From Homophobia to Homofascism

It seems that every day we are confronted with a new example of the homosexual agenda's press on American culture. Whether it is the ideology of popular TV programs such as Big Love and Will and Grace, "critically acclaimed" movies such as Brokeback Mountain or the concerted efforts to indoctrinate public school children against "homophobia" radical homosexual activists have proven relentless in their attack upon traditional morality, family and religion.

For those of you familiar with my thoughts and writings on this subject you know that I am very cautious in regard to the manner in which Christians express their opposition the homosexual agenda. I have always been very careful to distinguish between the "homosexual agenda," or the political movement, and the person, made in the image of God, who is trapped in the sin of homosexuality. I never want to be perceived as a "grace-less" Christian who opposes hurting people that desperately need the love of Christ. However, we are increasingly witnessing a subtle but dangerous transition from what was once supposedly an appeal for "equal and fair" treatment to what can now only be described as the tyrannical demand of submission to the homosexual agenda.

On June 15th Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. fired Robert J. Smith of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, after Smith, a Roman Catholic, referred to homosexual behavior as "deviant" on a talk show interview which was unrelated to his position on the Transit Authority board.

"Robert Smith's comments were highly inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable," Gov. Ehrlich said in a statement. "They are in direct conflict to my administrations' commitment to inclusiveness, tolerance and opportunity."

The governor said he was intolerant to any view that opposes the full social acceptance of homosexual behavior and its promotion in government, according to the American Family Association. Beyond the obvious contradictions, this is an elected government official who wields the authority of the State publicly stating (and demonstrating) that he will use his office to suppress those who oppose the "social acceptance of homosexual behavior!"

On April 26, students at Midway High School in Wilmington, N.C. participated in the Day of Silence that homosexual activists promote in the schools each year. They handed out flyers and remained silent for the day while the school condoned the activity. Yet the next day, when Christian activists participated in the Day of Truth, students were suspended for distributing cards that were pro-traditional morality.

Robert H. Knight of Concerned Women for America reported, "In Northbrook, Illinois, J. Matt Barber, a manager in Allstate's Corporate Security Division, wrote an article on December 17, 2004, for a conservative website that expressed his Christian views on homosexuality. Following a 'customer' complaint by the homosexual pressure group Human Rights Campaign, Barber was called to meet with two human resources officials. . . . Barber was suspended without pay and immediately escorted off company grounds. Three days later, Barber, who had worked for Allstate for five years, was fired 'for writing the article.'"

The faculty of Ohio State University voted unanimously on March 13 to find the school's head librarian guilty of sexual harassment. Scott Savage's crime? He recommended four conservative books that included anti-homosexual messages as required reading for freshmen to balance the left-wing books others were suggesting.

More recently, Massachusetts' new anti-discrimination law forced Catholic Charities of Boston, universally lauded for doing an excellent job in getting foster children adopted, to cease adoption services because it refused to place kids with homosexual couples.

And of course I am reminded of the fact that today in countries such as Canada, Sweden, and Britain; it is now against the law to criticize homosexuality in public.

These are but a few of the growing examples of "homo-fascist" oppression against those who oppose the neo-pagan, anti-family, and anti-religious homosexual agenda. Homosexual activists have gone from an "oppressed minority" to vicious cultural tyrants determined to punish those who disagree with their chosen lifestyle.

Camille Paglia, the noted author and feminist intellectual, who describes herself as a bisexual "tending toward lesbianism" offered some interesting insight into the motivations of homosexual activists in an article she wrote on Salon.com, June 23, 1998:

"I have been struck, in my brief encounters over the years with a half-dozen prominent gay male activists, by the frightening coldness and deadness of their eyes. Behind their smooth, bland faces I saw the seething hatreds of Dostoevskian anarchists. Gay crusading, I concluded, was their way of handling their own bitter misanthropy, which came from other sources. I found these men more spiritually twisted than anyone I have encountered in my life."

The American populace, it seems, continues to waffle in complacency and apathy in the face of this new tyranny. Many churches are confused, complacent, compromised or divided. It seems that the entire educational system (with encouragement from the NEA) is being exploited as a platform for indoctrination into accepting homosexual behavior and Hollywood conspires to always present homosexual characters in the most unrealistic and sympathetic terms. Corporations have taken up the homosexual "cause" with a passion that should instead be driving their businesses. There is no institution of culture in which the homosexual agenda has not infiltrated and changed.

The recent failure of the U.S. Senate to defend marriage and the natural family is just one more example of moral capitulation and compromise demonstrating the powerfully persuasive influence of the homosexual agenda. Americans should be outraged by this moral cowardice on the part of our elected officials!

Every act of tyranny in history was not without its warnings - so be warned! Tyranny is on the march and it is time for good men and women to rise up, speak out, and put a stop to this nonsense before the time for such freedom passes.

Copyright S. Michael Craven 2006

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S. Michael Craven is the Founding Director of the Center for Christ & Culture, a ministry of the National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families. The Center for Christ & Culture is dedicated to renewal within the Church and works to equip Christians with an intelligent and thoroughly Christian approach to matters of culture in order to recapture and demonstrate the relevance of Christianity to all of life. For more information on the Center for Christ & Culture, additional resources and other works by S. Michael Craven visit: www.battlefortruth.org

Michael lives in the Dallas area with his wife Carol and their three children.