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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Robert Knight :: Townhall.com Columnist
'The Sky is Not Falling' - Yet
by Robert Knight
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"It is also a chance to wholly transform the definition of family in American culture. It is the final tool with which to dismantle all sodomy statutes, get education about homosexuality and AIDS into public schools, and, in short, usher in a sea change in how society views and treats us."

- Michelangelo Signorile, “I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do,” OUT magazine, May 1996, p. 30.

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"Being queer is more than setting up house, sleeping with a person of the same gender, and seeking state approval for doing so. … Being queer means pushing the parameters of sex, sexuality, and family, and in the process, transforming the very fabric of society. … As a lesbian, I am fundamentally different from non-lesbian women. …In arguing for the right to legal marriage, lesbians and gay men would be forced to claim that we are just like heterosexual couples, have the same goals and purposes, and vow to structure our lives similarly. … We must keep our eyes on the goals of providing true alternatives to marriage and of radically reordering society's view of reality."

-Paula Ettelbrick, “Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation?,” in William Rubenstein, ed., Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law (New York: The New Press, 1993), pp. 401-405.

And there’s this from pro-homosexual and pro-pedophile author Judith Levine:

"Because American marriage is inextricable from Christianity, it admits participants as Noah let animals onto the ark. But it doesn't have to be that way. In 1972 the National Coalition of Gay Organizations demanded the ‘repeal of all legislative provisions that restrict the sex or number of persons entering into a marriage unit; and the extension of legal benefits to all persons who cohabit regardless of sex or numbers.’ Would polygamy invite abuse of child brides, as feminists in Muslim countries and prosecutors in Mormon Utah charge? No. Group marriage could comprise any combination of genders."

- Judith Levine, “Stop the Wedding!: Why Gay Marriage Isn’t Radical Enough,” The Village Voice, July 23-29, 2003. Levine declines to mention that the 1972 Gay Rights Platform also called for abolishing age of consent laws. This is a curious omission since Levine herself has written in favor of lowering the age of consent to 12 for sex between children and adults in her book Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex (p. 88).

Remember these statements as you see the media bring the folks on who will assure us all that, “The sky is not falling.”
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Robert Knight is a Senior Writer/Correspondent for Coral Ridge Ministries and a Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union.
 
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Reply # 1
Date: Jun 20, 2008 - 12:59 PM EST
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I feel nothing but ridicule and contempt for you. Once again, I will tell you that I read some of these studies. The authors - who were advocates for homosexuals and, therefore, actively trying to prove a connection - could not find the proof. You keep telling me there is a connection, but there is no proof.

As to your statement: "Your opinion seems to stem from homosexuality as a character weakness that makes gay young people more susceptible to high risk behaviors"

You have no idea what my opinion is, despite what you feel. Unfortunately, you keep feeling, but you fail to think.
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Date: Jun 20, 2008 - 12:13 PM EST
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The key word here is understanding their child. If a parent is ignorant or misunderstands their child's cues or relies on misinformation, they will all be betrayed.
This happens more often to gay children out of that ignorance and fear.
And when gay children are confronted with separate standards that don't apply to their hetero siblings, it's confusing and damaging.
Your opinion seems to stem from homosexuality as a character weakness that makes gay young people more susceptible to high risk behaviors.
That is not the case. They are at risk for the same problems as ANY child who has no emotional support or understanding or love from their famiiles.
And this is particularly difficult in situations where all the other children in the family are supported otherwise.
I'm far from hysterical, teens are mutating, sexually tense and confused by all the mixed, if not crazy messages from the adults around them.
And gay children especially get schizophrenic messages, that will never apply to them.
That is the contributive factor to pathology AMONG gay children. But homosexuality is by no means a pathology unto itself.
I've done the work of dealing with gay children directly and fairly for many years.
Now, if you'd rather use some kind of ridicule and contempt towards me, instead of talking about how society is treating teens the wrong way, maybe that's why it still goes on when it doesn't have to.
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