Homosexual Activist Admits True Purpose of Battle is to Destroy Marriage

Written By Micah Clark   |   04.06.13

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Even knowing that there are radicals in all movements, doesn’t  lessen the startling admission recently by lesbian journalist Masha Gessen.  On a radio show she actually admits that homosexual activists are lying about their radical political agenda.  She says that they don’t want to access the institution of marriage; they want to radically redefine and eventually eliminate it. 

Here is what she recently said on a radio interview: 

“It’s a no-brainer that (homosexual activists) should have the right to marry, but I also think equally that it’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. …(F)ighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there — because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie. 

The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change. And again, I don’t think it should exist. And I don’t like taking part in creating fictions about my life. That’s sort of not what I had in mind when I came out thirty years ago. 

I have three kids who have five parents, more or less, and I don’t see why they shouldn’t have five parents legally… I met my new partner, and she had just had a baby, and that baby’s biological father is my brother, and my daughter’s biological father is a man who lives in Russia, and my adopted son also considers him his father. So the five parents break down into two groups of three… And really, I would like to live in a legal system that is capable of reflecting that reality, and I don’t think that’s compatible with the institution of marriage.”

(Source: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/why-get-married/4058506)

For quite some time, the defenders of natural marriage have attempted to point out that the true agenda behind the homosexual demands organizations is not marriage equality; it is the total unraveling of marriage and uprooting traditional values from society.  (This will ultimately include efforts to silence and punish some churches that openly adhere to their religious teachings about marriage and sexual morality.) 

While few have been as vocal as this lesbian activist was in this interview, we do have numerical examples proving her point.  When given the opportunity to marry, after laws have been struck down relatively small percentages of homosexuals actually bother to marry compared to their heterosexual counterparts.  This raises question about the true need to unravel marriage for the “fair” extension its benefits.  Only 12 percent of homosexuals in the Netherlands marry compared to 86 percent of their heterosexual peers.  Less than 20 percent of same-sex couples already living together in California married when given the chance in 2008.  In contrast, 91 percent of heterosexual couples in California who are living together are married. 

 Clearly this is about cultural change and tearing down the traditional family ethic, since it seems that most homosexuals living together neither need nor desire to marry, though they do desire to radically change marriage.

 Gays and lesbians are free to live as they choose, and we live in a society which roundly applauds them doing so like never before in our history, but they do not have the right to rewrite marriage for all of society.

• Monday 08 April 2013 

SIMON KELNER

Sunday 7 April 2013

The Book of Mormon might be 

offensive, but even the Mormon 

Church can see the funny side

In this age of quick-fire offence it would have been so 

easy to whip up a media storm. It seems the Mormon 

Church's PR team are far too canny for that

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Anyone who has travelled on the London Underground recently will have seen countless advertisements for the hit musical The Book of Mormon. I don't know why the show needs any more publicity, given that it's almost impossible to get a ticket for it, but if you've stood on a platform for any length of time, you'll have been able to read posters which, instead of quotes from the critics, have tweets from members of the public. "I haven't laughed so much in ages". "I went home and immediately bought the soundtrack." That sort of thing.

I haven't seen the show, but as it is the creation of the duo responsible for the adult cartoon South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, it is not an enormous shock to discover that it is irreverent, profane, at times shocking, and could, by some, be considered offensive. It's not just the Mormon religion which feels the force of Trey and Matt's satire: Christians, Jews, homosexuals, and African people might also be upset by the way they have been portrayed.

By any standards, it is a controversial piece of work. One of the songs suggests that Mormons believe that God lives on the planet Kolob, while at another point, the chorus sings the words: "F*** you, God". We live in a liberal age, when most people acknowledge the right of artists to take creative risks. But these are also times when everyone seems so quick to take offence. We see it all the time: one off-colour remark, one misguided tweet, even a trumped-up charge of calling a copper a pleb, and the sky falls in on the hapless perpetrator. How dare you insult me/us/them. Which makes the reaction toThe Book of Mormon, particularly within the Mormon establishment, extremely interesting.

There's been none of the hoo-ha from religious zealots that has attended every production of Jesus Christ Superstar, and no one has yet picketed the theatres in the way Christian groups did for Jerry Springer: The Opera. Quite the opposite, in fact, and this morning Londoners will notice a different kind of billboard relating to the Mormon faith. Instead of complaining about a musical show that pokes fun at their religion, the Church of Latter Day Saints has chosen to capture the moment by launching a marketing campaign of their own. Brightly-coloured ads showing attractive young people of all ethnicities with the slogan "I'm a Mormon" are to be seen at Tube Stations - sometimes in very close proximity to ones for the show - and on the sides of London buses. "You've seen the play, now read the book," reads an advert in the programme for the show itself.

Whoever is advising the Mormon Church on their public relations and advertising strategy should take a bow. It would have been so easy to whip up a storm around the musical. The Mormons could have had all the publicity they wanted: demos, protests, questions in the House. But that would have been the wrong sort of publicity. By eschewing boiler-plate indignation and accentuating the positive, the Mormons can be seen as modern, open, inclusive and understanding. I wouldn't be surprised if the Mormon population of Britain (190,000 and rising) gets a boost as a result.