The radical homosexual agenda and the destruction of standards
By Benjamin Shapiro
Posted: March 10, 2005

2005 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

The Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance of
Harvard University is fighting mad. Last week, actress Jada Pinkett
Smith won an award from the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and
Race Relations. During her acceptance speech, she told women in the
audience, "you can have it all – a loving man, devoted husband, loving
children, a fabulous career … To my men, open your mind, open your
eyes to new ideas."

Rather sweet, no? Not to the BGLTSA, which called for an apology from
the organizers of the Cultural Rhythms show, explaining that Smith's
statements were "extremely heteronormative." "Heteronormative," for
those who don't speak the radical homosexual lingo, may be defined as
the viewpoint that heterosexual relationships are normal, and others
are not.


The organizers immediately complied with the BGLTSA's demand, issuing
a mea culpa stating, "She wasn't trying to be offensive. But some felt
she was taking a narrow view, and some people felt left out." The
Foundation also pledged to "take responsibility to inform future
speakers that they will be speaking to an audience diverse in race,
ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender and class."

The BGLTSA, as a wing of the radical homosexual movement, is looking
to broaden the definition of normality to include deviant behavior.
They're not looking for passive tolerance. They're looking for active
acceptance. Now, ignoring homosexuality is no longer allowable – we
must instead champion it, equating it with heterosexuality. In fact,
homosexuality must be prized over heterosexuality; an open homosexual
may proclaim to his heart's content that "dreams can come true – you
can find a same-sex partner," but an open heterosexual may not state
that marriage constitutes "having it all."

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan noted such a broad societal trend toward
normalizing the deviant as early as 1993, when he coined the term
"defining deviancy down." He posited that:


.... the amount of deviant behavior in American society has increased
beyond the levels the community can "afford to recognize" and that,
accordingly, we have been re-defining deviancy so as to exempt much
conduct previously stigmatized, and also quietly raising the "normal"
level in categories where behavior is now abnormal by any earlier
standard.


Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer pointed out that alongside
the movement to "define deviancy down," there was a concurrent
movement to "define deviancy up." "As part of the vast social project
of moral leveling, it is not enough for the deviant to be normalized,"
Krauthammer wrote. "The normal must be found to be deviant." One of
the agendas of the "defining deviancy up" movement, Krauthammer noted,
was promoting "an underlying ideology about the inherent aberrancy of
all heterosexual relationships."

The Moynihan-Krauthammer prediction has come to pass. Straight men and
women may no longer consider themselves normal, unless they also
consider homosexuality normal. The rage against "heteronormalism" is
rage against traditional societal standards as a whole. Exclusive
morality has always offended the immoral. The only difference is that
now offensiveness receives a stiffer societal sentence than blatant
immorality. This is what political correctness – the "live and let
live" societal model – has wrought.

The rise of the homosexual movement is a textbook example of societal
amorality devolving into societal immorality. The rationale behind
societal amorality is the myopic question: "How does my immoral
behavior hurt you?" The answer is: It may not, in the short term. But
when society sanctions your immoral behavior, that does hurt me. If
millions of people accept the deviant as normal, that reshapes society
in vastly destructive ways. Your moral self-destruction may have no
consequences for me, but destruction of societal standards always has
consequences.

When the stigma left single motherhood, society felt the sting in
rising rates of single motherhood and juvenile crime. When the stigma
left sexual licentiousness, society felt the sting in rising rates of
teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, emotional emptiness and
nihilism. Your immoral personal behavior may not affect me, but
exempting your immoral behavior from societal scrutiny certainly does.
A society without standards is an unhappy, unhealthy society – a
society with no future. And all of us have to live in that society.

The BGLTSA isn't asking for tolerance on a person-to-person level.
Instead, they're asking us to continue lowering societal standards. If
we must choose between alienating the immoral and ravaging societal
standards for the personal comfort of the immoral, then choosing the
former is the only rational decision.

Benjamin Shapiro, 20, is a recent graduate of UCLA and the author of
the new book, "Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's
Youth." To find out more about Ben Shapiro, visit the Creators
Syndicate website.