Kerry and homosexual agenda

By Joseph Farah

In the unlikely event he is elected, John Kerry pledges to advance the homosexual agenda further and faster than any president in history.

Even in his own sodomy-friendly party, Kerry is militant on any issue that touches the sexually ambiguous.

But the institution that might be in for the rudest awakening should Kerry become commander in chief would be the military.

In 1993, Congress essentially banned homosexuals from the military. But Sen. Kerry was an outspoken opponent of the legislation and led the fight against it – saying it was an absolute right of homosexuals and lesbians to serve in the armed forces. Here are excerpts from his May 7, 1993, Senate testimony, thanks to the Center for Military Readiness:

  • “I think it is fundamentally wrong to continue to deny gay and lesbian Americans the right to participate in the armed forces of the United States. Why? Because, quite simply, there is nothing inherent in homosexuality that makes a gay American incapable of serving.”

  • “Now take the issue of living in close quarters and communal showers. Some folks say they do not mind living or showering with someone who is gay as long as the fact is not explicit. Only once it becomes explicit, somehow the world is going to end. Now, I do not know exactly what those who express those kinds of fears are thinking. I mean are they that irresistible? I suspect some of the guys who most fear being approached by gay men also consider themselves irresistible to heterosexual women, and they are probably sadly mistaken on both counts.”

  • “The reality is that if you examine the opposition today … you are listening to opinions that are heavily weighted by licensed hate, by licensed fear, by licensed confusion, by licensed misunderstanding, and even by licensed ignorance, and the reaction to that, of course, is going to be negative, as it was to letting women in, to letting blacks in, and so forth.”

  • Asked what would have happened if an openly homosexual commander of his Vietnam swiftboat had been named, Kerry said: “Well, if you just plunked them down one day and said here is your new lieutenant and he is gay, I suspect they might have fragged him like they fragged a lot of other lieutenants back then.”

Kerry was out of step with leaders in his own party, like Sen. Sam Nunn, with his radical positions on forcing open homosexuals and lesbians on the military.

Likewise, Kerry said more recently he approves of homosexual adoption and homosexual parenting.

He should. Recently one of the state representatives of his party in Massachusetts pointed out that a scandalous 40 percent of the children adopted out are going to same-sex couples.

Kerry boasted to the homosexual activist magazine The Advocate:

I was the only elected senator up for re-election to oppose the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It was a tough position to take, but I took it because I thought it was outright gay bashing. My support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and civil unions has been complete.

Kerry also expressed optimism that Congress could pass hate-crimes legislation similar to Canadian law that attacks people of faith for their traditional religious beliefs and biblical morality.

Obviously, people with these views are acceptable to the people of Massachusetts. In fact, in that state, you can have these views and drown people, report to work perpetually drunk and be a serial womanizer and still get re-elected every six years.

But I don’t think the American people would elect someone with this record and these radical views to the presidency if they knew what they were getting.

Joseph Farah

Joseph Farah is founder, editor and chief executive officer of WND. He is the author or co-author of 13 books that have sold more than 5 million copies, including his latest, "The Gospel in Every Book of the Old Testament." Before launching WND as the first independent online news outlet in 1997, he served as editor in chief of major market dailies including the legendary Sacramento Union. Read more of Joseph Farah's articles here.