Our catch-up on Michael Brown’s anti-LGBT activism continues with a May 19 WorldNetDaily column complaining that gay activists wanted people not to hate them, which was “propaganda”, citing the “gay activist book” “After the Ball: How American Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the ’90s”:
As stated at the beginning of the book, the authors called for a “campaign of unabashed propaganda, firmly grounded in long-established principles of psychology and advertising.”
This “propaganda” even included the spreading of what they knew to be falsehoods, such as the idea that 1 in 10 Americans were gay (they admitted plainly that this number was inflated). But, in their view, spreading such falsehoods was only fair, since all kinds of negative falsehoods had been spread about their community over the years.
As to the success of their strategies, which reflected some of the thinking of other key gay activists and organizations, not even Kirk and Madsen believed that marriage would be redefined. Not a chance. That wasn’t even one of their goals.
But even that sacred institution was outrageously redefined in 2015 by the Supreme Court primarily because the thinking of so many Americans had already been changed. Without that massive cultural shift, it is much more unlikely that the Court would have ruled as it did. In the view of many legal pundits, the cultural shift provided sufficient wind in their sails for the justices to make the change (at least, for someone like Anthony Kennedy, who was the swing vote).
To be sure, some of the shifts in American views towards gay and lesbian-identified people have been positive, recognizing the many positive qualities they may have as individuals or couples and embracing our shared humanity. Many of the other shifts have been disastrous, contributing to millions of Americans losing their moral and societal bearings.
Our children and grandchild are paying the price today, with as many as 40% identifying as somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
The takeaway from all this is that, while we labor tirelessly to enact pro-life, pro-family legislation – and we should – we must never take our eyes off the greater prize: the conversion of the hearts and minds of Americans, not by the spreading of propaganda but by the propagation of truth, grounded in the love, goodness and justice of God.
We have the ultimate, lasting, winning argument.
In other words, he wants anti-LGBT propaganda to spread to restore the hommophobic right-wing order.
Brown spent his May 22 column insisting that gays and lesbians were supposedly fighting back against transgender people:
As the resistance to transgender activism continues to rise and millions of Americans push back against the transitioning of children and males competing against females in sports, an increasing number of gays and lesbians are raising their voices as well. They are saying, “This is not who we are, and this is not our agenda. In fact, trans-activism is actually erasing our very existence.”
Examples of this phenomenon would be online groups such as, “Gays Against Groomers,” described in 2022 as “the newest crusader in the fight against radical LGBTQ activists said to be grooming young children in a sexual, indecent manner.” They have joined other conservative voices in speaking up against things like Drag Queen Story Hours for children.
In fact, Gays Against Groomers is little more than a group of right-wing grifters seeking to profit on the anti-gay hate of people plike Brown. He went on to cite gay right-winger Andrew Sullivan for his claim that LGBT activists have purportedly overplayed their hand, then got mad at him over the idea that children shouldn’t be taught to hate LGBT people:
To be sure, I applaud Sullivan’s call to leave the children alone, and I affirm his calling out of the growing wave of what can only be called transanity.
At the same time, I must differ with Sullivan strongly.
First, gay activists have most assuredly targeted children for decades now, in particular in children’s education, as I documented at length already in 2011 in “A Queer Thing Happened to America.” They may not have targeted children’s bodies the way trans activists have, but they have surely targeted their hearts and minds.
Second, the progression from LGB to T and Q is inevitable, a natural part of the deviation from the God-established, biologically essential, heterosexual norm. The long-predicted slippery slope was not a figment of the imagination of the radical, fundamentalist, fear-mongering, bigoted, Christian right. It was a logical, biblically based deduction.
[…]Sullivan is also quite wrong in thinking that the gay revolution was all about, “Live and let live.”
To the contrary, it became clear to me already in 2004 that for many of the key players who had come out of the closet, their ultimate goal (in fact, it was a necessary goal for their success) was to put conservative Christians (and other conservatives, both religious and non-religious) in the closet.
And so I warned that “if cross-dressing and, more radically still, sex-change surgery are fine – after all, we have to be true to ourselves, and, in the end, ‘it’s my life’ – then the day will soon come when the mutilation of other body parts will be considered fine if it makes the person feel happy and whole. Why not?
[…]The irony of this all is that, in the years to come, it could well be that the very reason the gay revolution ultimately fails is precisely because it succeeded so well. Metaphorically speaking, given enough rope, it hung itself. Andrew Sullivan’s dream has become his nightmare.
Brown’s May 25 column was devoted to a mandated right-wing complaint that the Los Angeles Dodgers were honoring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence during a pride celebration, even as he complained he really didn’t want to write another anti-LGBT column (though that’s his thing):
I can’t wait to go a week or a month or – who could imagine? – a year without writing a single article on LGBTQ+ activism. I imagine you can’t wait to go a week or month or year without reading another article on the subject either. But here we are in 2023 in the midst of a cultural implosion, and common sense, decency, the fear of God and a deep love for people cause me to cry out. Again.
In the aftermath of the Los Angeles Dodgers reinviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence drag team to their June Pride Night celebration, CatholicVote opined on Twitter, “The @Dodgers have instantly become the @budlight of baseball.”
But this is a gross understatement. The Dodgers have gone far beyond Bud Light, which has reportedly lost billions of dollars after making Dylan Mulvaney (a male) into an online poster girl.
Brown went on to repeat misinformation and falsehoods about right-wing anti-LGBT attacks on Target from chief homophobe Matt Walsh, taking the out that what Target was doing was “offensive” even if Walsh is lying about it, and it’s all good because anti-LGBT hate is spreading:
As for Target, after years of declaring war on gender distinctions and fostering radical transgender activism, they have upped the ante now by allegedly targeting children with their obscene “tuck” bathing suit line.
Yes, these are female bathing suits that allow males who think they are females to “tuck” in their privates. And although both Politfact and Snopes have stated that the swimsuits are only available in adult sizes, contrary to Matt Walsh’s claims, even if this were true, it is still grossly offensive. (According to Walsh, “What @Target is doing is far worse than anything Bud Light did. They are selling chest binders & ‘tuck-friendly’ bathing suits for children.” For Megyn Kelly’s pointed response, see here.)
Target also came under fire for featuring the products of an overtly Satanic, radical LGBTQ+ supplier. (Snopes branded this charge to be True.) The giant retail company suffered immediate financial losses and, under alleged threats against its employees, decided to remove a limited amount of LGBTQ+ Pride Month items.
[…]As for the millions of offended customers, the vast majority of whom are presumably fair-minded, non-fanatical, decent people, there is no mention of them. But of course!
No wonder Americans in droves are saying enough is enough. Good for them. The pushback continues!
So it’s OK for Walsh to lie as long as it furthers anti-LGBT hate? That doesn’t seem very biblical.
Brown concluded with more misinformation, repeating his usual claim that he doesn’t hate LGBT people, only LGBT “activism”:
As for the millions of people who identify as gay or lesbian or trans or queer and are just seeking to live their lives without conflict, I say to each of you: You are not my enemy, I do not despise you, I do not look down on you, and I offer you the same divine love that transformed me more than 50 years ago. It is the radical activism that I will wholeheartedly confront.
Of course, he’s lying here too. In Brown’s world it is inherently “radical” for LGBT people to want (or even be allowed) to “live their lives without conflict” — which means as long as he attacks “activism,” he is also attacking people. Contrary to these words, he really does despise them, is looking down on them, and he considers them his enemy.