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🏳️‍🌈•Warning to the Homophobes•🏳️‍⚧️
September 1, 1987 | The Advocate
-Steve Warren

"...now the tide has turned. We at last have "come out," and in so doing we have exposed the mean-spirited nature of Judeo-Christian morality.
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You have been narrow-minded and self-righteous. But with the help of a growing number of your own membership, we are going to force you to recant everything you have believed or said about sexuality.

Here are some of the things you will be expected to affirm in the process of renouncing love, marriage, and family:

1️⃣ Henceforth, homosexuality will be spoken of in your churches and synagogues as an "honorable estate."

2️⃣ You can either let us marry people of the same sex, or better yet, abolish marriage altogether.

3️⃣ You will be expected to offer ceremonies to bless our sexual arrangements, whether or not you retain marriage as something to celebrate in your churches. You will also instruct your young people in homosexuality as well as homosexual behavior, and...

...you will go out of your way to make certain that homosexual youths are allowed to date, attend religious functions together, openly display affection, and enjoy each others' sexuality without embarrassment or guilt.

4️⃣ If any of the older people in your midst object, you will deal with them sternly, making certain they renounce their ugly and ignorant homophobia or suffer public humiliation.

5️⃣ You will also make certain that all of the prestige and resources of your institutions are brought to bear on the community, so laws are passed forbidding discrimination against homosexuals and heavy punishments assessed.

We expect and demand the same commitment to us that you made to blacks and to woman, though their suffering has not been as great as ours.

6️⃣ Finally, we will in all likelihood want to expunge numbers of passages of your scriptures and rewrite others, eliminating preferential treatment of marriage...

...and using words that will allow for homosexual intrepations of passages describing biblical lovers such as Ruth and Boaz or Solomon and Queen of Sheba.

⚠️ Warning: If all these things come to pass quickly, we will subject orthodox Jews and Christians to the most sustained hatred and Vilification in recent memory. We have captured the liberal establishment and the press.

We have already beaten you on a number of battlefields. And we have the spirit of age on our side. You have neither the strength to fight us nor the will, so you might as well surrender now."
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