Wednesday, February 13, 2002

Homosexuality fixed at birth? No science exists to support that belief

In 1987, a homosexual magazine called Guide published an article that laid out a detailed marketing plan for selling the normalization of homosexuality through the mass media. The article, "The Overhauling of Straight America," was eventually expanded into a full-length book called "After the Ball: How America will conquer its fear and loathing of gays in the '90s."

Authors Marshall Kirk and Erastes Pill, writing in the Guide article, note the following: "In the early stages of any campaign to reach straight America, the masses should not be shocked and repelled by premature exposure to homosexual behavior itself. Instead, the imagery of sex should be down-played and gay rights should be reduced to an abstract social question as much as possible. First let the camel get his nose inside the tent ... only later his unsightly derriere!"

The objective has been to portray homosexuality as a fixed, unchangeable sexual identity, one that is determined at birth. This is untrue, but the propaganda campaign has largely succeeded.

The plan was and still is to present the controversy surrounding homosexuality as a civil rights issue, not about dangerous and unnatural homosexual behaviors. In addition, this marketing campaign includes an effort to portray homosexuals as victims of an intolerant society who need special legal protections.

Kirk and Pill note: "In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be cast as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined by reflex to assume the role of protector." Kirk and Pill also recommend smearing their enemies, comparing them to the KKK and Nazis. They write: "To be blunt, they must be vilified ... we intend to make the antigays look so nasty that average Americans will want to dissociate themselves from such types."

This marketing plan designed to hide the facts about homosexual behavior, to portray homosexuals as victims, and to vilify their enemies has been wildly successful. A compliant mainstream media has helped homosexuals accomplish many of these goals. One major newspaper syndicate, for example, has given homosexual activist Deb Price a weekly column to promote Kirk and Pill's propaganda campaign.

Fortunately, there are still voices of sanity who are speaking out against the effort to portray homosexual behavior as normal and determined by birth. One such individual is Dr. A. Dean Byrd, vice president of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). Dr. Byrd authored "The Innate-Immutable Argument Finds No Basis In Science." In it, he quotes a number of homosexual researchers and activists who admit that they can find no genetic basis for homosexual behavior.

One of those is Dean Hamer who tried to find a genetic cause for homosexuality by examining the DNA code at the end of the X chromosome. According to Hamer: "There is not a single master gene that makes people gay ... I don't think we will be able to predict who will be gay."

The words of homosexual activist Camille Paglia are equally telling: "Homosexuality is not 'normal.' On the contrary, it is a challenge to the norm ... Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction ... No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous ... homosexuality is an adaptation, not an inborn trait."

Dr. Byrd's article is must reading for anyone who wants to understand the true nature and origin of homosexual behaviors. It deserves to be widely distributed to educators, legislators, and to editors and reporters. It is available at: www.narth.com/docs/innate.html.

To read "The Overhauling of Straight America," go to: www.thebodyofchrist websitering.com/tvc1/pdf_files/OverhaulingStraight.pdf .

[Traditional Values Coalition is an interdenominational public policy organization representing more than 43,000 churches across the United States. TVC's Web site is www.traditionalvalues.org.]

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