lifestyle — despite all
of the misery that attends it. This is why parents must act before
their child is recruited. You must act now to protect your
child from homosexuality.
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