The 'Gay Identity' constructed worldview
In recent years, activists pushing for a “gay rights” political agenda, such as the legalization of same-sex marriage and the overturning of the law against open homosexuality in the military, have become increasingly virulent in their attacks upon social conservatives who oppose that agenda. Examples of these attacks include a federal judge declaring that the passage of California’s Proposition 8 in 2008 could only have been motivated by hostility toward gay and lesbian individuals 1 , and the 2010 announcement by the Southern Poverty Law Center that it classifies several pro-family organizations as “ anti-gay hate groups .” 2 Such attacks reveal a fundamental misunderstanding (if not deliberate misrepresentation) of the beliefs, arguments, and motives of social conservatives . This misunderstanding arises from the existence of two completely different paradigms, or fundamental ways of understanding the nature of homosexuality. The “Gay Identity ” Paradigm Gay activ...