By Jack Minor
A so called “new study” that claims opposition to homosexuality
means a person probably is a closet homosexual, turns out to be nothing more
than a rehash of propaganda used in the 1970s, according to a former liberal who warns of the latest “gay” media
wave.
“This is so old-hat, they were saying this in the 1970s when I was
a liberal progressive. This was standard indoctrination talking points about
homosexuality even back then,” said Linda Harvey, founder of Mission
Science Daily reports a new study says
“homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction
to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such
desires.”
By this same deluded logic Muslims who murder their wives in honor
killings do it out of love. Or Muslims that murder Jews and Christians are
wannabe Jews and Christians.
In this I hear a child’s response to name calling back when I was a
child. “I know you are but what am I”? or “I’m rubber
and your glue what every you call me bounces off me and sticks to you”.
This is an attempt to get the public to shut up concerning their
opposition to homosexuality that it is abnormal, it is a mental sickness, that it
is a defilement, that God and the bible are opposed to anyone who would do such
things, that people do not want to be friends or associate with homosexuals, meaning
that despite all their efforts being a homosexual still has a strong negative stigma
in the US. And the harder they push to make it appear this abhorrent behavior is
normal and healthy, the harder normal and healthy people push back against it.
Netta Weinstein, a lecturer at the
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality says the story is nothing more than junk
science on steroids.
“Before it became ‘normalized’ and politically correct it was
studied. In a healthy society pathology is studied but now everything has
flipped and they are trying to make it so those who study homosexuality are the
sick ones,” he said.
The article says the fact that “homophobes” are closet homosexuals
explains the cause behind much of the bullying directed against “gays” and
lesbians. It says media reports of these incidents claim the attackers
perceived a threat from homosexuals and “people in denial about their sexual
orientation may lash out because gay targets threaten and bring this internal
conflict to the forefront.”
They cite the example of Ted Haggard, a prominent evangelical
pastor who opposed homosexuality but was later found to be engaged in a “gay”
sex scandal in 2006.
LaBarbera acknowledges that people such as Haggard exist but says
that is far from being the norm and is more indicative of a sinful nature.
“Jimmy Swaggart preached against
adultery and was later found to be having an affair. That doesn’t mean that all
preachers who preach against adultery are secret adulterers,” he said.
The study was conducted using college students whose sexual
orientation was determined by self-identification and how they performed a
split-second task. They were shown words and pictures on a computer screen and
asked to put them in “gay” or “straight” categories. Prior to the trials, the
participants were shown either the word “me” or “others” for 35 milliseconds.
After this they were shown pictures of straight and “gay” couples
and the words “gay,” “straight,” homosexual” and “heterosexual” while a
computer tracked their response times.
According to the authors, people who had a faster reaction with
words “me” and “gay” were deemed to be homosexuals regardless of their stated
orientation.
The authors concluded people who declared themselves to be
heterosexual, while the reaction time indicated they were homosexual, often
reacted with hostility to “gay others.” The study claimed hostility to the
“gay” lifestyle by these individuals reveals that homophobia is possibly a
result of a suppressed homosexual orientation.
Study co-author Richard Ryan of the
He cited the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard
in
“Homophobia is not a laughing matter. It can sometimes have tragic
consequences,” he said.
Numerous reports attribute Shepard’s
murder to his homosexuality. Police investigations, however, suggest that
robbery was the motive for the crime.
LaBarbera said academia would never do any serious studies on issues
within the homosexual community.
“We’ve got all these pathologies within the homosexual world – men
who beat their partners, you’ve got high rates of STDs through the roof for men
who have sex with men – and yet none of that merits a study that would come out
and say that homosexual practice is wrong,” he laments. “There are no objective
studies coming from academia on the subject of homosexuality because they are
more interested in being politically correct.”
He continued, “This study will eventually be cited in some school
textbook or be taught in
Harvey echoed LaBarbera’s concerns that
the study will be used to teach children at a young age that if they are
opposed to homosexuality because of their religious upbringing or normal
impulses that the behavior is unnatural they are actually closet homosexuals.
“They want to target our kids and introduce sex to children at
younger and younger ages to cause them to look at any type of relationship they
may have with anyone whether it be other children or
adults in sexual terms,”
She said the line of reasoning presented in the study was part and
parcel of feminist teaching regarding sexual liberation in the 1970s when
adherents were taught to turn the tables on those opposing homosexuality by
accusing them of the very thing they were opposed to.
“It is clearly an intimidation tactic to convince the majority of
people who know there is something wrong with homosexuality that there is
something wrong with them instead. We did this in the 70s when Anita Bryant was
sounding the warning cry against the homosexual movement,” she said. “This
study is simply a re-packaging of the same things the homosexual movement was
teaching in the 1970s.”
“As a part of that they did a very thorough screening on you and
asked you a detailed questionnaire. It was intended to see how liberal you were
and questions were asked about homosexuality to see if you tolerated it or not.
This is all part of radical feminism.”