Post by Greg on Apr 29, 2016 8:35:02 GMT -5
Those of you who have read my many posts over the years will know me as a skeptic and a rationalist. I'm cold, hard and logical, like Mr. Spock in Star Trek, and certainly not given to believing in conspiracy theories or visions, or miracles without a lot of hard evidence. I don't really let emotions drive my decisions and I constantly check myself to make sure I'm not slipping into cognitive dissonance.
Dellery at SD put me onto "After the Ball" and I began to look into it. I'm reasonably confident, at this stage, that this is not a conspiracy theory but a fact and there has been a deliberate and detailed plan since the 1980s to accelerate the breakdown of society's resistance to homosexuals and other perversions.
Here's Catholic Family News' article on it.
www.cfnews.org/page10/page92/hom-tactics.html
An excerpt below.
1989 Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, (p. 172-173)
“The groups used by homosexual activists to distribute the homosexual idea and homosexual rights issues were those that touched the most Americans and had the highest source of creditability. Just like the tremendous leverage they achieved by co-opting the mental health professions who would then become disseminators of the homosexual agenda through actions and programs, it was planned that the media, the government, educators, and liberal, “less fervent” churches would be forced on board. Each of these “channels” carries its own authority and credibility.” (Rondeau, “Selling Homosexuality to America, p. 467)
Underlying the core of the campaign, the use of propaganda dissimilated through the use of mainstream media was to be firmly grounded in three long-established principles of psychology and advertising . They are desensitization, jamming, and conversion.
“The campaign we outline in this book, though complex, depends centrally upon a program of unabashed propaganda, firmly grounded in long-established principles of psychology and advertising.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. xxvi)
1. Desensitation
“We can extract the following principle for our campaign: to desensitize straights to homosexuals and homosexualness, inundate them in a continuous flood of homosexual-related advertising, presented in the least offensive fashion possible. If straights can’t shut off the shower, they may at least eventually get use to being wet.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 149)
“Desensitization aims at lowering the intensity of antihomosexual emotional reactions to a level approximating sheer indifference; . . .” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 153)
“The third principle is our recipe for desensitizing Ambivalent Skeptics; that is, for helping straights view homosexuality with neutrality rather than keen hostility. At least at the outset, we seek desensitization and nothing more. You can forget about trying right up front to persuade folks that homosexuality is a good thing. But if you can get them to think it is just another thing - meriting no more than a shrug of the shoulders - then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 177)
2. Jamming
“Jamming makes use of the rules of Associative Conditioning (the psychological process whereby, when two things are repeatedly juxtaposed, one’s feelings about one thing are transformed to the other) and Direct Emotional Modeling (the inborn tendency of human beings to feel what they perceive others to be feeling).” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 150)
“. . .Jamming attempts to blockade or counteracts the rewarding ‘pride in prejudice’ (peace, Jane Austen!) by attaching to homohatred a preexisting, and punishing, sense of shame in being a bigot, a horse’s ass, and a beater and murder.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 153)
3. Conversion
“We mean conversion of the average American’s emotions, mind, and will, through a planned psychological attack in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media.”(Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 153)
“In Conversion, we mimic the natural process of stereotypelearning, with the following effect: we take the bigot’s good feelings about all-right guys, and attach them to the label ’homosexual,’ either weakening or, eventually, replacing his bad feelings toward the label and the prior stereotype.
Understanding Direct Emotional Modeling, you’ll readily foresee its application to Conversion: whereas in Jamming the target is shown a bigot being rejected by his crowd for his prejudice against homosexuals, in Conversion the target is shown his crowd actually associating with homosexuals in good fellowship.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 155)
· Coming Out
Kirk and Madsen in their book, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, took the concept of “coming out” and applying the three long-established principles of psychology and advertising desensitization, jamming, and conversion to it explaining how it would greatly advance the “homosexual rights” movement. “Coming out” is the concept whereby one punlicly accepts and/or adopts the identity of being a homosexual.
“First coming out helps desensitize straights. As more and more homosexuals emerge into everyday life, homosexuals as a group will begin to seem more familiar and unexceptional to straights, hence less alarming and objectionable.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 167)
“Second, coming out allows more jamming of the reward system for homohatred. Jamming, you’ll recall, means interrupting the smooth workings of bigotry by inducing inconsistent feelings in the bigot.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 167)
“Third, coming out is a critical catalyst for the all-important ‘conversion’ process, as well. Conversion is more than merely desensitizing straights or jamming their homohatred: it entails making them actually like and accept homosexuals as a group, enabling straights to identify with them.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 168)
“Finally, in addition to making desensitization, jamming, and conversion possible, coming out is the key to sociopolitical empowerment, the ability of the homosexual community to control its own destiny. The more homosexual individuals who stand up to be counted, the more voting and spending power the homosexual community will be recognized to have. As an inevitable result, politics and business will woo us, the press will publicize our concerns and report our news, and our community will enjoy enhanced prestige.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 168)
What is the goal of the “homosexualrights” movement? Whether there is an “homosexual agenda” that is an organized attempt by homosexuals to advance homosexual rights Kirk and Madsen in their book, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, certainly attempt to imply that one is needed and it would be good for both homosexuals and society at large.
“Specifically, we want straights to believe that we no more choose homosexualness than they do straightness; that it’s a valid and healthy condition; and that, when treated with respect and friendship, we’re happy and psychologically well adjusted as they are. We want them to realize that we look, feel, and act just as they do; we’re hard-working, conscientious Americans with love lives exactly like their own. We want to be seen as the brothers and sisters, daughters and sons, friends and co-workers, and - yes - fathers and mothers of straight Americans: a valued part of American society, a part whose culture, heroes, and news are worthy of attention and respect.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 379-380)
The following comments are from Rondeau’s article “Selling Homosexuality to America” and one who opposes homosexuality writes this article. His article was published in 2002; thirteen years after Kirk and Madsen published their book After the Ball. His comments show just how successful homosexuals have been with the carefully calculated public relations campaign to shift the public’s focus and the discussion of homosexuality from “homosexual behavior” to the idea of “homosexual rights”.
“Homosexual activists now routinely name themselves as often and as publicly as they wish to be drfined.” (Rondeau, “Selling Homosexuality to America,” p. 462-463)
“Concepts introduced through the media, education, government, and courts by the homosexual movement theme have shaped our discourse; homophobia, heterosexism, tolerance and hate speech are now mainstream vernacular.” (Rondeau, “Selling Homosexuality to America,” p. 483)
“The current debate, then, is framed differently by both sides. Is homosexual behavior normal or abnormal? Are the maladies commonly associated with the homosexual condition (depression, AIDS, suicide, cancer) caused by the behavior itself or society’s reaction to it? Are homosexuals just the same as heterosexuals? Should science or society determine the acceptability of “homosexualness”?
If history repeats itself, the point of view that holds sway in America’s courts will first hold sway in the minds and hearts of individual citizens, judges, and lawmakers. And the heart and mind of society is the target market that the homosexual rights campaign means to capture in order to win in courts.” (Rondeau, “Selling Homosexuality to America,” p. 452)
“This explains why the homosexual rights movement often focuses on negative labeling (bigot, ignorant, intolerant) in the marketplace of competing ideas; a social environment is created that is unfriendly to anti-homosexual speech. Like Chinese water torture rather than brute force, only socially enforced public compliance at a minimum level, through continued application, can ultimately change the privately held attitude or belief.
Dellery at SD put me onto "After the Ball" and I began to look into it. I'm reasonably confident, at this stage, that this is not a conspiracy theory but a fact and there has been a deliberate and detailed plan since the 1980s to accelerate the breakdown of society's resistance to homosexuals and other perversions.
Here's Catholic Family News' article on it.
www.cfnews.org/page10/page92/hom-tactics.html
An excerpt below.
1989 Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, (p. 172-173)
“The groups used by homosexual activists to distribute the homosexual idea and homosexual rights issues were those that touched the most Americans and had the highest source of creditability. Just like the tremendous leverage they achieved by co-opting the mental health professions who would then become disseminators of the homosexual agenda through actions and programs, it was planned that the media, the government, educators, and liberal, “less fervent” churches would be forced on board. Each of these “channels” carries its own authority and credibility.” (Rondeau, “Selling Homosexuality to America, p. 467)
Underlying the core of the campaign, the use of propaganda dissimilated through the use of mainstream media was to be firmly grounded in three long-established principles of psychology and advertising . They are desensitization, jamming, and conversion.
“The campaign we outline in this book, though complex, depends centrally upon a program of unabashed propaganda, firmly grounded in long-established principles of psychology and advertising.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. xxvi)
1. Desensitation
“We can extract the following principle for our campaign: to desensitize straights to homosexuals and homosexualness, inundate them in a continuous flood of homosexual-related advertising, presented in the least offensive fashion possible. If straights can’t shut off the shower, they may at least eventually get use to being wet.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 149)
“Desensitization aims at lowering the intensity of antihomosexual emotional reactions to a level approximating sheer indifference; . . .” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 153)
“The third principle is our recipe for desensitizing Ambivalent Skeptics; that is, for helping straights view homosexuality with neutrality rather than keen hostility. At least at the outset, we seek desensitization and nothing more. You can forget about trying right up front to persuade folks that homosexuality is a good thing. But if you can get them to think it is just another thing - meriting no more than a shrug of the shoulders - then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 177)
2. Jamming
“Jamming makes use of the rules of Associative Conditioning (the psychological process whereby, when two things are repeatedly juxtaposed, one’s feelings about one thing are transformed to the other) and Direct Emotional Modeling (the inborn tendency of human beings to feel what they perceive others to be feeling).” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 150)
“. . .Jamming attempts to blockade or counteracts the rewarding ‘pride in prejudice’ (peace, Jane Austen!) by attaching to homohatred a preexisting, and punishing, sense of shame in being a bigot, a horse’s ass, and a beater and murder.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 153)
3. Conversion
“We mean conversion of the average American’s emotions, mind, and will, through a planned psychological attack in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media.”(Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 153)
“In Conversion, we mimic the natural process of stereotypelearning, with the following effect: we take the bigot’s good feelings about all-right guys, and attach them to the label ’homosexual,’ either weakening or, eventually, replacing his bad feelings toward the label and the prior stereotype.
Understanding Direct Emotional Modeling, you’ll readily foresee its application to Conversion: whereas in Jamming the target is shown a bigot being rejected by his crowd for his prejudice against homosexuals, in Conversion the target is shown his crowd actually associating with homosexuals in good fellowship.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 155)
· Coming Out
Kirk and Madsen in their book, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, took the concept of “coming out” and applying the three long-established principles of psychology and advertising desensitization, jamming, and conversion to it explaining how it would greatly advance the “homosexual rights” movement. “Coming out” is the concept whereby one punlicly accepts and/or adopts the identity of being a homosexual.
“First coming out helps desensitize straights. As more and more homosexuals emerge into everyday life, homosexuals as a group will begin to seem more familiar and unexceptional to straights, hence less alarming and objectionable.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 167)
“Second, coming out allows more jamming of the reward system for homohatred. Jamming, you’ll recall, means interrupting the smooth workings of bigotry by inducing inconsistent feelings in the bigot.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 167)
“Third, coming out is a critical catalyst for the all-important ‘conversion’ process, as well. Conversion is more than merely desensitizing straights or jamming their homohatred: it entails making them actually like and accept homosexuals as a group, enabling straights to identify with them.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 168)
“Finally, in addition to making desensitization, jamming, and conversion possible, coming out is the key to sociopolitical empowerment, the ability of the homosexual community to control its own destiny. The more homosexual individuals who stand up to be counted, the more voting and spending power the homosexual community will be recognized to have. As an inevitable result, politics and business will woo us, the press will publicize our concerns and report our news, and our community will enjoy enhanced prestige.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 168)
What is the goal of the “homosexualrights” movement? Whether there is an “homosexual agenda” that is an organized attempt by homosexuals to advance homosexual rights Kirk and Madsen in their book, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, certainly attempt to imply that one is needed and it would be good for both homosexuals and society at large.
“Specifically, we want straights to believe that we no more choose homosexualness than they do straightness; that it’s a valid and healthy condition; and that, when treated with respect and friendship, we’re happy and psychologically well adjusted as they are. We want them to realize that we look, feel, and act just as they do; we’re hard-working, conscientious Americans with love lives exactly like their own. We want to be seen as the brothers and sisters, daughters and sons, friends and co-workers, and - yes - fathers and mothers of straight Americans: a valued part of American society, a part whose culture, heroes, and news are worthy of attention and respect.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the homosexual’s in the 90s, p. 379-380)
The following comments are from Rondeau’s article “Selling Homosexuality to America” and one who opposes homosexuality writes this article. His article was published in 2002; thirteen years after Kirk and Madsen published their book After the Ball. His comments show just how successful homosexuals have been with the carefully calculated public relations campaign to shift the public’s focus and the discussion of homosexuality from “homosexual behavior” to the idea of “homosexual rights”.
“Homosexual activists now routinely name themselves as often and as publicly as they wish to be drfined.” (Rondeau, “Selling Homosexuality to America,” p. 462-463)
“Concepts introduced through the media, education, government, and courts by the homosexual movement theme have shaped our discourse; homophobia, heterosexism, tolerance and hate speech are now mainstream vernacular.” (Rondeau, “Selling Homosexuality to America,” p. 483)
“The current debate, then, is framed differently by both sides. Is homosexual behavior normal or abnormal? Are the maladies commonly associated with the homosexual condition (depression, AIDS, suicide, cancer) caused by the behavior itself or society’s reaction to it? Are homosexuals just the same as heterosexuals? Should science or society determine the acceptability of “homosexualness”?
If history repeats itself, the point of view that holds sway in America’s courts will first hold sway in the minds and hearts of individual citizens, judges, and lawmakers. And the heart and mind of society is the target market that the homosexual rights campaign means to capture in order to win in courts.” (Rondeau, “Selling Homosexuality to America,” p. 452)
“This explains why the homosexual rights movement often focuses on negative labeling (bigot, ignorant, intolerant) in the marketplace of competing ideas; a social environment is created that is unfriendly to anti-homosexual speech. Like Chinese water torture rather than brute force, only socially enforced public compliance at a minimum level, through continued application, can ultimately change the privately held attitude or belief.