This article is by Tony Marco, founder of Colorado for Family Values. Once again, I post it to remind people what sort of "information" the right wing is using against us. --Julie ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- From Christian American - February 1993 Homosexual Politics ARE GAYS AN OPPRESSED MINORITY? By Tony Marco One of the most ambitious public image campaigns in American history is under way, with the mass media's generous help. It's message: Homosex- uals are an oppressed, disadvantages minority, much like African- Americans and Hispanics, and they deserve special legal status and privi- leges. Two marketing experts outlined this campaign's goals in a homosexual magazine article, THE OVERHAULING OF STRAIGHT AMERICA: "Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers. 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 action to assume the role of protec- tor.... Straight viewers must be able to identify with gays as victims. Mr. and Mrs. Public must be given no extra excuses to say 'they are not like us'... Our campaign should not demand direct support for homosexual practices, but should instead take anti-discrimination as its theme." Homosexuals claim they need special legal privileges that would per- mit them to silence or punish their critics, coerce businesses to pay spousal benefits to their all-too-temporary partners, and express their sexuality whenever, wherever, and with whomever they choose. Do homosexuals warrant the special legal status they seek? Histori- cally, courts and civil rights authorities have employed three "touch- stones" in awarding special protected to disadvantaged minority classes. CRITERION 1: A HISTORY OF DISCRIMINATION EVIDENCED BY LACK OF ABILITY TO OBTAIN ECONOMIC MEAN INCOME, ADEQUATE EDUCATION, OR CULTURAL OPPORTU- NITY. Homosexuals claim they are economically, educationally and culturally disadvantaged. Marketing studies refute those claims. Homosexuals have an average annual household income of $55,430, versus $32,144 for the gen- eral population and $12,166 for disadvantaged African-Americans and His- panics. o - More than THREE TIMES as many homosexuals as average Americans are college graduates (59.6 percent v. 18 percent) - a percentage dwarf- ing that of truly disadvantaged African Americans and Hispanics. o - More than THREE TIMES as many homosexuals as average Americans hold professional or managerial positions (49 percent v. 15.9 percent) "America's gay and lesbian community is emerging as one of the nation's most educated and affluent, and Madison Avenue is beginning to explore the potential for a market that may be worth hundreds of billions of dollars." said Eric Miller, editor of Research Alert, a consumer research newsletter based in New York, "It's a market that screams oppor- tunity." CRITERION 2: SPECIALLY PROTECTED CLASSES SHOULD EXHIBIT OBVIOUS, IMMUTABLE, OR DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS, LIKE RACE, COLOR, GENDER OR NATIONAL ORIGIN, THAT DEFINE THEM AS A DISCRETE GROUP. There is no credible scientific evidence to support homosexual claims that "gayness" is either genetically determined or immutable. "The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today." according to HUMAN SEXUALITY, a 1984 textbook written by Masters, Johnson and Kilodny. "Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies." It is unclear how sexual orientation evolves, but a study of the con- troversial Kinsey Institute found that 84 percent of homosexuals and 29 percent of heterosexuals shifted or changed their "sexual orientation" at least once. Studies of prison inmate behavior, both male and female, clearly dem- onstrate that behind bars, for a variety of reasons, homosexual behavior is practiced by inmates who have not previously engaged in homosexual behaviors and who do not practice "gay" behavior after their release from prison. About lesbianism in women's prisons, one authority on inmate sociology remarked: "Graphic excerpts from interviews seemed to suggest that homosexual social organization among the women prisoners had an institutional origin, since most of the participants had not been involved in homosexual liaisons prior to the prison experience and were evidently unlikely to continue homosexuality after leaving prison." A study by an avowed homosexual, publicized in a cover article in the Feb. 24, 1992, edition of Newsweek, purported to discover "homosexual brains." Simon LeVay's study of the brains of 19 homosexual male corpses (all died of AIDS complications) noted a difference in the size of a spe- cific neuron group, INAH3, compared with that of a group comprised of 16 presumably heterosexual male and six female corpses. But on a closer examination, the study doesn't hold up. One problem with LeVay's study group of 16 corpses had been heterosexual. "It turns out that LeVay doesn't know anything about the sexual orientation of his control group, the 16 corpses 'presumed heterosexual.' A sloppy control is like this... enough by itself to invalidate the study." wrote homosexual reporter Michael Botkin in the BAY AREA REPORTER. CRITERION 3: "PROTECTED CLASSES" SHOULD CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE POLITICAL POWERLESSNESS. Far from being politically powerless, homosexual activists have in recent years demonstrated enormous political clout far beyond their num- bers. Combining economic and educational advantage with high-pressure lobbying tactics, homosexual activists have ridden waves of tolerance emanating from the sexual revolution to a position of almost irresisti- ble, influence in today's America. They have: o - Passed legislation granting homosexuals protected class status in five states and 90 cities across America. o - Secured political office both in the U.S. Congress and on numer- ous major U.S. city councils. o - Pressured the medical community to discard well established pub- lic health measures and treat AIDS as history's first "politically pro- tected" fatal plague. o - Received benefits for "domestic partners" identical to those of married couples, and other kinds of preferential treatment in several major U.S. corporations. o - Implemented homosexual-created curricula presenting homosexual sex as a valid, healthy alternative to heterosexuality, despite evidence to the contrary. o - Avoided prosecution for acts of violence and vandalism. Homosexu- als vandalized California State office buildings, burned state flags and California's governor in effigy after his veto last yea of a special- rights-for-gays bill, and pelted Gov. Pete Wilson himself with garbage at a speaking engagement following his veto. There were no arrests. In 1989, "AIDS activists" invaded a Roman Catholic mass at New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral shouting obscenities and defiling Commu- nion elements. A few participants in this blatant desecration incurred slight legal penalties. No arrests were made and no charges were filed at San Francisco's 1990 and 1991 Gay and Lesbian Pride Parades. Videotape from one such par- ade depicts public nudity, both male and female; lewd and lascivious acts, including public fondling of genitalia and several acts of what appears to be public anal sex between homosexuals; and open promotion of pedophilia. TOO MANY QUESTIONS According to John N. Franklin, past chairman of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, granting special legal privileges to homosexuals invi- tes a number of questions: How would homosexual class status be determined? Simply the word of the applicant? After a homosexual performed homosexual acts before a panel of civil rights authorities? The first time someone engaged in sex with a member of the same gender - even accidentally, as in a drunken or drugged encounter? After someone became exclusively homosexual? For how long? In the light of the extreme affluence of homosexual relative to the general population, what would prevent opportunistic individuals from becoming closet homosexuals, claiming homosexual status in order to secure benefits only available to legitimate minorities? Under legislation granting special minority status to homosexuals, we can expect a plethora of nuisance suits and test cases to clog our legal system and bleed taxpayers and defendants dry financially. FROM SELMA TO SODOM Noted African-American civil rights leaders recognize the difference between their movement and the counterfeit of civil rights that homosex- ual activists have raised in their own interest. If having "divergent" sex becomes all it takes to be considered "ethnic," with special protec- tion and privileges, the concept of ethnicity will soon lose all traces of meaning or value, these leaders say. "The equation of homosexuality with the noble history of civil rights in this country serves only to dilute, distort, and denigrate true civil rights," says Dr. Anthony Evans, executive director of The Urban Alterna- tive, America's largest ministry to African-American families. "'Gay rights' cannot be likened in any fashion to the black struggle for civil rights, but rather a question of morality and individual val- ues," says Rev. Gill Ford, pastor of Salem Baptist Church in Denver, Col- orado. An African-American church pastor in Kansas City, Mo., put it no less accurately, if a bit more colorfully: "The Freedom Bus that went to Selma was never intended to go on to Sodom." (Tony Marco is founder of Colorado for Family Values. He led the cam- paign to qualify Colorado's Amendment 2 that would prevent the state from granting SPECIAL legal status to homosexuals.)