How gay activists hijacked marriage
BY MICHAEL DEPRIMO - AFA Journal, February 2009
October 10, 2008, was a crisp, sunny day in San Francisco.
Shirley Holcomb and other women from the Evangelical Church had
gathered at noon for Bible study. The passage they contemplated that
day was the parable of the 10 virgins. As she read silently, Shirley
could not imagine how the foolish virgins could have slept as the
wedding day approached. Shirley shook her head and sighed. This never
would have happened on my watch, she thought. In closing, the women
bowed their heads in prayer. As they had been doing every Friday for
years, Shirley and her Christian friends prayed that the spiritual
darkness draped over San Francisco like a heavy woolen blanket would be
lifted. A half-hour later Shirley departed, confident God would soon
answer her prayer.
That same Friday was also the perfect day for a wedding. On the other
side of San Francisco first-graders from a local public school were
taken on a field trip to city hall to attend the wedding of their
teacher, Erin Carder, which was being performed by Mayor Gavin Newsome.
The school children were giddy as they lined the steps of city hall and
threw rose petals in the path of the bride, who wore a beautiful white
wedding dress and a long flowing veil. As the first-graders cheered and
clustered about the newly-wedded couple, the bride turned to kiss … her
bride. Later in the day, six-year-old Alyssa Holcomb went to visit her
grandmother Shirley. She was very excited and could hardly wait to tell
her “nana” about her teacher’s wedding.
The first scenario above is fiction. Sadly, the second is true. On
October 10, 2008, first-grade teacher Erin Carder married her lesbian
lover, Kerri McCoy. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome officiated and
Carder’s first-grade students attended. Carder’s was one of
approximately 14,000 homosexual marriages performed legally in
California between May 15, 2008, the day the California Supreme Court
declared homosexual marriage to be a constitutional right, and November
4, 2008, the day California voters approved Proposition 8 and amended
the state constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. Whether Carder’s
marriage is still valid remains unclear.
Picture Caption: In San Francisco, Erin Carder, front,
and Kerri McCoy participate in a vigil protesting the passage of
Proposition 8. The measure amended the California state constitution to
ban same-sex marriage. (AP PHOTO/GEORGE NIKITIN)
How did we get here?
In 1960 homosexual conduct was a felony in all 50 states. In the
1950s and 1960s the average American considered homosexual conduct to
be sinful and criminal. Back then, homosexual activists knew that
same-sex marriage would not become legal overnight and that their goals
would have to be achieved incrementally over time. The plot to steal
marriage took root and began to unfold in San Francisco in 1971, but
its basic plan originated at least 15 years earlier.
The evolution of law concerning homosexuality officially began in
1955 when the American Law Institute (ALI) issued what it called its
Model Penal Code. ALI urged all 50 states to adopt the Code in order to
maintain uniformity of all state criminal laws. The Model Penal Code
decriminalized all consensual, non-violent sexual conduct.
It was no secret that ALI had relied heavily on the works of Alfred
Kinsey in writing the Code. Kinsey, a zoologist by education and
training, undertook “research” in the 1940s to study the sex habits of
human beings. His infamous “research” was published in two books:
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the
Human Female in (1953). These two books, collectively known as the
Kinsey Report, caused a sensation because their conclusions appeared
quite inconsistent with the universally approved moral code in place in
America at the time.
According to Robert Knight, former director of the Culture and Family
Institute for Concerned Women for America, Kinsey’s books
“revolutionized the study of sex, and provided a ‘scientific’
justification for sexual promiscuity, pornography, abortion,
homosexuality and ‘child sexuality.’” In the 1940s and 1950s it was
mistakenly believed that Kinsey’s “research” was collected and analyzed
in accordance with accepted scientific methods; that is, the studies
were carefully controlled and monitored so the data collected would be
accurate and the results valid. Objectivity and control are critical in
scientific studies because data improperly collected would produce
unfounded conclusions.
Such was the case with Kinsey. In the book Kinsey: Crime and
Consequences, Kinsey expert Dr. Judith Reisman estimates that 86% of
the data collected by Kinsey was based on the self-observations and
journal entries of previously incarcerated criminals and sexual
deviates.
According to Knight, “Kinsey’s work was a thinly disguised attempt to
misuse science to justify his own prolific sexual appetites and
practices, which included group sex, homosexual sadomasochism,
voyeurism, wife-swapping and his support for the idea of adult-child
sex.”
Dr. Charles Socarides, a psychiatrist who dedicated most of his
career to the study of homosexuality, wrote that the “[American
Psychiatric Association] rationale for removing homosexuality from the
list of mental disorders relied heavily on the work of Alfred Kinsey
and his belief in the normality of homosexuality. … The Kinsey Report
has had in several ways a severe and damaging delayed impact on our
sexual mores, especially as they pertain to homosexuality.”
It was not the Kinsey report alone, however, that motivated the APA
to remove homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders in 1973 but also extreme political pressure brought to
bear by homosexual activists. Armed with the Kinsey Report, homosexuals
now had the weapon they needed to attack the long-held cultural and
religious belief that homosexuality was unnatural and abnormal. In his
book Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis,
Dr. Ronald Bayer noted homosexual activists first attacked the APA in
1970 during the APA convention in San Francisco. According to Bayer,
homosexual activists intentionally disrupted the conference by
interrupting speakers and shouting down and ridiculing psychiatrists
who viewed homosexuality as a mental disorder. In 1971, homosexual
activist Frank Kameny worked with the Gay Liberation Front to
demonstrate against the APA’s convention. At the 1971 conference,
Kameny grabbed the microphone and yelled, “Psychiatry is the enemy
incarnate. Psychiatry has waged a relentless war of extermination
against us. You may take this as a declaration of war against you.” At
the same time, homosexuals who had forged APA credentials gained access
to exhibit areas in the conference. They threatened anyone who claimed
that homosexuals needed to be cured. Intimidated by such threats, the
APA two years later removed homosexuality from its list of mental
disorders. Emboldened homosexual activists next leveled their sights on
public schools, politicians, lawyers and judges.
The next year, in 1972, the National Coalition of Gay Organizations
met in Chicago to strategize and craft a plan of action. The long-term
battle plan adopted at this meeting would, if successful, result in the
following changes: homosexuals infiltrating the public schools and
presenting homosexuality as a valid, healthy lifestyle and as a viable
alternative to heterosexuality; repeal of all state laws prohibiting
private sexual acts involving consenting persons; repeal all state laws
prohibiting solicitation and prostitution; legislation prohibiting
discrimination because of sexual orientation; legislation permitting
child custody, adoption, visitation rights, and foster parenting for
homosexuals; 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.
In the ensuing years, homosexual activists accomplished 90% of what
they set out to do in 1972. They successfully persuaded numerous local,
state, and federal governments to amend or repeal civil and criminal
laws to not only decriminalize homosexual conduct but also to give
self-avowed homosexuals specially protected status under law.
Too little too late?
Why is this brief history important? Because Kinsey’s fraudulent
“research” was the weapon used to gain homosexual marriage. As Resiman
said, “Today, Kinsey’s ‘junk science’ is the unquestioned foundation
for all the legal, legislative and media debate on marriage and civil
unions.” The achievement of court-ordered same-sex marriage in
Massachusetts in 2003 was the culmination of a carefully crafted plan
that began in the 1940s. Homosexuals exhibited a remarkable endurance
that Christians may be required to emulate.
Like the five foolish virgins, many in the church slept as gay
activists hailed Kinsey and caused America’s Judeo-Christian foundation
to be dismantled brick by brick. We watched as homosexuals threatened
the medical profession; claimed to be victims; infiltrated public
schools; demanded a place at the political round table; and lobbied
state legislatures and city councils for equal rights.
It was only after traditional marriage was threatened that the church
stood up and said, “Enough!” But by then it was too late. Not only had
the homosexuals captured the schools and lawmakers, they had captured
the courts, too. In a year or two the homosexualization of America will
be complete, unless the body of Christ takes a bolder stand.
What Can I Do?
• Be informed so you can combat the gay agenda when it infiltrates your
workplace, local schools, city government or state policies.
• Encourage friends to become informed via the AFA Journal.
• Visit www.afa.net and sign up for AFA’s email Action Alerts for information on gay agenda issues across the country.
