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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.



Step One


Get Serious

 

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.  

RECRUITMENT BEGINS WITH
MORAL REEDUCATION


“Anyone who embraces homosexuality in himself or herself as a joy to be celebrated is a gay person. Our work will only be finished when we can say that the whole world is gay.”

From an editorial in a “gay” publication, “Making the Whole World Gay,” cited in Charles Socarides, M.D., Homosexuality, A Freedom Too Far, p. 30, 1995.

“The campaign we outline...though complex, depends centrally upon a program of unabashed propaganda, firmly grounded in long-established principles of psychology and advertising.”

“Gay” marketing gurus Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, on their widely-followed blueprint for pro-“gay” social engineering. After the Ball, p. xxviii, 1990.

“At this point, getting the majority to say ‘gay is good’ at 9 or 10 years old is going to be difficult, but just because it is difficult doesn’t mean its not the right thing.”  

Pepper Schwartz, University of Washington sociologist, speaking to a conference of educators and youth service providers, Beaverton, Oregon, April 23, 1992.

 

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.   

WHO CAN BE RECRUITED?

“The early teen years are a critical period when even a potentially ‘straight’ youngster could be encouraged to try gay sex, and could well establish an addiction to dangerous behavioral patterns.”

Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, Executive Director of the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), NARTH Bulletin, August, 1997.

“[‘Obligatory’ homosexuals] are in the grip of unconscious forces and early life traumas over which they have no control.  [‘Optional’ homosexuals] do have control; they get into same-sex because they like it.  Both types, however, can be seduced into same-sex sex.  According to one study of homosexual men done in 1990, some 37 percent of them were seduced into same-sex sex at an early age, by an uncle, or someone much older.  Or, in the case of lesbians, seduced by an older woman.”

Dr. Charles Socarides M.D. Homosexuality, A Freedom Too Far, pp. 18-19, 1995. (Emphasis ours.)


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.


When Bob Shelly of Chino Hills, California responded to this Ann Landers column on behalf of a young relative, he was referred to several pro-“gay” resources for kids, including Alyson Publications. Among other offensive products, Alyson Publications distributes this “gay” sex manual which offers the following advice for pederasts:

“Precautions: For men who are involved with partners under the legal age of consent, a member of NAMBLA (the North American Man/Boy Love Association) offers some suggestions to minimize the risk:...Don’t...share information about your relationship...with anyone....Don’t take photos of him....Such photos simply provide fuel for police and ambitious D.A.s....Don’t record your experiences...Avoid situations where a number of men have sex with the same boy, or group of boys, over a period of time...”

Gay Sex: A Manual for Men Who Love Men, pp. 122-123.



Recruitment Also Occurs Through Non-"Gay" Homosexualists

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.)


“A parent confused over what is sexually appropriate is hardly able to provide helpful sexual guidance for a child.  Influenced by various movements which stress doing your own thing as long as it is pleasurable, and, aware that the carefully structured society they grew up with is rapidly being chipped away, parents often feel helpless and cannot instill sexual values in their young because they themselves are so unsure of the boundaries.”  

Clifford L. Linedecker, Children in Chains, p. 118, 1981.




You May Unwittingly Be Helping the "Gay" Movement Recruit Your Child.

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.

RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES MANIPULATE PARENTS AND OTHER ROLE MODELS

“Give protectors a just cause.  A media campaign that casts gays as society’s victims and encourages straights to be their protectors must make it easier for those who respond to assert and explain their new protectiveness.  Few straight women, and even fewer straight men, will want to defend homosexuality boldly as such....Our campaign should not demand direct support for homosexual practices, but should instead take anti-discrimination as its theme.  The right to free speech, freedom of beliefs, freedom of association, due process and equal protection of laws -- these should be the concerns brought to mind by our campaign.”

Marshall Kirk and Erastus Pill, “The Overhauling of Straight America,” Guide Magazine, November, 1987.

“We immediately seized upon the opponents’ calling card -- safety -- and explained how homophobia represents a threat to students’ safety by creating a climate where violence, name-calling, health problems and suicide are common....We knew that, confronted with real-life stories of youth who had suffered from homophobia, our opponents would automatically be put on the defensive; they would have to attack people who had been victimized once, which put them in a bully position from which it would be hard to emerge looking good.”

Kevin Jennings, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Teachers Network (GLSEN), from a speech quoted in public testimony to Congress, July 2, 1996 by Peter LaBarbera.

Use Moderation in Teaching
Disapproval of Homosexuality

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.

RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES MANIPULATE PARENTS AND OTHER ROLE MODELS

“Give protectors a just cause.  A media campaign that casts gays as society’s victims and encourages straights to be their protectors must make it easier for those who respond to assert and explain their new protectiveness.  Few straight women, and even fewer straight men, will want to defend homosexuality boldly as such....Our campaign should not demand direct support for homosexual practices, but should instead take anti-discrimination as its theme.  The right to free speech, freedom of beliefs, freedom of association, due process and equal protection of laws -- these should be the concerns brought to mind by our campaign.”

Marshall Kirk and Erastus Pill, “The Overhauling of Straight America,” Guide Magazine, November, 1987.

“We immediately seized upon the opponents’ calling card -- safety -- and explained how homophobia represents a threat to students’ safety by creating a climate where violence, name-calling, health problems and suicide are common....We knew that, confronted with real-life stories of youth who had suffered from homophobia, our opponents would automatically be put on the defensive; they would have to attack people who had been victimized once, which put them in a bully position from which it would be hard to emerge looking good.”

Kevin Jennings, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Teachers Network (GLSEN), from a speech quoted in public testimony to Congress, July 2, 1996 by Peter LaBarbera.


Don't Fall Prey to the "Sexual Orientation" Trap

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.

RECRUITMENT BY DECEIT

“Teenagers are specifically encouraged to use only their feelings as a guide to sexual behavior; to be their own judge of right and wrong; and to ‘have fun’ experimenting. If a sexual behavior feels good, the logic says, it will tell them ‘who they are.’ Teenagers are encouraged to see religious traditionalists as mean-spirited, while at the same time to see gay consciousness as ‘sacred.’”

Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, discussing literature and books for children which are recommended by Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (P-FLAG). “A Closer Look at P-Flag,” Narth Bulletin, April 1998.

“At age twelve, 25.9% of the children were ‘unsure’ of their sexual orientation.”

Alan P. Medinger,  “Adolescents and Homosexuality - Close Look at a Major Study,” pp. 1-2,  Regeneration News, February, 1993. Study of 34,000 children.

“Homosexuality and heterosexuality can neither be prevented nor created.  They simply are, to be discovered from within, or to emerge as one’s life progresses....Sexual orientation is immutable and recruitment in either direction is impossible.”

Frank Kameny, “‘Ex-Gay’ zealots should heed the golden rule,” THE WASHINGTON BLADE,  March 21, 1997.

 


How Sexual Orientation Theory Threatens Your Child

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.


“You can find gay, lesbian and bisexual staff and students at every school level from kindergarten through high school ...And every day, their numbers grow.... gay and lesbian issues are no longer addressed only in the most diverse city high schools or the most progressive private schools; they’ve burst out of the closet and spilled onto the table in virtually every school in the country. There’s no turning back.”

Doug Woog, School’s Out, p. 133-135, 1995.




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.

PRO-“GAY” TEACHING STRATEGIES

“These teaching strategies were provided by the school district to its teachers during “gay” sensitvity training at Grant High School:

1.  Address negative school-based incidents on the spot — targeted harassment, put-downs (whether or not targeted to individuals), anti-gay jokes and grafitti, and labeling.

2.  Change language that assumes everyone is or should be heterosexual (use “partner” rather than boyfriend or girlfriend, “permanent relationship” rather than marriage).

3.  Change human relations and personnel policies to protect students and staff from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation; train personnel to follow up violations.

4. Identify gay/lesbian contributions throughout the curriculum (history, literature, art, science, religion, etc.).

5.  Provide history of oppression (such as the Holocaust, origins of defamatory terms for gay people).

6. Submit requests to improve library holdings (both fiction and nonfiction) related to sexual diversity.

7. Develop and/or advertise resources (support groups) for lesbian/gay students and their families.

8.  Include issues for gay/lesbian students and staff in coverage in school newspaper.

9.  Bring in openly gay/lesbian adults as resources in classes and assemblies.

10.  Include gay/lesbian concerns in all prevention programs (suicide, dropout, pregnancy, etc.) and in training of peer leaders, student government, etc.

Portland Oregonian. Sunday, February 25, 1996. (Emphasis ours.)


Don't Be Complacent

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.

RECRUITMENT BY
HOMOSEXUALIST EDUCATORS

“Teachers who practice homosexual acts are between 90 to 100 times more likely to involve themselves sexually with pupils than teachers who confine themselves to heterosexual acts.”

Dr. Paul Cameron, “Homosexual Molestation of Children,” Psychological Reports, vol. 57, p. 1227, 1985.

“In schools all over the country, children ...are being labeled ‘sexual minority’ students and are being led to counselors drawn almost exclusively from the gay community.  How often are the deeply rooted needs and biases of these ‘counselors’ going to lead them to counsel the ‘unsure’ that they are gay?  ‘Unsure’ in their minds often means that the youngster is simply afraid of coming to terms with his or her homosexuality ....Regeneration is a healing ministry, and we generally avoid the purely political side of homosexuality.  However, what is going on in some school systems is more than political; our children’s lives are being sacrificed to appease a minority and to further a political cause.”

Alan Medinger,  “Adolescents and Homosexuality - Close Look at a Major Study,” pp. 1-2.  Regeneration News. February, 1993.