www.gendercentral.com
6/22/2003
Reply to Jonah Goldberg’s “Gays Gain
Victory”
By Rabbi David Eidensohn
The
Washington Times, in a June 20, 2003 commentary, presents Jonah Goldberg’s “Time
to Face Facts: Gays Gain Victory.” Mr. Goldberg describes the great gains of
gays, and concludes they have won the cultural battle with biblical and family
people. He concludes, “The challenge for social conservatives, it seems to me,
is to make the best of what they consider a bad situation. But that would
require making some painful capitulations – intellectual, moral, philosophical
and financial.”
Assuming the gays have won, something we can debate, what “intellectual, moral,
philosophical and financial capitulations” do I have to make? When Hitler and
Stalin won, did I intellectually, morally, philosophically and financially
capitulate? Winning may impress Darwin and Haeckel, but it should not impress
moral people. If the gays are wrong morally and they are winning, we must
redouble our efforts to defeat them, not join them.
Mr. Goldberg begins
and concludes his column by saying nobody, even the gays, admits or faces up to
the gay victory. Thus, Mr. Goldberg declares gays have won even when they do not
claim this. This is very strange, if it were true. Why, if the gays won, are
they silent about it? Do they know something Mr. Goldberg does not?
Mr. Goldberg
lists many achievements of gays in the movies and general culture. He shows how
the Justice Department headed by someone who is Religious Right could not stop a
gay program on government property. True, these are gains. The gays are no
longer in the closet. This is true. However, the second phase of the battle is
now beginning. The gays want biblical and family people, those who denigrate
homosexuality, to be in the closet. One prominent therapist declared to the New
York Times his wish for those who oppose the gay lobby to be quarantined and
dismissed from employ.
There is a ferocious battle going on over the
issue of conversion therapy. May a therapist treat a homosexual if both the
homosexual and the therapist feel this is the best thing for the homosexual? The
gays say that no homosexual should never change, as this is “internalized
homophobia.”
The
gays also contend that no conversion therapy works, a position actually spoken
by Clinton’s Surgeon General. The Surgeon General’s remarks came months after
Dr. Joseph Spitzer of Columbia presented a study that conversion therapy does
work. This is war, and the gays have not won it.
The gays hold on
mental therapists of the American Psychological and Psychiatric Association is
loosening. Dr. Epstein, editor of the official magazine of the American
Psychological Association’s, allowed advertisements in the magazine from NARTH.
NARTH is a group of conservative therapists who believe in conversion therapy
for homosexuals. The gay lobby threatened Dr. Epstein. This time, however, the
threats didn’t work, but
backfired.
A past
president of a major therapists organization that backed the gay line said in a
speech: “Our organization has become so g-damned politically correct it stifles
research.”
Dr.
Joseph Spitzer, once the major friend of the gays in the American Psychiatric
Association, has now done battle with the gays by declaring that homosexuals can
become
heterosexuals.
There are ferocious wars going on in the American Psychiatric Association over
gay demands not to consider pedophilia, gender-identity disorder, and sexual
sadism diseases. Imagine, a man cannot control his impulses to molest children.
He comes to a therapist who tells him, “What you are doing is not sick, so I
won’t treat you.” The gays may lose this fight. They are surely not winning
it.
A major
goal of gays, one far removed from them, is to declare gay unions as marriage.
Congress has passed a law stating that marriage is only one man and one woman.
True, Canada has accepted gay marriages, along with two other countries in
Europe. However, the vast majority of countries do not recognize gay marriage.
Is this victory for the
gays?
Gays try to
remove pedophilia from the mental therapists’ list of mental diseases. They want
to lower the age of consensual sex. However, when the Rind report came out,
suggesting that adult-child is not so bad, Congress condemned it. Is this a
victory for the gay lobby? In these two cases, regarding gay marriage and
pedophilia, the federal government has clearly chosen the family and biblical
posture and rejected gay demands. Mr. Goldberg is thus obviously wrong. He
doesn’t even know what the battle is about. Mr. Goldberg, if you didn’t watch so
much television, you might know what you are talking
about.
The gays
had HIV Confidentiality Laws passed in the eighties, allowing them freedom to
infect people with HIV and AIDS. Those laws are still there, but they are
constantly being watered down, and ultimately may be removed entirely. In 2,000,
the gays openly said they felt “the ground shifting under their
feet.”
Mr.
Goldberg proves his point of the gay victory with four paragraphs about
television and movies. These feature gays in ways unthinkable in earlier years.
Yes, movies and television are pro-gay. However, movies and television are not
everything. Indeed, a large segment of American society is disappointed with
movies and television. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times complained recently
that ABC television has no family program, only gay and dysfunctional family
shows. We know the entertainment world, as well as the liberal newspapers and
colleges, are pro-gay. This is not news. However, most Americans are not
pro-gay.
As people begin to realize just what gays plan to do with our
country, schools and children, they may wake up and join our ranks. This
happened in Massachusetts, of all places, in the teeth of radicalism. Brian
Camenker, near Newton, founded a secular parents program to battle the gay
public school presence, and achieved anti-gay legislative success. Maine passed
a gay rights law. The religious right battled back and the law was
annulled.
In New
York, where I live, I have fought the gays for twenty years, and nobody cared.
Now, a gay rights bill has passed, and people are worried and becoming active.
America is splitting in two parts. Secular America sees a doubling of
white-women having non-marital children in just a few years. Secular America
sees men refusing to marry or marrying later. People are frightened of secular
America. They are afraid of the feminist and gay movements. Women are afraid of
becoming “successful” and aging without children, or even without a husband. The
religious community is fattening on the detritus of the secular community with
its gay and feminist agenda. Gloria Steinhem led the feminist movement for years
in the chant, “We need men like a squirrel needs a bicycle.” Recently, at the
age of 67, Gloria scandalized her followers by marrying. For years, the gay
lobby told women to be happy with vibrators and cooing, but it just isn’t
enough.
The gay
lobby wants to brand as incitement and hate any form of protest against the gay
lobby. We are still quite free to say what we want, although we must be
vigilant.
The gay
lobby wants to destroy the tax exemptions of religious groups that discriminate
against homosexuals. So far, they have failed.
Many Americans are afraid
of the entertainment industry with its deleterious influences on gender and
family issues. However, the confused and frightened masses of America need
leadership. They need people to write and tell them what the issues are, and how
they can fight back. They don’t need Jonah Goldberg to tell them lies about a
supposed gay
victory.
America
is now up for grabs. We need people to tell us there is hope. This country is
known for its moderation, for its strong religious segments. Those who believe
in G-d need never despair; surely not because of some news and television
shows.
The great
tragedy of Goldberg’s article is the incredible ignorance of gay issues it
manifests. An article about such an important topic breezes from start to end
with no discussion of many important gay issues, although Mr. Goldberg does seem
to be an expert at remembering all of the television shows and movies he
saw.
In fifteen
short paragraphs, Mr. Goldberg never informs us of the issues, because he
doesn’t know them. This is the conservative equivalent of journalist cheating so
famous in the New York Times. Anyone wishing to see what is happening in the gay
issue, in all of its manifestations, can visit my website, www.gendercentral.com, and see dozens
of articles over the past years covering the issues. There is a lot of facts in
those articles, and a lot of hope, even as things get worse. When it gets worse
radically, there is always a reaction. The gays will suffer from that reaction.
Yes, Mr.
Goldberg. It is time to face facts. When you learn them, you can discuss
them.
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