• An even more radical approach may evolve. It is reasonable to ask whether there will be a family at all. Given the propensity for divorce, the growing number of adults who choose to remain single, the declining popularity of having children and the evaporation of the time families spend together, another way may eventually evolve. It may be quicker and more efficient to dispense with family-based reproduction. Society could then produce its future generations in institutions that might resemble state-sponsored baby hatcheries…"

Dear Editor,

In a recent interview, CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather accused Christians of being homophobes and hate mongers because of their opposition to the homosexual lifestyle. Also, Councilman Al Boris of Wilkes-Barre has been on the hotseat due to some derogatory remarks he made about homosexuals. As a result, the attention in the media has focused on the treatment, or mistreatment, of homosexuals. Yet, there has been little, if any, discussion about the nature of the homosexual lifestyle from a medical or social point of view. And what has been said has been devoid of facts. For example, The Advocate, the nation's largest magazine for homosexuals, quotes Joycelyn Elders, the Surgeon General for the United States, as saying that sex is "a normal part and healthy part of our being, whether it is homosexual or heterosexual." She then goes on to support homosexual adoptions and criticizes the Boy Scouts of America for not allowing gay scout leaders.

Elders, along with those promoting the gay agenda, claim that anti-gay attitudes are founded on an irrational fear of sexuality. They characterize everyone who disagrees with the gay agenda as homophobes, bigots, and hate mongers. They fail to recognize that many of us who reject the gay agenda, do so based on strong medical and historical evidence that homosexuality is detrimental to society as a whole, as well as the individual. We oppose the gay agenda, not because we are homophobes, but because we feel it is injurious to our society.

Consider, for example, the following medical statistics (which, by the way, should be common knowledge for Joycelyn Elders, since she does hold the highest medical position in the United States):

Consider, also, the affect that the homosexual lifestyle has on the life span of homosexuals. When obituaries of homosexuals were compared to those of the rest of the population, the results are startling. For non-homosexuals, the median age of death of married men was 75 and 80% of them died old (age 65 or older). For unmarried or divorced men, the median age of death was 57 and 32% died old. Married women averaged 79 at death while 85% died old. Unmarried and divorce women averaged 71 and 60% died old.6

On the other hand, the median age of death for homosexuals was significantly lower. In fact, less than 2% lived to old age. As for the median age of death, if the cause of death was AIDS, the median age was only 39. For those who died of other causes, the median age of death was a paltry 42 and only 9% died old. Lesbians fared a little better, with the median age of death being 45 while 26% died old.7 The evidence is overwhelming that homosexuality poses a grave danger to one’s health. In fact, homosexuality is far more dangerous than cigarette smoking!

Not only should the medical statistics alarm us, but so should the practices of homosexuals. Consider the following behavioral patterns of homosexuals taken from the major surveys on homosexual behavior.

These figures should alarm us. One reason that they haven’t is that they have been hidden from the American people. We have not been told the whole story about the homosexual movement. The homosexual movement has succeeded in painting a much rosier picture of itself than is actually the case. They have made homosexuality a civil rights issue, rather than a medical issue. As a result, our society as a whole is threatened from the rampages of STD's as well as the financial burden of paying for these problems, and we our powerless to say anything because it supposedly violates their civil rights.

Yet, I have a right to protect my kids from a lifestyle that is self-destructive. That is why I do not want that kind of lifestyle legitimized in the media. Just as I don’t want to glamorize cigarette smoking because it is self-destructive behavior, so too, I don’t want to glamorize the homosexual lifestyle. More importantly, I want to protect my kids from the 25% of homosexuals who admit to molestation. The truth is that they cannot reproduce naturally, so they must do it by recruiting. How do they recruit? By taking advantage of underage kids--molestation!

One final word, throughout history, all civilizations and major religions have condemned homosexuality. No society has ever survived that has tolerated its practice. It is self-destructive behavior that weakens society. Joycelyn Elders, if she is so concerned about self-destructive behavior, should quit promoting the gay lifestyle and expose everyone to the medical data. Homosexual behavior is far more destructive than second-hand smoke (or first hand smoke for that matter). Let’s quit hiding the gay lifestyle behind the smoke screen of civil rights and confront the issue with the facts. You don’t have to be a homophobe to oppose the gay lifestyle. You just have to know the facts.

• William Lester in Morality, Anyone? "The community should want to prevent as far as possible her citizens from stooping to acts of homosexuality, bestiality and the like. Such acts give into a depravity that runs counter to the virtues necessary for civilization and eats away at the strength of a nation…By having laws against unnatural sex even though the laws cannot be closely enforced, the community at least inhibits the acts somewhat through fear of getting caught and at the same time prevents the depraved from boldly parading their depravity and thereby encouraging others."
• Dr. Edward Brongersma told the London Observer after a hotel cancelled a convention for pedophiles "I was very disappointed about the ban. I wanted to tell people that it is not wrong if a man wants to have a sexual relationship with a child. It can be a very beautiful thing."
• Tom Reeves in Gay Community News: "love between men and boys is often the most mutually beneficial, the least manipulative, the lest transient and the most liberating."
• Dr. Alayne Yates wrote Sex Without Shame and suggests that sexual problems go back to childhood restraints on sex. "…any kind of early, pleasurable sexual experience tens to augment later sexual adjustment and enthusiasm. And father-daughter incest is frequently pleasurable."

• Premarital sex
• November 1991 Journal of Marriage and Family: "women who were sexually active prior to marriage faced a considerably higher risk of marital disruption than women who were virgin brides." "Catholics and fundamentalists Protestants were less likely to divorce and more likely to approach marriage as virgins.
• Dawson’s Creek
• Melrose Place

• Women’s lib movement
• Abortion
• Cheapening of human life
• Kids realize that they are disposable. Note: can you image the thought process of a teen who has a parent who is pro-abortion? Would my mom have aborted me for convenience sake?
• Hollywood Culture Dominate Mainstream
• Movies, television, video games, internet
• Each year there are over 20,000 acts of implied intercourse on TV
• 1992: This season, every middle adolescent (character) in television lost their virginity."
• None of those characters got STDs, AIDS, etc.
• Government intervention

• Illus. Remember the Alamo. San Antonio 1836 General Antonio Lopez Santa Anna with 4,000 men against the 180 men with Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie
• Leave it to Beaver is scorned, depicted as undesirable, ridiculed as unattainable. Time we brought back Ward and June and kicked out the Eddie Haskell’s who are making family policy
• Most families are so subnormal that if they became normal we would consider them abnormal.
• Notice Three Elements in Abraham’s Family that made it successful