{"id":10787,"date":"2017-07-25T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=10787"},"modified":"2020-01-23T09:53:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T17:53:47","slug":"gay-iconoclasm-holding-the-line-against-the-radical-lgbt-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/gay-iconoclasm-holding-the-line-against-the-radical-lgbt-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Iconoclasm: Holding the Line Against the Radical LGBT Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gayby Fr. Josiah Trenham –
\nSo here is the essence of the conflict, my friends. It is the LGBT versus the JCIB: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. Gay propaganda throws such classical wisdom to the wind without a thought nor a reference, as though it never existed, as though these religious traditions do not possess the hearts of the great majority of the world\u2019s populations. They want civilizations to reorient themselves, overthrowing millennia of wisdom, to embrace the legitimization of sodomy and to crown it with the august dignity of the title marriage. Such a cultural redefinition of marriage is suicidal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.<\/p>\n

Your All-Holiness Catholicos and Patriarch of Georgia, Ilia II: Evlog\u0113son, Despota. I ask your blessing. Highly esteemed and deeply respected brothers, Levan and Alan and Larry, such a joy to be here in Georgia, and I\u2019m so deeply grateful to have this invitation to speak.<\/p>\n

I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, in the United States, as my father and his father before him. Los Angeles is the birthplace of the LGBT revolution. Los Angeles is the international center for homosexual propaganda and activism, the leading producer of its literature, the primary source of its media, the location of its religious iteration in the so-called \u201cgay church,\u201d and the center of its financial base in Hollywood. <\/p>\n

More gay and lesbian institutions have been started in Los Angeles than anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Los Angeles – Center of LGBT Radical Agenda<\/strong>
\nMore gay and lesbian institutions have been started in Los Angeles than anywhere else in the world. AIDS was first discovered at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, wiping out what was for gays a golden age of so-called \u201csexual freedom.\u201d Los Angeles was the site of the first homosexual uprising in history, ten years before the stonewall riots in New York City, and it was there that the first so-called \u201cgay pride parade\u201d was held in 1966, just a few months before I was born. At that time, the gays dragged a 20-foot papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 phallus down Hollywood Boulevard, truly an expression of the idol of their devotion.<\/p>\n

I stand before you today, dear friends, as someone who has lived through the revolution, a revolution more disturbing to the norms of human civilization than perhaps any other revolution. When I was born, the Los Angeles police department was making thousands of annual arrests of homosexual men for public sodomy and fellatio in our city parks and public bathrooms. There\u2019s a long and consistent history of unusual bathroom use in the LGBT community that has consistently endured. Even a sitting U.S. Congressman, Larry Craig, was arrested in 2007 for soliciting homosexual sex in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.<\/p>\n

Today there are digital apps that guide homosexual men to particular bathrooms for sexual acts throughout the airports and other public places in America. Keep that history in mind when you hear about the contemporary debates about the so-called \u201ctransgendered bathroom\u201d bills. That is a history no one is talking about.<\/p>\n

Americans just a short while ago knew that sex could be unnatural, that perversion existed and was unhealthy, and that it was never purely private and that it had tremendous public consequences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Hollywood in the early 1960s, though already deeply corrupted by sexual anarchy, was still submitting movie scripts to bishops and priests for approval, for moral evaluation before going to screen production. At that time, in the late \u201860s, still 75% of American homes were occupied by married couples: husbands and wives, fathers and mothers to our children. Most of the United States had anti-sodomy laws. Los Angeles had its own ordinance against cross-dressing. California\u2019s law code referred to homosexuality as the \u201cinfamous crime against nature.\u201d How ironic that in these few decades now the only infamy is to consider homosexuality an infamous crime. Americans just a short while ago knew that sex could be unnatural, that perversion existed and was unhealthy, and that it was never purely private and that it had tremendous public consequences.<\/p>\n

That was 50 years ago. Today California is transformed. It is the paradigmatic study for the radical rise in cultural ascendance of the rainbow revolution, and no one should ignore California\u2019s lessons, for they are being propagated around the globe today. What is the pattern of that revolution? In 1953, ONE Magazine, the first gay journal, began publication. In 1958, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that homosexual magazines were no longer violations of the anti-obscenity Comstock Law.<\/p>\n

In 1955, the ONE Institute of Homophile Studies began offering courses, holding an annual conference, and publishing a journal. UC Berkeley taught its first undergraduate courses in gay and lesbian studies in 1970. By 1972, the first queer studies program was launched at San Francisco City College. These were the first gay studies programs in the world, and have since spawned numerous gay and lesbian study programs at secular universities. Harvard University endowed the first chair for gay and lesbian studies in 2009.<\/p>\n

Aggressive LGBT Activists Target: Laws, Mental Health Profession, Churches<\/strong>
\nLGBT activists in the mid-20th century identified three major obstacles to the legitimization of homosexuality: the law, the mental health profession, and the churches. Upon these three obstacles the movement fixed its gaze. It became more aggressive, organized guerrilla tactics, staged lesbian and gay kiss-ins in public, disrupted professional conferences of psychologists, especially those studying reparative therapy, and disrupted church services.<\/p>\n

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