Desire and Deceit: The Real Cost of the New Sexual Tolerance by R. Albert Mohler Jr

Author:R. Albert Mohler Jr.
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religious Aspects, Social Issues, Homosexual, Gay, Pornography, Christian Life, Christianity, Lust, Religion, Homosexuality, Love & Marriage, Systematic, Sex - Religious Aspects - Christianity, Sex, Ethics, General, Lesbian, Christian Theology
ISBN: 9781601420800
Publisher: Multnomah Books
Published: 2008-09-15T22:00:00+00:00

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AFTER THE BALL

Why the Homosexual Movement Has Won

The spectacular success of the homosexual movement stands as one of the most fascinating phenomena of our time. In less than two decades, homosexuality has moved from “the love that dares not speak its name” to the center of America’s public life. The homosexual agenda has advanced even more quickly than its most ardent proponents had expected, and social change of this magnitude demands some explanation.

A partial explanation of the homosexual movement’s success can be traced to the 1989 publication of After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90’s. Published with little fanfare, this book became the authoritative public relations manual for the homosexual agenda, and its authors presented the book as a distillation of public relations advice for the homosexual community. A look back at its pages is an occasion for understanding just how successful their plan was.

Authors Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen combined psychiatric and public relations expertise in devising their strategy. Kirk, a researcher in neuropsychiatry, and Madsen, a public relations consultant, argued that homosexuals must change their presentation to the heterosexual community if real success was to be made. Conceiving their book as a “gay manifesto for the 1990s,” the authors called for homosexuals to repackage themselves as mainstream citizens demanding equal treatment, rather than as a promiscuous sexual minority seeking greater opportunity and influence. Writing just as the AIDS crisis hit its greatest momentum, the authors saw the disease as an opportunity to change the public mind. “As cynical as it may seem, AIDS gives us a chance, however brief, to establish ourselves as a victimized minority legitimately deserving of America’s special protection and care,” they wrote.

Give them credit: they really did understand the operation of the public mind. Kirk and Madsen called for homosexuals to talk incessantly in public about homosexuality. “Open, frank talk makes gayness seem less furtive, alien, and sinful; more above board,” they asserted. “Constant talk builds the impression that public opinion is at least divided on the subject, and that a sizeable bloc—the most modern, up-to-date citizens—accept or even practice homosexuality.” Nevertheless, not all talk about homosexuality is helpful. “In the early stages of the campaign, the public should not be shocked and repelled by premature exposure to homosexual behavior itself.” Rather, the issue would be presented as a question of rights, laws, and prejudices—in short, homosexuality would be reduced to “an abstract social question.”

Portraying homosexuals as victims was essential to their strategy. Offering several principles for tactical advance in their cause, the authors called upon homosexuals to portray themselves as victims of society, not as revolutionaries. If straights came to see gays as oppressed sufferers, they would eventually be “inclined by reflex to adopt the role of protector.” Such a strategy could, they asserted, lead to something like a “conversion” of the public mind on the question of homosexuality. “The purpose of victim imagery is to make straights feel very uncomfortable,” they explained. In

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