J. Matt Barber Tells You How It Is

I bet you thought you knew all there was to know about the Gay Agenda. But it turns out you may be mistaken! Luckily for you, the world's foremost expert on all things sinful, J. Matt Barber, has helpfully provided us with a cutting expose on those nasty, eeeebil homersexuals, courtesy of the Christian Worldview Network.

This isn't just about the stuff you thought you knew; the stuff they want the whole world to see. The happy, shiny, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy stuff of making dinners, personal appearance, and keeping a clean house. No, this is the nasty, dirty, sinful secrets, as only J. Matt Barber knows! Testify, brotha!

Balance of Power

Americans who self-identify as “gay” or lesbian comprise roughly one to three percent of the population.

Or maybe a little more, but so what? Your point?

Yet the homosexual movement — led by extremist homosexual pressure groups like the so-called Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — represent, per capita, one of America’s most powerful and well-funded political lobbies. Consider that HRC and the HRC foundation alone have an annual budget in excess of 50 million.

Yeah, somehow I doubt that. I've been a member of the HRC for years, and I only got a magazine for the first time today.

Through a carefully crafted, decades-old propaganda campaign, homosexual activists have successfully cast homosexuals — many of whom enjoy positions of influence and affluence — as a disadvantaged minority.

Wait, Barbie, I'm confused. You just said they were. You made a big stink about pointing out how gays were only a tiny minority. Now all of a sudden, one paragraph later, they're not a minority anymore?

They have repackaged and sold to the public behaviors which thousands of years of history, every major world religion and uncompromising human biology have long identified as immoral and sexually deviant.

Okay, my biology doesn't tell me anything about what is "immoral." And frankly, what "thousands of years of history" and "every major world religion" say is dirty and filthy really doesn't matter. Consider that this "history" you insist on appealing to is replete with stories of people trying to secure themselves in power and motivate the masses, often using religion to do it. And how do you get people to side with you? By othering someone else.

Oh, I'm sorry, is this geopolitical stuff too hard for Matt's widdle fundie brain? I'm sorry, never mind. Let's do something more on your level instead.

The Goal

Oh, yes, Matt. Please, tell us about "The Goal." I'm sure you've interviewed hundreds of HRC and PFLAG members to find out exactly what their goal is. I just KNOW that none of what follows is going to be based on ridiculous, unfounded supposition and wishful lies.

As with every major political movement, the homosexual lobby is pushing a specific agenda. It is often called the “gay agenda.”

Yeah, only by fundies.

At its core is a concerted effort to remove from society all traditional notions of sexual morality and replace them with the post-modern concept of sexual relativism. That is to say, when it comes to sex, there is never right or wrong. All sexual appetites are “equal.” If it feels good, do it.

Really? Oh, uh, hang on, Matt. Let me look through my HRC magazine and see if that's in there.

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No, you know, it's the damned strangest thing. There's nothing in here about destroying right and wrong. Huh. Well, I know J. Matt Barber would never lie to me, so I guess the HRC just forgot.

Ultimately, the homosexual lobby’s primary objective is to radically redefine our foundational institutions of legitimate marriage and the nuclear family by unraveling God’s natural design for human sexuality.

Hmm....not in there either. But I'm sure ol' Mattie has a cite he can link me to so we can all see for ourselves, right?

Huh. Whaddaya know?

In so doing, they hope to elevate their own spiritual and biological counterfeit and establish a sexually androgynous society wherein natural distinctions between male and female are dissolved.

Would you look at that? Once again, not in there! Matt, if I didn't know you so well, I'd say you were pulling most of this out of your ass!

Okay, enough snark (for the moment). In all seriousness, I have met GLBT people who want to change our common perceptions about gender. But it's not, as Mattie here seems to think, some insidious plot to make life miserable for plain, average, heterosexuals who identify with their born gender. It's about helping us realize that not everybody fits a convenient gender mold; that not everyone born with a penis feels like a man.

And if Matt Barber would like to continue plugging his ears and pretending that everything on the gender front is okay, as it always was, nothing to see here (even when that's clearly not the case), that's his business. The rest of the world would like to march forward, if that's okay with him.

This creates cultural and moral anarchy.

Citation and explanation, please.

Plan of Attack

Ironically, sexual relativists are anything but relative.

What does that mean?

They are quite affirmative in principle.

Once again...what?

But the principles they foist demand comprehensive acceptance of homosexual conduct — by force of law — through federal edicts such as “hate crimes” legislation, the so-called “Employment Non-Discrimination Act” (ENDA) and by imposing government sanctioned “same-sex marriage.”

"Imposing" it? You mean telling people they're not allowed to marry the partner of their choice is not "imposing," but letting them do it, and letting people who disagree simply ignore it...that's not "imposing" on someone?

All such government mandates grant special protected “minority” status to those who define themselves by aberrant sexual preferences and changeable sexual behaviors.

Well, actually, Mr. GLBT Scholar, nobody "define[s] themselves" by their "changeable sexual behaviors." Did you ever have somebody shake your hand and say, "Hi, I'm Bob. I fuck men."?

But homosexuality is very real, regardless of how much you fundies would like to believe otherwise. Too bad they can't just flick a light switch and become straight the same way Matt can suddenly become a Concerned Woman for America.

These laws put people with traditional values directly in the crosshairs of official government policy.

Not at all. I support "traditional values," too, including not chewing with your mouth open, and saying "thank you" when someone holds the door for me.

The problem, Matt, is that you're disingenuously reframing the issue. Nobody hates you for having "traditional values," they hate you for trying to impose them on everyone else.

Throughout society, homosexual activists demand that homosexual behaviors not only be “tolerated,” but celebrated. (That’s what the euphemistic slogan “celebrate diversity” supposes).

Yes, as a kind of "fuck you" to people like the CWN, for trying to tell them they should be ashamed. Isn't it grand? If there were nobody trying to insult, belittle, and cast aside the gays, there would be no gay pride celebrations. In other words, you fundies created your own enemy!

They have masked their true political agenda by hijacking the language of the genuine civil rights movement and through the crafty and disingenuous rhetoric of “tolerance” and “diversity.”

Yeah, the "genuine" civil rights movement. Cuz today's world has nothing to do with what happened in the sixties, when people were spat on, insulted, beaten, segregated, and had their rights trampled based solely on personal characteristics they had no control over.

Anyone who believes the Biblical directive that human sexuality is a gift from God, to be shared between man and wife within the bonds of marriage, is branded “homophobic,” “hateful” or “discriminatory.”

Well...yeah? I mean...you are, aren't you?

Don't you love it when they try to strawman but you still agree with them? That's when you know they're off their rocker.

They are to be silenced by all means possible.

Which is why Matt Barber's columns aren't allowed to be published on the Internet.

You know, if it's the "silencing" you're so worried about, I can put your mind at ease. Nobody wants to silence you, Matt. Nobody will stop you from going around calling gay marriage sinful, ungodly, and damnable. I mean sure, we'd like to see it legalized in every state, but nobody's going to stop you from shouting your crazed fundie rants from the rooftops.

Unlike fundies, liberals don't tend to try and shut down people whose speech they disagree with.

In Their Own Words

What you are about to read is just a quick, though disturbing, glance behind the homosexual lobby’s lavender curtain.

And you know it's all going to be true, because J. Matt Barber said so!

Below are two of the central demands put forth by homosexual activists in their “1972 Gay Rights Platform”:

* “Repeal all laws governing the age of sexual consent.” (This should send a chill down the spine of any parent. It would legally allow pedophiles, and homosexuals who were so inclined, to access your children and teens for their own predatory sexual gratification — so long as those children “consented” to having sex.)

And as soon as you show me a link, showing this statement in context, I'll be properly outraged.

* “Repeal all legislative provisions that restrict the sex or number of persons entering into a marriage unit.” (Once marriage is redefined, there can be no logical or ethical objection to any conceivable “marriage” combination, including polygamous “marriages.” By watering down marriage, “gay” activists and like-minded politicos [usually activist judges] remove this foundational institution’s intrinsic value.)

Yada yada yada, "intrinsic value," "activist judges," blah blah blah. What you really mean is you don't like people having the right to do what you disapprove of. Too bad you're so damn uptight, Matt; life would be so much easier if you didn't have to worry about people disobeying you all the time.

Here are just a few of the demands the homosexual lobby put forth during the 1987 (Homosexual) “March on Washington”:

* “The government should provide protection from discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, public accommodations and education just as protection is provided on race, creed, color, sex, or national origin.” ([ENDA] This would force all religious business owners, landlords and schools to abandon — under penalty of law — sincerely held and constitutionally protected religious beliefs and adopt a view of sexual morality that runs entirely counter to central teachings of every major world religion.)

Um, actually, Matt, no. Schools don't have a "constitutionally protected" right to teach anything religious, no matter how many "major world religions" think homosexuality is icky-poo. Schools are charged with teaching a religiously-neutral world view, based on evidence, reason, and science.

None of the groups or people you mentioned has to change their beliefs or adopt any view of sexual morality; they just have to stop acting like bigots. What they do at home is none of ENDA's business.

Oh yeah, one more thing. Religious organizations are exempt from ENDA.

* “Anti-homophobic curriculum in the schools.” (Translation: pro-homosexual, government-mandated indoctrination.

Translation back: Anti-homophobic curriculum in the schools.

This is already occurring in thousands of public schools throughout America. Children are being force-fed the absurd notion that male-male anal sodomy is a perfectly acceptable, “alternative” sexual “orientation.” This calculated propaganda continues to expand, despite the fact that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has acknowledged that such behaviors place participants at extremely high risk for dangerous and often deadly infectious disease.)

Yes, absolutely. You can totally catch an STD from having anal sex. It's the anal sex that causes disease, not, you know, having disease. #

* “The government should ensure all public education programs include programs designed to combat lesbian/gay prejudice. … Institutions that discriminate against lesbian and gay people should be denied tax-exempt status and federal funding.” (This means churches, religious schools and religious businesses. Some jurisdictions, such as the state of New Jersey, have already begun removing tax-exempt status from church related ministries that refuse to provide “commitment ceremonies” to homosexuals.)

Cite please.

Anyway, I don't know how I feel about tax exemptions for churches; while I do think you should be allowed to be a bigot on your own time, in your own organization, I'm not terribly thrilled that the government gives you money to do it. Anyway, it's a moot point since I don't see any links here so I can't really evaluate what's going on.

* “Public and private institutions should support parenting by lesbian or gay couples.” (This is now being mandated in many states such as California and Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, Catholic Charities’ adoption service was recently forced to close down because it refused to assign children to homosexuals for adoption.)

Yeah, once again, Matt. It's all about not being a bigot. You should try it sometime.

The push for federal “hate crimes” legislation is another activist tool intended to silence traditional views on human sexuality and sexual morality.

Right. Sure. You can be arrested for a hate crime for saying something. Actually, hate crimes are just that--crimes. In other words, you have to actually commit a crime in order to be charged with a hate crime. So what Matt is saying is that he's being denied his First Amendment right to beat the crap out of a gay guy.

Similar laws have already been used around the world, and even right here at home, to persecute Christians and other traditionalists. For example, in 2004, 11 Christians were arrested in Philadelphia and charged with a “hate crime” for merely preaching the Bible at a public homosexual street festival. They could have served up to 47 years in prison.

Once again, Matt, it helps your point if you actually, you know, tell the truth. The arrested weren't "merely preaching the Bible." They were getting in people's faces, shouting insults with a bullhorn, and disrupting the proceedings (including part of an indoor event).

More recently, a Christian photographer was dragged before the New Mexico Human Rights Division for refusing to photograph a “commitment ceremony” for a lesbian couple because lesbian behavior is inconsistent with Christianity.

Okay, I tried, and tried, and tried to find an objective link to this article, but all I see are right-wing religious sites railing about how business owners should be allowed to do what they want with their business. I can't speculate on the issue, because I don't know enough about it, but I wonder why fundies always get all high on personal liberties as soon as someone tries to restrict their rights, but not when it comes to the gays?

Such stark examples of homofascist persecution continue to mount. And they’re by design. Noted homosexual activist and pornographer Clinton Fein addressed the “gay” agenda in a 2005 article candidly titled, “The Gay Agenda”:

I'm not going to waste time with this part. Although I agree with the stuff Fein wrote, I don't see much point in reposting it here. Clearly, Matt Barber doesn't, but that's tough shit.

The homosexual lobby’s goals have been clearly defined for decades. But for any goal to be successfully achieved, clever stratagem and sound methodology must be diligently applied.

In their manuscript, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90’s (1989, Doubleday/Bantam), Harvard educated marketing experts Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen meticulously laid out the homosexual lobby’s blueprint for success in what is widely regarded as the handbook for the “gay” agenda.

"Widely considered" by whom? You?

They devised a three-pronged approach that the homosexual lobby has masterfully implemented in subsequent years: Desensitization, Jamming and Conversion.

Kirk and Madsen summarized their approach this way:

* Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers.
* Give potential protectors a just cause.
* Make gays look good.
* Make victimizers look bad.

Sounds fine to me. That's pretty much exactly how you would help people wake up and start seeing that gays are still Fundie America's whipping boys.

Desensitization

“Desensitization,” wrote Kirk and Madsen, means subjecting the public to a “continuous flood of gay-related advertising, presented in the least offensive fashion possible. If ‘straights’ can’t shut off the shower, they may at least eventually get used to being wet.”

As previously stated, glamorizing and normalizing homosexual conduct in our public schools is a full time endeavor. But the schools represent only one field of battle in the war over America’s body, mind and soul.

Schools? Where the hell did that come from?

With the aid of a willing mainstream media and a like-minded Hollywood, societal desensitization has been largely achieved. Blockbusters like Tom Hanks’ Philadelphia, the late Heath Ledger’s Brokeback Mountain, and television programs like Will and Grace and Ellen represent a modern-day fairy tale, creating a dishonest and sympathetic portrayal of a lifestyle which is emotionally, spiritually and physically sterile.

Really? Cuz I've known lots of gay people and they're mostly happy and successful. But I'm sure they appreciate your concern for their well-being, Barbie.

Reality is replaced with fantasy. Gone are references to, or images of, the millions of homosexual men wasting away in hospice due to behaviorally related diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis and Syphilis. (Unnatural behaviors beget natural consequences. As Romans 6:23 says, “The wages of sin is death."

Matt, I've been over this once already, will you please try and listen?

YOU CATCH STDS BY HAVING SEX WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE STDS!!!!

It has nothing to do with what sex the person is you're bangin'. It has nothing to do with whether or not you're married. Gay men, women, teens, married people...they can ALL contract HIV you dumb shit!

And gone are references to, or images of, men and women trapped in the homosexual lifestyle who aimlessly seek to fill a spiritual and emotional void through promiscuous and meaningless sexual encounters.

Yes, Matt, "gone" because your convenient scare tactics bear little resemblance to the actual truth. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but gay people aren't the sorry sight you wish they were to fuel your hate-filled agenda.

The homosexual group, GLAAD, even offers awards to the television networks that most effectively carry the homosexual lobby’s water. The more distorted and positive the portrayal of homosexual conduct and the more frequently the networks shows such portrayals; the more likely networks are to win the coveted awards.

You mean the more positive. Not the more "distorted and positive." Thought I'd fix that for you.

As Kirk and Madsen put it, homosexuals should be portrayed as the “Everyman.” “In no time,” they said, “a skillful and clever media campaign could have the gay community looking like the veritable fairy godmother to Western Civilization.”

Prophetic words from two very smart men.

Well, finally, we agree on something.

Jamming

“Jamming” refers to the public smearing of Christians, traditionalists or anyone else who opposes the “gay” agenda. “Jam homo-hatred (i.e., disagreement with homosexual behaviors) by linking it to Nazi horror,” wrote Kirk and Madsen. “Associate all who oppose homosexuality with images of ‘Klansmen demanding that gays be slaughtered,’ ‘hysterical backwoods preachers,’ ‘menacing punks,’ and a ‘tour of Nazi concentration camps where homosexuals were tortured and gassed.’

Well, Matt, I know you don't like it, and you're probably not as extreme as Hitler, but your views pretty well mesh with the Nazis opinion on gays. Yes, I'm aware of what a "Godwin" is, but let's face it--hate is hate.

And yes, let me reiterate this: I DO NOT believe that J. Matt Barber wants to exterminate the gays. And yes, this book is sounding a little bit extreme. But what, exactly, is his point? Matt pulls out this old book, dubs it "the handbook for the Gay Agenda," then proceeds to attack it as if his own proclamation was automatically correct?

“In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be portrayed as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined by reflex to adopt the role of protector ... The purpose of victim imagery is to make straights feel very uncomfortable,” they suggested.

I agree. Much as watching videos from the Civil Rights Era makes me, a white guy, uncomfortable, the Religious' Right's tactics against gays make me feel the same way.

But, perhaps Kirk and Madsen’s most revealing admission came when they said, “[O]ur effect is achieved without reference to facts, logic, or proof.”

Context, please. I don't believe people who quote mine and then expect me to get indignant over what they wrote.

And so words like “homophobe” and “heterosexism” were pulled from thin air, not because they had substance, but because they were effective jamming tools. Anyone who holds traditional values relative to human sexuality suddenly became a “homophobe,” a “hatemonger,” a “bigot.”

Yes, like I told you--you ARE homophobes. You ARE bigots. What part of this are you not understanding?

Not even churches are safe.

“Gays can undermine the moral authority of homo-hating churches over less fervent adherents by portraying [them] as antiquated backwaters, badly out of step … with the latest findings of psychology. Against the atavistic tug of ‘Old Time Religion’ one must set the mightier pull of science and public opinion. … Such an ‘unholy’ alliance has already worked well in America against the churches, on such topics as divorce and abortion. … [T]hat alliance can work for gays.”

And, oh, how it has.

I'm sorry, Matt. Are you arguing that fundies are NOT out of step with reality? Because you disagree with the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics. In fact, you had to go so far as to create a your own organization to replace the latter.

That's right, folks, the fundies disagreed with the mainstream governing body of pediatricians, so they went and created a different organization whose purpose was to agree with them! After all, they needed something to cite and give their ridiculous ideas authority!

Conversion

“Conversion” means, in the words of Kirk and Madsen, “conversion of the average American’s emotions, mind, and will, through a planned psychological attack, in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media.”

“In the early stages of any campaign to reach straight America, the masses should not be shocked and repelled by premature exposure to homosexual behavior itself. Instead, the imagery of sex should be downplayed and gay rights should be reduced to an abstract social question as much as possible. First let the camel get his nose inside the tent — and only later his unsightly derriere!”

That's right. I don't think too many people seriously want to discuss the finer points of gay sex.

So, as Kirk and Madsen both astutely understood and surprisingly admitted, homosexual activism is really a big game of “hide the ball.” In order to achieve widespread acceptance of “gayness,” they had to remove the focus from what homosexuality really is (deviant sexual conduct) and shift it onto the craftily manufactured specter of “gay civil rights.”

They're not "hiding the ball" you dumbass. They're shifting the focus to where it needs to be because what goes on in the bedroom is A) none of your business and B) irrelevant to the discussion.

In order to cut through much of the propagandist sugarcoating, one need only consider what two men must actually do in order to “consummate” a so-called “gay marriage.” Kirk and Madsen understood that. Most people are repulsed by the mechanics of homosexual conduct, but everyone is for “civil rights.” Of course, in reality, the homosexual lifestyle has nothing to do with civil rights and everything to do with conduct.

Therein lies the deception.

Oh my fucking God.

WHO CARES?

Who cares what "two men must actually do?" It has NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU!

Who's "hiding the ball" now, Matt? You're the one who's obsessing about gay sex--not because it's relevant, but because you want to gross people out and make them ignore the civil rights aspect. Matt, you should be ashamed of yourself.

But There’s Hope

There’s hope for people who are trapped in the homosexual lifestyle or who suffer from unwanted same-sex attraction.

Yeah there's hope. People with nineteenth-century values get old and die all the time. Just hang in there till they're mostly gone and can't vote anymore.

Part of our fallen condition as humans is that we are all subject to sin. Those who know the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ, are no better or worse than those who engage in homosexual sin.

Great. Then why do you spend every day sanctimoniously railing against them?

But through the loving and redemptive power of Jesus Christ, we can all find salvation from sin. So can homosexuals. “Gayness” is not an “immutable” or unchangeable condition as homosexual apologists would have you believe. People can find freedom from homosexual behaviors and even from same-sex attractions. It’s not easy, but untold thousands of former homosexuals have done it.

No, no homosexuals have done it. Not that there's any reason they should.

Matt, you're not quoting this study, are you? It's tough to tell, as you don't provide any links (of course). But whatever you're quoting, there's no proof gays can un-gay.

There’s also hope in the ongoing battle between the “gay” agenda and our national moral integrity. Concerned Women for America (CWA) endeavors on a daily basis to counter this destructive movement throughout all facets of culture and public policy.

Good for them. I endeavor on a daily basis to counter the CWA. Looks like we're in a good ol' Mexican standoff, huh?

With God’s help, we can turn back the tide of sexual and moral relativism that has both permeated our society and offended our founding principles.

Yeah, damn all that relativism! Can't we all just agree to appoint one person and have him tell us what our morals are going to be? We could name him J. Matt Barber!