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Rev. Lou Sheldon vs. The Homosexual Agenda

By , About.com GuideJune 4, 2004

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There are a lot of conservative religious groups that work to oppose things like gay rights. None, however, are quite as active on the question of homosexuality as Lou Sheldon’s Traditional Values Coalition.

Hanna Rosin writes for the Washington Post:

Opposing the "homosexual agenda," as it's known in their circle, is on the priority list for most Christian conservative groups. But for the Traditional Values Coalition, founded in 1980 by Sheldon and based in Anaheim, Calif., it is a singular obsession. "They're the most active anti-gay group there is," says Chris Anders of the American Civil Liberties Union. "They're the one group out in the trenches, doing door-to-door knocking, hounding members of Congress." This calling has consumed Sheldon since 1972, when as a Presbyterian pastor he learned that a gay rights group had introduced what he calls the "Homosexual Manifesto" at the Democratic National Convention. It was "all in there -- domestic partners, teaching in public schools, they wanted it all," he recalls. "That's when I realized I had to wake up."

The article provides an interesting profile of Sheldon and his daughter, but it ends ominously:

"It's a sleeping giant out there," he says. "We're talking about tens of millions of people. And when they wake up I feel bad for the homosexuals."

What does he expect to happen to the homosexuals? And if it will be so bad for them, why is he engaged in “waking up” this “giant”? Could it be that, whatever he envisions, is something he wants to happen to them? What will he do if things don’t go his way and society grows more and more comfortable with gay couples and gay marriage?

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Felix Piere(1)

CA’s Supreme Ct. is out of their pay grade to repeal the Laws of Nature.

Biology 101 teaches there are only two (2) sexes. Male & Female

Overruling a law because some , (not a majority), have an obsessive addictive behavior and have their feelings hurt is not jurisprudence.

This ruling could apply to thieves who have their feelings hurt because the law puts them in jail for their misbehavior. Are we prepared to give them equal protection? At least their actions do not injure others w/sexually transmitted diseases.

The Court dismiss’s any religious arguments, so I hit them w/secular ideas.
Like Stare decisis:-Policy of courts to stand by precedent.
Gays have= rights to Gays

May 29, 2008 at 11:34 pm
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CA’s Supreme Ct. is out of their pay grade to repeal the Laws of Nature.

Feel free to demonstrate how the civil institution of marriage is in any way defined by nature.

Biology 101 teaches there are only two (2) sexes. Male & Female

With which sex do you classify hermaphrodites?

Overruling a law because some , (not a majority), have an obsessive addictive behavior and have their feelings hurt is not jurisprudence.

Why do you assume that a desire for equality is simply about hurt feelings?

This ruling could apply to thieves who have their feelings hurt because the law puts them in jail for their misbehavior.

Feel free to demonstrate how?

Are we prepared to give them equal protection?

Actually, thieves do get equal protection under the law.

The Court dismiss’s any religious arguments, so I hit them w/secular ideas.
Like Stare decisis:-Policy of courts to stand by precedent.
Gays have= rights to Gays

Stare decisis is simply a general principle, not a basis for withholding equal rights. If you have any actual secular arguments against gay marriage, feel free to offer them.

May 30, 2008 at 6:03 am
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fallingleaf(3)

There seems to be a lot of anecdotal evidence that homophobes are often people who are fighting their own homosexual tendencies (e.g Larry Craig, Ted Haggard). Does anyone know of any studies on this?

June 13, 2008 at 12:47 pm
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asa(4)

@fallingleaf Typical faggot doublethink maneuver to stop critical thinking of healthy people. I’d say that most of you poor silenced loosers are real latent homosexuals. Watching their movies, blindly accepting every godless sin as a liberal move just to defend your poor cowardish status quo in means of, be like every one else; dumb and blind! Homosexuality/pedophily is a sick sodomistic & satanic degradation which will ultimately fail whether you blind hidden sick bastards accept it or not. I’m not homophobe but I’m definitely not someone to whom devil could sell his trick in any guise! Male and female is the only natural and by true God possible Law of the Universe and light!

May 8, 2011 at 10:34 am
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