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cultural and institutional licentiousness overrunning America and to provide motivation to restore God's essential sexual boundaries
thereby
protecting the young, preserving true marriage and family, ensuring religious freedom, and preserving civilized society. Please note: We value all people as precious children of God. Our view of sex and sexuality is based on timeless true principles.
We promote hope and help in preventing, rooting out, and repairing wayward sexuality.
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British psychologist in danger of losing her license to practise for being willing to help "gay" man overcome homosexuality. Read The Telegraph article. 1/31/2012
A Christian psych student was kicked out of the university program for not being willing to affirm a client's homosexuality. She sued, and the district court agreed with the university. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed that decision in favor of the student. Read the OneNewsNow article. 1/27/2012
Illinois Catholic Foster Care Charities forced out of business by state law in favor of gays, even though law has protections for religious organizations. Read the Thomas More article. 11/15/2011
Is there a trend in some LDS wards and stakes to embrace homosexuality as normal? Read the Salt Lake Tribune article. We checked out this "gay Mormon's" blog. He's pushing a project for LDS parents to accept homosexuality in their young children, no questions asked. They cannot seem to stay away from children. 8/31/2011
U.S. Census admits inflating same-sex household statistics by 160%. Read the NOM blog post. 10/22/2011
Christian businessman offers discount on oil change if customers recite John 3:16. Others claim discrimination. Read the Blaze article. 9/30/2011
Mexico City to issue marriage licenses that expire after 2 years. To continue the marriage requires the couple to renew the license. Read the ABC News article. 9/30/2011
Elmhurst College asks students if they are "gay' on admission form. A "yes" answer gets them a 1/3 reduction in tuition at the "Christian" school. Read the NBC Chicago article. 9/10/2011
Dr. Keith Ablow warns of harm to children if they watch "Chas" Bono on Dancing with the Stars. Read the Fox News article. 9/2/2011
Beware of the book Conversations With God For Teens. Questions from teens are answered by the author, but certainly not God. Read the CANA article. 8/15/2011
Rep. Michelle Bachman is being attacked because her husband's clinic helps re-orient clients with unwanted homosexuality. Read the AFTAH article. 7/14/2011
CA Governor Jerry Brown signs bill requiring all public school children be taught unit on LGBT history. First of its kind in U.S. Gay-straight clubs exist in 55% of CA high schools. Read the SaveCalifornia.com article. 7/14/2011.
In May, 2011, the Presbyterian Church USA joined the Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in allowing the ordination of homosexual clergy. afajournal.org
Sears caught selling pornography, and finally apologizes, removing hundreds of pornographic DVDs from its website. Read the AFA article. 7/17/2011
JC Penney acknowledges wrong-doing in marketing ploy using little girls in seductive poses in swimsuits. americandecency.org
The AFA Journal reports that "child pornography is the fastest -growing subject on the internet." CBS reports about 1000 children forced into sex slavery annually in U.S. preventing-abuse.org
The AFA Journal reports a kindergarten teacher in Oakland teaches children that there are more than two genders. newsbusters.org
Obama administration unilaterally says DOMA was motivated by hostility toward gays and is unconstitutional. Read the AP article. 7/6/2011
Gay activists intolerant of anyone who doesn't agree with them, after insisting for years that tolerance is all they're after. Read the DesNews article. 6/16/2011
More proof gays are recruiting kids. This site has videos from adults telling kids it's ok to be gay. Videos include those from Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Rev. Mark Hanson, Bishop Gene Robinson, San Francisco Giants, Anne Hathaway, Adam Lambert, The Gap, Google, Facebook, and many more. Read the It Gets Better blog. 6/14/2011
Graphic sexual images and language used in Lehi Jr. High health class! Boys and girls taught together about both sexes. Look at the handouts from the class. 4/17/2011
"Gays" contend they were born that way. See themisguided blog trying to justify that wrong idea. 2/23/2011
Father and Moth/er have bee replaced by Parent One and Parent Two on new U.S. Passports for children, another win for the gay activists. Read the Washington Post article. 2/15/2011
Manhattan College, originally a Catholic school, loses religious exemption. NLRB exercises supervision over the school's labor practises. Read the Speak Up article. 1/17/2011
Sex for kindergartners! Helena MT school board passes radical sex education curriculum. Read the KRTV report. Read the actual curriculum. See pages 45-50, 54-55 in the curriculum. 10/22/2010
Shocking Facts about the "gay" lifestyle you never hear on the media today. Read the Acute HIV article. 10/16/2010
Bookstore denied local advertising for having "Chrstian" in its name. Told it may be "offensive" to some. Read the WND article. 10/16/2010
Church college teaching "proper" etiquette for sex in dorms. Read the WND article. 10/16/2010
Pornography is harmful to children, men, women, teens, families. For good information, see Porn Harms website. 9/28/2010
"The Case for Marriage." This is an excellent article on the historical and cultural basis for marriage, and why same-sex "marriage" doesn't qualify. Read the National Review article. 9/8/2010
Evangelicals can "safely" associate with Glen Beck. Read the OneNewsNow article by pastor Dr. Jim Garlow, of the Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego. 9/2/2010
You won't believe the snide comments. Glenn Beck's reliance on the Spirit of the Lord disrespected by Olbermann, et al. Watch the MSNBC video. 9/1/2010
Parents and youth support sexual abstinence. Read the Citizen Link artricle about the federal gov't report that was suppressed. 8/31/2010
Same-Sex Marriage Judge Finds That a Child Has Neither a Need Nor a Right to a Mother. Read the CNSnews report. For a good information on the need for real parents, read Dr. Dean Byrd's paper on Gender Complementarity. 8/11/2010
Jesus' name not allowed in North Carolina Legislature. Read the LifeSiteNews article about the Pastor fired for ending a prayer in the name of Jesus. 7/10/2010
Federal judge in Mass. declares DOMA "gay marriage" ban to be unconstitutional. Read the Fox News article. 7/10/2010
Want an example of the bad that will happen if ENDA passes? Read Peter LaBarbera's AFTAH article about the "gay" pride parade in Delaware. 6/7/2010
Stephen & Janice Graham were guest hosts on K-Talk radio and discussed proposed revision to Utah's sex education statute. Also, they discussed a forthcoming book, Chased by an Elephant: The Gospel Truth About Today's Stampeding Sexuality. Click here to listen to the podcast. 1-23-2010
Planned Parenthood has prepared a booklet aimed at young people with HIV ancouraging them to continue sexual activity. It was distributed to Girl Scouts and a United Nations conference. Read the booklet. Read the WND article. 3/20/2010
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth questions Christians who accept homosexuality. Read the AFT article. 3/17/2010
L.A. college student's class speech called "hateful propaganda" by professor. Read the OneNewsNow report. 3/16/2010
"Gay" and bisexual men have 40-80 times higher incidence of HIV/AIDS than general populatoin. Read the government CDC report. 3/15/2010
Christians forbidden to hold church meetings in private home. Gilbert AZ ordinance allows other group meetings in home, but singles out religious meetings. 7-member church not allowed to meet. Read the WND article. 3/15/2010
Utah Legislature refuses to pass dangerous liberalization of sex education law. The proposed bill was sponsored by Planned Parenthood and the PTA. Read the Deseret News article. 2/27/2010
FRC President Tony Perkins was dis-invited from a prayer luncheon speach at Andrews Airforce Base after speaking out against homosexuality. Read the Washington Times article. Read the American Family Association blog post by Bryan Fischer. 2/27/2010
American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert had several TV appearances cancelled after a homosexual exhibition during a performance on the AMA broadcast. Read the LA Times article. 12/4/2009
Liberty Journal blog has good short patriotic videos. We recommend "A Republic," "Cartoon from the Past," and "Thomas Paine." Click here to watch the videos. 11/3/2009
SoL's Stephen Graham attended a town hall meeting in Murray Utah about a proposal to expand Utah's sex education law. Click here to see Graham on channel 4's coverage. 8/27/2009
Parents in CA are suing their school District over mandatory gay-affirming classes for k-5 students. Read the Fox News article. 9/27/2009
Gay/Bi men are 50 times more likely to have HIV.Read the Washington Blade article. Warning! This is found on a gay website, but it is worth reading. You will also learn of the Obama administration's efforts in acceptance of the gay lifestyle.
9/2/2009
Senator Ted Kennedy was a major factor in the defeat of the pro-marriage amendment in Mass. He was for homosexual rights, gay "marriage" and for abortion. This is the man for whom churches and others lowered their flag to half staff. Read the Mass Resistance article. 9/2/2009
A new U.N. Report Advocates Teaching Masturbation to 5-year-olds. Read the FoxNews report. 8/27/2009
Homosexual activists held a 2nd "kiss-in" at the LDS Church headquarters July 19. Read the SL Tribune article. 7/20/2009
Stephen Graham was interviewed by Fox13's Katy Carlyle about Gov. Huntsman's appointment as ambassador to China, and what it would mean to the "gay" agenda in Utah. Watch the Fox 13 news segment. 5/17/2009.
Sad day for America. President Obama issues proclamation making June 2009 national GLBT pride month. Read the proclamation here. You can send an email to the President by clicking here. 6/1/2009
SoL defends God, Religion, Freedom, and Family. Now PBS is attacking the first three. PBS is considering revoking the affiliation of television stations who broadcast religious programs. That means KBYU and other stations owned by religious organizations could lose their affiliations. Read the News Busters article. Read the Deseret News article. Read the Washington Post article. 5/21/2009
Stephen Graham was interviewed by KSL-TV's John Daley about comments supporting traditional values and decrying homosexual practise and activism. See the KSL feature. (Graham is on at about the 5 minute mark). 2/20/2009
Janene Garofalo calls tea party attendees racists with mental illness. Watch the YouTube video. 4/21/2009
Miss California loses Miss USA crown for speaking her religious beliefs that marriage is only between man and woman. Read the Citizen Link article. 4/21/2009
Mark Kastleman has written an excellent article about teaching kids about sex with God as the basis. Read the article. 3/9/2009
Unbelievable. British National Health Service article says homosexuality is normal and healthy. Read item #11 on the article. 3/9/2009
Free Speech Victory. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 today in favor of Pleasant Grove, Utah's right to display the Ten Commandments and exclude other monuments. Read the Christian Science Monitor report. 2/25/2009.
An 11-year-old student in Hattiesburg, Mississippi wrote an assigned poem about Christmas but received a deduction for using the name of Jesus in the poem. Read the ADF news release. 12/18/1008
Moscow mayor tells the truth, links homosexual behavior to AIDS, prohibits spread of their views. Read the Reuters report. 12/5/2008
Washington DC Metro allows anti-God ads on 200 buses at Christmas season. Read the MyFoxDC article. 12/3/2008
Anti-God sign posted next to Nativity Scene at Washington state capitol. Read the Seattle Times article. Call Governor Gregoire to complain: 360-902-4111. 12/3/2008
First Graders Taken to SF City Hall for Gay Marriage. Read the article about how children are indoctrinated in schools. 10/11/2008
Good resources for information on how to learn about and help pass California Proposition 8. Click here. 10/11/2008
Gay day at Disneyland? Read the sorry details in the Advocate article. 10/11/2008
Want the truth about "gay marriage?"Read Joe Kort's blog in Psychology Today. 10/11/2008
Proof of negative effects of the movement against traditional marriage. Calfornia Newlyweds File Suit Seeking Recognition as "Bride" and "Groom," Not "Party A" and "Party B." Read the PJI news release. 10/4/2008
Senior Episcopal Bishops in California came out in favor of so-called same-sex marriage on Sept. 10. Read Albert Mohler's blog about the unbelievable statement which completely ignores scriptural prohibitions of homosexuality. 9/18/2008
BYU law professor Lynn Wardle gave a great talk on defending traditional marriage at Campus Education Week. He also said we all must actively take a stand, regardless of the name-calling and intimidation we will suffer. Read the Deseret News article. 8/24/2008
National media encourage youth to choose homosexuality. Read the Washington Post article sympathetic to a 15-year-old, and blaming local authorities for not supporting him. 8/19/2008
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has recently published a document on its website. Entitled "The Divine Institution of Marriage," it lays out the Church's position on marriage in conjuction with its support of the California marrriage amendment movement. Read the document on the Church's website. 8/19/2008
Affirmation, an apostate group pushing LDS Church acceptance of homosexuality and so-called "gay marriage" in the temple, is holding a press conference Aug. 11 to complain about cancellation of a meeting with LDS Family Services reps. Read the Deseret News article. Also read Affirmations article about what they want the Church to do. Here is an excerpt from the Affirmation article: "Will the Church someday accept gay men and women in full fellowship? Absolutely — one day. We are children of loving Heavenly Parents who have blessed us with the amazing gift of being gay and we will have our place in the kingdom." 8/9/2008
Good News! Census Bureau respects marriage by only counting opposite-sex couples as married. Same-sex couples will be counted as "unmarried partners." Read the CitizenLink article. 7/15/2008
California Supreme Court overturns the will of the people. Says so-called same-sex marriage is ok in Cal.Read the ADF collection of coverage. 6/15/2008
9th Circuit Chief Judge has pornography on his website. Read the L.A. Times article about the man who is presiding over a pornography case. 6/11/2008
Students in KY school district forbidden to say they think homosexuality is wrong. Can be expelled for speaking their beliefs. Read the WND article. 5/1/2008
Canadian religious group fined for firing homosexual employee. Fine assessed by government agency after the group enforced an agreement to abstain from sexual immortality. Read the AFA article. 5/2/2008
Ben Stein's movie "Expelled" takes 5th place in per-theater revenue in its first weekend. We recommend that everyone go see it. Read the CL article. 4/21/2008
Family Watch International has an excellent paper on the use of junk science to support same-sex parenting. Read the article here. 4/11/2008
McDonald's CEO Announces the fast-food giant will put its resources behind gay and lesbian businesses. Read the shocking AFA article. 4/8/2008
Cal. appeals court rules that parents have no right to home school their children. Read the APA article. 3/24/2008
Colorado school allows sexually confused 8-year-old boy to attend dressed and treated as a girl. Read the WND article. 3/24/2008
Rhode Island Supreme Court refuses to give divorce to gay couple married in Mass. Read the BP article. 3/24/2008
Dr. John Diggs writes about the health risks of homosexual sex. Read the CERC article. 3/24/2008
The International Journal of Epidemiology reports the life expectancy of men involved in homosexuality is up to 20 years shorter than the general population. Read the IJE article. 3/24/2008
Read Dr. A. Dean Byrd's recent NARTH article on changes in the American Psychological Association's (APA) position on homosexuality. 3/24/2008
Leader of national "gay" group admits HIV/AIDS is a homosexual disease. Read the CWFA news release. Listen to the 20-minute CWFA podcast.
2/16/2008You will be shocked about what you see on a terrible website that is encouraging sex among teens. You can inform yourself about what is being pushed in our society by going to The Midwest Teen Sex Show. Warning! The videos and other information on the site are inappropriate for non-adults. 2/11/2008
An 8-year old boy is allowed to attend school as a girl. Special restrooms are being made for this mixed-up kid. Read the WND story about political correctness gone crazy. 2/12/2008
You should know that "No Name-calling Week" is scheduled for Jan. 21-25, 2008. Dreamed up by the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN), this is an “anti-bullying” push, which sounds fine, until you learn that it includes approving of homosexuality as a “cure” for school bullying! We urge you to call your school and learn if they are allowing this sneaky indoctrination. Tell them what you think about such manipulation and endorsement of high-risk behavior. And that you expect them to not allow, or cancel, its observance. Read the 2005 NARTH article. 12/29/2007
Gender Confusion accomodated at a Maine elementary school. Local man protests a boy being allowed to use the girls' restroom. Read the World Net Daily article. 12/19/2007
'Transgender' Bus Driver /Restroom Case Tossed By Federal Court. Read the TVC article about Traditional values and common sense being upheld in court. 11/13/2007
China bans the Bible at 2008 Olympics! Athletes not allowed to bring Bible with them to Beijing. Read the CNA story. 11/07/2007
PFOX responds to Maryland Montgomery County Commission's move to pass bill forbidding discrimination based on "gender identity." Read Regina Grigg's letter. 11/7/2007
7th Circuit rules in favor of free religious speech.Read the WND article about the appeals court ruling against a school that implemented a policy forbidding students to speak their religious beliefs against homosexuality. 11/2/2007
We recently saw Star Parker speak in Washington DC. She was great! Read her excellent article about Barak Obama and intolerance by the homosexual activist movement. 10/31/2007
Gov. Schwarzenegger signed two radical pro-homosexuality school bills — very bad news for California, and the nation. Read the Americans for Truth article. 10/18/2007
Michael Glatze, former leader in the homosexual movement, was interviewed by Dr. Joseph Nicolosi of NARTH , about how he left that lifestyle. Click here to read the interview. 10/17/2007
Dr. Neil Whitehead has produced a slide show that shows "gays" and "lesbians" are not born that way. It goes along with his lecture, but you can follow it well enough by just viewing the slides. Click here to see the slide show. See Dr. Whitehead's web site here. 9/24/2007.
Check out Choice 4 Truth, a project of Mission America. We recommend you sign up for their highly informative quarterly newsletter. 9/16/07
We like the article by Bob Lonsberry on the proper role of Christianity. Click here to read the article on Bob's website. 9/14/2007
Stephen Graham was guest host again on The Unspoken Word radio program, hosted by Steven Rinehart on K-Talk. Listen to the program, and see Steven Rinehart's website for more information. 8/25/2007
Abraham Lincoln gave the Cooper Union Address in 1860 challenging the Southern States' inappropriate justification of slavery. Change a few words and you find an amazing parallel to the activist homosexual movement's arugments for acceptance of homosexuality. Click here to read an excerpt from that speech. 8/25/2997
Read this good article by David J. Stoddard about the response he received to his article about so-called "Gay Marriage." 9/4/2007
Stephen Graham was guest on The Unspoken Word radio program, hosted by Steven Rinehart on K-Talk. Listen to the program, and see Steven Rinehart's website for more information. 8/11/2007
8/11/2007 Patrick Henry's famous speech, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" is inspiring. Click here to listen to a 9-minute dramatic reading from www.librivox.org. 8/3/2007
Daily Herald Shows Contempt for Traditional Values. The Provo Daily Herald called and asked for a statement from us here at SoL, regarding a country singer who posed for this month's issue of Playgirl magazine and performed July 24 at the family-oreiented SCERA outdoor theater. They then wrote an editorial denigrating our stand for traditional values. We asked them to publish an op-ed from us. After a series emails, they won't publish our op-ed unless we rewrite it and abandon our central points. Click here to read the whole story. 7/22/2007
Who could've imagined this? Immigration of homosexual partners. Don't be fooled--it's not about immigration or love or family. It's about getting homosexuality, etc. publicly legitimized. See the O'Reilly Factor segment. Read the sympathetic L.A. Times article. 7/22/2007
Dr. A. Dean Byrd has written a review exposing the homosexual activism in Carol Lynn Pearson's new book, in which she opposes LDS church doctrine. Read his important review of No More Goodbyes on the FairLDS website. 7/19/2007
Michael Glatze, well-known former leader in homosexual activism, has abandoned homosexuality. Read his WND article and Dr. Warren Throckmorton's report of his interview with Glatze. 7/10/2007
Violent lesbian and gay gangs recruit youth, attack, rape and terrorize. Watch the 3-minute O'Reilly Factor video segment and read the AFT article. 6/25/2007
A Report falsely showing that homosexual adoption is as effective as married-couple adoption was released in 2006. Read The Pearcy Report and the WND article that expose the homosexual activist who authored the report and the homosexual organizations who funded it. 7/10/2007
Gay Straight Alliance Network News promotes sex-toy workshop for youth. Read the awful truth as reported by Calif. Catholic Daily. 6/25/2007
California passed SB71 in 2004. This terrible law dictates the teaching of gender issues and sexual orientation, and does not allow parents to take their kids out of class for that indoctrination. Read the fact sheet produced by the GSAnetwork. Also, the fact sheet for AB537 prohibits discrimination by gender identity. Read the first paragraph. You may want to call your local CA legislator and talk to them. 7/10/2007
Presidential candidate John Edwards' wife Elizabeth supports so-called gay marriage in San Francisco speech. Read the ONN article. 7/10/2007
Promiscuous sex and drug use encouraged to Boulder High School students in a mandatory assembly. Click here to view a 5-minute segment from the Bill O'Reilly TV show. This is the sexual agenda for kids EXPOSED. 5/25/2007
"Gender-neutral" restrooms to be installed in Salt Lake Community College.Read the Globe article transcribed by Cory Seegmiller. 5/24/2007 ABC's Diane Sawyer trashes reparative therapy on "Good Morning America." Uses the story of one unsuccessful woman as support. Click here to read. 5/10/2007
Read an article, "Campaign Targets ‘Religion-Based Bigotry Against Gay People’" from CNSnews.com about a homosexual advocacy group launching a "Call to Courage" tour to "educate Americans about the misuse of religious teachings to discriminate and isolate gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people." 5/9/2007
National PTA includes ad by pro-gay group in its "Our Children" magazine. Bountiful High PTA writes letter of protest. Click here to read the Deseret News article. 5/3/2007
A disturbing video, "It's Elementary," shows pro-homosexual teachers and administrators how to indoctrinate elementary school children to accept homosexuality. Click here to see clips from the video. Click here to read the AFT article. 5/3/2007
Chicago gay street fair sponsored by the Howard Brown Health Center, distributes unbelievably graphic flier teaching teenage boys how to engage in homosexual perversions. Click here to read the Americans For Truth article. 5/3/2007
Disney expands its Fairy Tale Weddings to include homosexual couples, even though "gay marriage" is illegal. Read the Reuters article. To contact the Walt Disney Company and share your feelings on this issue, click here. 5/3/2007.
Polish leaders bravely speak out against acceptance of homosexuality. Click here to read the Breitbart report. Then the European Union condemns Polish leaders for their stand. Read the EU document. 5/1/2007
Read an article by K.B. Napier about the lack of substance in homosexuality. And read more than a dozen other articles by Napier by clicking here. 3/31/2007
General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has come under fire from homosexual activist groups and the national media for saying that homosexual acts are immoral.. He's also receiving support from conservative groups. Click here to read about it and learn what you can do to offer support. 3/17/2007
Good news! Stephen Graham was on the Steven Rinehart "Unspoken Word" radio show. Steven is a great guy and it was a wonderful chance to get the truth on the air. Click here to listen to the radio program. 3/10/2007
KSL-TV interviewed Stephen Graham about a bill proposing changes to Utah's education statute. The Governor subsequently signed the bill into law. Click here to see the TV report. 3/8/2007
Read the excellent article by Kevin McCullough on Townhall.com about repentance and redemption, called "Why Christians Embrace 'Gay' Porn Stars. 3/11/200
OneNewsNow.com reports that a Cal. school which had taken "God" out a parents' yearbook add to their son has agreed to allow it after all. Read the article here. 3/7/2007
APA report says young girls are being sexualized by our culture. One of their sources of information is SIECUS, a GLBT and anything-goes sex advocacy group. Read what their Sexuality Education Guidelines want to teach your children, starting in kindergarten. Read their homosexual propaganda in a "families are talking" newsletter. 2/22/2007
Theo Hobson discusses the credibility loss as churches embrace homosexuality. 2/19/2007
Why sexuality is so important to the church. Read the article in Albert Mohler's blog. 2/18/2007
The homosexual activist group Soulforce Equality Ride is making another annual U. S. tour and heading to BYU and BYU Idaho, but, unlike last year's visit, this year they will be denied access to the campus. Read more.
2/6/2007 Sundance Film Festival featured a film promoting religious acceptance of homosexuality. It was listed in a news article entitled "Sundance Films Fit for Families." Click here to read the description of "For The Bible Tells Me So." 2/4/2007
Read Andrew Vachss' article on how our language is being subtly changed. 1/29/2007
Excellent article by Gregory Koukl on Tolerance and Intolerance. Read it in Townhall. 1/29/2007
Improprieties Alleged in Maine Gay Youth Organization. Read the Morning Star newspaper article. 1/25/2007
The National Education Association, the union to which 90+% of America's teachers belong, is determined to indoctrinate teachers and students to embrace homosexuality and the like. Read the NEA GLBT website page (the statistics are "engineered" to make their point). Read the 36-page NEA GLBT Guide, which, among other things, vilifies "heterosexism" as the belief that heterosexual relationships are preferred as natural and normal. Take a look at the NEA's SafeZone poster, decrying heterosexism, etc. 1/2/2006
Read an excellent talk by Dr. Victor Cline, "Treatment and Healing from Pornographic and Sexual Addictions." From the 2000 Families Under Fire Conference. 1/2/2007.
Don't miss this wonderful speech, "The Very Root of Christian Doctrine," by Thomas B. Griffith.Click here 12/15/2006
Reality triumphs over insanity. Read about New York's birth certificate debacle. 12/15/06.
Scotland NHS forbids nurses' use of "mum" and "dad". Read the article. 12/15/2006
Read Albert Mohler's comments about moral relativism and Mary Cheney. 12/13/2006 Gay 'Marriage' in Israel: Worse than Holocaust - Will Cause Terrorism Warns Rabbi Levin. read the LifeSite article. 11/21/2006
Break free of sexual sin. We found a wonderful Christ-based web site called www.mysecret.tv where people can anonymously confess adultery, porn addiction, homosexuality, etc. – the first step in overcoming. Click on their resources button and you can view a great 30 min. talk by recovered sex addict Craig Groeschel called “Pornography and Lust” about how people get hooked and how they can repent and be healed. 10/31/2006
Homosexuals are 12 times more likely than heterosexuals to abuse children. Homosexuals (vastly outnumbered by heterosexuals) are responsible for one third of all reported child sex offenses. Family Research Council makes this unpopular connection in this enlightening study you won’t hear in the prestige media. Read the report. 10/31/2006
Listen to a segment of the Michael Medved radio show where he interviews twice-married, father, and now gay former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey about his new gay-affirming book. We noted with dismay McGreevey’s repeated references urging “young kids” and “children” to be honest and “find and own their personal truth,” by coming out as gay, a great example of the Gay Elite insidiously sexualizing, targeting, and indoctrinating youth. He said his repression of his lifelong gayness caused pain for his loved ones, meaning, we suppose, his ex-wives and children. Reality check: if he hadn’t “repressed his gayness” he wouldn’t have any loved ones on which to inflict this pain. Click here to listen and choose show #108.10/28/2006
Maryland school sued for not letting 7th grade girl read the Bible at lunch. Read the CNS article. Then read the WND article about Islam being taught in Oregon schools. 10/10/2006
A Massachusetts government agency has named a "married" homosexual couple "Parents of the Year". From Mass Resistance. 8/10/2006 Read Maggie Gallagher's column, "The Trouble With Men." It echoes Janice's Voice column, "Arming Prince Charming." 8/9/2006
Read about Canadian activists trying have the government shut down pro-family and traditional values websites. 7/31/2006
Sheldon Kinsel, of United Families International, wrote an excellent op-ed piece on flaws in same-sex marriage arguments. Read it in the Tribune. 6/20/06.
Read a letter to the editor printed in the Daily Herald. More and more right-thinking people are beginning to pay attention and speak out. 6/18/06
SLF interviewed on KSRR.Hear the 28-minute podcast. 6/16/2006
Read the NEA's resolution on "Diversity." See B-8. Includes sexual orientation, gender identity, civil unions. 6/16/2006
David Parker's 7-year-old son attacked at Massachusetts elementary school. Read the LifeSite article. 6/16/2006
D.C. official fired for expressing religious beliefs.Click here to read the FRC article. 6/16/2006
SLF's effort to get the Lone Peak High student newspaper to stop publishing illegal articles was covered by Agape Press on June 6, 2006. Read SLF's Op-ed response, "Teen's articles on sex disease unfit to print" printed in the Daily Herald, June 5, 2005. We answer the editorial from last week.Provo Daily Herald Editorial attacks SLF position defending student and parental rights, and demanding adherence to state law in public schools. Read the editorial. Read the details below. 5/28/2006
NEW! Maggie Gallagher’s excellent May 15, 2006 report, “Banned in Boston, The Coming Conflict Between Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty,” in which 10 top scholars from both sides predict that sexual liberty is bound to subvert freedom of religion.Click here to read the National Review article. Email you Senators at www.rcm.org to let them know you care about this issue. 5/16/2006
You won't believe what's happenning in Massachusetts with Mitt Romney's Governor's Commission for Gay and Lesbian Youth. Click here to read Article 8's report. 5/12/06
Check this outstanding website, wallbuilders.com, with its spring 2006 newsletter "Good News from the Front Lines of the Culture War." 4/22/2006
Want to see the flipside of Brokeback Mountain? Everyone should read this powerful article by Ronald G. Lee exposing the truth about homosexuality. We've added it to our Get Informed page. 3/24/2006
Listen to a podcast chat with Steve and Janice of SLF.
School decides to cancel diversity day rather than
include viewpoint of Christians and former homosexuals. Read Liberty Counsel's article.3/20/06
Unbelievable what is happening in our nation's oldest universities.Read the article by Agape Press. 3/9/2006.
SLF op-ed article published by Provo Daily Herald. Gay-straight alliance clubs not allowed under anticipated new Utah law. Read the SLF op-ed piece here on our website, or Read it from the Feb. 22, 2006 Provo Daily Herald.
SLF on Salt Lake City radio station KUTR, AM 820. Janice and Drew Graham were interviewed about our book, My Darling from the Lions, on the Dr. Liz Hale show Friday, Jan. 27, at 10:00 a.m. Hear the podcast of the show. 33 minutes. 1/27/2006.
Listen to KSL's Doug Wright, 1/12/06, show on which our friend Ken Cromar challenges Doug's support of pro-homosexual movie "Brokeback Mountain." 32 min. Read Ken's research document on the dangers of the homosexual lifestyle. 1/19/2006
Pro"gay" club propaganda on KSL radio. The Doug Wright Show, 12/15/05, was slanted toward acceptance of GSAs in Utah schools, despite a call from Dr. Richard Wilkins. Listen to the 36-minute show. 12/31/2005
"Brokeback Mountain," the movie celebrating "gay" cowboys, received unexpected positive reviews from Doug Wright on KSL Radio's Movie Show and Jeff Vice at the Deseret Morning News. To read and hear the reviews, click here. 12/31/2005
Homosexual advocacy in Lone Peak High School newspaper. This hits home. Our daughter Elise was assigned by her Journalism class teacher to write the "con" side of two opinion pieces on the issue of GSA clubs in schools. The person who wrote the "pro" piece wrote a homosexual advocacy propaganda piece, which is against our state law. Read both articles. 11/30/2005
Learn about Gay-Straight Alliance clubs and how to prevent them. We have prepared 3 files of useful information regarding the homosexual activist movement's plans to indoctrinate our youth. Homosexual agenda handouts presented to Provo School Board (Word, WordPerfect, pdf). Legal Liability of schools (pdf only). Narth Homosexual Advocacy Groups & Your School (pdf only). Print and use any materials you find helpful. 11/5/2005
by Dr. Lindsay M. Curtis, M.D., Ogden, Utah: I can’t speak for the Church, but let me share some ideas that seem appropriate to me as a doctor and as a Latter-day Saint.
A liberal-permissive element of the medical profession has been extremely outspoken on the subject of homosexuality.
In his letter to the Romans, Paul states: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly. …” (Rom. 1:26–27.)
We do not interfere with a man’s free agency when we teach him the truths contained in the Bible.
Our modern prophets have been no less forceful in teaching us the Lord’s way and his will in regard to sexuality.
Homosexuals and lesbians seldom are happy people. Theirs is a relationship that is unnatural, one not bound by fidelity, trust, or loyalty, and one totally lacking in the meaningful family relationships that marriage offers. Homosexuality often espouses emotional problems because of the constant insecurity inherent in a relationship neither sanctioned by nor protected by the law.
Because there is no legal bond, homosexuality too often encourages, or at least permits, promiscuity.
To say that “no one gets hurt” is presumptive. Homosexuals are hurt by the unacceptability of the relationship, not only by society, but also by themselves. This is evidenced by their almost universal desire that their children (if they have any) not follow the same pattern.
Someone does get hurt. There is harm in homosexuality. Many homosexuals seek to introduce others into their practice, often those in their tender, impressionable years. Many studies have indicated that such early homosexual experience may interfere with normal sexual adjustment in subsequent marriage.
Nor is homosexuality compatible with peace of mind, tranquility of soul, or with the Spirit of our Father in heaven that all of us want, need, and enjoy when we live in accordance with his laws.
To “persecute” homosexuals would be wrong, just as it would be wrong for us to persecute anyone. We must try to understand why they have chosen this way of life. Many of them want help and can be helped. But we should also understand that homosexual relationships are morally wrong according to the laws of God.
Just as the Word of Wisdom is the Lord’s way with or without medical proof of its value to our health, so likewise the moral law taught by the Church does not require any medical proof of its value to our spiritual and physical health. It is sufficient that the Lord has told us to marry, to have children, and to do this according to the righteous ways of the law of God. In this lies physical health, emotional stability, and true happiness.
Posted 1/8/2012
Book Review of Light in the Closet:
Torah, Homosexuality, and the Power to Change
by Arthur Goldberg, Red Heifer Press, Los Angeles, 2008, second printing 2009.
His Word to a Thousand Generations
Janice Graham
January 4, 2012
Before being asked to review Arthur Goldberg’s book, Light in the Closet: Torah, Homosexuality, and the Power to Change, just about all I knew about the Jewish faith came from Fiddler on the Roof, Dr. Laura, and the novels of Chaim Potok. Now, after carefully reading 575 pages and filling many legal pad pages with notes I feel I have a bit better understanding of Judaism: of the utmost sacredness in which they hold their books of scripture, of the timelessness of their Holiness Code for sexual morality (Leviticus 18), and of their doctrinally-based obligation to offer hope and help to all souls struggling against unwanted thoughts, feelings, and conduct which are not in keeping with G-d’s will. The author means to educate the public in behalf of strugglers of his faith dealing with unwanted same-sex sexual attraction and behaviors, but reminds us that G-d’s everlasting Truth applies and should be available to all of His children for all time. (In this review I am respecting the Jewish custom used throughout the book of avoiding spelling out the name of G-d in case it should have to be erased.)
Ancient Wisdom and the Sacred
In his careful study of Torah prohibitions and G-d’s plan for His children, Goldberg implicitly calls for a general revival of and return to wisdom and a sense of the sacred. Here we are living in a world where many people care only about the superficial and fun, the here and now, the self and its pleasures. In a repudiation of the most fundamental duties of humanity, our culture no longer concerns itself with the dead and the aged and what we must learn from them, or with the unborn and the young and what we must leave for them. All privileges go to the current movers and shakers. Thus we see our huge individual and national problems with spending, debt, hedonism, abortion, euthanasia, and the demand and creation of new sexual “rights.” Turning our backs on the past and shrugging our shoulders regarding the future, we’ve lost interest in and reverence for the sacrosanct, exchanging it for the false, the vain, and the foolish.
Goldberg reminds us that wisdom is an understanding of reality and truth that ultimately gives the only real consolation. He asserts that G-d’s ancient word must remain our guide, that any sexuality other than what G-d decrees is sexual disorientation, and warns us that we live in a climate of sexual indulgence and experimentation that is out to deliberately corrupt young children. “Once we throw away the compass of right and wrong bequeathed to us by ancient wisdom, we find almost everything to be subjective in opinion–usually the result of a little self-indulgence and a good deal of creative rationalization. By contrast, the Jewish People have lived for well over three thousand years in accordance with a deeply rooted persuasion that morality is not some vague notion of living in a general state of rosy self-satisfaction, but a specific and intricately defined set of dos and don’ts . . . that regulate every possible aspect of public and private life” (5).
Throughout the book is an overwhelming sense of compassion for those who, damaged by abuse and influenced by pervasive wrong ideas, have separated themselves from G-d and personal growth through temptation and transgression, who are miserable with “sexual conflictedness . . . in which one’s arousals, fantasies, behavior or sexual identity conflict with one’s deepest religious beliefs and values” (8) and who yearn for a way back toward the authentic self, truth, and the sacred. “For Jews, ‘establishing boundaries’ means respecting the differences between sacred and profane, permitted and forbidden, pure and impure, man and woman, human and animal—because that is the way of peace and well-being, and it is through inner peace and physical and mental well being that a person develops his or her fullest potential” (226).
The Holiness Code
“Nowhere are the contradictions between Jewish teachings and today’s cultural climate more evident—or more profoundly confusing to the individual—than in the area of sexual morality and conduct” (107). Anyone can see that in practically all denominations of worship has crept a milquetoast attitude toward reality, a shyness toward truth, a weakening of doctrine. Reports Goldberg of the Jewish faith, “Most recently, even the Conservative Movement has attempted to develop a ‘new age’ theology that redefines sexual morality in a way that legitimizes the theory and practice of homosexuality. Meanwhile, the Orthodox community stands firm, also bearing the brunt of politically correct criticism and opprobrium” (104-5).
Goldberg gives mighty evidence that there is no ambiguity in orthodox Judaism when it comes to G-d’s boundaries for human sexuality, both in thought and deed. The Holiness Code is clear. Sexuality is either holy or a desecration, with nothing in between. As Goldberg puts it, “How can one advance in the path of spirituality when one is enslaved by one’s own physical desires and passions and entangled in a web of reciprocal sexual exploitation? Spirituality, or the devoted quest for the deeper meaning of life and of the universe, demands a focus away from one’s bodily appetites and cravings. This principle has been fundamental to all the world’s great religions . . . Judaism was the first religion to articulate this principle clearly, accomplishing this by making the laws of human conduct paramount over bodily desires and needs” (101). But today, repudiating the Torah is being done “in a desperate attempt to fashion a pro-gay theology that will satisfy political correctness and accommodate the growing power of the gay lobby and their media friends” (173).
Seeing all this occur, Goldberg co-founded Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality, which he informs us has now been renamed to Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing because of the increased demand for help and resources in all areas of sexual brokenness. JONAH is one of several organizations bravely dedicated to spreading knowledge of the causes, nature, treatment, and religious implications of same-sex sexuality. JONAH helps individuals who struggle with any condition “in which a person’s sexual behaviors, desires or fantasies are inconsistent with the Torah’s treatment of sex as pure, holy, and the private and exclusive domain of marriage between man and woman” (9). Goldberg goes to great pains to give scriptural foundations of G-d’s boundaries for human sexuality, and then goes to even greater pains to persuade readers that the sexually broken can avail themselves of the possibility of healing, a change of heart, forgiveness, and spiritual growth. As Rabbi Dresner stated, “the first lesson in holiness is to remain sexually pure” (177).
As is necessary for any book sincerely addressing homosexuality today, the author brings us up-to-date with gay activism, how in recent decades this vice was systematically transformed from an act to a condition to an identity and a cause celebre with the help of sexualized education and media systems and the public blessing (49). He chronicles how our society has been conditioned to reject G-d’s rules for sexual morality (Holiness Code), making homosexuality, in the words of the gay activists Kirk and Madsen themselves, an abstract social question thereby distracting the public from “the grim realities of homosexual behavior” (55). Gay activists now work to lower age of consent laws and aggressively model and promote homosexuality in our schools through panels, books and booklets, instructions in gay sex, providing information on where to meet gays, acting out in skits and plays, all without parental notification or consent. Goldberg rightly calls this movement “the sexual brainwashing of school children” being carried out under the false pretense of promoting safer schools.
Goldberg quotes John McKeller, leader of a group called HOPE (Homosexuals Opposed to Pride Extremism): “Introducing kindergarten and grade one students to alternative behaviors and lifestyles is psychological pedophilia. You don’t have to engage solely in physical contact to molest a child. You can diddle with their minds and their emotions. And this is exactly what some of my radical brothers and sisters are up to. And this is exactly what a disheartening majority of educators, school trustees and teachers unions endorse” (97).
Tragically, the scientific community also continues to succumb to radical homosexualism, beginning with the politically-pressured removal of homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association’s manual of disorders in 1973. This travesty has reached a point where most psychiatrists today are treating sufferers according to widespread gay propaganda rather than reliable science, responsible ethics, proper therapy, and the client’s own wishes. Generously sprinkled through the book are testimonials from real sufferers and ex-gays. One ex-lesbian says, “People like myself have been politicized out of getting the help we desire by the one-sided arguments presented by the gay lobby” . . . [F]inding no one respecting my desires, I set about reading everything I could get my hands on . . . Nearly a decade later, I have experienced the shift to a heterosexual orientation along with an exponential improvement in overall well-being.” (40).
Incredibly, many professionals now insist that homosexual tendencies must be affirmed (including through the use of pornography and sexual experimentation, even for young teens) and that an invention they call “internal homophobia” is really the cause of the unhappy homosexual’s suicidal misery. “What has happened, in essence, is that political correctness in regard to homosexuality has substantially eroded the right of a patient to be fully informed of all treatment options and to determine his or her own therapy” (40). “So when a therapist encourages a resistant SSA client to live his fantasies and enjoy them at the cost of his or her ‘personal value system,’ that therapist is actively working to degrade the meaningfulness of that client’s life” (42). Two must-read case studies in chapter two chronicle tragic results of this highly misguided and abusive pseudo-professional course of action.
Speaking of professional care, Goldberg devotes an entire chapter to the tragedy of “sexual reassignment surgery” by which deep emotional and mental problems are merely artificially masked by the mutilation of healthy bodies by medical doctors. He reports a study in which it was found that SRS is actually cooperating with a mental illness and that these people’s basic problems remained unchanged after surgery. Said Dr. Paul McHugh after ordering the SRS clinic at Johns Hopkins closed in 1979, “We have wasted scientific and technical resources and damaged our professional credibility by collaborating with madness rather than trying to study, cure, and ultimately prevent it” (286).
A stunning story not to be missed is contained in the page notes about a five-year-old boy who exhibited all-around effeminate behavior and repeatedly demanded his penis be cut off. Fortunately, rather than steer the boy’s parents toward SRS, the MD they consulted (a member of the American College of Pediatricians), astutely looked into the environmental and medical factors that could be causing the child’s problems, and found several, including a painful medical condition affecting the boy’s penis (263-4).
No, Goldberg is not squeamish, and neither can the serious reader be. He devotes sections of the book to the strong Jewish judgment against masturbation, pornography, child sexual abuse, and bestiality. Here are some tidbits: “The habit of masturbation . . . renders many homosexual persons vulnerable to promiscuity. First, fantasy and masturbation, then cruising the haunts, and later, finding someone for a one-night stand” (233). “[T]o abuse a child for sexual gratification is to violate that child in body and mind and soul at an age when all three are defenseless” (217). Citing new-age bestiality advocates (yes, they exist), Goldberg points out that “because animals are unable to be fully informed, communicate consent, or speak out against the abuse,” bestiality is animal sexual abuse (223).
Contrary to the unabashed one-sided sexual propaganda we are increasingly bombarded with, Goldberg believes that sexual disorientation should be looked at with an objective eye that distinguishes between normal and abnormal, right and wrong, health and sickness, personal fulfillment or personal frustrations. Along with great thinkers throughout the ages, he points out that the normalization of sexual vice levies a huge cost to both the individual and society as a whole.
Real science, as opposed to junk science founded on intimidation from activists, proves that G-d’s traditional boundaries for sexual morality, that is, confining sex to man-woman marriage, are best for human society, for families, and for individuals. As A. Dean Byrd, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, noted, in Light in the Closet Goldberg does “a masterful job bringing the truths of science in harmony with the Truth of the Ages.”
Goldberg points out that without rules and laws for human conduct, only the opinions and fashions of the moment remain (215), and why should those be trustworthy? Of course today’s trendy political correctness here is doing more harm than good, whereas the Holiness Code, by any other name, is still as true and as important as ever for everyone, G-d’s word to a thousand generations.
Bridging the GAP
In our reading we learn that “Torah sees sex in general as an enormously powerful force of nature that needs to be harnessed and controlled in order to realize its full potential for good” (108). We understand the Jewish belief that homosexuality “constitutes activity that will diminish an individual’s capacity to fulfill, in his own life, G-d’s expressed plan for creation. . . and achieve his full potential as a human being” (115). And we see that in Judaism “compassion does not mean condoning or remaining silent in the face of another’s errors” (104). Now, we ask, what is Goldberg’s solution? Is there hope for Jewish people with unwanted SSA who desire sexual orientation in accordance with their personal value systems? What should replace misguided public legitimization, corrupted science, and demoralizing oversexed gay-affirming therapy?
The overwhelming message in Light in the Closet is that there is hope and help for those with unwanted sexual disorientation. According to traditional Jewish teachings, the power of repentance is unlimited and homosexuality is a reversible transgression. Change for the homosexual is distinctly possible from the inside out.
In Goldberg’s experience, the Jewish homosexuals he has known are unwitting victims stuck in the middle of a reprehensible trilateral attack. On one side are militant gay activists who insist they cannot change, on another side are ultra-conservatives who loathe them, and on the third side are misguided and unethical psychiatrists who urge them to accept their gayness while ignoring their patients’ wishes and deeply-held, conflicted value systems.
Asserting, with the support of real science, that sexual attraction is primarily an acquired and not an inherited characteristic, and that sexual freedom always leads to self-destruction, not to mention social decline as shown throughout history (173-4), JONAH promotes GAP (gender affirmation process) through free will and free choice as the panacea for the problem of unwanted same-sex sexualization and sexual conflictedness. GAP seems to emphasize two equally important factors: (1) the necessity of rooting out the causes of a person’s homosexuality and (2) affirming the gender of one’s birth. Indeed, behavior will change as a bi-product of intense self-examination of past issues and true gender rediscovery (as encoded in one’s DNA). A great portion of the book is devoted to these two issues, including scientific research studies, clinical technics, and case studies from professional experts. As to sexual reorientation therapies for those with unwanted homosexuality which are much maligned by gay activist propaganda, even pro-gay scientists admit there is no harm. In fact, studies show a high level of success in development of healthy and wholesome heterosexual attraction as a result of reparative, gender-affirming therapy.
Not to be missed, especially in chapter 15, are the experiences and testimonials of ex-gays who have been helped to reorient to heterosexuality through JONAH and GAP. Not only do individuals break free of obsessive, harmful, and indecent behaviors, but they free themselves from inappropriate sexual fantasizing and arousal. Yes, says the Talmud and other sources, thoughts can be sinful and harmful, and thought patterns can be changed: “The thought of sin is worse than the actual sin.” Perhaps my favorite quotes in the entire book are: “[T]o engage in sinful thought is to sin with the noblest portion of the self” (201) and “It is not a light thing to restore one’s purity of soul” (380). Indeed, this applies in both homosexual and heterosexual contexts, and every circumstance. We all can and must submit not just the physical body but the inner vessel for divine cleansing if change is to be sincere and lasting. Goldberg provides a good description of what it takes to change from The People Can Change website:
“A man with homosexual attractions will usually maintain them unless he consciously surrenders them. [. . .] [S]urrender is letting go. It is choosing to release specific obstacles–whatever is holding you back and hurting you. It is a deliberate mental, emotional, and spiritual attitude of giving away these obstacles to G-d . . . in a spirit of humble trust in the wisdom, strength and goodness of the Divine Power.”
Yes, people can and do change, if they so desire. Thousands have changed. One psychotherapist and recovered homosexual urges the religious community toward a proactive attitude: “Let us promote true healing and restoration by getting involved, reaching out, and being there for those who wish to change. Remember this is a behavior, not an identity. Each man and woman who experiences same-sex attractions is somebody’s son or daughter . . . We must not sell them out by making new laws or modifying religious doctrine” (347).
But Goldberg astutely shows us we will encounter other problems. “The question still remains: how do we handle the ‘self-declared homosexual’— the man or woman who has openly adopted a gay lifestyle, sees nothing wrong with what he or she is doing, and even goes around aggressively advertising his/her views?” In response he determines: “There is no reason why behavior disrespectful of the community should be tolerated just because the person doing the misbehaving happens to be gay. Clearly, the community of Torah-observant Jews has just as much right as any other to bar or expel those who would come to shul (synagogue) to scoff, to shock, or to provoke trouble. Moreover, little can be done, in the short term, for the militant homosexual who angrily rejects all efforts of outreach and reintegration.”
Goldberg adds: “It goes without saying that healing programs cannot coexist side-by-side with gay advocacy programs disguised as ‘diversity training.’ As now taught in the elementary, middle and high-school systems, several ‘diversity’ courses actually encourage students to experiment with homosexual acts, and even counsel them where to go for homosexual encounters.” He goes on: “Moreover, it should be obvious that a society that honors Torah-based sexual morality cannot support legislation that attempts to establish, or results in the establishment, of homosexuals as a special protected class. To enact special legislation legitimizes the unhealthy behavior of broken men and women in need of true love and understanding.” The author notes that one thing that is surely needed, then, on a society-wide scale, is education as to the causes of SSA and the importance of embracing one’s authentic male or female gender identity (352-3).
Still, Goldberg’s primary concern seems to rest with the same-sex attracted person’s relationship with
G-d. Homosexuality, in the faithful Jewish mind, is a sin that erodes this relationship more deeply and more radically than the more “ordinary transgressions.” Interestingly, Goldberg quotes Freud: “‘Homosexuality represents the acceptance of a neurotic resolution of conflict with the oedipal father in a way which will eventually distort one’s relation to the Heavenly Father.’ How this distortion or alienation develops can vary. It may manifest in anger and deliberate loss of emunah (faith in G-d) owing to an apparently unanswered plea for salvation. Or, it may involve recourse to intellectual sophistry in an attempt to ‘reinterpret’ the words of Torah and Talmud so as to make homosexuality appear consistent with G-d’s will” (354).
Someone said that an attempt to tidy up reality is to succumb to the sin of pride. This seems to be the case when it comes to the public embrace of the indulgent political correct homosexualism of the day. Where can one find the truth about the “grim realities” of homosexuality in a culture of people more interested in being cool, popular, and worldly than in standing for health, goodness, and rightness? Indeed, animosity against normalcy and against religion are nurtured in gay society (503). And the push for gay marriage is practically a hoax with only between 1% and 5% of gay couples actually tying the knot, and those numbers are dropping (504). Homosexualism today is not about marriage and family, rather it disparages the nuclear family ideal. It’s not about committed loving relationships, rather it is overwhelmingly and inordinately promiscuous and transient; the incentives for staying together are missing or illusory (519). It is not about reality, rather it mocks and harms the human body and its natural biological functions. The gay lifestyle is overwhelmingly and inordinately dangerous and life-shortening. Most especially, the innocence and safety of children are being sacrificed to this deceptive and false idol that has become the national taste.
One can find plenty of reality, uncomfortable as it may be, in this book. Rather than going through the gyrations required to squeeze shut the door of the crammed closet many young people are “coming out” of into a life of sexual disorientation and self-destruction, Goldberg allows the door to fall open and the tragic mess to fall out. Pulling the string attached to a 100-watt bulb, he shines the light on a jumbled mountain of human error and pain, the sorting and cleaning out of which he has found is prerequisite to a sparkling soul and a free life uncluttered with escapist addictions, suicidality, failed relationships, chronic illness, disease, and early death.
I’ll conclude with a success story in the words of one Jewish struggler who went through reorientation therapy and in the process discovered G-d and His timeless truths for all generations.
“Whereas I used to be totally preoccupied with my SSA issues, I am now more and more occupied with Torah—G-d’s design for creation—and His Teachings for mankind. I am now connected with an inexhaustible well of wisdom that makes a difference in how I live, what I do, and the meaning and significance of everything I encounter in life. And wow, what a difference it has made. I am not just saying this either – people have told me that they have seen me change significantly. (Yes, for the better!) The path He has lit and on which I travel is indeed a journey of discovery, learning, growing, and progressing."
Sol Subscriber on The O'Reilly Factor
Shannon Laudie, of Pleasant Grove, UT was highlighted on the Fox News Channel's O'Reilly Factor email segment Friday, December 9, 2011. Here's what she wrote in response to Margaret Hoover's take on Pamela Anderson disrespecting Mary in a Nativity Scene comedy sketch on TV:
"Margaret Hoover has a double standard. She wants children to respect gays, but believes Pamela Anderson's profane portrayal of the Virgin Mary is funny." Way to go, Shannon!
What's Happening at BYU? November 21, 2011
As alumni, parents of alumni, and active members of the LDS Church, up to now we at SoL have tried to refrain from reporting anything too negative about BYU or any other Church-affiliated organization or business. But as some concerned like-minded friends said the other day, “We’re over it.” So, here we go, come what may. We feel those who have invested in this institution and continue to support it, including financially, deserve to know what’s going on at BYU.
If you think BYU upholds traditional family values, think again. Certain department heads, professors, guest lecturers, and students have become a law unto themselves, regularly preaching all manner of progressivism including socialism, radical feminism, anti-Americanism, revisionist history, outdated Darwinism, and popular homosexualism, and continue to be supported, employed, and welcomed.
The issue of homosexuality is a prime example. Incredible and exasperating as it is, we must face the fact that our beloved and trusted BYU has made concessions, step by step, for homosexuality as an alternative sexual identity to be accepted and respected. This is reflected in the change BYU made to its Honor Code in 2007 (with input from gay activist students) which approved the accepting of openly gay instructors and students. Individuals acting out, however, is still prohibited, although the definition of acting out is open to interpretation, rationalization, and can easily be covered in secrecy. Even though the honor code still prohibits the advocating of homosexuality, advocating homosexuality is definitely happening. Of course all these problems are born of the compromising and soul-killing inconsistency of allowing homosexuality in principle but not in practice.
Just a few years ago in 2006 we publicly opposed the intrusion of the lawless traveling gay advocacy group Soulforce onto the BYU campus, with their flyers and posters. BYU allowed them that year, the next year they disallowed them and arrests were made. Interestingly, we don’t have to worry about Soulforce anymore because now BYU has a very vocal home-grown student advocacy group of its own called USGA, Understanding Same-Gender Attraction. It meets every Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. in room 111 of the TMCB on the BYU campus with BYU’s permission. Call this group what they will, from what we've seen firsthand, it’s really about affirming out-of-bounds sexual lust.
Not many know about the BYU’s counseling office’s invitation to a formerly LDS, ex-communicated acting-out gay man to train its counselors to help sexually confused students accept "their gayness." It was found out at the last minute by concerned Church members who complained, but the result was that the training was merely moved off campus. This was in February 2010.
Recent news concerned an openly gay man being fired as executive producer in BYU’s broadcasting department; BYU public relations was quick to make it clear that he was not fired because he was gay as some suggested. Is BYU that concerned about “bad publicity,” that is, being thought of as taking any kind of stand against homosexuality?
Most recently, the media reported student outrage about a series of letters supporting traditional values in The Daily Universe concerning gay parenting/adoption, prompted by the TV show “Modern Family.” A group of gay activist students who took especial offense to one letter to the editor made up an accusatory flyer and without permission stuffed a number of them in the next day’s edition. Joe Campbell, the managing editor of the paper, faculty member, and also a columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune, catered to the lawless gay activists by printing an apology and affirming the Church’s understanding and respect for homosexually-attracted people, at the same time removing the offending letter from the online version of The Daily Universe, a letter that unequivocally expressed the timeless Biblical truth that homosexuality is sinful. SoL wonders, what about the person who wrote the letter that got removed? There seems to be no understanding and respect for him – or the Bible for that matter. Shouldn’t he now be offended? Shouldn’t God be offended? Apparently not. To quote the Salt Lake Tribune article, “BYU has no interest in pursuing or punishing the students who produced or distributed the flyer, Campbell said. ‘We count this as a learning experience.’” And what has BYU learned? Never to publish scriptural doctrine in its paper because it might offend gay activists?
By the way, the only defense of the social experiment called gay parenting students could come up with was to compare it as better than foster homes, orphanages, and bad traditional parents. Besides having no information on which to base this comparison, and besides respectable foster parents, honorable orphanages, and imperfect but striving traditional parents rightly taking umbrage at this comparison, the issue is not about comparing these situations. The issue is that gay parents are modeling sinful and highly harmful and risky sexual ideas and behaviors to innocent, untaught children. Everybody needs to read Dawn Stefanowicz’s book, Out From Under, The Impact of Homosexual Parenting and hear her highly-researched presentation, to name but one of many resources of reality and truth.
What is going on at BYU is incongruent and inexplicable. Unless we are instructed to turn in our Standard Works for new gay-affirming scriptures and clean out our ward and home library shelves of all our LDS Church manuals, books, and magazines, homosexuality should still be officially, courageously, and correctly shown as sinful and harmful in both thought and deed in every ward, stake, and Church-owned or endorsed group, business, or education entity.
(And for our detractors: pointing out relatively recent statements made by this or that leader which contrive to make certain allowances for homosexuality only proves to confuse the issue, since directly contrary scriptures, treatises, and statements by prophets and apostles have not been recalled and continue to be made.)
For those of us who attended BYU, dated and became engaged on its campus, sent our children to be educated there and hoped to send our grandchildren, these developments feel like a gross and incomprehensible betrayal. Gone are the days of visiting this beautiful, memory-laden place with a warm, light heart, feeling as if it were indeed the Lord’s university, and having confidence in it as a fearless source of spreading goodness, knowledge, truth, and righteousness.
The gay activists continue their work and grow in boldness. Why aren't those who are obligated to stand for truth and righteousness at all times, in all things, and in all places vocal as well? At the very least, as things stand, you may want to think again about making that regular financial contribution to BYU.
--Stephen and Janice Graham, Standard of Liberty
The Pursuit of Happiness and the Fatal Principle
Our Declaration of Independence says that we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But should people have a right to pursue their personal idea of happiness by any and every means? Of course not. Our society has all kinds of restrictions and outlaws a number of behaviors such as rape, murder, stealing, etc. The writers of the Declaration on which our country is founded meant that all people have the right to pursue happiness by lawful and moral means. It was written in a time when people were permanently divided and oppressed according to unchangeable class or social status, ruler-mandated religious denominations, and the like. Perhaps it's hard for us complacent, multi-generational Americans to imagine such a time when people did not enjoy such things as social mobility, property ownership, and religious freedom. Evidently, it was a very big deal to conceive of a such a nation as this was meant to be. The Founders wanted a different sort of society where everyone was equally free to pursue virtuous goals and worship God according to the dictates of a moral conscience.
Jan Lewis in The Pursuit of Happiness, explains that in using this phrase America's Founders actually had in mind not the fulfillment of the individual as we hear about today, but the fulfillment of family life as the ultimate wished-for personal happiness. This included the freedom to pass on one's moral/religious convictions to one's children and the opportunity for property ownership (acres for a house, garden, animals, pond, etc.) in order to independently provide for the spiritual and physical needs of a growing family. In those days owning a house was not considered for its own sake as a financial investment as it often is today, but for the sake of long-term conjugal family security. At its core the Declaration was meant to proclaim the human right to pursue the best safeguard against tyranny and the best chance for human happiness possible here on earth: family life.
Increasingly, since the 1920s, the original meaning of the pursuit of happiness has been redefined, even high-jacked, to include unlimited sexuality, the opposite of virtuous family life. We've seen how co-habitation, out-of wedlock pregnancy, divorce, abortion, homosexuality and the like, have become de-stigmatized, then championed, all in the name of individual sexual freedom, fulfillment, or happiness.
Of course licentiousness does not bring happiness, only misery, but we live in a blind and prideful society which values only itself and has abandoned its responsibilities to both past and future generations. Sexuality is now the one impulse that need not be bridled---except perhaps where it is associated with marriage, ecclesiastical discipline, and sex crimes, and even these restrictions are fast fading away. We have rampant infidelity, open marriages, state-recognized "gay marriage," churches softening and abandoning their doctrines, a growing gay clergy, and new laws and policies, local, state, and federal, reflecting ever-widening boundaries for all manner of sex and sexuality for all ages.
In the 1940s C. S. Lewis, in his essay "We Have No 'Right' to Happiness,'" (God in the Dock) discusses this societal trend, adding, "Our sexual impulses are thus being put in a position of preposterous privilege. The sexual motive is taken to condone all sorts of behaviour which, if it had any other end in view, would be condemned as merciless, treacherous and unjust." He is right. If our society did not embrace irresponsible sexual freedom as happiness, but rather the pursuit of classic family life as happiness, a "gay" man's abandonment of his wife and children, an adulterous woman's convenience abortion, a public school teaching children that homosexuality is normal and having a father who objects arrested, a little boy being encouraged by the adults around him to dress and act as a girl in preparation for hormones and surgeries that will confuse and mutilate his healthy young body, and many other behaviors, would not be condoned as they now are, but summarily condemned as merciless, treacherous, and unjust.
Now that we have made the sexual impulse a "right," this fatal principle, as Lewis calls it, "must sooner or later seep through our whole lives. We thus advance toward a society in which not only each man but every [unschooled and selfish] impulse in each man claims carte blanche. And then . . . our civilization will have died at heart and will . . . be swept away."
So much has happened which Lewis could hardly have imagined, but he clearly saw the direction the world was headed. It's incredible to us at SoL that even those with resources, influence, and obligation avoid this topic like the plague. Many of our seemingly most moral and conservative leaders no longer take a stand on issues of sexual morality. They, quite irresponsibly, turn a blind eye to the tragic consequences for a society bent on sex, sex, and more sex. As a result, Lewis's prediction is coming true. To its detriment, as our society has settled on pushing and celebrating unlimited sexuality it has had no trouble pushing and celebrating every other preposterous entitlement men arbitrarily claim from society as a right: a "right" to marriage, a "right" to be a parent, a "right" to destroy the unborn, a "right" to own a house, a "right" to have a job, a "right" to free health care, a "right" for foreigners to break America’s laws, and the list goes on. So much for the sense of personal responsibility needed to pursue real happiness.
How Does Our Garden Grow?
Review on A Queer Thing Happened to America, Michael L. Brown, EqualTime Books, 2011
by Janice Graham. September 17, 2011.
Is it any wonder that, hidden among and sheltered under the unruly weeds of the anti-establishment sexual liberation of the 1960s, up popped the stubborn and ligneous homosexualism crusade? Anyone knows that when even the most carefully planted vegetable garden is neglected it is quickly taken over by the uncultivated and inedible, even poisonous. Inevitably, that which is at least unproductive and at worst harmful will steal essential light, nutrients, and room to grow, killing the thoughtfully sown useful and productive plants. As Michael Brown repeats in his brave new book about this crazy jungle of a world we find ourselves living in, You think I’m making this up? You think I’m exaggerating? Well, I’m not. Read on. And as distressing, disturbing, and recondite as the little-known facts are in this hefty 600-page volume (including a hundred pages more of tiny-print notes and references), read on is what we must do, that is, if we care at all about the state of our shared societal garden.
Before we begin let’s shed some light on the importance and purpose of civilized human societies. Like a good garden, a good society is productive and beneficial to its people. When human beings form the best and most free societies, as in a family, neighborhood, community, church, and nation, each member willingly gives away some of his freedoms, especially those time-tested and proven to be destructive and harmful to himself and others. In return, the individual receives a myriad of benefits only a good society can provide, including safety, convenience, healthy boundaries, guidance, and a sense of place and purpose. Unfortunately, in America’s recent decades we have seen more and more of an emphasis on the individual’s basest, most self-centered freedoms and less and less on the lofty standards and great value of the best possible society. In fact, radical individualism is killing the garden, strangling the most fundamental units of free societies beginning with the family and the church. For instance, in our modern courts and legislatures, by whatever misguided or nefarious motivations, gluttonous and unchecked sexuality is now being favored over respect for life, childhood innocence, the conjugal family, religious freedom, and decency. When our society’s most carefully-sown seeds are thus oppressed, we open ourselves up to weakness and destruction from within and from without.
Is it true that faith, family, and freedom are endangered by some evil force in our society today? And if so, how did this happen? In A Queer Thing Michael Brown explains in no uncertain terms and with many a welcome reiteration and clarification (needed because the incredulous reader will often think his eyes and brain are playing tricks on him), how we got where we are, pro-gay ideology, the impact of gay activism on society, and where the current trajectory is taking us. One close-to-home illustration is Brown’s own experience in trying to find a publisher for this book, and finding instead that, in the words of a media pundit, conservative no less, “no media is willing to promote a book that opposes homosexuality” (10).
Unlike common weeds that spring up voluntarily in a neglected garden, we learn in this book that the seeds of this particular vice have been as carefully sown as the seeds of virtues must be, and all while the gardener slept. In chapter one, “A Stealth Agenda,” Brown reveals numerous documents, manifestos, articles, books, mission statements, task forces, training programs, policy institutes, conferences, demonstrations, campaigns, and national programs for schools which have been created over the years by dozens of highly funded gay activist organizations in the cause of legitimizing homosexuality. For a very small percentage of America’s population (2 %), their stated objectives are exceedingly self-important and presumptuous: overhaul straight America, encourage coming out, expunge scripture, punish objectors, repeal age of consent laws, allow same-sex marriage or abolish marriage altogether, free the homosexual in everyone, create a new reality in America. Create a new America? For the other 98% of us? In the often quoted words of the former legal director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, “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” (37). Using the manipulation and amelioration of language, gay activism in its own words aims to “desensitize”, “jam” (smear the opposition), and ‘convert” (311).
The reader may not have known it before because of its underhanded quality, but he will know it now; there is a gay agenda with a widespread clear and consistent message: gay is good, in fact it’s actually best. Traditional morality is out. Sex is the new god. The Bible must be rewritten, or at least reinterpreted to be sexual, more particularly, homosexual (chapter 10, “Queer Theology”). What’s more, the rights of gays are more important than anyone else’s. Absolutely nothing opposing homosexuality will be allowed. In Brown’s words, the rule of thumb for gay rights is: “We have the right to be ourselves, even if it offends you, but you do not have the right to be yourselves or to be offended. And under no circumstances do you have the right to offend us” (47). (For those who think gay is good, read Larry Kramer’s own words on his depraved sex life, page 136, words from a man whose name is memorialized at Yale University.)
As for the hate we hear so much about, Brown’s research concludes that most of the hate is coming from the GLBT community itself. Another of their goals is to make anyone opposing homosexuality look bad, which has amounted to persecution in the form of vicious name-calling, crass speech, and character defamation (62). Indeed, the tolerance we are told is required is no longer enough. The “Riddle Homophobic Scale” defines homophobia as “repulsion, pity, tolerance, and acceptance.” Only when people “support, admire, appreciate, and nurture” will they earn exemption from the so-called “homophobia” label (117).
Having made great progress in gaining mainstream acceptance, the intolerance and insanity that is gay activism pushes on into private businesses, schools, and churches. Most people may not know that businesses are rated by the Human Rights Campaign, the foremost gay activist group in the nation, on how gay-affirming they are according to truly outrageous criteria. (Brown correctly points out that it is really the Homosexual Rights Campaign because it is not about everybody’s rights, only homosexuals’.) In chapter eight the author supplies a long, long list of HRC’s gay-friendliest corporations, companies so ubiquitous that it would be virtually impossible for the public to avoid patronage, including Nike, Disney, IBM, Costco, Sears, and Microsoft.
What most people don’t realize is that gay activism targets school children. The grab for kids over the heads of their parents is perhaps gay activism’s most insidious and hurtful tactic. Brown says the average age of coming out is now 10 for boys and 12 for girls (106), all because at school the male/female reality is being deconstructed while children are being indoctrinated and encouraged toward all manner of gayness. He gives a long list of elementary schools books promoting sex, the sexualization of children, and the normalization of homosexual as equal to heterosexual relationships (108). Now we have kindergarten boys dressed as girls. Girls using the boys’ locker room. School kids instructed to play at being homosexuals in skits.
What are being presented as anti-bullying, nondiscrimination campaigns in our schools, from pre-school to college, such as intrusive questionnaires about all manner of sexual behavior, gay clubs, Day of Silence, and Gaypril, is really pro-gay, all about affirmation, encouragement, and celebration of homosexuality. In top universities there are campus orgies, queer textbooks, queer proms, gayborhood clubs, drag shows, drag balls, queer film festivals, and queer conferences, not to mention what’s happening on internet social networks. And all this is sanctioned by teachers and administrators, authority figures kids trust and look to for truth, knowledge, and guidance.
Of course everyone should know by now that Hollywood is overwhelmingly gay-affirming. As Elizabeth Taylor put it, “If it weren’t for gays, honey, there wouldn’t be a Hollywood” (152). Brown takes us on a revealing tour of this once decent city that plays its own ginormous role in shaping our culture, showing how movies and TV have come to be a force for pushing acceptance of wayward and excessive sexual appetites. Thanks to Hollywood gay activism, the rising generation increasingly regards gayness as hip, fun, cool, and everywhere. It becomes obvious to this reader that homosexual behavior and the like has become just another tragic way, akin to smoking, drinking, drugs, and heterosexual acting-out, for naturally rebellious teens to proclaim their independence from or lash out at the established rules of their parents, religion, and society, or for insecure, harassed teens to escape the risk and heartbreak of failure with the opposite sex. Sadly, such youth are aided in this highly addictive debauchery by omnipresent techno-porn and readily embraced by the gay community, never told that this bout with out-of-bounds sexual thoughts, feelings, and experimentation could be a passing phase, or that sex addictions have tragic consequences.
A chapter called “Is Gay the New Black?” is particularly astute. Brown, while bending over backwards to show love and concern for people with homosexual tendencies, tackles the tired and unproven but still often believed born-that-way argument. Showing that science has not found a genetic gay factor, he goes on to point out that this argument is irrelevant, reminding us that biology offers no help in distinguishing between right and wrong. He quotes Dr. Richard Lewonin, “Cancer is biological; does that make cancer good?” (220) Writes Brown, “Only people, guided by values and beliefs, can decide what is moral and immoral” (224). And if there were a genetic cause for homosexuality, a circumstance people are constantly insisting is so difficult, Brown asks, wouldn’t we want to find a genetic cure, as in the case of diabetes?
In perhaps the most disturbing chapter to me, “Speaking of the Unspeakable,” Brown systematically proves that the exact same arguments put forward by activists promoting homosexualism in order to justify their sexual behaviors are being put forth by organized pedophiles and pederasts. And the dirty little secret gay activists don’t like to talk about is that all the famous homosexuals they claim from history to further their cause were actually pederasts. Whether this was part of the plan or not, the gay movement has paved the way for public legitimization of what is called “consensual child-adult sex.” You think Brown is making this up? He reports that in the Netherlands an open pedophile was recently elected to parliament and knighted. In Dublin in 1984 a “Gay Youth Conference” created resolutions to abolish all age of consent laws. To paraphrase Dostoevsky, once God and His objective, age-old standards for goodness are removed from the equation (as occurred with the onset of the sexual liberation movement — the free-love hippies used the same arguments, too), all is permitted. Talk about our neglected garden overgrown by frightful weeds!
Brown devotes one important chapter to little-known but indisputable facts about how gay activism has compromised and stifled scientific research and debate, even psychiatric treatment, including showing how the American Psychiatric Association came to remove homosexuality from its manual of disorders because of political pressure from gay groups. Another chapter champions the existence of thousands of ex-gays and the real and present possibility of overcoming unwanted homosexuality. Brown goes on to explain how and why this possibility is vehemently denied by the gay community. Of course. They know that if one homosexual person can reorient to heterosexuality, people will realize gayness is not immutable, and as such is not a bone fide minority group, and the entire gay movement falls apart.
Of great interest should be the author’s findings on the part government is playing in the sexual freedom versus freedom of conscience battle. Evidently, religion has lost the culture war and Big Brother has gone militantly gay. After all, the two views are obviously incompatible, given the in-your-face intolerance shown by the gay movement, therefore, to reference Robert Bork, one will be supported and the other harmed. Bringing to mind the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition or the Nazi regime, Brown cites incidents that show how those with views opposing homosexuality in any way are being marginalized, silenced, and punished— in schools and universities, in workplaces, and, I might add if Brown didn’t, in churches (with increasingly gay, pro-gay, or misled and complacent membership and clergy). Even church-run charity organizations (such as Boston’s Catholic adoption service that refused to relinquish children to gay couples) and private conversations are not immune, and this is happening around the world. Gay speech is protected, while Christian speech is forbidden, even demonized. “Fellow, Americans,” writes Brown, “this is coming our way and to a large extent it is already here” (537). He says we must “expect to be harassed, fired, interrogated, fined, jailed, and attacked” for actively holding traditional views that benefit, order, and protect human society, namely, that “Marriage is the union of a man and a woman only,” “It’s best for a child to be raised by his or her own mother and father” or “I believe that homosexual practice is wrong”(546).
But that’s not nearly all, as Brown says so many times throughout this big book. Imagine a “transgender” telling first graders how his penis was cut off and he became a woman. It happened. Enter the world of “trannies,” people who have decided they are not the sex God made them, who take hormones and get doctors to mutilate their healthy bodies so they can better try to fool themselves and others that they are someone other than they really are as irrevocably shown in their DNA. We could call this the newest, hairiest weed popping up in our society. Yes, reports Brown, we now have little boys officially deemed little girls, children being given puberty hormone blockers until they are ready for “sex change surgery” at age 16, husbands and wives who “trade sexes,” and children being forced to recognize that their dad has “become a woman.” Imagine this true scenario: Your father changed into your mother and your real mother is her lover. But your real mother doesn’t like your father being a woman or a mother after all and neither do you, and your mother isn’t a lesbian so your parents don’t love each other anymore.
In fact, yours truly may have seen a “transitioning” she-he at the gym the other day. Hair that could be either, a woman’s face and voice, shoulder tattoos, exaggeratedly loose hangy male clothes, a strangely unnatural looking too-flat chest, and lifting the same weights as her-his solicitous and obviously female friend in a skirt whom the she-he did not follow into the women’s locker room. There in the gym, seeing my obviously female self reflected in the mirror companioned with my obviously male husband, a freaky, science-fictiony thought occurred to me: could there come a day when androgyny is the rule, when we are not allowed to present ourselves as either sex, when seeing an obviously male person and an obviously female person holding hands is a thing of the past? In the wake of happening upon a bold she-he working out alongside us at our gym, my husband and I, together as an opposite-sex, married, loving couple suddenly seemed like an old-fashioned custom, on its way out.
Should this ridiculous and disturbing thought of mine be in any way taken seriously? Yes. Brown shows us beyond a doubt that along with the gay alphabet soup, we are now being treated to the much more open-ended and far-reaching term “queer.” With queerness comes the notion of eradicating the binary male/female gender reality altogether, and this inevitably translates into multiplying gender exponentially as if the two sexes have exploded into scattered fragments. Yes, it sounds like science fiction to most people, but these outrageous fabrications, which include sadism and masochism, are being treated as normal, natural, and legitimate in some aspects of mainstream society, just as the political gay fabrication has been for some time now. They include so many contortions of human gender identities and relationships that you might have to draw a diagram of stick figures to figure out what they mean or where they came from. Chaos is the only word to describe it.
After a sickening report on how the perversely sexually addicted have even mainstreamed a homoeroticized Christ and the Bible, Brown finally takes us into the debased and bizarre sub-culture of voluntary amputees, those who feel they shouldn’t have been born with certain limbs and actually find some doctor who will remove, say, their perfectly healthy legs at the knee. For the reader it is not difficult to see that this is the same sex-crazed insanity as Chinese feet-binding and removing healthy breasts and genitalia. Believe it or not, some people are turned on by anything and everything, the kinkier the better, and for sex worshipers, the kinkiness has no limit.
As G.K Chesterton said a hundred years ago, "All healthy men, ancient and modern, know there is a certain fury in sex that we cannot afford to inflame, and that a certain mystery and awe must ever surround it if we are to remain sane." To borrow from George Orwell, this is why societies must preserve fairly strict rules for sexual behavior, even if some people refuse to keep those rules. As much as decent people would dearly prefer to continue turning a blind eye, we must see that all the deviations from order, normalcy, and health Brown cites are Godless, sexual, evil, and addictive at their roots, are increasing, and will affect bystanders, that is, our children, our families, our lives.
With the our society-wide surrender to homosexuality, Brown tells us, “the new possibilities are endless as are the new problems” (572). That’s right and we can’t even imagine the tragedies and disorder that will inevitably stem from limitless sex and sexuality left uncontested. It struck me that even most gay activists, if they thought it through, would not want the world they are fighting for, for every human in every stage of development, and every human relationship, can and will be sexualized; goodness, the only force able to stop the evil, will have been beaten into blind submission. In a final call for sanity, the author concludes with the understatements, “There is something precious about the male-female distinctives” (579). And “The very foundations of human society are undermined once we deviate from the foundational path of male and female” (563).
So, if we Americans want this garden we call human society to flourish, what must we do? Michael Brown, with his tireless documentation of America’s dark, queer, tangled experiment and the horrors it has already engendered, makes a good solid case for a consistent and uncompromising return to God’s benevolent law for his children concerning the sexual desire. This is that sex and sexuality should be uniquely reserved for lawful marriage and healthy, wholesome relations between natural male and natural female, husband and wife. Considering the state of our society today, this would require a complete recultivation, digging out the noxious weeds, preparing the soil, and planting anew the timeless seeds of virtue.
Don't Let Your Kids Watch Chaz Bono On 'Dancing With the Stars'
Chaz Bono, the “transsexual” woman who underwent plastic surgery and takes male hormones in an effort to appear to be a man, and who asserts she is a man, will appear on the upcoming season of "Dancing with the Stars", according to ABC, the network which airs the show. He will be partnered with a woman.
Casting Chaz Bono on "Dancing with the Stars" is part of Chaz’s victory tour, which has included appearances on talk shows and the release of a book called "Transition."
I advise parents to not allow their children to watch the episodes in which Chaz appears.
Here’s why: Many of the children who might be watching will be establishing a sense of self which includes, of course, a sexual/gender identity. Some will be girls becoming comfortable with dramatic changes in their bodies. Some will be boys coming to terms with integrating the dawn of manhood with exquisite feelings of vulnerability. Young viewers will include tomboyish girls and sensitive, less stereotypically “masculine” boys. They will also include children who have sustained the losses of loved ones and are wrestling with depression, perhaps wondering who they are absent their deceased mothers or fathers.
The last thing vulnerable children and adolescents need, as they wrestle with the normal process of establishing their identities, is to watch a captive crowd in a studio audience applaud on cue for someone whose search for an identity culminated with the removal of her breasts, the injection of steroids and, perhaps one day soon, the fashioning of a make-shift phallus to replace her vagina.
It is a toxic and unnecessary byproduct of the tragic celebration of transgender surgery that millions of young people who do watch "Dancing with the Stars" will have to ponder this question: Maybe my problems really stem from the fact that I’m a girl inside a boy’s body (or a boy inside a girls body). Maybe I’m not a tomboy; I’m just a boy! Maybe I’m not just being bullied because I’m a sensitive, reflective young man interested in flowers, not football. Maybe I’m not just uncertain about my sexuality. Maybe I’m a girl! Maybe all this angst and suffering I’m feeling as I emerge into puberty and pass through it isn’t just because I’m changing, but because I should change completely—and have my breasts removed or my penis amputated!
It would be wrong to think that gender dysphoria cannot be kindled by celebrating those who have undergone sexual reassignment surgery. Human beings do model one another—in terms of emotion, thought and behavior. By broadcasting, applauding and mainstreaming the journey of a very disordered person who endured, and likely will continue to endure, real suffering based on extraordinarily deep psychological problems, we suggest that that journey is a smart—even heroic—one to take.
The truth is that Chaz Bono should be empathized with and treated with dignity. Any contribution he makes to the world should be applauded as it would be for any other person.
But Chaz Bono should not be applauded for asserting she is a man (and goes about trying to look like one) any more than a woman who believes she will be happier without arms, has them removed and then continues to assert that she was right all along—her self-concept was that of a double amputee. Now, all is well.
Chaz Bono should not be applauded any more than someone who, tragically, believes that his species, rather than gender, is what is amiss and asks a plastic surgeon to build him a tail of flesh harvested from his abdomen. If only a plastic surgeon would acquiesce, all would be well.
There are such people, by the way. Do you want them exalted, too, rather than commiserated with? Do you want your children thinking that if they suffer a delusion that they are better off without arms, that that means they should visit a plastic surgeon? Or would you prefer that they burrow to the psychological core of their abnormal psychology with an empathic professional, or two or three—even if that exploration is long and arduous? Would you not prefer that they try every available medication to impact mood, thought and perception before going under the knife?
It would be wrong to think that gender dysphoria—discomfort with one’s gender—must always end either in misery or sexual reassignment surgery. It can end with coming to terms with deep psychological conflicts that are fueling the gender dysphoria.
"Dancing with the Stars", starring Chaz Bono, takes the opposite view. It’s position is that Chaz Bono’s chemically and surgically altered appearance is a blessing to us all, a triumph of autonomy and self-possession on par with the triumphs achieved by the heroes of the Civil Rights movement.
That’s very nearly insane. It’s a psychologically destructive myth and can erode our children’s evolving senses of self.
I’m going to take heat for saying all this, by the way. I already have for making similar statements in the past. So be it. I would rather be the one shouting “The Emperor has no clothes!” than one of the happy-go-lucky villagers applauding the tragic parade.
Make no mistake: I would have gone to the ends of the earth to help Chaz Bono if she had come to me for help.
I would have treated her with dignity and summoned every ounce of my intellect and empathy to explore her psyche with her. I would have pried loose every family secret hidden by the Bonos.
I would have been relentless.
I would have used everything I know about medication to help her.
I would have enlisted the help of every expert I know—some of the world’s best—at everything from endocrinology to hypnosis.
I would have teamed up with a spiritual counselor, if that seemed indicated.
And if all that failed, and if Chaz Bono wanted either to kill herself or to undergo gender reassignment surgery, I would have taken that journey with her, too. I would have talked her parents through the hell of it. We would make the best of it.
Somehow, with enormous compassion and love and God’s help, we would get through it.
But I would feel no triumph in it, no sense of any heroic overcoming obstacles and righting the flesh in accordance with the soul. I would feel pathos. I would feel the limits of my attempts to truly heal Chaz Bono, and I would wish her well with a life that had veered, seemingly unavoidably, into a very dark place.
Chaz Bono didn’t come to me for help, though. She didn’t ask me for my opinion. But when she decided to promote gender reassignment surgery in the media as a happy triumph, she ended up getting my attention, anyhow. Because I care about you, too, and your families.
So, here it is. One psychiatrist’s prescription, sure to cost me a lot of hate mail, but reward me with the certainty that I am stating what I believe to be true and that I am doing my job: If you care about your kids, don’t let them watch "Dancing with the Stars" starring Chaz Bono.
Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist and member of the Fox News Medical A-Team. Dr. Ablow can be reached at info@keithablow.com. His team of Life Coaches can be reached at lifecoach@keithablow.com.
Captain of My Soul, by Aaron S. Grant Available NOW! August 1, 2011
With a Foreword by Jeff Robinson, Ph.D. and an Afterword by A. Dean Byrd, Ph.D.
Reports from Readers:
This is an excellent book.
I couldn't put it down - I kept reading and reading and reading.
This book should be in the home of every family.
I read it in one sitting!
As a college professor, I have students who struggle with this problem. This book offers hope. It's disheartening, all the false information being put out. The truth needs to be told.
Tidal Wave Books, along with the Standard of Liberty, is pleased to announce the publication of a bravely revealed and important true story. Battle lines are drawn in an LDS setting as from a young man's own words we learn the reality of early experiences with peer abuse, same-sex internet pornography, a gay-affirming culture, and online associations with predatory men, conditions which can send developing masculinity and sexuality into confusion and addiction.
How is our secularized and sexually permissive environment
shaping the lives of young people?
What role does each of us play in their increasing decisions to
turn to pornography and homosexuality?
Here is a riveting true life experience
that reveals stunning answers.
Snippets of what experts have to say about Captain of My Soul:
"The condition of same-sex identity is definitely treatable. Your book would be a great resource."
-W. Dean Belnap, M. D., Psychiatrist
"Here's a success story."
-Douglas E. Brinley, Author, Brigham Young University Professor (ret.), Lecturer
"Aaron's story is not one of quiet desperation, but one of quiet celebration."
-A. Dean Byrd, Ph.D., MBA, MPH, University of Utah School of Medicine
"This is the clear account of love from a family and much greater love from Jesus Christ."
-Dr. Neil E. Whitehead, Ph.D., Author, My Genes Made Me Do It, A Scientific Look at Sexual Orientation
Here is truth about
youth, pornography, and homosexuality
that is being overlooked, ignored, and silenced
by a complacent, conditioned,
and dangerously compromised culture.
This is the story of a modern fall and a timeless redemption, with key roles played by a loving family, knowledge and education, gospel-based professional counseling, and unconquerable faith in the saving grace of Jesus Christ.
Captain of My Soul may be ordered on www.tidalwavebooks.com now for 12.95, free shipping. It will be available soon on Amazon.com and BarnesAndNoble.com. Also find Chased by an Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today's Stampeding Sexuality for LDS families, Wild Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today's Stampeding Sexuality for all Christian families, and Me, Tarzan, You Jane for the youngest children written for all Christian families, also at Tidal Wave Books, BYU Bookstore, through Barnes and Noble and amazon.com.
We recently received the following two items from our friends at NARTH (the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality), about recent attacks by gay activists about offering reorientation therapy for those with unwanted homosexual attractions.
Dear Friends:
As the linked article suggests, the attacks on those who offer assistance to clients struggling with unwanted homosexual attractions is growing daily. In just the past few weeks CNN had an extensive series of reports that sent the message to viewers that attempts to reorient homosexuality are unsafe and universally unsuccessful. Therapists who are willing to help these individuals were portrayed as frauds, and even more concerning, dangerous. Fortunately, the CNN report (though unbalanced) did include Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, one of NARTH's founding directors, who very articulately offered an opposing and scientifically accurate viewpoint.
Presidential politics will now apparently be used as a forum to attack change therapies. Dr. Marcus Bachman, for example, and candidates like former Governor Tim Pawlenty are under fire in the press. Both have pointed out that although homosexual feelings may not be a choice, they are also not genetically determinative, and cannot be used as a justification to push a political agenda. As the debate continues we can be sure that science will be generally ignored if we are unwilling to speak out and speak up.
NARTH does not intend to let that happen and we need your help to make sure our neighbors, families, friends, and the leaders of our civic institutions are not misled.
We believe the reason reorientation therapies are under attack is because the campaign to deceive society into believing that people are "born that way" is beginning to fail. The science won't support the rhetoric, and even the American Psychological Association has had to modify their position to reflect the research. The small but persistent voice of NARTH members and our allies has made a difference.
Now the new assault on science comes in the form of the equally fallacious argument that attempts to help those with unwanted homosexuality are "dangerous". This is completely false! This is particularly exasperating coming from a media totally unwilling to acknowledge the tremendous health and emotional toll that homosexual activities exact on those caught up in the lifestyle. They will spend thousands of hours searching for one individual who claims to have been injured by therapy, but seldom mention the thousands of broken lives that are the legacy of homosexual behavior.
At the same time, the number of individuals who have successfully overcome homosexuality continues to grow, and the lives of these brave folks continue to testify that change is possible. Please know that while we continue to plead for your financial support, NARTH members, supporters, and friends are making a difference! By making a generous donation we can and will do more. Thank you for your encouragement.
In the past week presidential candidate Congresswoman Michelle Bachman has been attacked because her husband, psychologist Marcus Bachman, allegedly does "reparative therapy" for those who come to his Christian counseling clinic seeking assistance with unwanted homosexuality. Almost simultaneously former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty was asked in an interview if he thought homosexuality was a choice. Both campaigns reacted with statements that mirror information familiar to NARTH members and supporters.
In short, they responded that counseling clients have a right to seek assistance for their unwanted homosexual attractions and science does not support the "born that way" mantra used to promote the gay political agenda.
In recent years, people have tried to marginalize therapists who provide psychological care for clients distressed by unwanted homosexual attractions; yet, change therapies have been offered for the past century and have been found to be successful. In fact, over the past 125 years, change of sexual orientation has been documented via case studies, clinical reports, and research studies (NARTH, 2009). It is clear that change of both behavior and attractions is indeed possible.
Although many people have been misled to believe that homosexuality is biologically based and therefore unchangeable, researchers acknowledge that people are not simply born homosexual. Researchers have never found a biological basis for homosexuality (APA, 2008). Anyone familiar with the research knows clearly that many factors contribute to sexual orientation. There are many pathways into and out of homosexuality.
Therapy for unwanted homosexual attractions is no different than therapy for any other issue. Therapists who offer psychological care for clients distressed by homosexual attractions typically offer mainstream approaches to therapy. Approaches to therapy include Interpersonal Therapy, Object Relations Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Family Therapy, EMDR, trauma-based therapies, and others. NARTH therapists are fully licensed professionals who represent the major mental health organizations and who abide by the highest standards of ethical care.
NARTH supports the freedom of individuals to claim a homosexual identity or to explore their unwanted attractions and make changes in their lives. Clients have the right to self-determination. Ethically, therapists must honor the client's right to choose his or her own goals, or the therapist must refer to another therapist who can do so. Ethical therapists support their clients in achieving their stated goals, including goals to move beyond a homosexual orientation.
NARTH supports the rights of clients to pursue psychological care for unwanted homosexual attractions and the rights of professionally qualified individuals to provide such care. Those candidates in the public spotlight, and it will get far more intense as we get closer to election-day, are to be congratulated for sticking to the science and supporting client rights no matter how politically incorrect it is to defend truth and freedom regarding homosexuality.
References
American Psychological Association (APA) Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns (2008). Answers to your questions for a better understanding of sexual orientation & homosexuality. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/topics/sexuality/sorientation.pdf.
National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) Scientific Advisory Committee (2009). What research shows: NARTH's response to the American Psychological Association's (APA) claims on homosexuality. Journal of Human Sexuality, 1, 1-128.
Click here to go to the NARTH website.
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New book, Captain of My Soul, by Aaron S. Grant Release date August 1, 2011 With a Foreword by Jeff Robinson, Ph.D. and an Afterword by A. Dean Byrd, Ph.D.
Tidal Wave Books, along with the Standard of Liberty, is pleased to announce the publication of a bravely revealed and important true story. Battle lines are drawn in an LDS setting as from a young man’s own words we learn the reality of early experiences with peer abuse, same-sex internet pornography, a gay-affirming culture, and online associations with predatory men, conditions which can send developing masculinity and sexuality into confusion and addiction.
How is our secularized
and sexually permissive environment
shaping the lives of young people?
What role does each of us play in their increasing decisions to
turn to pornography and homosexuality?
Here is a riveting true life experience
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Snippets of what experts have to say about Captain of My Soul:
“The condition of same-sex identity is definitely treatable. Your book would be a great resource.”
—W. Dean Belnap, M. D., Psychiatrist
“Here’s a success story.”
—Douglas E. Brinley, Author, Brigham Young University Professor (ret.), Lecturer
“Aaron’s story is not one of quiet desperation, but one of quiet celebration.”
—A. Dean Byrd, Ph.D., MBA, MPH, University of Utah School of Medicine
“This is the clear account of love from a family and much greater love from Jesus Christ.”
—Dr. Neil E. Whitehead, Ph.D., Author, My Genes Made Me Do It, A Scientific Look at Sexual Orientation
Here is truth about
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This is the story of a modern fall and a timeless redemption, with key roles played by a loving family, knowledge and education, gospel-based professional counseling, and unconquerable faith in the saving grace of Jesus Christ.
Captain of My Soul may be ordered on www.tidalwavebooks.com now for 12.95, free shipping. Also find Chased by an Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today's Stampeding Sexuality for LDS families, Wild Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today's Stampeding Sexuality for all Christian families, and Me, Tarzan, You Jane for the youngest children written for all Christian families, also at Tidal Wave Books, BYU Bookstore, through Barnes and Noble and amazon.com.
We can learn a lot about gay activism by who they attack and why. Incredibly, some still openly deny the existence of a gay agenda, scoffing at the very idea. But of course there is a gay agenda. We see it playing out in our government, schools, entertainment media, and culture at large.
One of the latest tactics in this agenda is attacking and misrepresenting presidential candidate Michelle Bachman because of her traditional, Biblical stance on human sexuality and her husband’s occupation as a clinical therapist who helps people with unwanted homosexual tendencies orient to heterosexuality. Of course gay activists deny this is even possible, ignoring and mocking credible research that proves success for thousands of people.
Bear in mind that this is the group that screams for diversity, for tolerance and acceptance of alternative points of view, at the same time screaming conformity, intolerance and hatred for those who hold beliefs opposite from theirs. This is the group that would deny an individual the right to approach Marcus Bachmann with the plea: I’m miserable. I’m sick. I want out of this homosexual lifestyle. It doesn’t feel right. Can you help me? I’m ready to change. Why? Because if it’s a choice, gayness, with all its political and cultural influence, is toast.
It’s awfully convenient how the growing popular opinion, especially since the 1960s, is that human beings are able to change their minds on just about anything BUT sexuality.
Let’s pray Michelle and Marcus Bachmann hold their own.
SoL Subscriber Leaves Wells Fargo Over Support of Gay Activists
A few weeks ago SoL highlighted the activities associated with the Gay Pride celebration in Salt Lake City. We included a letter from one of our subscribers to Wells Fargo Bank, in which he expressed his disappointment with the bank for its support of the homosexual activist movement. This prompted other subscribers to take action as well. Below is a letter written by SoL husband/wife subscribers to the manager of their local branch. Letters and phone calls are just two of the ways all of us can take a stand for our traditional, God-based values, and against the subversion of those values. We encourage you to consider what you can do. All that is needed for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.
Dear Mr. -----,
Thank you for taking the time to visit with us in regard to our concern over the recent participation of Wells Fargo in the Utah Pride Parade in Salt Lake City. As we expressed, at the time, we were very disappointed that our bank would have an entry in a parade whose major, if not sole, purpose was to state their preference as to a sexual partner.
We believe that every individual has the right to equal treatment, but when the most personal and intimate thing in life is paraded before others including some participants being dressed, or undressed, to the point that they would be arrested for indecent exposure in any other setting, it has gone too far. (See links below.)
After considerable thought we have concluded that, after 34 years with Wells Fargo, we can no longer be one of your customers. We are, therefore, phasing out our account with you and transferring to a bank that has community involvement in keeping with a higher standard.
We are sharing this e-mail with friends and family in hopes that, if they do banking with Wells Fargo, they will likewise take a stand for decency.
Salt Lake City Parades Towards Gomorrah
June 14, 2011
Someone said that if Congressmen Weiner had exposed himself on a public street as he has on the internet, he’d have been arrested. And yet we here in Utah do allow such shenanigans on our public streets. They are even city police-protected. It’s called the Gay Pride Parade.
In fact, if someone via the internet sent a child some of the images that appeared on the streets of Salt Lake City Sunday, June 5, they’d be arrested. There were many children present, as spectators and as participants, as usual. The parents might just as well have taken them on an outing to a gay bar, strip club, or Las Vegas adults-only show. These children are being taught to find men outrageously dressed as drag queens and homosexual acting out on the public streets things of great worth to be praised and celebrated with balloons and flags. Pride in sexual immorality is the new patriotism, complete with cheers, tears, and bursting hearts.
Such parades amount to earnest pilgrimages seeking vindication for lawless nonsense. That’s because everything licentious people stand for is now embraced by our society as worthy of the endorsement and encouragement of the media, public figures, the city and state, local businesses, churches, and all citizens, including children.
It’s being going on for decades — Salt Lake’s slobbering love affair with immoral, perverse, and high-risk ideas and behaviors, yes, in front of children, and yes, in this city founded by a church — while those who take any kind of stand against harmful permissiveness are silenced, dismissed, and even demonized.
Where is the mayor? Where is the governor? Where is Child Protective Services? Where are all the other people with power and influence who are obligated to defend virtue, protect children, and stand for God and goodness? They might as well have been waving from convertibles.
All it takes for this sort of thing to occur and to escalate is for good men to do nothing. But we’ve gone way past that. Apparently “good men” are facilitating it. In fact, the mayors of both Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County were in attendance to welcome the crowds. Shame on Salt Lake City for its undeniable and disgusting slouch – no, parade– towards Gomorrah.
The following is a great letter from one of our subscribers concerning the Gay Pride Parade:
June 8, 2011
Wells Fargo Bank,
Lindon, Utah
Dear Wells Fargo Bank,
My wife and I have been Wells Fargo customers for many years. When I learned that Wells Fargo had entered a float in the Salt Lake Gay Pride Parade, I was angry and disgusted. I will not do business with a bank that supports the destructive and dangerous homosexual lifestyle. Would you mind explaining to me what there is to be “proud” about homosexual behavior?
Enclosed with this letter is a copy of a photo from the Tribune article about the parade. The young men shown are wearing nothing but pink underwear and flaunting their homosexuality. The whole parade was about the way in which they choose to have sex. Does Wells Fargo really believe that this is the kind of behavior a bank (or any other reputable business) should be promoting and encouraging? Would you want your own young children to go to such a parade? Wells Fargo should be ashamed about sponsoring this parade! Your position on this controversial issue has no doubt alienated and angered many of your customers as well as your own employees.
We are presently looking for another bank to do business with that does not support and promote the gay agenda. When we have found one, we will cancel our long-standing account with Wells Fargo.
Yours truly,
(name withheld for privacy)
Here are some supportive SoL received about this message. Our thanks to those of our subscribers who take the time to write:
Thanks for having the courage to take a stand against this type of lewd, pornographic and immoral type of behavior. The real problem as I see it is that we need a total effort to take back the leadership of the politicians in Salt Lake.
The citizens of Salt Lake and I happen to believe also the church have been too complacent and wanting to accommodate alternative lifestyles and behaviors…. and as a result the anything goes attitude has taken over the city. Much of this type of bizarre, crazy thinking and attitude was a big part of the Rocky Anderson era, but it continues today and a monkey see…monkey do behavior is a part of the everyday thinking and attitudes.
We need the Church to take a stronger stand and we need people of all faiths to say no to this kind of degrading, evil performance on the streets of our community.
If our families from even 40 years ago could see this kind of thing happening on the streets of Salt Lake they would think that it was a terrible joke or they were watching demons from another planet.
It really is sad and the fact that so many good people buy into this nonsense means that the evil forces are in many ways winning.
It is disgusting, shameful, embarrassing and lacks any redeeming value.
We need new leaders…..we need men and women of courage to say “No…not or our streets….ever!”
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Thanks for sharing. I have clients who are gay. As people I care for them and wish them all the best. I can't control what they do in their personal lives but when I see the Gaybune (Tribune) and other media doing stories with happy smiles on their faces, showing these images, it is painfully evident we live in a politically correct world. The only opinion that can be expressed seems to be the one that supports them. Otherwise you are hated and called homophobic. Its not about them having rights as they argue...it seems so clear there is an agenda.
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“Recruiting children? You bet we are.”— Gay Magazine Admits Radical Agenda May 24, 2011
Many gays do not like it, but an online magazine, QUEERTY.com has published an article by editor Daniel Villarreal entitled, “Can We Please Just Start Admitting that We Do Actually Want to Indoctrinate Kids?” The author proudly confesses that one of the gay agenda’s main goals is to indoctrinate school children into accepting “queer sexuality as normal.”
The article states: “We want educators to teach future generations of children to accept queer sexuality. In fact, our very future depends on it.”
And “Why would we push anti-bullying programs or social studies classes that teach kids about the historical contributions of famous queers unless we wanted to deliberately educate children to accept queer sexuality as normal?”
And “I and a lot of other people want to indoctrinate, recruit, teach, and expose children to queer sexuality AND THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.”
And “I for one certainly want tons of school children to learn that it’s OK to be gay, that people of the same sex should be allowed to legally marry each other, and that anyone can kiss a person of the same sex without feeling like a freak.”
And “I would very much like for many of these young boys to grow up and . . .” I want lots of young ladies to develop into young women who voraciously . . . ”
And “not educating our kids about queer issues makes them ignorant, hateful little morons.”
The article urged fellow gays to face this reality, be proud of it, and combat resistence from those promoting traditional moral values by creating “ads — with tons of verifiable supporting evidence—that just plainly state that denying marriage equality ruins people’s lives.”
As we at SoL have said before, this fight is not about marriage. The institution of marriage is merely being exploited and redefined to promote the acceptance of risky, perverse, unlimited sexuality . . . yes, to kids.
Those promoting this agenda are making tremendous progress and they won’t stop. As the author of the article obviously knows, our society is at war for the hearts of its children, a war between two diametrically opposed world views: one hedonistic, the other God-centered. We quote: “Remember, Prop 8 passed along age lines with the very old voting largely in favor of it. The younger generation doesn’t fear homosexuality as much because they’re exposed to fags on TV, online, and at school.”
We congratulate our readers who are striving to counteract the gay agenda in their families, churches, and communities. For help, see the entire text of Me Tarzan, You Jane, a nondenominational book for the youngest children here or find the book available now at BYU Bookstore and tidalwavebooks.com. Also Chased by an Elephant (for LDS families) or Wild Elephant (for all other Christian families), The Gospel Truth About Today’s Stampeding Sexuality for families with older children.
Education? Or Stranger Danger? April 22, 2011
WARNING: The public school curricula being taught to minors contains offensive information, some of which is reported here.
The public school maturation programs that used to remind pre-pubescent kids to shower and wear deodorant now teach them about both sex’s genitalia, sexual feelings, and appalling symptoms of sexually-transmitted infections. Yes, here in Utah, strangers are introducing somebody’s else’s children to sex. This used to be called child abuse; now it is called education.
Children who in these programs are encouraged to seek out “the school nurse” or “counselor” for intimate questions about their bodies and feelings do not even know the names of these people; they are strangers to the children. Some seventh grade girls, so traumatized by being taught about “cauliflower-like growths” on genitalia, refused to eat the cauliflower in their lunch. Seventh graders were not told that HIV/Aids is primarily a promiscuous gay disease, but are led to believe that anyone, even healthy, faithful married couples, can contract it through their sexual relations.
We’re writing to alert you of dangerous Utah State Board of Education approved curricula being taught in the Alpine School District and probably all others. One is a maturation program for 5th and 6th graders produced by Planned Parenthood and the other is a unit in health classes for 7th graders.
See the 5th-6th grade maturation program, “Growing Up Comes First” on the website sponsored by Planned Parenthood. Some of the problems with this program are that it undermines parental authority, it is age-inappropriate and sexual, it greatly plays down the fact that there are essential differences between girls and boys, and it is co-ed (teaches about both sexes). (Earlier this month, the State Board voted unanimously to end its endorsement of the Planned Parenthood video, although schools can still use it if they want.)
Attached are handouts from the 7th grade health unit. Problems with this unit include that it is an elective but is not presented as such so most kids take it, parents are not fully alerted as to what it contains beforehand and usually sign the permission slip, it contains highly offensive and skewed material, it is presented in a co-ed class, and it requires children to share personal beliefs and feelings about sex and sexuality with the teacher.
Both boys and girls in a 7th grade class (around age 13) in varying stages of development learn together from a teacher (someone who is commonly not a permanent or intimate person in their lives) about male and female genitalia, gruesome symptoms of STIs including putrid penile and vaginal discharges and pubic lice and crabs; errections, ejaculation, and nocturnal emissions; "ways to show affection without sexual contact,” and much more. It's actually more information than these kids will ever need to know and it is presented without the proper values and principles that should be attached. (When a parent complained to the teacher, the teacher's lame excuse was that the kids need to know all of this so they can describe their symptoms to a doctor.)
Even though abstinence seems to be emphasized as per Utah code, which sounds like a good thing, this law is being exploited as a way for strangers to teach sex and sexuality in detail to the young. The unit ends up giving and requiring too much information, some of which is skewed, becoming highly age-inappropriate, intrusive, and harmful. It's like a drug-free school program that introduces kids in detail to the strange and interesting world of drugs and drug paraphenalia. See the attached handouts given to 7th graders at Lehi Junior High last month.
Parents and grandparents should make sure these programs are not being used in their schools. If they are, you should study them out, call or write your child’s teacher, school, school district, and Utah State Board of Education to point out what is wrong with these misdirected and dangerous programs. Even if some parents opt their child out, these ideas and attitudes become part of our culture and hurt everyone.
If you think school administrators and educators in Utah (and every other state) care about the safety and innocence of children and the sacrosanct rights of parents, think again. There are those who are using every opportunity to subvert our rights and values in the name of tolerance, enlightenment, and diversity. In our recent LDS General Conference D. Todd Christopherson quoted Kenda Dean, who called this trendy philosophy “niceness” and “benign whateverism.” Schools are no longer about the three R’s. They are about indoctrinating children with the “progressive” ideas of whoever happens to be in charge of the schools. Here is a quote from a Utah State School Board meeting, April 8, 2011.
Leslie Castle (District 7, SLC): “I do believe kids learn things in school that they don’t learn at home. Schools are for discussions with people who feel differently than their parents do, broaden their horizons, illuminating and enlightening kids beyond their parents’ views.”
What? Parents send their kids to school so they can learn to espouse different feelings and values than those they are striving to pass on to them? We think not. Parents need to know that elementary school is the new liberal university campus, teachers and administrators the new stranger danger.
Be prepared to be treated dismissively when standing up to the progressivism in our public schools.
Attention all parents, grandparents, leaders, and teachers
April 4, 2011
Do children need to be taught the proper attitudes about male and female, romantic feelings, and marriage? YES! But what is our modern culture teaching them? All manner of wrong ideas! Here is help!
Standard of Liberty and Tidal Wave Books are pleased to announce Me Tarzan, You Jane, a 28-page book for the youngest children filled with God’s timeless truths about the most basic of realities. The author is Janice Barrett Graham, an award-winning children’s writer whose stories and articles have appeared in a long list of publications including Highlights for Children and The Friend.
Me Tarzan, You Jane is nondenominational, charmingly illustrated, and contains such gentle language that parents will feel comfortable with unlimited readings of this book with children of any age.
Given most parents’ natural respect for childhood modesty, many children are growing up exposed to unchallenged misinformation regarding gender and gender roles. Thus, the simple truths contained in this book are for ALL children. Our oversexed, secularized, Godless environment puts every child in danger of developing complacent, perverse attitudes and slipping into the arbitrary, politically correct philosophies of the day that will affect every aspect of their welfare. In today’s jungle, Me Tarzan, You Jane is a great tool to help instill essential healthy attitudes and counteract wildly popular falsehoods.
Please take a look at the text of this book in its entirety below. Feel free to use this text with your family, or if you’d like the charming book, it is now available online for only $7.00 per copy, including shipping. Click here to order. Please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery.
Available for families with older children are our new chapter books, Chased by an Elephant (specifically for LDS families) and Wild Elephant (for Christian families, nondenominational) The Gospel Truth about Today’s Stampeding Sexuality. Click here to order for just $10 each, including. Please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery.
Coming soon is Captain of My Soul, the true story of a young man’s journey into and out of the darkness of sexual confusion and addiction.
Me Tarzan You Jane
by Janice Barrett Graham
illustrated by Lili Ribeira and Andrew S. Graham
Copyright 2011 by Janice Barrett Graham
Imagine Tarzan growing up in the jungle, the only human being. Then one day he meets Jane. She is the first human girl Tarzan has ever seen, and he sees she is different from him. This is because Tarzan is a boy and Jane is a girl.
There is no other kind of normal human being. Just those two, male and female. This is how God made us. You can call them boys and girls, men and women, ladies and gentlemen, guys and gals, even dudes and dudettes! Tarzan figured it out pretty quick when he said, “Me Tarzan. You Jane.”
One of the first things all new moms and dads want to know is if they are having a boy or a girl. Whether you are male or female is shown in every cell of your body. Scientists can even tell if ancient mummies thousands of years old are male or female!
Being a boy or a girl means more and more as we grow up. The differences between male and female are necessary to human life. Respect for this timeless truth helps people live in an orderly way.
The Ramifications of President Obama’s
Uncostitutional DOMA Action
February 25, 2011
Pres. Obama announced Wednesday, February 23, that DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act that states marriage is between a man and a woman, signed into law by Pres. Clinton in 1996) is unconstitutional and has ordered the Dept. of Justice to no longer defend DOMA. This means that when a federal court case comes up challenging DOMA, the federal government will not respond to the complaint, nor will they assign any attorneys to the case, so the case against DOMA will automatically be won.
A hypothetical example would be when a gay “married” couple, one partner of which works for the IRS, want the federal agency to provide marriage-like benefits such as health insurance showing them as spouses. Even though DOMA says this is impossible, they could file a complaint in federal court and it would be sent to the Justice Dept. which would not respond. The judge would then automatically rule in favor of the gay couple.
Also part of DOMA is the exemption of states from Article 4 of the Constitution. This means states that don’t allow for gay marriage don’t have to recognize gay marriages performed in other states. But because of the President’s declaration, the same thing will happen as the above in regards to any law suits from gays claiming marriage complaining against a state that outlaws it. In other words, Utah is one law suit away from its state constitution’s marriage amendment being virtually nullified. You can be sure that gay couples, “married” out of state, are now all set up to file complaints against Utah. As things now stand, soon all state laws defining traditional marriage will be invalidated.
In essence, what the president did was unconstitutional, that is, declare an act of Congress unconstitutional without going through the legal process: either getting Congress to repeal it or getting a federal court to declare it unconstitutional. This act was a usurpation of presidential authority, the very thing our Founders strove to prevent by instituting federalism and our government’s unique system of checks and balances.
Still, all hope may not be lost because of our having a U.S. Supreme Court that leans conservative. When faced with this issue, which will probably be soon, the Supreme Court could find the DOMA law constitutional. It may also rightly rule that the President/federal government does not have the right to interfere with marriage, that it’s under state jurisdiction. In that case, each state will continue to have control over how it handles marriage.
It should be noted that our Founders never thought of marriage being licenced at all; it was strictly a religious institution. In more recent history, any government involvement or support of marriage, as in divorce laws and tax benefits, was mainly about the family, that is, the safety, security, nurturing, and teaching of children that often come from the union of man and woman. This was done in the best interests of society as a whole because it was rightly believed that strong families make a strong nation. This sounded good, but now that government is involved there seems to be no way out and no limits on government power over marriage. Government involvement paved the way for the gay movement, with the help of very bad public policies and laws concerning marriage since the ‘60s, to shift marriage to be first about the adult individual and adult relationships.
With our moral foundation lost, the next to go will be religious freedom. Aside from intimidation from gay activists causing churches to soften their stance and compromise their integrity here and there, churches may soon be coerced by government into treating gays and gay relationships as equal with male/female relationships, including performing same-sex marriages, or cease to exist as we know them. Ultimately, after a series of legal maneuvers and developments (which are now accelerating), all churches will either survive for the time being by fully accepting homosexualism in their midst or dissolve because they refuse to change their speech, publishing, and practices to accommodate homosexuality. Either way, religious people are intimidated and religious freedom is oppressed. Believe it, this gay thing is definitely big enough to disband churches and crush religious freedom and is perhaps being exploited by the powers that be to do just that.
What can be done? Since the Justice Dept. will no longer defend DOMA, Congress can step in on its own behalf and defend its own law. It is expected that Congress with do this. As citizens we can call and write our senators and representatives to encourage this measure. As church leaders and members we can stand for truth and righteousness at all times, in all things, and in all places, come what may.
SoL Editor's note: Here's a letter one of our subscribers wrote and sent to both Senators and his member of the House in response to the above SoL Voice
Dear ----------,
We are outraged at the Obama administration's plan to not defend the DOMA Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law in 1996 by Pres. Bill Clinton. Obama has decided to abdicate his responsibility to uphold this law. As Newt G. said of recent, in so many words, that Obama is striking down a federal law all on his own- against the congress's wishes which is unconstitutional, since he has sworn under oath to uphold the federal laws. So as a conservative Republican, what is your plan to defend DOMA?
Note: This abdication by Obama has the far reaching effects to perhaps cause churches who oppose homosexual marriages to either get in line with gay marriages or go under as churches and shut down as a church. This abdication by Obama could eventually imperil freedom of religion in the USA since the fed gov. is now so involved with marriage in the USA, and gays will no doubt put pressure on churches to grant them a marriage. What do you think and what are your plans to head off Obama and the Justice Dept and the gay community if in fact, you agree with me?
Sincerely,
DU and LU
Gay Activists’ New Frontier: Conservative Politics
February 21, 2011
Gays--politically conservative? That’s the newest tactic. We were at CPAC in Washington D.C. February 10-12 selling our new book and helping at the PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays) booth and saw it for ourselves. The Marriot Hotel was abuzz with the incredible news that a group called GOProud was a new sponsor of the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference and had a booth in the exhibit hall.
Sex activists have systematically attacked and infiltrated our marriage, family, education, and church institutions with their radical amoral agenda under the guises of equality, normalcy, and progress. Their latest insinuation into conservative politics is just another tentacle reaching in to squeeze God and goodness out of America.
GOProud apparently leans heavily on the idea of fiscal conservatism. But whether or not anyone there is really concerned about conservative economic principles (no deficit spending, cutting taxes and gov. spending, reducing size of government, etc.) which we doubt, it is obvious that any gay activist group is not socially conservative (pro-sexual morality, pro-traditional marriage, pro-mother/father parenting, etc.).
Here’s the truth that blows GOProud’s cover. Exploited gays need to know, along with everyone else, that homosexualism and all aspects of American conservatism have irreconcilable differences. At the 2010 Values Voter Summit we heard Senator Jim DeMint point out that you can’t be a true fiscal conservative without being a social conservative also. You can’t have the former without the latter. For example Sen. DeMint used the problem of the increase in the number of births to unwed mothers (now up to 40%). If there were more social conservatism (support for traditional values), that number would decrease and government financial support would decrease also. The same is true for all social problems such as crime, drugs, illegal immigration, health care, STD’s, abortion, and gambling. If these problem were handled through the lens of traditional values, they would decrease and so would government spending. Instead, misguided liberal government policies are seriously exacerbating these social problems. In other words, big government is spending our tax money to make these social problems worse. The corrupt Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the nation, receiving 360-odd millions annually from our government, is a case in point.
DeMint went on to say that conservatism itself is based on people controlling themselves while liberalism is based on the government controlling people. A government that purges religion purges traditional values. Our courts are in the process of getting rid of all religious influence in our society. This development touches everything: schools, businesses, families. Think about a people with no values; the government has to step in and control all the corruption. Say goodbye to freedom and hello to tyranny.
No, people who define themselves by their deviant sexual proclivities (GOProud) are not conservative, fiscally or any other way. Those who thumb their noses at social conservatism are themselves contributing to the fiscal problem. The good news is, because of CPAC’s decision to accept GOProud as a new sponsor, true conservative sponsors (Heritage Foundation, American Family Association, Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, and Liberty Counsel) boycotted the event. CPAC has since rethought that decision and has voted to withdraw GOProud’s invitation in the future.
A few more thoughts about CPAC.
We were at the booth one day when two men and a young person stopped by. The men were aghast, saying they had never heard of these crazy ideas, such as that people weren’t born gay and that gays could change their sexual orientation. They talked and listened for ten or fifteen minutes, but the young person said absolutely nothing, just stood there listening close-mouthed with an understated but rather wide-eyed, negative expression. This young person at first appeared to be a slim neat female in her late teens or early twenties, with every short hair in place, obvious eye make-up, foundation, and pink lipstick, wearing a skirt and heavy coat with a high collar. But on closer inspection, despite this disguise, we could see this person had the eyes, complexion, hands, and subtle body movements of a male. No wonder he never spoke; his male voice would surely give him away. To us this is unspeakably bizarre and sad.
Ann Coulter addressed the issue of GOProud in her speech at CPAC. She said she wished they hadn’t identified themselves in this sexual way, but had attended like everyone else, as concerned American citizens. She also said she felt gays were being co-opted as a tool by liberals to use gay marriage to help destroy the family and radically change the culture. (Remember that totalitarian regimes always undermine family and religion early on.) Earlier she had talked GOProud into letting go of their gay marriage plank.(Could it be that most gays don’t really care about being “married?” Answer: yes.) She added that she had a lot of gay friends and wished there could be gayness without sodomy. We say dream on, Ann.
We occasionally receive emails that tell us something about our readers.
Here is one we thought you would find interesting, and our response. January 10, 2011
From: brianna
Date: Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:30 AM
Subject: Hello
To: sgraham@standardofliberty.org
Hello, my name is Brianna and I'm 20 years old and a sophomore in college. I came across this site and I was overly offended by most of the content here. Honestly, if I was a teenager again i would have probably started cursing and yelling, but being a bit older I know what I want to say to people like you now. I article I'm commenting on is "gay clubs in high schools". Over all that articles was just offensive. I can't believe that in this world we can really STILL be saying that "Rainbows are harmless. Homosexuality is not."....It really makes me sick in the stomach. It is ignorance like this that starts hateful wars, killing, prejudice. I feel like she really was completely sheltered as a child with overly religious parents that shoved the bible down her throat. And since she is straight she had no idea what she is talking about, how can ANYONE that isn't close to someone who is gay or someone who is straight have any RIGHT talking about homosexuality?? Though I may not been gay I'm not ignorant. I have friends who are gay, my mother has adult friends that are gay, and hearing them out and talking with them about what it was like being gay when they were young is a sad story full of struggle. What is so wrong with people coming together and being a support? Religious groups do that same thing...I mean I was in youth groups and everything. I have nothing against God or the bible. What I have a problem is this ignorances and arrogance. There is nothing dangerous with Homosexuality. the LGB clubs OF COURSE talk about the dangers of intercourse. Teenagers are not ignorant about sex. They are teenagers. And anyway, you can't make the argument with HIV and AIDS....that
isn't a gay disease...anyone can get aids. It just happens that there are more tearing during anal sex then vaginal...Even straight couples have anal. So that argument is faulty. And being gay is just normal, just like straight. I can't believe this article. I support freedom of speech, petition, and religion, but this crosses the line into prejudice, thinking that you are right and everyone else is wrong. And just to say that God's law, was only made by man. I feel like the church forgets how many people they have murdered because of how the bible was interoperated. Lets look at the crusades, the witch hunts, the monarchies, women's rights being suppressed, thrown in asylums durning the victorian era to rot, the KKK....I can go on and on and on....but it always end up the same. Though I have nothing wrong with religious as a concept, it is purely SICK that religious people believe they have the right to put other's down! Gay's never hated the church, they just want to live their lives without the hatred. They never started anything but wanting the freedom to LIVE. How can we judge what is right and what is wrong. It says in the bible that God is the ONLY one that can judge us! No HUMAN has the right to judge another. Ever. You may be able to pray for them, and voice concerns but being prejudice like this is a sin. Anyway, you can't MAKE someone gay. There are families where the parents are gay and the children grow up being straight....you can have overly strict zelot parents that their kids can turn out totally gay.
But to conclude...this is wrong, hurtful, ridiculous, sad and prejudice...can't we just get along?
Brianna
Dear Brianna,
Thank you for perusing our web site and taking the time to share your strong feelings. We are sharing your email with our subscribers because it is a very good example of how a growing number of well-meaning people, young people in particular whose life experience is very limited, initially react to our point of view. They react this way because moral relativism along with the rejection of traditional sexual morality, the watering down of Christianity, and gay cultural indoctrination is what they have grown up with and all they know. In addition, they themselves, their friends, relatives, or others in their circle of acquaintance, may claim to be gay. Because they have been fooled into accepting their own or someone else’s alternative sexual proclivities as an identity in a legitimate minority group, they naturally refuse to tolerate any other view.
The fact that time-honored traditional sexual morality and the unique risks of homosexual behavior seem to be completely foreign ideas to you is indicative of how the accumulated wisdom of the ages, simple biological realities, and even common sense have been suppressed by an arbitrary, self-serving, and irresponsible trend. C. S. Lewis referred to this as a conditioning of many members of the gullible public by a lucky few with the means to do it.
We encourage you to think for yourself and explore another view. Of course, thinking these things through may not go over well with friends, family, and others. Truth is often uncomfortable. For instance, sometimes we have to choose between truth and being approved of by others. Why should we choose truth? Because truth enables us to offer real compassion, real `comfort, and real help. An example is how families and friends intervene to offer help to an alcoholic or drug addict they love. Pretending there is no problem is actually unkind. And yes, homosexuality is a problem. To begin with, it is maladaptive, addictive, may be a symptom of deep emotional trauma or mental illness, and leads to inordinately harmful behaviors.
A few points to clear up:
-It seems you missed Our Story which shows that we do know something about the homosexual mindset and lifestyle, its causes and its cures.
-Human sexual behaviors are always a choice for which we are each accountable, except perhaps in the case of severe mental illness/deficiently.
-It is common knowledge that decent straight people do not commit sodomy or anything like it. Sodomy is not mating; it is not the natural act that can make babies. It is an unsafe simulation, to put it mildly. Any self-respecting woman would not willingly consent to this act (the vagina can safely accommodate intercourse whereas the anus never can). It is the gay movement that has promoted the lie that everyone does this or that sexual behavior (introduced in the sexual revolution of the 1960s) in order to justify extreme, promiscuous, unnatural, and dangerous sexual behaviors. Doctors who care for patients who indulge in such acts can testify to the painful, chronic, and even fatal damage they do to an otherwise healthy body.
-A healthy, faithful man and woman who enjoy sexual intimacy in the only way natural to the human body can never get or spread HIV/AIDS (or any other sexually transmitted disease) from what they do together.
Please note that we at SoL treat everyone with respect. We discuss ideas, trends, human nature, events, and true principles rather than bash individuals, and encourage you to do the same.
Keep reading and all best wishes,
--Stephen and Janice Graham, Standard of Liberty
Do Ask, Do Tell: Congress Flies Gay Flag Over Our Troops December 22, 2010
It is perhaps the darkest day in the history of our essential American Military. What is the most discriminatory of all governmental institutions, at the price of our national defense, now flies under the phony gay rainbow flag. The lame duck U. S. Congress hurried to repeal the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law December 18, 2010, a law signed by President Clinton in 1993 that disallowed open homosexuality in the military. Even though this law was better than nothing, it showed a fatal degree of acceptance toward alternative sexuality. Clinton was in essence saying, okay, we accept gayness as legitimate, just keep it to yourself if you’re a soldier. This was the slippery slope that led to the law’s repeal; if gayness is legitimate, why shouldn’t gays be able to proclaim their preference and act out? With the repeal of this law it appears that open alternative sexuality/alternative gender identities will now be allowed among military personnel.
New rules relative to gays in the military will be promulgated. As with every societal institution, we must now ask ourselves how allowing homosexuality and the like in the everyday activities of our armed forces will look. The ramifications of the repeal of this law, the collateral damage and the infrastructural changes that would have to be made to maintain some degree of integrity, discipline, decorum, and order, seem practically endless. We cannot make a comprehensive list, nor can we imagine them all, but here are some that will have to be faced:
– Soldiers’ unity, trust, and discipline will be compromised. (Women in the U. S. military are not allowed to fight on the front lines side-by-side with male soldiers and are required to live in separate barracks, one reason for this being that women prove to be a distraction and temptation to men. If sexuality between soldiers is allowed to be openly practiced, undue preferences, jealousies, and lewdness will most likely result that will put order, effectiveness, and lives at risk. Will same-sex partners who may be legally married to each other get to be in the same unit and engage in sexual activities in barracks or in battle in close quarters with the other soldiers? This public display may be acceptable to them but offensive to others.)
– Chaplains, and all others who hold fast to their Biblical religious beliefs, including those conservative officers seeking career advancement, will have to get with the program of accepting homosexuality (and gay marriage?) as normal or be fired, otherwise punished, or forced to resign. In this way their first amendment freedoms of speech and the free practice of religion will be obliterated. (We might say the U. S. Military is now doing the exact opposite of what it was intended, that is, to defend America and all it stands for. We have to decide which freedoms we will prefer and protect: those enumerated in our constitution or out-of-bounds individual sexual freedoms a relative few have decided are more important.)
– Retention and recruitment will suffer. There are those currently in the military, and those who plan on military careers, who will change their plans because of the acceptance of open homosexuality. There are men who do not want to train, bunk, shower, sleep, and fight alongside other men who have homosexual/anal sex on their minds. Parents will discourage their children from joining for these same reasons.
– How about housing? It isn’t fair or decent or proper to put straight and gay men together in close quarters. So where should gays live? With women? This isn’t fair or decent or proper for women. With each other in a whole new set of barracks? Even worse! (And the same goes for lesbians.) How about gay couples who are “married?” Will the military have to provide them housing alongside heterosexual couples? All this would be paid for by American taxpayers.
– Will military doctors and hospitals be forced to perform sex change surgeries? What uniforms, male or female, will these unfortunate people wear in the process and after? Will normal men and normal women have to live and serve and fight alongside these distracting, confused people? What about the soldier whose decides his gender identity is liquid and changes from day to day? Will they be required to choose a permanent gender identity?
– Will the same rules for sexual morality apply to homo or bisexuals that apply to heterosexuals? (There are strict rules for sexual conduct in the military.) Or will gays be allowed to act out indiscriminately? Will they say that since they don’t get to be married they should be allowed to engage in unlimited sex with unlimited partners?
– In a structured all-male environment where homosexuality is publicly and openly accepted and practiced if only through casual activities such as conversation, flirting, dancing, and dating, homosexual behavior will spread, secretly if need be. Emboldened by public legitimization, there is no doubt there will be an increase in men initiating other/younger men into homosexuality (pulling rank?), which will cause an inordinate spread of homosexual behaviors and corresponding illnesses and diseases.
– Military courts will be swamped with cases involving all manner of sexuality and sexual behaviors, including sexual freedom vs. religious freedom. If we think we have seen outrageous gay-based court cases in civilian courts, just wait for the onslaught from the military sector where innocent people trying to do their jobs turn into sitting ducks for the gay juggernaut.
The military tradition has always included the enforcement of sound sexual morality. This all- volunteer force is mostly comprised of Christians who overwhelming disapproved of repealing the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law. ANY sexual immorality has previously been distrusted, disallowed, and punished in the U. S. military. This is about to change. Gayness is all about acting out. Unless this country drastically changes direction, over time we will see the order, health, strength, and effectiveness of this great and essential institution diminish.
Where institutions are concerned, it appears that our military has been the last holdout against the open acceptance of all manner of alternative sexuality. In the last decade especially, our schools and even churches have been succumbing to the pressure from the powerful, deceptive, victimhood-claiming gay lobby. What is really a problematic disorder, an unnatural choice, and an immoral and highly risky behavior that harms individuals and weakens nations, is now supported and celebrated in a government that once held fast to God and His rules for sexual morality.
What can you do? Contact those who voted against the repeal of this law and thank them. Contact those who voted for it and express your disapproval. Share these developments and your beliefs with others and take these sentiments to the voting booth.
--Stephen Graham
LDS Book for Families Gets Perez Hilton’s Attention:
Who Knew Chastity Could be so Controversial? October 20, 2010
Standard of Liberty’s new book, Chased by an Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today’s Stampeding Sexuality, recently having been picked up by Walmart stores in highly LDS populated areas in the intermountain west, and having been featured in a short local spot on KTVX Channel 4, has been getting a lot of attention from organizations promoting homosexuality.
The book has been highlighted online at more than a dozen magazines, web sites, and blogs including Q Salt Lake magazine, GayLGBT.com, The Advocate, and the web site of Perez Hilton, a nationally-known blogger and the judge who asked Miss California the question about gay marriage in the Miss USA pageant a few years ago. Online sites have received a flurry of comments and tens of thousands of views. A petition has been instigated to pressure Walmart into dropping this product.
The Christ-centered book is for LDS parents to present to children ages 10 and up. With its emphasis on the Godhead and basic gospel principles, it reiterates the reality of male and female, natural gender roles, and God’s law regarding sexual manners. One of its 12 chapters lists several ways human sexuality can veer dangerously out of bounds, including homosexuality. The book was written to present a worldview opposite to what is being presented in schools and in the media targeting younger and younger children. (See articles on Helena, Montana and Boulder, Colorado.)
Considering the amount of fierce and often vicious opposition from certain individuals and groups that the Standard of Liberty has received for its religious and moral stand (mostly ad hominem attacks including death wishes), it seems that the gay movement is not only anti-traditional morality, but carries anti-God, anti-parental authority, and anti-free speech elements as well.
There is some false information going around about the book such as what it’s about and a photo of a stranger who is supposed to be the author, but some truth manages to get through. A surprising number of comments posted on these gay-affirming sites defend the author’s right to free speech. Click here to see Perez Hilton’s blog and readers’ comments regarding Chased by an Elephant.
Chased by an Elephant for LDS families is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, BYU Bookstore, Tidal Wave Books, and Wal-Mart. (If it is not in your Wal-Mart, ask at the Service Desk; they can order it for you.)
Another version of this book called Wild Elephant for nondenominational Christian families, is so far available at Tidal Wave Books.
Coming soon:
Captain of My Soul, a young man’s riveting true story of conquering pornography addiction and homosexuality through therapy, faith, and family support.
Me Tarzan, You Jane, a picture book for little children which presents God’s truth about male and female, gender roles, mating and marriage in prose so gentle parents will feel comfortable reading it aloud again and again.
Chased by an Elephant NOW IN OVER 100 WALMART STORES!
October 7, 2010
We are pleased to announce that our distributor, Brigham Distributing, has informed us that our new book, Chased by an Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today’s Stampeding Sexuality for LDS families is now available at 104 Walmart stores in the Intermountain West. It is also at the BYU Bookstore, at tidalwavebooks.com, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or contact us at sgraham@standardofliberty,org.
This charming, unique, and important book is a must-read for leaders and parents to use as they see fit that stunningly and resoundingly echos the truths and warnings presented in President Boyd K. Packer’s conference talk this past Sunday (October 3, 2010). For the sake of our children and youth, we can no longer afford to be silent on this topic. Given the licentious world around them, they need to be purposely taught the correct information and attitudes concerning human sexuality and God’s law of chastity.
We also have now available Wild Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today's Stampeding Sexuality, written especially for the non-LDS, general Christian family, at tidalwavebooks.com.
President Packer’s Words:
An Answer to Prayers, A Warning Voice,
An Exercise of Religious Freedom
On Sunday, October 3, 2010, President Boyd K. Packer, at the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, reiterated some common sense, basic doctrines, and deeply-held beliefs inherent in the LDS faith as they pertain to the proper use of the power of procreation. This talk was an answer to our continual prayer that the Church raise a warning voice, speaking out loud and clear on this important topic. Our main concern is with the rising generation which is being bombarded with messages that falsify, distort, and devalue human sexuality and natural gender roles, marriage and mating, posterity and parenting. Innocent victims of this propaganda are getting younger and younger. Just this past month we have talked to the distraught mother of a recalcitrant 14-year-old who insists he is “gay” and have been informed of a group of LDS boys as young as 8 years old announcing to their parents that they were born in the wrong bodies. As Pres. Packer put it, “This General Conference was convened at a time when there is such confusion and such danger that our young people hardly know which way they can walk.” You can hear President Packer’s talk.
A deluge of disappointment, anger, and intimidation from sexual activists toward President Packer and the Church has resulted. We bring this to your attention in order to raise awareness of the intense opposition to nature, reality, scientific facts, and God’s laws that exists and the need for parents to teach their children truth and correct attitudes. To get an idea of the outspoken resistance to President Packer’s talk coming from Church members and non-members alike, see www.sltrib.com.
Here at the Standard of Liberty we believe that attacks coming from those who demand that the Church change to fit modern worldly whims and to embrace the fashionable vices of the day show more than rebellion against reality, God, and nature. They also illustrate a bullying attempt to deny others the very freedom they are exercising themselves, that is, America’s guaranteed freedom to speak and live according to the dictates of one’s own conscience. (This is a real threat. For example, Canada now has laws that forbid Christians to speak against homosexual behavior. Click here to read about a Canadian pastor recently being fined and told to renounce his faith. It is up to us as citizens to do all we can to maintain this freedom, such as vote in the coming elections for representatives who will support religious liberty. More on this later.) In addition, they display a gross misunderstanding of the nature of Christianity itself. Almighty God, with His goals for the eternal progression of His children, makes certain demands on us. Contrary to what many now insist, what Christ offers is not massage therapy; it is heart surgery.
Please support President Packer in standing for truth and righteousness, sounding a clear and much-needed warning voice, and exercising his Constitutionally-protected freedoms despite intense intimidation. You can send an email to the Church’s Public Affairs office at owentl@ldschurch.org. (we are told your email will be forwarded to Pres. Packer) or send a note or postcard to President Boyd K. Packer, 50 East North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT, 84150.
–Standard of Liberty
A Monumental Day: SoL’s Report on Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally in Washington D. C.
August 28, 2010
Steve flew in Thursday and on Saturday he and I left our daughter’s house in Maryland (where I have been staying for a month helping with her 10-month-old triplets) at seven a.m. Emily drove us to the metro station nearby and before we got out of her van we saw people obviously doing the same thing we were doing: heading for Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally at the National Mall. “Where are you from?” Steve asked nearly everyone we came close to and we heard Delaware, Missouri, Ohio, Connecticut, Arkansas. Everyone was so surprised we had come all the way from Utah. When asked if we drove or flew, Steve quipped, “We pushed our handcarts.” “What’s a handcart?” somebody undertoned, embarrassed. A Texas group with matching red t-shirts stepped on board, their leader rousting us all with a stentorian, “Anybody here going to the rally?” There was a feeling of unity and gratitude and excitement in the air. People offered each other seats, introduced themselves, spoke with the strangers sitting alongside them of things close to their hearts.
Steve and I remarked to each other that we had no way of knowing how many people would show up. But it was obvious when there was standing room only on the Metro ten stops out three hours before the rally was to start, that the crowd was going to be overwhelming. It took us a while just to get on the escalator to exit the Smithsonian Metro station. Everywhere people were talking, smiling, patient and willing to help each other.
I have never been anywhere with so many people gathered in one place. They just kept coming in never-ending parades. I was grateful it was not nearly as hot and humid as it had been earlier in the week. Steve and I walked past the Washington Monument, down the lawn, past the World War II Memorial, and got as close as we could to the Lincoln Memorial where the speakers and performers would stand. This ended up being on the north side of the Reflecting Pool three quarters of the way toward the World War II Memorial on the side under some trees. From here we couldn’t see the actual set-up, but had a good view of the last of six JumboTtrons. We could see across the Pool and back toward the Washington Monument. The place was suffused with color and movement, every empty space filling in. We set up our chairs among some others and relaxed. Two hours to go. As more people came along those of us already situated squeezed closer together to make yet another spot.
And there were all kinds of people. As we waited for the rally to start I looked around me and saw a pretty lady in a sun dress, a well-coifed grandma with hair as white as her jeans, a Viet Nam vet with a long gray ponytail, a business man in metal-rimmed glasses and khaki shorts, a southern belle in a sunbonnet, three teenage boys in baseball caps, a round-bellied guy in a Hawaiian shirt, a black woman with a gold camera on her wrist, a young couple in love, a little girl in a yellow shirt with pig tails sitting on her father’s shoulders, an Asian woman under a bright orange umbrella, a lady in black short-shorts with pick hearts munching popcorn with her husband, a heavy lady with a fanny pack passing around a bag for trash, a young woman in cropped jeans pinning a small jeweled American flag on her navy shirt, a retired couple reading the paper side-by-side in polka-dotted camp chairs, and families, families everywhere.
“There’s a sea of people everywhere you look,” said someone near.
“Still coming,” said another.
What I didn’t see was a single sign (Glenn asked that there be no signs), a single bit of stray trash, or a single act of rudeness. “Don’t let me get in your way,” a lady said to me. Courtesy and good spirits abounded. Just as the rally was set to begin at 10, a large flock of Canadian geese in perfect V-formation suddenly appeared and flew low, straight over the middle of the Reflecting Pool to the Lincoln Memorial. All eyes looked up and everyone clapped, then people wiped their eyes under their sunglasses. The Greeks believed birds were a good omen, too.
We were treated to a recording of the Tabernacle Choir singing, “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” and a slide show of cities and states all across the USA. People clapped when they recognized their homes. As a woman belted the National Anthem I watched a great big man, trembling with tears, wipe his face with the palms of his two big hands.
Glenn Beck wasted no time in setting the tone for the rally. It was to be a revival of American religiosity, of love of God and country. And everyone there, as far as I could see, was on the exact same page. Beck’s announcement, “Today, this country is turning back to God,” was met with rousing applause. He gave a short sketch of the first colonists, adding, “The first thing they did was pray,” and so this is what we did, too. The prayer was all about our nation’s need to repent. It was all about Christ the Redeemer.
It struck me that here we were, living in a time when the very freedoms we were at that moment so freely exercising, heartened and emboldened by our sheer numbers, are being threatened by our own government. Among other things, was Glenn Beck peaceably defying leadership gone astray? I think so, as were we all. It is difficult to express how glorious it was to participle in this gathering, in this prayer, and to say amen to these words, in this place, at this time in America’s history.
The program for the rally continued with an inspiring multi-faceted tribute to the military’s Special Operations Warrior Foundation. This was followed by a speech by Sarah Palin who said there is no “transforming America,” only “restoring America.” Glenn Beck announced that there would be Faith, Hope, and Charity merit awards which were then introduced with inspiring speeches and presented to veteran Texas pastor C.L. Jackson, Christian baseball player Albert Pujols, and businessman and philanthropist John Huntsman Sr. Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, then gave a speech about unity for the sake of honor to rebuild America. Dr. Harry Jackson spoke using lots of scriptures, including Romans 8:28. We heard phrases such as “we are one human family” and “the procreation foundation of marriage,” and “our nations’s moral deficiency will be healed when prayer is once again welcome in public arenas and schools,” and “America must pray that God will forgive us of our sins.” About this time Steve and I looked behind us and saw that people were filling in the lawn all the way to the Washington Monument.
Glenn Beck took up the last portion of the three hours. “Advance or perish,” he said. “God is the answer and always has been.” “Trust in the Lord.” “Look forward.” “Look to people who are honest and have integrity.” “Our values and principles must unite us.”
He talked about how Americans have explored west, up in space, down in the ocean, and must now explore within ourselves.
He spoke of how he has been called a “fearmonger.” To this he said, “On the Titanic, the man who said, ‘It’s an iceberg!” was not a fearmonger. He was warning the people on the ship.”
He reiterated his forty-day challenge:
1. Pray on your knees and profess God (and let your children see your praying).
2. Tell the truth (even when it is going to hurt you) in your own life and expect it from others.
3. Connect with your spouse and children because charity begins at home.
Following are some more of the highlights of his talk from my notes:
Does the American experience expand or end with us?
The words inscribed at the top of the Washington Monument are Laus Deo (Praise be to God). He said that the Founders’ idea was that to really share truth, we must embed it in our monuments.
Find out what you truly believe. Quoted Thomas Jefferson: “Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.” (I looked across the way and saw a lady mouthing these words.)
Realize who God is and who you are. Great benefits and awesome responsibilities will come with this knowledge. You will no longer have a choice in many things.
His favorite line in the Declaration of Independence is “with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
Washington gave up the life he wanted (to be a surveyor) to do God’s will.
The truth will set you free (after it has made you miserable).
Go to God individually first.
We have to be on God’s side, not him on our side.
Need support of good spouse, families, friends.
We must insist that our churches stand for what we know to be true, universal, eternal.
Churches have fallen asleep. We need a black robed regiment (ministers that preach freedom).
(At this point there were 250 people arm-in-arm standing behind Glenn representing that many different denominations.)
All agree that God is the answer.
Is the next George Washington in this crowd? Our goal must be to raise the next great monument.
We can wallow in our mistakes or learn from the past and ask for redemption.
A tenor, accompanied by bagpipes, sang Amazing Grace. I looked around and saw people singing along and weeping.
The rally lasted three hours. Afterwards, during some afterglow vocal performances, many people ate the picnic lunches they had brought, sat on the lawns enjoying the day, or toured the mall. Steve and I did a little of all three. We even caught a glimpse of Al Sharpton’s “protest march,” but I couldn’t for the life of me understand what they could possibly be protesting. It couldn’t have been a racial thing because there were a great many black people performing and speaking and getting awards at Glenn’s rally.
Speaking of monuments, I think every American sixth grader should visit our nation’s capitol. It should be part of the curriculum. I find myself wondering, Why was I not told of these magnificent stone monuments engraved with reminders of God and the highest human virtues? Whey was I not taught to recite the resplendent sentence that appears above the 19-foot tall bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson? Why didn’t I learn that the building of the monolithic Washington Monument was halted during the Civil War? Why was I not encouraged to consider with reverence the significance of the Lincoln Memorial while seeing its white marble set against a navy blue, star-studded night sky as a child? How are we to be a nation of what Samuel Adams called “experienced patriots” whom our country stands in need of “to prevent its ruin” if we are not schooled in our country’s foundations? And what better way to begin to become those experienced patriots than to see with our own eyes these beautiful massive monuments imbedded with noble truths and built to stand forever?
This wonderful rally put me in mind of some things one of my heroes, Robert Bork, wrote in his 1997 book, Slouching Towards Gomorrah. I will end with some cogent quotes.
“Perhaps the most promising development in our time is the rise of an energetic, optimistic, and politically sophisticated religious conservatism. It may prove more powerful than merely political or economic conservatism because religious conservatism’s objectives are cultural and moral as well.”
“Because it is a grass roots movement, the new religious conservatism can alter the culture both by electing local officials and school boards (which have greater effect on culture than do national politicians), and by setting a moral tone in opposition to today’s liberal relativism.”
“We may be witnessing a religious revival, another awakening.”
“It remains to be seen whether intellectual orthodoxy can stand firm against the current of radical individualism and radical egalitarianism.”
“Victory over modern liberalism will require a robust self-confidence about the worth of traditional values that the relativism of modern liberalism has already seriously damaged.”
We certainly saw a robust confidence in God’s timeless standard of goodness in a big way on that monumental day. It seems America is waking up. Hallelujah.
-Janice Graham
Postscript to Sol’s Report on Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally,
“A Monumental Day”: I Demand a Recount!
I am no expert at estimating the sizes of crowds, but some of the numbers I am hearing from newspeople and such are ridiculously low. Let me repeat: Steve and I got to the mall two hours early amidst a stream of people getting on the Metro ten stops out. Even then, the closest we could get to the Lincoln Memorial was about 100 yards from the World War II Memorial– that’s on the other end of the Reflecting Pool. I never even saw Glenn Beck or any of the speakers or performers in person. I only saw them on a JumboTron, the last one of six extending from the Lincoln Memorial, and the sound came about two seconds after the words were spoken. I repeat, there were so many people we could not get close enough to see anything in person and we were so far away the words we heard in no way matched up with what we were seeing. And compared to the entire crowd which extended all the way to the Washington Memorial and fanned way out across the path under the trees on the sides of the entire length of the Reflecting Pool, we felt we had primo seats, there were so very many more people behind us. A friend said she was stuck behind the Lincoln Memorial and didn’t get to see or hear a single thing. I would venture to say that most people there could not see anything; I don’t know how far people were able to hear. The thing was, we were all so eager and happy and grateful to be there, to be exercising our freedoms, and to be among such an overwhelming crowd of like-minded citizens.
I think the lies the newspeople are saying are making those of us who were there pretty angry. We came from all over the country at our own expense. How dishonest and hurtful to pretend that even a single one of us was not there.
There were a reported 250,000 people at Martin Luther King’s famous speech. Take a look at one of those photos. Now look at photos of the crowd at the rally last Saturday. Scroll down the page to see the photos. You can make your own estimation of the size of the crowd according to these photos. The reflecting pool is 4/10 of a mile long, and you get the correct perspective in areial photos, but it looks shorter in some of the long shots. And it is 7/10 of a mile from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
People must be having terrible problems with Glenn Beck’s rally because they are out and out lying about the numbers. They don’t want America to know what a HUGE success it was. This is a mistake because a nice-sized chunk of America was actually THERE.
-Janice Graham
Here is a time-lapse type video of the Restoring Honor Rally. It presents a 45-minute walk around the rally in a 6-minute video. It is actually thousands of individual pictures taken as she walked around, so you can pause the video anywhere and see the individual shots.
"Could it be possible that many of us, like a cork in a stream, have been swept off our destiny line by false concepts, perilous ways, and doctrines of devils? By whom are we enticed? Have we accepted the easy way and veered off from the strait and narrow way to the easy and comfortable way, and the broad way that leads to sorrowful ends? Matt 7:13-14" --Spencer W. Kimball, Ensign, November, 1974
"May we repeat: Sex perversions of men and women can never replenish the earth, and are definitely sin without excuse, and rationalizations are very weak: God will not tolerate it." --Spencer W. Kimball, Ensign, November, 1974
"It is sad that decent people are thrown into a filthy area of mental and spiritual polution. We call upon all of our people to do all in their power to offset this ugly revolution." --Spencer W. Kimball, Ensign, November, 1974
"As members of the Church we are engaged in a mighty conflict. We are at war. We have enlisted in the cause of Christ to fight against Lucifer and all that is lustful and carnal and evil in the world. We have sworn to fight alongside our friends and against our enemies, and we must not be confused in distinguishing friends from foes." --Bruce R. McConkie, November, 1974 Ensign.
"In this war, all who do not stand forth courageously and valiantly are by that fact alone aiding the cause of the enemy. 'They who are not for me are against me.' 2 Ne 10:16." --Bruce R. McConkie, November, 1974 Ensign.
Homosexuality [is not] compatible with peace of mind, tranquility of soul, or with the Spirit of our Father in heaven that all of us want, need, and enjoy when we live in accordance with his laws. --Dr. Lindsay M. Curtis, M.D., Ensign, November, 1974
“A man with homosexual attractions will usually maintain them unless he consciously surrenders them. [. . .] [S]urrender is letting go. It is choosing to release specific obstacles–whatever is holding you back and hurting you. It is a deliberate mental, emotional, and spiritual attitude of giving away these obstacles to G-d . . . in a spirit of humble trust in the wisdom, strength and goodness of the Divine Power.” -- People Can Change website
To engage in sinful thoughts is to sin with "the noblest portion of the self."
--from Light in the Closet, Arthur Goldberg, 2008
[T]he challenges of living in sexual propriety apply to every Jew, not just homosexuals, and to every person, not just Jews. For a man or woman burdened with an "irresistible" attraction for the opposite sex -- or with any other variety of sexual brokenness -- it is no easier to avoid self indulgence than for a gay man or woman to shun same-sex contacts and fantasies. Certainly no Jew, no person, has the right or the authority to amend the Torah to allow for his or her own (or other persons') special sexual "needs." To believe the contrary might be soothing, but it is plainly delusional.
--Arthur Goldberg, Light in the Closet, 2008
There will be many who will criticize you for what you do while they stand by and do nothing.
--Woodrow Kroll, Back to the Bible Radio, 10/20/2011
We have been too unwilling for too long to talk about what is right and what is wrong . . . .
We have too often avoided saying what needs to be said - about everything from
marriage to welfare to common courtesy . . . . Children without fathers . . . . Rights without responsibilities. Communities without control. --David Cameron, UK Prime Minister
While we recognize that not everyone wishes to worship, and that religious diversity can be valuable, we also think that the existence of a large group of less educated Americans that is increasingly disconnected from religious institutions is troubling for our society. --
Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Now that we have made the sexual impulse a "right," this fatal principle, as C.S. Lewis calls it, "must sooner or later seep through our whole lives. We thus advance toward a society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche. And then . . . our civilization will have died at heart and will . . . be swept away."
The Lord said, “He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me” (Matt. 10:37). One of the most difficult tests of all is when you have to choose between pleasing God or pleasing someone you love or respect — particularly a family member....Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the
demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our
priorities....We bless our fellowmen the most when we put the first commandment first.
--Ezra Taft Benson The Great Commandment -- Love the Lord
"Is it not high time for the people of this country explicitly to declare, whether they will be freemen or slaves? It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than any thing in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in the event: for wherever tyranny is established, Immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent. It is in the Interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combined to destroy the people's liberties practice every art to poison their morals. How greatly then does it concern us, at all events, to put a stop to the progress of tyranny."
--Samuel Adams The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams
“The truth does not care if it is questioned; the truth can always stand up to questioning. I have found that only the false fights back, retaliates, and attacks. The truth might defend itself, though it does not really need to. But liars trying to defend their lies get mean and dirty.”
-- Larry Winget Shut Up, Stop Whining & Get A Life
I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums do not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.
--Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Insights from My Life (1976)
[The gay lifestyle] is anathema to our country, our morality, and the debauchery of our young people. . . We are dealing with the equivalent of a moral takeover of the country that has as its bedrock a belief in G-d and His promise for humanity. They don't want civil rights! What they desire is quasi Gay/Lesbian hegemony, where a huge "bookburning," reminiscent of the Nazis, will purge any remnants of the "Christian, White, mainstream America" that has given ALL AMERICANS the most profound scope of freedom, liberty, and justice that Mankind has yet to experience.
--Rabbi Nachum Shifrin,We Are All Mormons. 11/2008
When the majority of the people become like sheep, who will tolerate intolerance rather than make a fuss, then there is no limit to how far any group will go.
--Thomas Sowell, 11-20-2008
“I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion. And I think if you believe in historic Christianity, you have to confront the fact. For that matter, if you believe in the historic version of Islam or the historic version of Judaism, you have to confront the reality that these secular extremists are determined to impose on you acceptance of a series of values that are antithetical, they're the opposite of what you're taught in Sunday school. I think when the left, when the radicals lost the vote in California, they are determined to impose their will on this country no matter what the popular opinion, no matter what the law of the land. You've watched them, for example, in Massachusetts, basically drive the Catholic Church out of running adoption services, drive Catholic hospitals out of offering any services, because [the radicals] impose secular rules that are fundamentally … sinful from the standpoint of the church.”
--Newt Gingrich, 11-14-2008 on The O'Reilly Factor
I know of nothing in the history of the Church or in the history of the world to compare with our present circumstances. Nothing happened in Sodom and Gomorrah which exceeds in wickedness and depravity that which surrounds us now.
--Elder Boyd K. Packer, Feb 2004 talk to CES educators
. . . tolerance, without limit, could lead to spineless permissiveness . . . Real love for the sinner may compel courageous confrontation—not acquiescence! Real love does not support self-destructing behavior.
--Elder Russell M. Nelson in April 1994 General Conference
. . . if the normalizers have their way, and it becomes criminal to give any social or legal preference to reproductively productive patterns of marriage and family, why would any rational person give their allegiance to such a community, such a legal system, such a state or nation?
-Orson Scott Card in Mormon Life, Deseret News
“The word 'marriage' has long been understood across many cultures as the cooperative union of male and female with a vital interest in the next generation,”
--Jenny Tyree, associate marriage analyst for Focus on the Family Action. 7/15/08
When observing the “modern liberal in verbal action”… ask a cogent relevant question … they almost always will:
01. Refuse to answer “yes or no”
02. Get louder and talk faster or mock the questioner
03. Point at other bad behavior to excuse their bad behavior (this is in vogue now)
04. Topic-shift (often after being presented data on the current topic)
05. Start the “victim” litany
06. Talk or write non-stop to prevent further inquiry (a string of fact less assertions)
07. Feign anger or surprise that ‘the questioner would stoop so low, etc”
08. Claim it’s personal or under investigation so they can’t comment
09. State firmly that “you don’t understand” (aka you are stupid)
10. Present a distracting joke to trivialize the subject
--Doug Schexnayder in Conservative Crawfish 3/21/08
To some, telling the truth doesn't matter. Consider the following statement made by a prominent member of the American Psychological Association and published by the Harvard University Press: "...it may be that for now, the safest way to advocate for lesbian/gay/bisexual rights is to keep propagating a deterministic model: sexual minorities are born that way and can never be otherwise. If this is an easier route to acceptance (which may in fact be the case), is it really so bad that it is inaccurate?"
--From Article on APA's new pamphlet on homosexuality by Dr. A. Dean Byrd
As a physician, it is my duty to assess behaviors for their impact on health and wellbeing. When something is beneficial, such as exercise, good nutrition, or adequate sleep, it is my duty to recommend it. Likewise, when something is harmful, such as smoking, overeating, alcohol or drug abuse, and homosexual sex, it is my duty to discourage it.
--John Diggs, CRC
Perhaps the British playwright, self-identified secularist atheist Pat Condell, is indeed correct: "Political correctness is like a drug that we just can't stop injecting, even though we know it's going to kill us."
--From Article on APA's new pamphlet on homosexuality by Dr. A. Dean Byrd
Paul McHugh, a former director of the department of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, notes that the transgendered patients he has come to know were no happier after sex-change surgery than before. He writes in "The Mind Has Mountains": "I concluded that to provide a surgical alteration to the body of these unfortunate people was to collaborate with a mental disorder rather than to treat it."I used to approve of homosexuality, but changed my mind when I got more information, not less. The truth is, homosexuality itself is hateful. It hates the natural human body and spirit, and opposes truth at every level. It fights gender integrity as marvelously designed by God. It "uglifies" a person, preventing the full blossom of natual beauty as a young male or female. it it a dead-end affection, fruitless, never creating new life. All who enter it will be plagued by troubled spirits, anxious thoughts, unsatisfied desires, and insecurity, including separation from God and hostility and suspicion toward those who try to warn them. It is rebellion at a deep level against who you really are. It is a poison in any human life and it is poison in schools.
--Linda Harvey, Mission America, 2008
A passage [Winston Churchill] penned as the First World War was about to end reads: "In war, resolution. In defeat, defiance. In victory, magnanimity. In peace, good will." This is a sentiment which all those in public life should learn by heart. It encapsulates the lessons of history better than entire books.
--Paul Johnson, in Imprimis, 2008
[Certain school] programs assume that homosexuality as a behavior is something worthy of respect and defense. It's not. Let's get it out of kids' lives.
--Linda Harvey, Mission America, 2008
Opposition to evil is motivated by love for our neighbor, and our neighbor's child.
--Sonja Dalton, Choice 4 Truth, 2008
If this teaching [of the Church against homosexuality] is no longer applicable, why should young people believe that anything we say is morally binding?
--Dale O'Leary, author of One Man, One Woman
My fear was that if hate crime legislation comes in, many Christians, and many churches, will stop preaching the full Gospel of Jesus Christ. And sure enough, that's what happened.
--Canadian Minister Tristan Emmanuel
Homosexuality and Christianity are clearly incompatible. Thankfully, homosexuals can leave the lifestyle behind, with God’s help. Struggling with sinful temptations is one thing — we all do — but embracing them as an “identity” or inherent nature is quite another.
--Peter LaBarbera, AFTAH
Why are so many people of faith riddled with guilt in opposing a sin-based movement that threatens everybody’s religious and First Amendment freedoms? Perhaps it’s because many Christians, far from “hating gays,” as the trendy accusation goes, are intimidated by the liberal media and no longer agree with their Creator that homosexual acts are an egregiously sexual sin.
--Peter LaBarbera, AFTAH
A particularly heavy focus on the sin of homosexuality by “Christians as a whole” is not at all gratuitous. There is such emphasis, not because we intentionally and specifically chose to target this particular sin, but rather, because strident moral relativists demand that, in contrast to the other sins you address, the sin of homosexuality not only be “tolerated,” but celebrated. That’s what the euphemistic slogan, “celebrate diversity,” supposes.
--J. Matt Barber, CWFA
The very firm response by defenders of Biblical truth to the homosexual lobby’s relentless assault on our nation’s Judeo-Christian tradition is indeed a defensive reaction, not an act of aggression. [M]ost of us would prefer not to even imagine [homosexual behavior], much less struggle to defend against its wholesale promotion. But regrettably, our hand has been forced.
--J. Matt Barber, CWFA
[W]e find ourselves — back against the ropes — in a fight we did not pick, struggling in a culture war we did not ask for. It’s a clash of worldviews . . . Make no mistake; the sin of homosexuality is the bunker-buster bomb in this war against morality.
--J. Matt Barber, CWFA
Love . . . does not mean that we indulge sinful behavior and call it good. True love does not facilitate immorality, it takes it to task.
--J. Matt Barber, CWFA
"You have to understand that the motivation of the gay community is validation. They want to be approved. They want people to say, 'It's okay that you're gay' . . .
--Luke Montgomery, homosexual activist
"Being queer is mort 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 . . . We must keep our eyes on the goal . . . of radically reordering society's views of reality."
--Paula Ettlebrick, Intl. Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Comm.
Until you have challenged the prevailing wisdom you have no idea how nasty people can be.
--Timothy Ball
Every aspect of life and freedom as we know it will be diluted by the liberal agenda of the homosexual movement.
--Carol Soelberg, 1/2007
"A culture obsessed with technology will come to value personal convenience above almost all else, and ours does."
--Robert Bork
" We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
--John Adams
"Make no mistake, two irreconcilable agendas are at war. Where do you stand in this great divide?"
--Dr. Ronnie D. Floyd
“We may safely study and learn about the theories and philosophies of man, but if they contradict the plan of redemption . . . do not buy into them as truth. If you do, you may. . . have your testimony repossessed. Your respect for moral agency may go with it and you will end up with nothing.”
-- Boyd K. Packer, 1996
"Given the number and cultural strength of those who now serve the Devil, what should those who would serve God and man do? The challenges are easy to identify: men and women must preserve the holiness of their homes, must reminisce with each other about battles won and lost, and must be a humanizing link to earlier generations."
--David Beresford
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
--William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"
Limits [of normal matrimony] were well understood by our Victorian ancestors. They understood the emasculating effect of profligacy. A libertine is not a strong man: he is an effete slave to his passions, often taking advantage of [others].
--David Beresford
"Now, more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature."
--President James A. Garfield
"The Church and her members have a moral responsibility to engage the culture and political world in which we live. . . The right to redefine marriage is not [an] authentic human right." -Wisconsin Catholic Bishop Robert Morlino
There are at least three dangers that threaten the Church within, and the authorities need to awaken to the fact that the people should be warned unceasingly against them. As I see these, they are flattery of prominent men in the world, false educational ideas, and sexual impurity. But the third subject mentioned--personal purity, is perhaps of greater importance than either of the other two.
-- LDS President Joseph F. Smith
C. S. Lewis put it, "Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged [by the world] to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we [the world] have taken the wrong position."
Cal Thomas has said, “That a president of the United States would feel compelled, for whatever reason, to make a public statement that marriage should be reserved for men and women is a leading indicator of the moral state of the union. . . . He may as well have stated the equally obvious that the sun rises in the east.”
"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictate of reason and justice without constraint."
--Alexander Hamilton
No idea has been more destructive of happiness, no philosophy has produced more sorrow, more heartbreak and mischief; no idea has done more to destroy the family than the idea that we are not the offspring of God, only advanced animals, compelled to yield to every carnal urge.
--Boyd K. Packer, Ensign, May 1992
"Take courage to renew that battle which . . . [your] forefathers began, so that truth and justice and mercy and all the humane and Christian values may not be extinguished from the land."
--Abraham Lincoln
“My message to the homosexual is: We love you. Come and struggle with us against sin. Don’t give in to it.”
-- Rev. Andrew Aquino
Joe Dallas reminds us that confrontation is not enough to change a heart. “The heart, having been hardened through deception or rebellion or both, has to be softened. And that is the work of God alone. Ours is simply to speak the truth.”
Said C. S. Lewis, "Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal." And "Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.""It is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. Religion and virtue are the only foundations . . . of republicanism and of all free governments."
--John Adams
“Certainly if any person ought to interfere in political matters, it should be those whose minds and judgments are influenced by correct principles – religious as well as political. Otherwise those persons professing religion would have to be governed by those who make no professions; be subject to their rule, have the law and word of God trampled under foot, and become as wicked as Sodom. The cause of humanity, the cause of justice, the cause of freedom, the cause of patriotism, and the cause of God requires us to use our endeavors to put in righteous rulers.”
--LDS President John Taylor, 1808-1887
‘Let a man cease from his sinful thoughts, and all the world will soften toward him, and be ready to help him; let him put away his weakly and sickly thoughts, and lo! opportunities will spring up on every hand to aid his strong resolves; let him encourage good thoughts, and no hard fate shall bind him down to wretchedness and shame.”
--James Allen, c. 1904
"When [my wife and I] were married there were no such phrases in common use such as 'women’s Lib' and 'politically correct'. There was no premarital agreement whereby I was required to do half of the housework. We instinctively knew what we wanted – a home and a family in which I would be the breadwinner and she would be the homemaker. When children came along they were cherished and welcomed. We are quite different yet have meshed well in providing a good home. There were always family meals together and lots of family activities. One of the greatest tributes we have received and one we value very highly is our children telling us that they had a happy childhood. I have been blessed to have a mate who has filled her traditional role well and continues to be a source of friendship, support, and happiness to me and all the extended family."
--W. Scott Barrett (1925-)
"All healthy men, ancient and modern, know there is a certain fury in sex that we cannot afford to inflame, and that a certain mystery and awe must ever surround it if we are to remain sane."
--G.K Chesterton (1874-1936)
“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest expression every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”
-- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”
--C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, 1946
“Even supposing that each of us can, if he wishes, effectively avert the eye and stop the ear (which, in truth, we cannot), what is commonly read and seen and heard and done intrudes upon us all, want it or not.”
--Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren, Paris Adult Theater I v. Slaton, 1973
“The tide of evil flows. Today it has become a veritable flood. Most of us, living somewhat sheltered lives, have little idea of the vast dimensions of it. Billions of dollars are involved for those who pour out pornography, for those who peddle lasciviousness, for those who deal in perversion, in sex and violence. God give us the strength, the wisdom, the faith, the courage as citizens to stand in opposition to these and to let our voices be heard in defense of those virtues which, when practiced in the past, made men and nations strong, and which, when neglected, brought them to decay.”
--Gordon B. Hinckley,
“In Opposition to Evil,”
Ensign, Sept. 2004
“It is far more important that we react effectively against immorality and evil in our communities which threatens the morals and the very lives of our children.”
--N. Eldon Tanner,
Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God, Deseret Book, 1973
“Ten per cent is not enough. Recruit, recruit, recruit.”
-- Donna Minkowitz,
“gay” activist, 1992
“If we reflect on the dreadful consequences of sodomy to the state, and on the extent to which this abominable vice may be secretly carried on and spread; we cannot, on the principles of sound policy, consider the punishment as too severe. For if it once begins to prevail, not only will boys be easily corrupted by adults, but also by other boys, nor will it ever cease; more especially as it must thus soon lose all its shamefulness and infamy and become fashionable and the national taste; and then . . . national weakness, for which all remedies are ineffectual, most inevitably follow; not perhaps in the first generation, but certainly in the course of the third or fourth . . . To these evils may be added yet another, viz. that the constitutions of those men who submit to this degradation are, if not always, yet very often, totally destroyed, though in a different way from what is the result of whoredom. Whoever, therefore, wishes to ruin a nation, has only to get this vice introduced; for it is extremely difficult to extirpate it where it has once taken root because it can be propagated with much secrecy . . . and when we perceive that it has once got a footing in any country, however powerful and flourishing, we may venture as politicians to predict that the foundation of its future decline is laid and that after some hundred years it will no longer be the same . . . powerful country it is at the present.”
--Sir John David Michaelis, 1814
“The number one issue for the family today is the homosexual activist agenda.”
--Dr. James Dobson, 2002
“I believe this grab for children by the sexually confused adults of the Gay Elite represents the most serious problem facing our culture today.”
-- Tammy Bruce, The Death of Right and Wrong, 2003
“It is a wicked, wicked world in which we live and in which our children must find their way. Challenges of pornography, gender confusion, immorality, child abuse, drug addiction, and all the rest are everywhere. There is no way to escape from their influence. Some are led by curiosity into temptation, then in experimentation, and some become trapped in addiction. They lose hope. The adversary harvests his crop and binds them down. Satan is the deceiver, the destroyer, but his is a temporary victory. The angels of the devil convince some that they are born to a life from which they cannot escape and are compelled to live in sin. The most wicked of lies is that they cannot change and repent and that they will not be forgiven. That cannot be true. They have forgotten the Atonement of Christ.”
--Boyd K. Packer, May 2006
A health text for high school freshmen in Massachusetts suggests, “Testing your ability to function sexually and give pleasure to another person may be less threatening in your early teens with people of your own sex. . . . You may come to the conclusion that growing up means rejecting the values of your parents.”
--from an Alliance Defense Fund publication, 2006
“The term tolerance has now become code for acceptance of homosexual behavior and rejection of Judeo-Christian sexual ethics.”
--Alan Sears, 2006
“Pornography [addiction] has become a huge, huge issue . . . most often [for] males from the ages of 11 on up . . . [spanning] all cultures, religions, and classes. With the advent of the Internet . . . the average age of initially viewing pornography is 5 years old . . . ‘We tell people that if you don’t get this problem taken care of, it’ll kill you.’”
--Lexie Kite quoting Dr. Matthew Hedelius, The Herald Journal, 2006
“There comes a time when the general defilement of a society becomes so great that the rising generation is put under undue pressure and cannot be said to have a fair choice between the way of light and the way of darkness. When such a point is reached, the cup of iniquity is full, and the established order that has passed the point of no return and neither can nor will change its ways must be removed physically and forcibly if necessary from the earth, whether by war, plague, famine, or upheavals of nature.”
--Hugh Nibley, 1985
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the Power to Change, just about all I knew about the Jewish faith came from Fiddler on the Roof, Dr. Laura, and the novels of Chaim Potok. Now, after carefully reading 575 pages and filling many legal pad pages with notes I feel I have a bit better understanding of Judaism: of the utmost sacredness in which they hold their books of scripture, of the timelessness of their Holiness Code for sexual morality (Leviticus 18), and of their doctrinally-based obligation to offer hope and help to all souls struggling against unwanted thoughts, feelings, and conduct which are not in keeping with G-d’s will. The author means to educate the public in behalf of strugglers of his faith dealing with unwanted same-sex sexual attraction and behaviors, but reminds us that G-d’s everlasting Truth applies and should be available to all of His children for all time. (In this review I am respecting the Jewish custom used throughout the book of avoiding spelling out the name of G-d in case it should have to be erased.)
pleased to announce the publication of a bravely revealed and important true story. Battle lines are drawn in an LDS setting as from a young man’s own words we learn the reality of early experiences with peer abuse, same-sex internet pornography, a gay-affirming culture, and online associations with predatory men, conditions which can send developing masculinity and sexuality into confusion and addiction.
queer sexuality. In fact, our very future depends on it.”
We congratulate our readers who are striving to counteract the gay agenda in their families, churches, and communities. 
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Packer and the Church has resulted. We bring this to your attention in order to raise awareness of the intense opposition to nature, reality, scientific facts, and God’s laws that exists and the need for parents to teach their children truth and correct attitudes. To get an idea of the outspoken resistance to President Packer’s talk coming from Church members and non-members alike, see 
"Is it not high time for the people of this country explicitly to declare, whether they will be freemen or slaves? It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than any thing in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in the event: for wherever tyranny is established, Immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent. It is in the Interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combined to destroy the people's liberties practice every art to poison their morals. How greatly then does it concern us, at all events, to put a stop to the progress of tyranny."
--Samuel Adams
The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams
“The truth does not care if it is questioned; the truth can always stand up to questioning. I have found that only the false fights back, retaliates, and attacks. The truth might defend itself, though it does not really need to. But liars trying to defend their lies get mean and dirty.”
-- Larry Winget
Shut Up, Stop Whining & Get A Life
I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums do not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.
--Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Insights from My Life (1976)
[The gay lifestyle] is anathema to our country, our morality, and the debauchery of our young people. . . We are dealing with the equivalent of a moral takeover of the country that has as its bedrock a belief in G-d and His promise for humanity. They don't want civil rights! What they desire is quasi Gay/Lesbian hegemony, where a huge "bookburning," reminiscent of the Nazis, will purge any remnants of the "Christian, White, mainstream America" that has given ALL AMERICANS the most profound scope of freedom, liberty, and justice that Mankind has yet to experience.
--Rabbi Nachum Shifrin, We Are All Mormons. 11/2008
When the majority of the people become like sheep, who will tolerate intolerance rather than make a fuss, then there is no limit to how far any group will go.
--Thomas Sowell, 11-20-2008
“I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion. And I think if you believe in historic Christianity, you have to confront the fact. For that matter, if you believe in the historic version of Islam or the historic version of Judaism, you have to confront the reality that these secular extremists are determined to impose on you acceptance of a series of values that are antithetical, they're the opposite of what you're taught in Sunday school. I think when the left, when the radicals lost the vote in California, they are determined to impose their will on this country no matter what the popular opinion, no matter what the law of the land. You've watched them, for example, in Massachusetts, basically drive the Catholic Church out of running adoption services, drive Catholic hospitals out of offering any services, because [the radicals] impose secular rules that are fundamentally … sinful from the standpoint of the church.”
--Newt Gingrich, 11-14-2008 on The O'Reilly Factor
I know of nothing in the history of the Church or in the history of the world to compare with our present circumstances. Nothing happened in Sodom and Gomorrah which exceeds in wickedness and depravity that which surrounds us now.
--Elder Boyd K. Packer, Feb 2004 talk to CES educators
. . . tolerance, without limit, could lead to spineless permissiveness . . . Real love for the sinner may compel courageous confrontation—not acquiescence! Real love does not support self-destructing behavior.
--Elder Russell M. Nelson in April 1994 General Conference
. . . if the normalizers have their way, and it becomes criminal to give any social or legal preference to reproductively productive patterns of marriage and family, why would any rational person give their allegiance to such a community, such a legal system, such a state or nation?
-Orson Scott Card in Mormon Life, Deseret News
“The word 'marriage' has long been understood across many cultures as the cooperative union of male and female with a vital interest in the next generation,”
--Jenny Tyree, associate marriage analyst for Focus on the Family Action. 7/15/08
When observing the “modern liberal in verbal action”… ask a cogent relevant question … they almost always will:
01. Refuse to answer “yes or no”
02. Get louder and talk faster or mock the questioner
03. Point at other bad behavior to excuse their bad behavior (this is in vogue now)
04. Topic-shift (often after being presented data on the current topic)
05. Start the “victim” litany
06. Talk or write non-stop to prevent further inquiry (a string of fact less assertions)
07. Feign anger or surprise that ‘the questioner would stoop so low, etc”
08. Claim it’s personal or under investigation so they can’t comment
09. State firmly that “you don’t understand” (aka you are stupid)
10. Present a distracting joke to trivialize the subject
--Doug Schexnayder in Conservative Crawfish 3/21/08