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The Homosexual Agenda is a self-centered set of beliefs and
objectives designed to promote and mandate approval of
homosexuality and its ideology in society, along with the
strategies used to implement such. The goals and means of this
movement include indoctrinating students in public school,
restricting the free speech of opposition, obtaining special
treatment for homosexuals, distorting Biblical teaching and
science, and interfering with freedom of association. Advocates
of the homosexual agenda seek special rights for homosexuals and
self-described "LGBTI people" that other people don't have, such
as immunity from criticism (see hate speech, hate crimes). Such
special rights will necessarily come at the expense of the
rights of broader society. The homosexual agenda is the biggest
threat to the rights of free speech and religious freedom today.

One of the top priorities of the Homosexual Agenda is to
prohibit and outlaw conversion therapy, particularly for
teenagers. Several U.S. states have enacted such laws, and
leftists are pushing similar bans in many other states,
apparently unable to tolerate things they dislike. Another
priority is to elect high-ranking officials who are openly
homosexual, with the ultimate goal of electing a president who
is in a same-sex "marriage".

In a speech on December 10, 2013, to a pro-family rally in
Jamaica, a country that rejects same-sex marriage, Brian
Camenker of MassResistance outlined the step-by-step approach of
the homosexual agenda:[1]

Legalize homosexuality
Hold gay pride parades
Accept child sex trafficking
Demand non-discrimination laws
Insist on homosexuals' adoption of children
Push the homosexual agenda in schools[2]
Legalize various alternate forms of partnership and call
them "marriage" (i.e. man and man, woman and woman, man and
three women, woman and box turtle, man and sex toy)
Demand public funding to deal with increased homosexual-
related social problems
Promote the transgender agenda
Demand to be treated "equally"
Impose a large-scale loss of free speech
Ban counseling for kids confused by homosexual issues
Ban scientifically and religiously proven methods of
homosexual conversion, such as shock therapy
Attack churches
Encourage abortion

Russia is a leader in rejecting the homosexual agenda.[3][4][5]
For example, Russia banned adoption by Americans as the Obama
Administration aggressively pushed the homosexual agenda, and in
June 2013 a house in the Russian parliament passed legislation
to ban foreign adoption by gay couples or single parents who
live in any gay marriage nation.[6]

Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton, and essentially all
Democrat politicians now advocate the homosexual agenda,
reflecting the growing financial power of the homosexual
network. Obama's self-centered obsession with his own re-
election, and fundraising for his campaign, has caused him to
create a national political issue out of this, rather than deal
with other issues like the economy. Many establishment
Republicans and Cafeteria Christians also have bought into the
homosexual agenda.

Among all the liberal belief systems, the homosexual ideology is
the most self-centered or selfish – unlike the vast charity
performed by thousands of churches in the U.S. alone, homosexual
charity can be considered an oxymoron.

The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia referred to the
"so-called homosexual agenda" in Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558
(2003) (dissenting opinion). Justice Scalia also predicted that
this was the first step to legalizing homosexual civil unions.
He was proven right with the outcome of Obergefell v. Hodges.

Despite the fact that only 4.1% of the U.S. population
identified as LGBT, just over half a percentage point higher
than four years prior,[7] Americans greatly overestimate the
proportion of homosexuals in the nation to be an average of
23%.[8] Interestingly, Republicans and conservatives gave
estimates closest to the actual number.

The Homosexual Agenda

Joseph P. Gudel, in That Which is Unnatural[9] contended that
the homosexual movement,

has been militantly demanding not just the homosexuals'
right to do whatever they wish to do behind closed doors, but,
more importantly, that society fully accept their lifestyle as
both healthy and normal, even demanding special rights and
legislation as an "oppressed minority." Gudel quotes various
sources evidencing this.

In a 1987 speech to the National Press Club in Washington,
homosexual spokesperson Jeff Levi proclaimed,

We are no longer seeking just a right to privacy and a
protection from wrong. We also have a right — as heterosexual
Americans already have — to see government and society affirm
our lives.[10]

In an article entitled "Gays on the March" in 1975, Time
magazine quoted gay activist Barbara Gittings who stated:

What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to
compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of
homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with
heterosexuality." In response, Time opined, "It is one thing to
remove legal discrimination against homosexuals. It is another
to mandate approval....It is this goal of full acceptance, which
no known society past or present has granted to homosexuals,
that makes many Americans apprehensive.[11]

A primary goal of the homosexual agenda is to normalize the
lifestyle in public schools. This occurred quickly and intensely
after gay marriage was imposed in Massachusetts, where
homosexual relationships are taught to children as young as
kindergartners, as recounted by the decision of Parker v.
Hurley.[12]

In a 1992 report by John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, he
notes some books which were part of New York City's public
school curriculum.

The first-grade book, "Children of the Rainbow", stated on page
145, which states that teachers must "be aware of varied family
structures, including...gay or lesbian parents," and "children
must be taught to acknowledge the positive aspects of each type
of household." Another children book is Heather Has Two Mommies,
which is about a lesbian couple having a child through
artificial insemination. Another book, Gloria Goes to Gay Pride,
states, "Some women love women, some men love men, some women
and men love each other. That's why we march in the parade, so
everyone can have a choice."

Leo commented,

A line is being crossed here; in fact, a brand new ethic is
descending upon the city's public school system. The traditional
civic virtue of tolerance (if gays want to live together, it's
their own business) has been replaced with a new ethic requiring
approval and endorsement (if gays want to live together, we must
'acknowledge the positive aspects' of their way of life).[13]

Dr. Judith A. Reisman in her extensive Crafting “Gay”
Children,[14] reports that Harvard homosexual Toby Morotta, PhD,
stated that in the 1970s, members of the Gay Activists Alliance -
who were trained in the “zapping" of any who rebuffed
homosexuality.[15] And that these formed the “Gay Academic
Union,” (GAU) which was made up of faculty and students in major
universities. She states that the GAU has long fought for
domination of its worldview within the academic community, and
professional journals commonly assigned GAU and other homosexual
peer reviewers to research touching on homosexuality, generally
resulting in a quick death to possible unfavorable findings.[16]

This and the general agenda is seen to be overall implementing a
marketing strategy explained in a book called After the Ball, by
gay rights activists Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen in the late
1980s, in which a six-point plan was set forth as to how they
could transform the beliefs of ordinary Americans with regard to
homosexual behavior in a decade-long time frame:

"The agenda of homosexual activists is basically to change
America from what they perceive as looking down on homosexual
behavior, to the affirmation of and societal acceptance of
homosexual behavior." [17] "Thus propagandistic advertising can
depict all opponents of the gay movement as homophobic bigots
who are 'not Christian' and the propaganda can further show them
homosexuals as being criticized, hated and shunned..."[18]

Focus on the Family provides additional quotes from After the
Ball, outlining key points of the homosexual agenda:[17][19]

"Talk about gays and gayness as loudly and as often as
possible." (They use late night air waves and special channels,
as well as their right to peacefully assemble to do so.)
"Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers."
"Give homosexual protectors a just cause."
"Make gays look good."
"Make the victimizers look bad."
"Get funds from corporate America."

United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote:
“ Today's opinion is the product of a Court, which is the
product of a law-profession culture, that has largely signed on
to the so-called homosexual agenda, by which I mean the agenda
promoted by some homosexual activists directed at eliminating
the moral opprobrium that has traditionally attached to
homosexual conduct.[20] ”

Vic Eliason of Crosstalk America rightly points out that if all
Americans turned homosexual it would only take a few generations
for the United States to lose most of the population of the
country through lack of procreation. This would make the US more
vulnerable to attack by our enemies.
Specific goals

The goals of the homosexual movement include:

Ignoring Christian morals and discouraging religiously based
laws.
Attempting to convince the world that marriage should be
defined secularly, instead of as one of the Lord's commandments.
Ignore the clear message of the Bible that homosexuality is
a sin and an abomination unto God because their first amendment
rights allow them to.
Remind conservatives that there cannot be a gay gene, just
like like there cannot be a "black gene" because complex things
like these are caused by complex interactions between genes.
Censoring evidence that the "gay gene" is a hoax. After all,
it would have to be multiple genes interacting together.[21]
Censoring speech against homosexuality by branding it to be "hate-speech"[22][23][24]
Censoring biblical statements condemning homosexuality[25]
Lobbying for equal employment rights.[26][27]
Expand hate crimes legislation to include sexual
orientation, which would be equally wrong for heterosexuals to
do.[28]
Ending the military's and Boy Scout's restrictions on
homosexuality[29]
Stopping children as young as 5 years old from attending
therapy to repair their sexual preference[30]
Teach tolerance of homosexuals in schools.
In places like Massachusetts and California, where the gay
lobby is the strongest, it starts as early as preschool. They
tell seven- or eight-year-old boys, "If you only like boys,
there's a chance you may be homosexual," or "If you only like
girls, maybe you are lesbian." Children at that age also do not
have the hormones to experience sexual attraction, so they
cannot understand this yet.
Demands protections from job discrimination.[31]
Suing an online dating website for discrimination. This was
because sexual orientation is a federally protected group, as
such, this company was breaking the law.[32]
Undermining the resolve of latent homosexuals so that their
will becomes too weak to resist the temptations of
homosexuality[33]
Pushing for legalized adoption by gay individuals and
couples[34]
Indoctrination of public school children to support the
homosexual agenda
Allowing boys into girls' restrooms and vice versa, without
restriction.

The state-by-state push for same-sex marriage can be viewed as a
means to the above goals, or a goal in itself.[35] An example of
this would be the recent New Hampshire law that makes same-sex
civil unions legal.[36]

Although notable gains toward achieving its goals continue to
manifest, homosexual activists have recently been expressing a
high level of dissatisfaction with the Obama administration.
Commenting on such, Massresistance.org, an organization which
opposes the homosexual agenda in Massachusetts, noted that the
President has,

signed an order extending federal benefits to same-sex
partners.

pushed an extreme hate crimes bill in Congress.

declared his intention to repeal the Defense of Marriage.

pushed a pro-homosexual and transgender version of the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

appointed homosexual activists to high level positions,
including Harry Knox, of the homosexual lobby group Human Rights
Campaign, and Kevin Jennings, founder of the Gay, Lesbian,
Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which educates kids in the
public schools.

declared February to be "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and
Transgender Pride Month."

Demanded the State Department allow gay couples to use their
married names (from marriages or civil unions) on US
passports.[37]

In Europe, countries such as the United Kingdom and France have
adopted policies promoting transgenderism.[38]

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