Blowing Smoke - Michael Wolraich [34]
When the Militant Homosexual retired in the 1990s, the Gay Agenda took over his responsibilities and introduced devious new recruiting tactics. Among other conquests, the Gay Agenda infiltrated the American Library Association and contaminated school libraries with “pro-homosexual books” like King and King, a children’s story about two princes who fall in love. One Wisconsin couple, upset by “the overt indoctrination of the gay agenda into our community youth,” petitioned their local library to balance its gay propaganda with books that affirm “traditional heterosexual perspectives.”aj38 Rush Limbaugh’s worst fears were confirmed when he discovered a “radical leftist marriage book” for children titled How to Get Married . . . by Me, the Bride, in which the narrator of the story declares, “You can marry your best friend or your teacher or your pet or your daddy, and sometimes you can marry a flower.”39 (Had Limbaugh read the book, he would have learned that the narrator is a know-it-all six-year-old with a number of comically confused ideas about marriage. Had he visited Amazon.com, he would have discovered that the “radical leftist” author has a history of brainwashing susceptible children. Her other children’s books include The Jesus Storybook Bible, Baby’s Hug-a-Bible, and Old MacNoah Had an Ark.)40
Gay Fascists
But the Militant Homosexual and the Gay Agenda are after more than America’s children, who are only a means to an end. Like the Secular Humanist, their ultimate goal is the eradication of Christianity and the creation of a brave new progressive world. Terry Randall, founder of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue, warned his members:
If the militant homosexuals succeed in their accursed agenda, God will curse and judge our nation . . . Their cries for tolerance are really a demand for our surrender. They want us to surrender our values, our love for God’s law, our faith, our families, the entire nation to their abhorrent agenda.41
In their ruthless pursuit of Christians, the dynamic duo often join forces with various incarnations of the shape-shifting Secular Humanist. For instance, James Dobson wrote to members of Focus on the Family:
I really believe that the level of anger arising out of the homosexual community primarily, but the whole humanistic movement that’s out there ... as they gain political power—and they got it now—they’re going to continue to oppress us.42
Similarly, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Bill O’Reilly of “a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it.”43
The specter of gay fascism is perhaps the most twisted example of projection in the right-wing arsenal. Thousands of homosexuals died in the Holocaust, and the Nazis imprisoned some 50,000 others.44 Yet, in 1994, two conservative writers sought to prove that Nazis were not intolerant of homosexuals; the Nazis were homosexuals. The Pink Swastika scrapes together a mound of alleged homosexual influences on Nazi doctrine, from Plato’s Republic to Gnosticism to paganism; for example, “In pagan cultures, homosexuals often hold an elevated position in religion and society.”ak45
This rambling collection of syllogistic fallacies is the likely inspiration behind Pat Robertson’s claim that “many of those people involved with Adolf