Response to last week's Nemitz attack
The League
has received much abuse in the past few days. On Monday, our
website was vandalized by someone who posted messages ridiculing our
faith and our God. Months’ worth of work was deleted, and in its place,
our readers found sacrilege and obscenity. Later that same day, the
League began to receive a barrage of hate mail. Those in the homosexual
rights movement spoke of the need for us “to be silenced,” and expressed
the wish that we would “burn in Hell.” One clergy woman spoke of the
need to express her “hatred” for our ideas.
We shouldn’t have been surprised by all this. We should have been wise
enough to know that the one thing our opponents fear above all else is
the plain truth, spoken in clear, unequivocal terms. This time, the
truth about who is behind their movement, and the truth about their
opposition to the Boy Scouts in Portland drove them to a white hot fury.
But we have seen this before. It is the same sort of blind rage that
drove the Roman soldiers to smite Christ as he was being bound for
crucifixion. It is the roar that went up in the crowd when young mothers
and their babes were led into the Coliseum. It is the look of glee that
came across the faces of the onlookers when Jacob Hus was burnt at the
stake. We should not have been surprised.
Now the time has come for us to remember Our Lord’s injunction to turn
the other cheek. We will gain nothing from answering our opponent’s
attacks, because these attacks are no longer based on a reasoned
argument – not even their usual appeal to love and tolerance - they
merely represent a blind desire to strike out against something they do
not understand. That is why we must pray for them, because they are
victims more than we will ever be. The vandalism of our website, and the
hate mail we have received, make this clear.
We must add to this sort of abuse a column which appears in today’s
Portland Press Herald. It is by Bill Nemitz, who has perhaps written
more columns about Mike Heath than about any other subject. Once again,
it is a personal attack, more virulent this time, because Mike Heath has
finally told the truth about the homosexual rights movement. But there
is no point becoming outraged over Bill Nemitz’s remarks. Instead, we
ought to feel sympathy for someone, who having lost so badly in the
realm of ideas, has to resort to the worst sort of name-calling and
slander. The transparency of his arguments has become embarrassingly
evident, and in the end, we are compelled as Christians to feel pity for
him.
But that, after all, was the lesson of the story “The Emperor’s New
Clothes.” The deception worked as long as people were willing to buy
into it. All it took was for one brave lad to yell out “Look, The
Emperor Has No Clothes!” And that is what Mike Heath has done. And now,
the game may very well be up for the homosexual rights movement in
Maine.
The Red Roots of the "gay" rights movement
by
Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
It’s often said that homosexuals have always been with us, as if the
"gay rights" movement has just spontaneously emerged, but the truth is
that it has been traced to one man, a communist named Harry Hay. This is
a story that deserves to be told as society proceeds with a debate over
the extent of "gay rights."
As Amazon.com said in a review of a book of Harry Hay’s writings, he "is
the acknowledged father…of the modern gay liberation movement." As a
Communist Party organizer and historian, it said he turned out "essays,
position papers, critical studies, and manifestos concerning what it
means to be gay in the world." Were it not for Harry Hay, there might be
no discussion of gay marriage today.
In 1998, he was invited to address the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force’s Creating Change Conference. And after his death on October 24,
2002, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Human Rights
Campaign issued laudatory press releases about him. These are the
so-called mainstream gay-rights organizations today. But Hay not only
promoted homosexual rights, he actively campaigned for the "rights" of
pedophiles. The Boston Phoenix noted that nowhere was this more evident
than in Hay’s persistent support of the right of the North American
Man-Boy Love Association, NAMBLA, to march in gay-pride parades. This
organization maintains a website, and its home page features a tribute
to Harry Hay. It also shows a photo of him at a NAMBLA event in 1994 and
a transcript of his remarks.
Click here to read the rest
http://www.aim.org/publications/media_monitor/2003/09/10.html
Analysis of Governor's "gay" rights bill
The text of
the Governor’s “Non-Discrimination Bill” is now available to the public,
having been published on the “Equality Maine” website before it became
available anywhere else. Unlike earlier bills on the same subject, which
were one or two pages long, this “new” bill runs to a full nine pages.
The extra pages were needed to cover every contingency under which
so-called “discrimination” might occur.
The bill hinges on the addition of the term “sexual orientation” to
other protected categories. It is interesting to note exactly where in
the bill the term “sexual orientation” is added. If one looks closely,
the categories are listed in the order in which they received legal
protection, as the civil rights movement was gradually extended to cover
ever wider categories - first race, then sex, then physical disability,
then religion, and age. The only exception to this is the term “sexual
orientation” which, although it arrives last in the order of time, is
inserted next to the category “sex.” Perhaps this was done because the
authors of the bill believe that sexual orientation, like the gender one
is born with, is in all cases naturally-determined, and not a matter of
choice.
But what exactly is “sexual orientation?” “Sexual orientation” is an
abstract term invented solely for the purpose of equating normal sexual
tendencies with what was formerly defined as a mental disorder. To
remove the shame associated with immoral and harmful sexual practices, a
more neutral-sounding, less pejorative term was needed. “Homosexuality,”
the term then in use for the mental disorder, was unacceptable because
of its unfavorable connotations. “Gayness” might have been one
possibility, but it lacked the solidity and scientific sound of “sexual
orientation,” which came to be the preferred term. It is most
interesting that the term “sexual orientation” itself then required a
more precise definition for legal purposes. And what was the definition
chosen? The Governor’s proposed bill defines “sexual orientation” as “a
person’s actual or perceived heterosexuality, bisexuality,
homosexuality, or gender identity, or expression.” This of course opens
the door to transsexualism, that is, a male who has become a “female” by
surgical means and hormone injections, cannot be prohibited from
becoming a coach of a girl’s swim team, or a clerk in a woman’s clothing
store.
Although sodomy was once considered a criminal offence, there is no
discussion in the bill of the morality of homosexuality. By equating
homosexuals with minority groups, the opprobrium now rests on the
employer or prospective landlord who by refusing to condone a practice
they believe is immoral or contrary to the teachings of their religion,
will now be guilty of “discrimination.” In that sense, the real
recipients of discrimination are going to be the homeowners and small
business people. To describe homosexuality merely as the mental
processes of an individual, and to omit any discussion of the harmful
acts they engage in, is to state the case incompletely, and to willingly
advance a falsehood with the purpose to deceive. And laws cannot be
based on falsehoods and deceptions - at least not among a free people.
Passion Snubbed at the Oscars
The results
of the Oscars are in. As The Record correctly predicted, (see the
January 26th edition) “Million Dollar Baby,” a film glorifying and
promoting euthanasia, has won the Oscar for Best Picture. Our prediction
was more than a lucky guess. We were able to predict how Hollywood would
act, because of Hollywood’s long record of promoting vice and immorality
- and the realization that sometimes at least, movies really are a tool
of the Devil.
For a long time Hollywood was notorious for its scandals, until these
scandals – divorce, abortion, free love - left the silver screen and
became part of main stream life. Hollywood now seems tame in comparison
to what goes on in real life. These days, the lives of the stars are too
blasé to cause too much excitement – that is until it comes to people
like Michael Jackson or Robert Blake.
It is interesting to speculate whether or not euthanasia, along with
homosexuality, will now become main stream values thanks to Hollywood.
Liberals have long known that the movies are absolutely the best
propaganda tool ever invented. One classic work on public opinion says
the following:
“The movies influence conduct in many ways. There may be the copying of
a specific behavior [as in euthanasia] or there may be a transfer of an
emotional state which influences conduct [as in the willingness to
participate in a mercy killing]. Some of the really important effects of
the movies on behavior are usually not discussed at all. Children reared
on the movies become film-conscious and pictorially minded. Their
behavior in dealing with advertisements, the news, and with individuals
and social groups is profoundly influenced by the movies.”
That explains why “Million Dollar Baby” is receiving high praise from
the media elite. And that also explains why a movie about a back-alley
abortionist named “Vera Drake” was also considered by Motion Picture
Academy. Conspicuously absent was “The Passion of the Christ.” The
Motion Picture Academy agreed to consider Gibson’s movie only in the
“Foreign Language” category. But as every Bible scholar knows, Latin and
Aramaic are not foreign languages - they are “dead languages.” By not
nominating “The Passion” for best picture, the Academy effectively
buried Mel Gibson’s movie. That was to be expected, since Gibson was
unable to find a single distributor in the United States for his movie,
although there should have been many, given the fact that he is one of
the industry’s top box office draws.
Another movie which has won many awards is the Spanish movie “The Sea
Inside” in which the hero ends his life with a cyanide-laced cocktail.
Mel Gibson has said that he is now working on a movie about a “crumbling
civilization.” The purpose of his new movie, Mel says, will be to
examine how civilizations fall. |
