Rev. Lou Sheldon vs. The Homosexual Agenda
Friday June 4, 2004
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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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
Feel free to demonstrate how the civil institution of marriage is in any way defined by nature.
With which sex do you classify hermaphrodites?
Why do you assume that a desire for equality is simply about hurt feelings?
Feel free to demonstrate how?
Actually, thieves do get equal protection under the law.
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.
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?