Scott Lively has been winding down his WorldNetDaily column, but he couldn’t resist cranking out one more homophobic screed in his Feb. 10 column:
At the outset it’s important to recognize that what we today call “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” has always been a social engineering campaign of the “gay” movement in which racial minorities are merely useful pawns. Jesse Jackson’s “Rainbow Coalition,” associated with his 1984 presidential run, was evidence of this. After his usefulness faded as a front man for establishing homosexuality as culturally equivalent to race in the civil rights movement, they edged him out and stole the rainbow exclusively for themselves.
In the 1990s, they quarterbacked the national “anti-discrimination” public policy campaign to stigmatize and criminalize social disapproval of homosexuality, using the tactic of bundling “sexual orientation” with race as inseparable legal equivalents, frequently using blacks as figureheads of LGBT-controlled “Human Rights Commissions” that sprang up by the hundreds like dandelions in cities and states.
Presently, the best proof of the relative status of “progressive coalition members” is the annual “Pride” calendar: the LGBTs get the arguably two best weather months of the year (Gay Pride in June, Gay History in October) while blacks and women get only one month each: frozen February and dirty-slush March, respectively. The two LGBT months, especially October, also happen to offer LGBT activists premium access to school children for the purpose of shaping young minds. June becomes one giant recruitment campaign to get kids out to Pride parades and other affinity-building events. Typically, blacks and women are advantaged by DEI policies only if they happen to be LGBT themselves, or proven dedicated allies of the LGBT movement.
Lively praised the military’s short-lived “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy as “the model for how LGBT issues should be handled virtually across the board in society today: a compromise that grants reasonable tolerance for private lifestyles lived discretely but not acceptance or celebration of open advocacy of same-sex attraction disorder and related behavioral problems.” He went on to portray LGBT people fighting for their rights as “militancy.” He then served up his usual dose of self-aggrandizement:
When DADT was under attack during the Obama administration, I personally delivered copies of the 4th edition of my book “The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party” (the 6th edition is just out under the title “Nazi Germany’s Dirtiest Secrets … And Why They Matter to America Today”) and an essay titled “Don’t Repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to dozens of U.S. senators, including Sen. Scott Brown of my home state of Massachusetts, who had run and won on the theme of family values. His staff bragged that just that morning he had stood strong against voting the DADT repeal bill out of committee. A few weeks later (apparently the victim of blackmail – in my opinion) he not only caved on the issue and voted for the bill, he held a special signing ceremony and photo-op in his office attended by a leading Massachusetts LGBT organization. He then lost the Senate seat to Pocahontas.
Lively concluded by linking to an article from a right-wing website claiming that military recruitment has hit a “15-year record” under Trump. In fact, even Fox News admits that recruitment began increasing a year ago, adding: “Former Army officials warn that it is dangerous to link Army recruiting successes to the election cycle, since the military is supposed to be apolitical. Soldiers sign up not to serve a president or a party but to serve the Constitution.”