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Thursday, December 04, 2008
Mario Diaz :: Townhall.com Columnist
The Politics of Safety
by Mario Diaz
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It turns out the “tolerance” movement might not be as tolerant as advertised.

In a 1995 speech entitled “Winning the Culture War,” Kevin Jennings, founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) said,

In Massachusetts the effective reframing of this issue was the key to the success of the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. We immediately seized upon the opponent's 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. Titling our report 'Making Schools Safe for Gay and Lesbian Youth,' we automatically threw our opponents onto the defensive and stole their best line of attack. This framing short-circuited their arguments and left them back-pedaling from day one.

For homosexual activists, the illusion of danger and the need for safety was all part of a strategy, the means to an end, a façade. Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen made it clear in their 1989 treatise After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90’s: “in any campaign to win over the public, gays must be portrayed as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined by reflex to adopt the role of protector. ... The purpose of victim imagery is to make straights feel very uncomfortable.”

It worked. Homosexuals gained enormous sympathy from Americans by portraying themselves as victims and calling on the government to enact laws to “protect” them. They called for laws to specifically protect “gay” youth from being bullied (thus erecting the illusion of masses of homosexual youth who needed more protection than any other bullied child) and politicians stayed silent for fears of being called “insensitive” or “intolerant.”

But it turns out that, in certain circumstances, bullying is good after all. For example, if you are a Christian and voted for Proposition 8 to preserve the historic definition of marriage, some homosexuals think you should be bullied.

“Trust me. I've got a big list of names of [M]ormons and [C]atholics that were big supporters of Prop 8. … I warn them to watch their backs,” said a homosexual activist, mad about the result of Proposition 8, in a blog post. “If you're planning a heterosexual wedding in California … be prepared for picketers. Designate someone to watch the parking lot … You’re going to have lots of unexpected expenses. Add $500 to your budget for security,” warned another.

They did not stop at warnings either. Many saw the reports from Palm Springs, California where homosexual activists attacked an elderly woman carrying a cross. At Saddleback Church, several hundred homosexual activists intimidated parishioners with menacing chants and a large swastika display. A Catholic church in Riverside, California, found Proposition 8-related signs arranged in a swastika on the church's front lawn. In Lansing, Michigan, homosexual activists vandalized an Assembly of God church and threw pro-“gay” items and condoms in the sanctuary, while two lesbians kissed each other at the podium among chants of “Jesus is a homo." And several thousand homosexual activists marched at a Mormon temple in the Los Angeles-area threatening to break through the gates and storm the building. And these are just a few of the reports. Continued...

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Mario Diaz is the Policy Director for Legal Issues at Concerned Women for America.

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David's observation & Old Tom

I agree with David's points with one minor exception: he wrote that "the constitution... provides you with innumerable rights." Well, no the Constitution protects us from the encroachment of government upon "natural rights" -- and, as David astutely observed, prevents will of the majority from trampling on the rights of the minority. Or at least, this is what the our system SHOULD do.


Old Tom-- get a grip. You're entitled to your opinion, but an ad hominem attack accusing one poster of endangering the lives of others crosses the line. Unless of course you were seeking to provide us with an object lesson in offensive verbiage that cannot help but weaken your argument. If so, job well done.

David
I feel so sorry for you, your misguided views and the lifestyle you've CHOSEN.
I can not and WILL NOT accept the lifestyle that you've chosen nor do I appreciate the "in your face" method that you and others of your kind use to attempt acceptance.
Yes you do have certain rights but the additional recognision that you and yours required are such that most will hopefully never grant.
I can only say that if we should ever do so, we are doomed to failure and moral decline.
It's your lifestyle as you've CHOSEN and you're welcome to live it as long as it does not endanger or insult others and we of the REAL world who are entitled to ours.
Don't try to change the moral and social values of this country to suit your way of living.
You've already endangered the health of many as it is, read AIDS.
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