CLINTON'S EXECUTIVE ORDER ON HOMOSEXUALS 'A MORAL SLAP IN THE FACE'

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 1995  -- "The Clinton Administration is clearly trying to 
tell the American people that homosexuals are no different from heterosexuals 
and that their lifestyle is no different from that of the average family man 
or woman," Family Research Council Policy Analyst Robert Maginnis said on 
Friday.  He made his statements as the Clinton Administration prepared to 
announce in a news conference the signing of an executive order on 
homosexuality.

The executive order entitled "Access to Classified Information," bars the 
federal government from denying security clearances to homosexuals.  Maginnis, 
a retired lieutenant colonel who was a member of the President's 1993 task 
force on homosexuality, noted that this decision has been in the making for 
two years and relies on discredited studies.

"The Clintons have not only tried to lift the ban on gays in the military, but 
they have tried to redefine the family to include 'people of affinity,' which 
is code for homosexuals.  They have promoted homosexuality in federal training 
such as AIDS awareness programs.  They have reissued EEO statements to include 
a protective class 'sexual orientation.'  This is a moral slap in the face to 
the traditional family.  The reason why homosexuality has raised a red flag in 
security clearances is because in all healthy societies, homosexuality is 
recognized as a pathology with very serious implications for a person's 
behavior.  And even more importantly for security concerns, this is a behavior 
that is associated with a lot of anti-security markers such as drug/alcohol 
abuse, promiscuity, and violence."

During the first two years of the Clinton Administration, most federal 
agencies have amended their equal employment opportunity and civil rights 
policies to include the term "sexual orientation."

Last year, Office of Federal Personnel Management Director James King 
announced the formal recognition of the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Employees 
(GLOBE) as a professional association.  This recognition bestows on GLOBE the 
same privileges extended to other associations. For example, GLOBE can now use 
government facilities, communications systems, bulletin boards, and have 
official representation at personnel meetings.

In 1993, Attorney General Janet Reno declared that the Department of Justice 
will not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation when conducting 
security clearances.  The FBI lifted its ban on homosexual agents in 1994.

"Federal government recognition of homosexuals is taking place without 
legislative action.  Indeed, there are no laws requiring these changes, and 
little chance that such laws could be passed.  Homosexuals are being awarded a 
special class status based solely on behavior, not on a benign characteristic 
like race or gender," said Maginnis.

The 1991 study from the Defense Personnel Security Research and Education 
Center (PERSEREC), an agency of the Department of Defense, is entitled 
"Nonconforming Sexual Orientations in the Military and Society." It was leaked 
to Congress in 1988 and published in 1990 as part of Gays in Uniform, a 
pro-homosexual book from Alyson Publications in Boston.  Alyson also publishes 
the controversial elementary school textbooks "Heather Has Two Mommies" and 
"Daddy's Roommate," as well as "Macho Sluts," which includes a story about a 
lesbian who seduces her own daughter into sadomasochistic sex.

In 1992, the Washington Post labeled the PERSEREC study as proof that gays do 
not constitute a security risk.  "The Defense Department's own internal 
studies largely have erased the notion that gays in uniform constitute a 
security risk." In 1995, a General Accounting Office report on security 
clearance uses as evidence the PERSEREC report to indicate that there are no 
security risks associated with homosexuality.

The study has had enormous impact.  But just a cursory look reveals some 
striking weaknesses and biases.  

The study:

relies on the discredited work of sex study pioneer Alfred C. Kinsey, whose 
studies became the source of the now-dead 10 percent estimate for 
homosexuality.

includes numerous citations from a single historian: Vern Bullough, a Kinsey 
disciple and a member of the editorial board of the Dutch pro-pedophile 
journal, "Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia," which advocates sex between 
men and boys.

is openly hostile toward traditional sexual mores, and pejorative references 
to biblical Judaism and Christianity as "superstition."

makes bold, polemical statements that defy a wealth of contrary scientific 
evidence.  Example: "Homosexuals are like heterosexuals in being selective in 
their choice of partners, in observing rules of privacy, in considering 
appropriateness of time and place, in connecting sexuality with the tender 
sentiments, and so on."

ignores the Bell and Weinberg study's finding that a significant number of 
homosexuals report that "someone has threatened them with exposure of 
homosexuality in order to get something of value."

makes frequent citations from pro-homosexual, value-laden sources, such as 
feminist law professor Sylvia A. Law of New York University, who misrepresents 
religious beliefs and biblical references.

"The President's Executive Order was anticipated.  He has been hell-bent on 
advancing homosexual interests starting with his early decision on gays in the 
military.  Each federal department has promoted homosexuality as a special and 
protected class either through AIDS awareness training, changing internal 
policies, promoting homosexual advocacy groups and activities," Maginnis said.