The Illinois Family Institute has put out a spectacular analysis of the despicable exploitation going on right now at the behest of the homosexual lobby.
Following a string of suicides by young people engaged in homosexual behavior, the left and their media minions have seen it as an opportunity not to mourn and evaluate the real causes of the tragedies, but rather to use them as fuel in their cultural crusade to force sexual anarchy on the culture. It's sick.
The storyline template is well established, well rehearsed, and quite familiar by now: any death that involves someone engaged in homosexuality is the result of the fear, hatred, and lack of acceptance of homosexuality perpetuated by Christians and those who embrace traditional morality.
No other potential reason is explored because no other explanation will be accepted. Why? Because this isn't about truth. It's about an agenda.
If it was about truth, someone might be paying attention to what was written at The Daily Beast about the suicide of one of these confused young persons, Raymond Chase:
Chase did not seem to struggle with his gay identity -- he was out to his friends and family, and to a much larger and accepting social circle. [Ivonne] White (Chase's best friend) described him as the life of the party, loved by many and hated by none; "Straight guys fist-bumped him. Everyone just wanted to be around him," she said.
"This is something I want to say to everyone about Ray: He was never, ever bullied, and nobody was ever mean to him," said White, who thinks Chase could have been a comedian he was so funny. Some of the world's most beloved comedians, of course, are famous for concealing pain and depression with the Teflon of good humor.
White speculates that her friend might have been upset over a crush he had on a straight boy, a good friend, to whom Chase confessed his affection this summer. Though any romantic feelings were unrequited, the crush treated Chase with utter dignity and respect, before and after the admission. Still, Chase seemed haunted by his feelings, staying up until 4 a.m. the night before his suicide to talk to his roommate about that crush.
If it was about truth, the media might be paying attention to these distinct possibilities:
- Perhaps it wasn't the moral views about homosexuality of the students who filmed Tyler that were the problem, but rather that they have grown up in an invasive, obscene culture that has turned sexuality into a public spectator sport and kids into exhibitionists. Just look at the television shows and films that our children watch and the photos that teens post on their Facebook pages to understand better how they view sexuality and modesty.
- Perhaps Tyler felt justifiable shame for both engaging in a shameful act and then having this act made public -- and was offered no help in dealing with his impulses, his actions, or his shame. Christian apologist, Ravi Zacharias argues persuasively that a society that no longer feels shame is doomed. The question is not whether shame is good and necessary for quite obviously it is both. The question is, for which actions should we feel shame.
- Perhaps if Tyler had not been taught the bleakly deterministic view that he was "born" homosexual, he would have had more hope for the future and would have been more likely to resist homosexual temptation.
- Perhaps if the culture had not filled Tyler's head with titillating homosexual images and fallacious ideas, his conscience would have been stronger than his impulses.
- Perhaps if university life were not so decadent and hedonistic, students would not be engaging in sexual acts -- heterosexual or homosexual -- with the ease and frequency with which they do.
But none of this will be discussed, because the ones who claim to "care" about "homosexuals" are willing to condemn them to lives of pain, distress and anxiety so long as they can be used as vehicles to advance a left-wing humanist agenda.
That shouldn't just make us frustrated. It should make us angry - righteous anger at those who exploit confused children and teenagers for their own evil ends.
