Truth obscured in homosexual tsunami

Homosexuality is taking the world by storm.

Open a paper, turn on the tube or take in a movie and homosexuality is where it’s at. And this immense homosexual tsunami threatens to engulf countless lives, yet hardly a whisper signals the impending damage and loss that hides behind its swell.

“It’s ‘in’ to be ‘out’ these days,” trumpets USA-Today (June 4, 2003). Actor Richard Chamberlain just announced what we already knew: He’s “gay.” “All My Children,” hosted daytime television’s first lesbian kiss while the wildly clever “Will and Grace” remains an evening favorite. A new dating show “Boy Meets Boy” debuts soon and Ellen DeGeneres turns TV talkmeister in the fall.

Cinema chick, Jennifer Lopez, and Irish hetero hottie, Colin Farrell, go “gay” and bisexual, respectively, in upcoming films. A Broadway Tony went to “Take Me Out,” the drama focused on a “gay” baseball player. Walt Disney World welcomed 130,000 homosexual revelers for June’s “Gay Days.”

Canada just celebrated its first legal same-sex wedding after an Ontario court canned the ban on homosexual marriages. Earlier this month, the California State Assembly approved legislation that awards all rights of marriage to homosexual partners. Same-sex benefits are climbing corporate ladders, as well as inflating city and state budgets.

The National Education Association is so smitten by homosexual claims of normalcy that it plans to promote receptivity to “gay,” lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues throughout curriculum in grades K-12. “Queer Proms” join springtime traditions.

New Hampshire Episcopalians tapped openly-homosexual Rev. vs. Gene Robinson as their next bishop. Meanwhile, “gay” Australian theologian, Rollan McCleary, received a doctorate for his thesis on “gay spirituality.”

After tracing Biblical “clues” and Jesus’ astrological chart, his conclusion: Jesus was a homosexual.

That news flash sent me to the Scriptures nixing homosexuality. Had those admonitions – divinely dictated – been mystically expunged? Nope, “Thou shalt not” is still there as per Author instruction, and not as a cruel denial of sexual pleasure.

For, truth be told, homosexuality is not user-friendly.

Clinical psychologist Joseph Nicolosi, Ph.D., president of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality cites statistics that reveal “gay” sex to be a dangerously self-destructive addiction. It is “often tied to promiscuity and unsafe sex practices,” including sadomasochism, anonymous and group sex.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, homosexual men are a thousand times more likely to contract AIDS than the general heterosexual population. The Medical Clinics of North America reported in 1986 that almost 80 percent of homosexual men have had at least one sexually transmitted disease.

In the 1999 report, “Health Implications Associated with Homosexuality,” the Medical Institute for Sexual Health found that both “gays” and lesbians have steeper rates of alcohol, drug and tobacco abuse than heterosexuals. “Gay” men tend to have multiple sexual partners – some as many as 100 annually. And percentage-wise, there is more mental abuse and physical violence among homosexuals than in the general population.

University of California, San Francisco researchers report in their Urban Men’s Health Study that attempted suicide rates among “gay” and bisexual men are three times higher than that of heterosexuals.

Anti-“gay” pressure is not a factor, says psychologist William Maier, Psy.D. The studies were conducted in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco “where homosexuality is not only condoned but widely endorsed and promoted,” he says.

A large Dutch survey supports the UCSF data. The Sandfort (2001) study found that homosexual men and women are in greater jeopardy for psychiatric disorders, even though social acceptance is exceptionally high in the Netherlands.

Contrary to popular myth, homosexuality need not be permanent. Dr. Warren Throckmorton, immediate past president of the American Mental Health Counselors Association, says treatment for sex-orientation change has been effective and should be available on client request.

Awash in the deluge of homosexual hoopla and misinformation, victims succumb to the passion and deceit. Mercifully, truth remains – and still buoyantly bobs on the surface, to alert and rescue those wanting to grasp its lifeline.