The Cincinnati Post

Editorial Page

April 13, 1998

Homosexual politics

There is more to the controversy surrounding St. Xavier High School’s homosexual advocacy than Sharon Moloney was able to report in her April 8 article, 'Anti-gay protest fails to sway St. X.'
Homosexuality activists have achieved their greatest successes trying to force on the public the idea that they are "normal" by playing the role of a victim of discrimination. This tactic shifts the focus away from their own objective immorality. Thus, "homosexual rights" is placed on the same plane as religious or civil rights.
Homosexual advocacy typically manifests itself in schools through a three step plan:
students and faculty are desensitized to homosexual acts, practices, and general "gay culture;"
the barriers of modesty and good taste are broken down by "getting the issue out in the open;"
students and faculty are eventually accustomed to accept homosexuality as a legitimate "alternative" lifestyle, brought about by the necessity of fulfilling one’s "God-given sexual identity."

The same agenda seeks to create an atmosphere wherein those dissenters who stand in the way of an institution’s total acceptance of the homosexual normality dogma are singled out and branded as "homophobes," the 90’s version of "racist" or "bigot."
Catholic parents should be deeply concerned about the rise of homosexual politics in the schools, which attempts to portray organized homosexualism as just the next logical step in the progress toward human freedom started by the civil rights movement.

Michael S. Rose, Downtown
The Cincinnati Post
April 13, 1998