Charles W. Socarides, M.D., (1922-2005) was clinical professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore
Medical
Center in New York. Over 40 years, he treated hundreds of gays and
helped about one third of them return to heterosexuality.
The classic 1995 essay by the psychiatrist
who pioneered the treatment of homosexuality. "Normalizing" homosexuality was the first
step to supplanting heterosexuality. Under
the guise of gay rights, the Illuminati are waging a vicious, bigoted
attack on heterosexual society, which is too docile to realize it.
Heterosexuals have human rights too! The Illuminati and their liberal
lackeys accuse their opponents of "hatred" but the hatred is coming from
them. by Charles Socarides M.D.(Edited & Abridged by
henrymakow.com)
For more than 20 years,
I and a few psychiatrists have felt like an embattled minority, because
we have continued to insist that gays aren't born that way.
For
most of this (20th) century, we have considered this behavior
aberrant...a pathology. We had patients who would seek out one sex
partner after another-total strangers-on a single night, then come
limping into our offices the next day to tell us how they were hurting
themselves. Since we were in the business of helping people learn how
not to keep hurting themselves, many of us thought we were quietly doing
God's work.
Now, in the opinion of those who make up the
so-called cultural elite, our view is "out of date." The elite say we
hurt people more than we help them, and that we belong in one of the
century's dustbins. They have managed to sell this idea to a great many
Americans, thereby making homosexuality fashionable and raising formerly
aberrant behavior to the status of an "alternate lifestyle."...
HOMOSEXUAL REVOLUTION ORCHESTRATED How did this change come about? Well, the revolution did not just happen...
It
was all part of a plan, as one gay publication put it, "to make the
whole world gay." I am not making this up. You can read an account of
the campaign in Dennis Altman's The Homosexualization of America.
In 1982 Altman, himself gay, reported with an air of elation that more
and more Americans were thinking like gays and acting like gays. There
were engaged, that is, "in numbers of short-lived sexual adventures
either in place of or alongside long-term relationships." Altman cited
the heterosexual equivalents of gay saunas and the emergence of the
swinging singles scene as proofs that "promiscuity and 'impersonal sex'
are determined more by social possibilities than by inherent differences
between homosexuals and heterosexuals, or even between men and women."
Heady
stuff. Gays said they could "reinvent human nature, reinvent
themselves." To do this, these re-inventors had to clear away one major
obstacle. No, they didn't go after the nation's clergy. They targeted
the members of a worldly priesthood, the psychiatric community, and
neutralized them with a radical redefinition of homosexuality itself. In
1972 and 1973 they co-opted the leadership of the American Psychiatric
Association and, through a series of political maneuvers, lies and
outright flim-flams, they "cured" homosexuality overnight-by fiat. They
got the A.P.A. to say that same-sex sex was "not a disorder." It was
merely "a condition"-as neutral as lefthandedness.
HATRED, INTIMIDATION & INTOLERANCE
This
amounted to a full approval of homosexuality. Those of us who did not
go along with the political redefinition were soon silenced at our own
professional meetings. Our lectures were canceled inside academe and our
research papers turned down in the learned journals. Worse things
followed in the culture at large. Television and movie producers began
to do stories promoting homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle.
["For
some years now, gays have been disrupting our meetings, shouting down
people trying to deliver their scientific papers, threatening individual
doctors like myself...The gay activists have a ferocious irrationality.
They turn every scientific agreement into a political issue -- which is
all they can really do, since the only science they have going for them
is pseudoscience." Homosexuality: A Freedom Too Far pp.153-154]
A
gay review board told Hollywood how it should deal or not deal with
homosexuality. Mainstream publishers turned down books that objected to
the gay revolution. Gays and lesbians influenced sex education in our
nation's schools, and gay and lesbian libbers seized wide control of
faculty committees in our nations' colleges. State legislatures
nullified laws against sodomy.
If the print media paid any
attention at all, they tended to hail the gay revolution, possibly
because many of the reporters on gay issues were themselves gay and open
advocates for the movement. And those reporters who were not gay seemed
too intimidated by groupthink to expose what was going on in their own
newsrooms.
And now, what happens to those of us who stand up and
object? Gay activists have already anticipated that. They have created a
kind of conventional wisdom: that we suffer from homophobia, a disease
that has actually been invented by gays projecting their own fear on
society. And we are bigots besides, because, they say, we fail to deal
with gays compassionately.
Gays are now no different than people
born black or Hispanic or physically challenged. Since gays are born
that way and have no choice about their sexual orientation, anyone who
calls same-sex sex an aberration is now a bigot. Un-American, too.
Astoundingly now, college freshmen come home for their first
Thanksgiving to announce, "Hey, Mom! Hey, Dad! We've taken the high
moral ground. We've joined the gay revolution."
BRAINWASHED
My
wife, Clare, who has an unerring aptitude for getting to the heart of
things, said one day recently in passing, "I think everybody's being
brainwashed." That gave me a start. I know "brainwashing" is a term that
has been used and overused. But my wife's casual observation only
reminded me of a brilliant tract I had read several years ago and then
forgotten. It was called After the Ball: How America Will Conquer its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 1990's, by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen.
That book turned out to be the blueprint gay activists would use in their campaign to normalize the abnormal through a variety of brainwashing techniques once catalogued by Robert Jay Lifton in his seminal work, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China.
These
activists got the media and the money to radicalize America-by
processes known as desensitization, jamming and conversion. They would
desensitize the public by selling the notion that gays were "just like
everyone else." This would make the engine of prejudice run out of
steam, i.e., lull straights into an attitude of indifference.
They would jam the public by shaming them into a kind of guilt at their own "bigotry." Kirk and Madsen wrote:
All
normal persons feel shame when they perceive that they are not
thinking, feeling, or acting like one of the pack....The trick is to get
the bigot into the position of feeling a conflicting twinge of
shame...when his homo-hatred surfaces. Thus, propagandistic
advertisement can depict homophobic and homo-hating bigots as crude
loudmouths....It can show them being criticized, hated, shunned. It can
depict gays experiencing horrific suffering as the direct result of
homohatred-suffering of which even most bigots would be ashamed to be
the cause.
Finally-this was the process they called
conversion-Kirk and Madsen predicted a mass public change of heart would
follow, even among bigots, "if we can actually make them like us." They
wrote, "Conversion aims at just this...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."
In the movie "Philadelphia"
we see the shaming technique and the conversion process working at the
highest media level. We saw Tom Hank's character suffering (because he
was gay and had AIDS) at the hands of bigots in his Philadelphia law
firm. Not only were we ashamed of the homophobic behavior of the
villainous straight lawyers in the firm; we felt nothing but sympathy
for the suffering Hanks. (Members of the Motion Picture Academy felt so
much sympathy they gave Hanks an Oscar.) Our feelings helped fulfill
Kirk and Madsen's strategy: "to make Americans hold us in warm regard,
whether they like it or not."
Few dared speak out against "Philadelphia"
as an example of the kind of propaganda Kirk and Madsen had called for.
By then, four years after the publication of the Kirk-Madsen blueprint,
the American public had already been programmed. Homosexuality was now
simply "an alternate lifestyle."
Best of all, because of the
persuaders embedded in thousands of media messages, society's acceptance
of homosexuality seemed one of those spontaneous, historic turnings in
time-yes, a kind of conversion. Nobody quite knew how it happened, but
the nation had changed. We had become more sophisticated, more loving
toward all, even toward those "afflicted" with the malady-excuse me,
condition.
By 1992 the President of the United States said it was
time that people who were openly gay and lesbian should not be ousted
from the nation's armed forces. In 1993 the nation's media celebrated a
huge outpouring of gay pride in Washington, D.C. Television viewers
chanted along with half a million marchers, "Two, four, six, eight!
Being gay is really great." We felt good about ourselves. We were
patriotic Americans. We had abolished one more form of discrimination,
wiped out one of society's most enduring afflictions: homophobia. Best
of all, we knew now that gay was good, gay was free.
-----Note
- A sign of things to come. Searched Google images for "gay zealots"
and all I got were anti-gay zealots. They are filtering perception.
Eventually my articles will be suppressed.
We need to start using other search engines.
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