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Summary: Finally, someone tells the truth about intolerant "gays"
Review: This is an excellent book. It reveals in telling and highly persuasive detail how people who engage in homosexual behavior are NOT, by any means, a poor, persecuted minority who need special rights and legal protections. Rather, they are a wealthy special interest group that wields enormous and dangerous power in every institution that matters in America--politics, entertainment, government, religion and the academy. Sears and Osten make the case that radical homosexual activists, while preaching "tolerance" are themselves extraordinarily intolerant toward those who disagree with them. These activists are a serious threat to religious freedom (and freedom of speech), Sears and Osten reveal, because they have made it clear that they fully intend to see laws enacted that will silence their opponents by criminalizing anti-"gay" speech. It is already happening in Canada and some European countries. Sears and Osten believe it will also happen here unless people get involved to expose and oppose the deliberate and well-funded plans (already well underway) to "homosexualize" America and punish those -- like Christians, Orthodox Jews and others who object to immoral behavior on religious grounds -- who refuse to go along. Finally, but perhaps most important, Sears and Osten debunk one of the greatest myths propogated by people who engage in homosexual behavior: that they are "born that way" and their behavior is an inate characteristic like race or ethnicity. That no scientific or other evidence to support this widely propogated belief exists means that homosexual's complaints ("We're a poor, persecuted minority, so you must protect us from 'hate'") are a fraud. In reality, those homosexuals who shout the loudest about hate are in fact egregiously guilty of it themselves. Get this book and read it. It's a real eye-opener.
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Summary: Finally, someone tells the truth about intolerant "gays"
Review: This is an excellent book. It reveals in telling and highly persuasive detail how people who engage in homosexual behavior are NOT, by any means, a poor, persecuted "minority" who need special rights and legal protections. Rather, as Sears and Osten meticulously document with hundres of footnotes, "gays" comprise a wealthy special interest group that wields enormous and dangerous power in every institution that matters in America--politics, entertainment, government, religion and the academy. Sears and Osten make the irrefutable case that radical homosexual activists, while preaching "tolerance," are themselves extraordinarily intolerant toward those who disagree with them. These activists are a serious threat to religious freedom (and freedom of speech), Sears and Osten reveal, because they have made it clear that they fully intend to see laws enacted that will silence their opponents by criminalizing anti-"gay" speech. It is already happening in Canada and some European countries. Sears and Osten show it will also happen here unless people get involved to expose and oppose the deliberate and well-funded plans (already well underway) to "homosexualize" America and punish those -- like Christians, Orthodox Jews and others who object to immoral behavior on religious grounds -- who refuse to go along. The overwhelming conclusion the reader will draw from this book is that the homosexual activists who shout the loudest about hate and intolerance are in fact egregiously guilty of both themselves, and in fact openly admit that "this is war." That is why Sears and Osten believe the homosexual agenda is the principal threat to religious freedom today.
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Summary: Wake up America!
Review: I've read many of the reviews and it's obvious that people are either for the homosexual lifestyle or not. I am not. I never read anything that clearly states things I didn't know is happening in our country right now. Even if you don't like the manner or tone they write in, the facts stated - even if dozen or so are true - shows us the terrible path we are being forced to go. I'm buying dozens of books and giving them to family, co-workers, etc. God loves everyone! Even those in hell, but that doesn't mean that he accepts the behavior of those who sin (I know, we all sin). Unfortunately, the people who shout the loudest get heard. Whether they are doing right or wrong. Don't ever forget that it took only a handful of people who got together to further their agenda - whether it was the Minutemen in Boston, or the Supreme Court who ruled that since they didn't know when life started that they decided to leave it up to others and stop protecting preborn babies and made up the right of "privacy" - instead of ruling with the Constitution. Some ask that we don't make this political. If so, than why did you meet in Hartford, CT to rally for this "right." Even the MA judges told the legislature that they had to REWRITE the laws. You see it's not a right - it's a privilege - to those who know that marriage is for not only children, but for the common good and the family is the bedrock of civilization. This book WOKE me up. All should read it no matter who you are. I know that not all homosexuals are radical, but those few are pushing an agenda to silence us. I know, I work in a place where I am not comfortable expressing my views when someone else can shout their opposite views down the hallway. This book tells me what I've known in my gut for sometime. I am very sad. I have to make this anonymous or I may lose my job.
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Summary: Well Stated...
Review: I myself have tried to define this book by my own ideas and yet, to do so, I would only be reiterating what has alredy been stated so elegantly. So, instead, I'll simply repeat it verbatim. Reviewer, brad9649 from Scottsdale, AZ writes: 'Alan Sears and Craig Osten, of the Scottsdale-based Alliance Defense Fund, expose the homosexual agenda and its fight for "gay" rights for what it is - an unrestrained, no-holds-barred attack on the family and religious freedom. Using quotes from radical homosexual leaders as well as documented examples of legal battles, entertainment industry complicity and the support of the public schools, this exposé outlines in detail not only how much progress has been made to date in accomplishing the homosexual agenda, but also the grave implications of further progress.
This book is not, however, about "bashing" homosexuals. Sears and Osten make it clear from the beginning that the God of the Bible loves all of us, that we are all sinners, and all are undeserving of His grace and mercy. Homosexuality, like any other sin, can be forgiven through the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. But the Bible does call on Christians to speak the truth in love. In fact, staying silent on the destructive consequences of living a sinful lifestyle - no matter what the sin involved - is not a loving act, and is contrary to the Christian call to be "salt and light." The authors also make it clear that there is hope, and through God's intervention, many have already escaped from the destructive grip of homosexual behavior.
Christianity, however, is a primary target of homosexual intolerance. In Canada, where even more progress has been made towards achieving the homosexual agenda, individuals can be forced to pay damages to homosexuals who are offended by "hate speech." A Christian man in Saskatchewan was forced to pay $1500 to three homosexuals after placing scriptural references in a newspaper ad during a local "gay pride week." Hate speech legislation in the United States has exactly the same implications for religious freedom here. Recent legislation in California may force churches and Christian businesses to hire transsexuals or homosexuals by force of law. This book makes it clear that we must stand together and fight before it is too late. It is mandatory reading for anyone who is concerned about the latest front in the battle for our culture.'
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Summary: Paranoid Psycho Babble
Review: Reading this book made me wonder my mothers old addage of a bunch of folk who don't have nothing better to do than cause trouble ... don't they have a job? Yeah, writing this sick paranoid thesis on hatred. This whole "us verses them" thing has to stop in this country (USA)... or our freedom is at an end.
If you don't want to be homosexual ... then don't be, but playing politics as suggested is a terrifing exercise in fascism.
In about 20 years all of this version of freedom of speach will come to an end ... yes, no more Focus on the Family, no more KKK, no more Fox news, just like spam is about to be outlawed so is the paraniod ramblings of talk radio. Bending logic and science to suit you does make a country progress ... it makes it fall on its tail. I could come up with a dozen reasons why homosexuality is wrong, and still have no right to feel the need to down someone over their sexual impulses.
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Summary: Well-documented book of facts
Review: (...)Having read the book from cover to cover, I can tell you that the book is sensitively written and presents, as Bogart once said, "just the facts." Throughout the book, the authors never attack homosexuals either individually or as a class. Rather, they provide shocking fact after shocking fact, be it news items or court cases, that reveal the oppressive goals of the homosexual movement...including quotes straight from the mouths of the homosexual leaders themselves! You will be stunned to read that the homosexual leaders themselves admit to using lies, deception and propaganda in order to advance their cause and "overhaul straight America" because the ends justify the means.Furthermore, every fact and every quote is documented so that you can independently verify it for yourself if you don't believe it (and most of the time you won't). After reading this book, there is no way you will not be moved. (...)
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Summary: New Hate Object
Review: Now the religious right has a new punching bag. It used to be Jews, or women (witches). Jews, no matter how poor and downtrodden they seemed, were actually bent on world domination. Women - your wife, mother, daughter - were possessed of secret powers straight from the devil. Now it's the gays' turn. They are rich, powerful, subversive, out to torpedo all morality and goodness in this world. But maybe the people who are out to control the world are the exact same people who have been controling it for centuries - religious extremists.
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Summary: Timely and Comprehensive Report from the Front
Review: Although homosexuality may appear to be a limited subject matter to call it the "principal threat to religious freedom", as a political fight, this conflict between homosexual rights and traditional values has spilled into nearly every aspect of politics, law, and the culture. Not only is this a fundamental struggle on the merits of whether homosexual rights should be granted; the tactics used to subvert the legitimate legal process makes this a threat to the procedural integrity of the political process. As members of the leadership of the Alliance Defense Fund, a litigation organization, Sears and Osten have a wealth of material to draw upon to describe the movement. The chapters of the book offer an orderly tour through the arenas of this conflict, from the entertainment media, the church denominational schisms, the law and the Constitution, academia, and elsewhere. While the tone of the book is to rally people now, the content is, for the most part, comprehensive enough to use as a reference tool. The authors don't reserve criticism for the (in their view) outrageous events and acts that have taken place in the name of homosexual rights; however, they do take caution to prevent the content from being a personal attack on homosexuals themselves. The preface explicitly makes this clear, and there are several reminders to the reader to take the attitude of compassion, not scorn, toward individuals with whom they disagree. (There is a latent assumption that the audience for this book is a religious one, but the material itself stands on its own. With the exception of a chapter on the debate within churches the material doesn't rest on theological foundations.) An uninitiated reader five years from now might read parts of this book and wonder, for example, what "Will and Grace" was and why was it so controversial, but this compilation of the battle so far will be of use beyond the immediate context.
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Summary: Religious Fanaticism with political consequences...
Review: 1. The entire basis of this book is a very debatable,. subjective, ideological Christian fundamentalist perspective on homosexuality. All the arguments against gay rights, all the logic, all the reasoning, is based on a certain version of Christianity. Thus, if their version of Christianity is wrong or false, then the whole book falls apart and has no real argument or rationale. And the sad truth is that Christianity is based on VERY sketchy historical data, and many scholars are now proving that the new testament is more myth than history, more fiction than fact (see the work of Earl Doherty, Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, Alvar Ellegard, Randell Helms, Harold Leidner, Robert Price, G.A. Wells -- for starters...). In sum, without Christianity, these authors have no rational case. And since Christianity is based on dubious claims, well...you get the idea.
2. Sears and Osten seem to think it is their job to enforce God's rules on society. They seem to think it is their job to force their religious morality on the rest of us. Can't God enforce his own morals? Why does he need Sears and Osten? I mean, if homosexuality is so awful to God -- let him punish who he will at his own holy discretion. A god who needs Sears and Osten to be his hall monitors is a pretty weak god, no?
3. I am still not clear on how gays getting married affects my marriage at all. I am a man married to a woman. If my neighbor down the street marries someone of the same sex, how does that affect MY marriage? It doesn't make sense. If my neighbor wants to marry a tree -- does that mean I suddenly have to divorce my wife and marry a tree also? Of course not. These authors say again and again that gay marriage will "destroy" the institution of marriage -- how? why? There is no logic. Let consenting adults marry whoever they want. It doesn't effect you or me at all.
3. The Bible condemns fornication (sex outside of marriage) persistently, constantly, and all over the old and new testaments. It is a pervasrive, clear, and constantly repeated condemnation. Words about homosexuality are few and far between (especially in the new testament). Why don't Sears and Osten wage a campaign against fornication? Why don't they write a book called THE FORNICATORS' AGENDA? Why don't they seek to keep fornicators from attaining civil rights? Why don't they fight againt fornicators' rights to be parents or have health insurance? Because they know such a political movement would be ridiculous, unpopular, and downright silly. But people do fear and hate homosexuals - -- aha, Sears and Osten have theit target!
4. By the way, the scholarship was shoddy. They had some facts about Scandinavia, for example, and when I looked up the citation in their end-notes, there was no exact bibliograpohical info. Just some guy's last name. How does that help me look up their sources?
5. This book is the reason we all need to stay informed about the dangerous political aspirations of the religious fanatics in this country.
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Summary: Well documented argument
Review: This book clearly shows how a relatively small group of gay activists are shaping not just our nation but the world. Ignore the negative reviews and just read the book, you will be amazed at the things taking place in our country.
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