The Sinister Tactics and Astonishing Success of LGBTQ:
“SELL IT LIKE CEREAL!”
by Pastor Terry L. Reese; Valley GBC, Armagh, PA (9/23/23)
With
remarkable skill & dexterity, LGBTQ activists and their fellow travelers,
the progressive elites, have revolutionized modern society and permanently
modified ages-old societal customs and institutions within the course of only a
few decades. As advocated and predicted by neuro-psychologist Marshall Kirk and
advertising executive Hunter Madsen in their book After the Ball: How
America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s (1989), the mind-altering
tactics of mass-marketing, propaganda, and large-scale societal brainwashing
would effectively serve to rapidly change the mores & values of the prevailing
culture.
I. The Tactics of
Brainwashing & Propaganda.
The 3-steps of brainwashing allowed the LGBTQ+ agenda
to be sold like cereal—employing mass-marketing tactics:
1. desensitizing (i.e., getting us “used to” homosexuality through a sea of inundation; a form of “softening us up”); for example, every TV show would now feature a “normal” and positive LGBTQ character (e.g., Billy Crystal's character "Jody Dallas" on Soap--an intelligent, witty, and sensitive homosexual contemplating a sex change). A quotation from After the Ball:
"The first order of business is desensitization of the American public concerning gays and gay rights. To desensitize the public is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen emotion. Ideally, we would have straights register differences in sexual preference the way they register different tastes for ice cream or sports games: she likes strawberry and I like vanilla; he follows baseball and I follow football. No big deal."
Recall Crassus in Kubrick’s Spartacus (1960), to the slave Antoninus:
“Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?... “Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn't it?”... “And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals.”
2. jamming the opposition (i.e., anti-gay forces would be portrayed as ignorant, hateful, and villainous; cf., Norman Lear's "Archie Bunker")…
3. conversion (the majority
understands that it must positively embrace the “gay” and his
lifestyle--or face societal censure).
This ultimately leads to coercion—everyone
must obey!
II. The progressively evolving public embrace of same-sex-attraction, as witnessed by its changing terminologies…
1.
Originally called Sodomy—an act;
potentially
criminal in nature!
2.
Then, the term Homosexuality was coined in the late
19th century—a condition (thus provoking sympathy).
3.
Finally, "Gay:" an identity—a
legitimate minority—that deserves
and demands wholehearted public acceptance.
Result: Such means have served
to normalize
sin, thus rapidly transforming what was once perceived as a crime
against nature into a legitimate co-equal civil identity. All of
this was achieved within a relatively brief span
by a minority that didn’t
even formally exist a century ago. Astonishing!
III. An organized agenda?
Regardless of how much of this agenda was or was not consciously planned and organized on the human level, we do know this: there is a behind-the-scenes, unseen, invisible source of organization at work here!
As always, the Enemy—the behind the scenes
organizer—is spiritual in nature!
Eph 6:12 NAS95 For our struggle is not against
flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world
forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the
heavenly places.
All of this is part of a battle of the MIND…
Our minds are the battlefield, targeted by the Evil One…
John 8:44 NAS95 "You are of your father the
devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from
the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in
him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar
and the father of lies.”
Without the objective written Word of God, we are sunk--open to all manner of deception. Rationalism, empiricism, mysticism, and traditionalism will always fail you as sources of Truth! JESUS (the living Word) is Truth (John 14:6), and so is Holy Scripture (the written Word).
John 8:31-32 NAS95 So Jesus was saying to those Jews
who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly
disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you
free."
