June 4, 2005 by s.z.

Robert Knight, Crusader Okay, a couple of days ago I was perusing the articles at Donald Wildmon's Agape Press, as I am wont to do when desperate for stories about wingnuts, and I came across this: Pro-Family Advocate: Selfish Homosexual Subculture Has Annexed Frisco A pro-family leader says families have been driven out of San Francisco, California, because of the high cost of living and the increasingly family-unfriendly culture itself. According to an Associated Press report, San Francisco's 18-and-under population is just 14.5 percent -- the lowest percentage of children for any major city in the United States. Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute, believes a major reason for this statistic is that San Francisco's dominant subculture is prompting families to flee the city. That subculture, Knight contends, is largely made up of childless adult singles and couples -- many of them homosexuals -- who live well and who live mainly for themselves. "The homosexuals have enormous influence," he says. "It's a very artsy city, and everything's very expensive. That's one reason families can't afford to live there anymore. It's all geared toward either the single life or the two-income adult life without kids." Today in San Francisco, Knight points out, there is a proliferation of what used to be called "dinks," or "dual income, no kids" households. Many of these are homosexual couples, and in a city where homosexuals represent 20 percent of the population, the pro-family leader says it is no surprise that there are so few children. "The homosexual lifestyle is about pleasing oneself," the CFI spokesman asserts, "not planning for the future, not setting aside money for kids, not trying to create a situation where the generations come together. It's about having fun. It's about indulging in whatever desire you want at any given time." So, the gays have over-run San Francisco, and what with their lack of heterosexuality, their good incomes, and their artistic inclinations, have ruined the city for families.  Plus, they seem to be having a good time, and that just isn't fair! Thank heavens there are other places for decent, heterosexual families to live! Or are there?  This is what I found at Agape today: Is There Hope for Families on Capitol Hill? Pro-family policies coming out of Washington, DC, seem at times to be in short supply. One family advocate credits that situation partially to the persistence of homosexual activists who reside in the District of Columbia. But another says he is convinced there is a place for both state and federal governments in helping sustain the traditional family. The director of the Culture and Family Institute in the nation's capital says homosexual activists are relentless -- and he suggests that is why they wield a great amount of clout on Congress. Robert Knight says there is no doubt in his mind that the homosexual lobby has influenced Capitol Hill in a big way. "Because there are so many homosexuals in Washington, it's a very aggressive community," Knight shares, offering that just by sheer numbers many pro-homosexual groups are able to accomplish their agenda. "You have national homosexual organizations headquartered here -- like the Human Rights Campaign -- that ... wield tremendous influence on Congress." So, the gays have not only despoiled Frisco by making it expensive, they have also have also taken over D.C., thereby tricking Congress into thinking that they exist.  And they have made progress towards accomplishing their insidious agenda, which involves convincing more people that they exist, and passing laws to destroy your family. Anyway, after reading these two pieces, I said to Robert Knight, "Your views intrigue me, and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter."  But alas, the Culture and Family Institute seems to have a busy or broken server (or to have been run out of town like common pygmies), and so I had to learn more about Robert's views from other sources. Fortunately, the Southern Poverty Law Center (you know, the group that monitors neo-Nazis and other hate groups) has just done a report on Christian conservatives who preach anti-gay messages.  (As SPLC told Southern Voice Online, "Our bailiwick is extremism. We’ve avoided the Christian Right in the past, and we don’t feel we’ve expanded to include the Christian Right — we feel very strongly they have entered our world [of extremism].") And the SPLC piece includes a segment on Mr. Knight and his Institute, which turns out to be a sub-group of Beverly LaHaye's "Concerned Women With Nothing Better To Do Than Meddle In Your Affairs."  Here's part of the info: [LaHaye] pins much of the blame for the "radical crusade" on gay people. In 1992, LaHaye said gay activists "go after boys by becoming teachers and Boy Scout leaders." In 1998, CWA called homosexuals "people who make lewd phone calls, expose themselves to others, and engage in prostitution." In 2001, LaHaye hired two of America's most prominent anti-gay propagandists, Robert Knight and Peter LaBarbera, to launch CWA's Culture and Family Institute. LaBarbera, a former Washington Times reporter and editor of an inflammatory anti-gay journal called The Lambda Report on Homosexual Activism, had earlier been thrown out of the American Psychological Association due to his faulty "science." That didn't prevent him from producing CWA's 11 Ways You Can Fight the Homosexual Agenda manual. Knight, called "America's premier gay-basher" by Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, produces reams of sensationalistic reports like "Sexual Orientation and American Culture," which warns that accepting "sexual orientation as a civil right" will lead to "a loss of stability in communities, with a rise in crime, sexually transmitted diseases and other social pathologies." Knight has also accused gays of preying on "shy and artistic young boys," using the boys' desire for male affirmation to make them into "an easy mark for seduction." After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, CWA accused same-sex partners of those killed of "trying to hijack the moral capital of marriage." Last year, CWA raised a ruckus over a gay Canadian couple that wanted to visit the U.S. together, calling the men "a new threat to border security" and "the latest pair of 'domestic terrorists.'" The group has also accused the Harry Potter books of promoting the practice of witchcraft among children.  I'm sure that later this year Knight and LaBarbera will claim that the gays are behind the Harry Potter books. Anyway, it's a very interesting article, and if features many of our favorite wingnuts, including James Dobson, Donald Wildmon, and Paul Cameron -- both it and the Southern Voice piece are worth your time. But back to our man of the hour, Robert KnightRider:  As I did further research, I learned that he's the guy who called out the NRO's Stanley Kurtz for being too damned reasonable. Stanley Kurtz in "A Cultural Antidote: Why we need a Federal Marriage Amendment" insists that "reasonable people can disagree on the question of homosexual marriage" and that "reasonable people will differ on the subject of homosexuality." Maybe not. Imagine Mr. Kurtz strolling by Moses and dropping those lines as Moses is about to present the Ten Commandments. Of course, not everyone might consider Moses a particularly "reasonable" guy. Um, since the Ten Commandments say nothing about homosexual marriage (or homosexuality), I don't know why Mr. Knight thinks that Moses might not agree that the subject was open to discussion. But there is nothing "reasonable" about two men or two women having sex. There is something deeply wrong. The practice should be discouraged and resisted, not accommodated. Hey, there's nothing "reasonable" about any two people having sex!  Well, maybe if one of the people is Robert Knight, and the other is a Concerned Woman for a America, they just have tepid, reasonable, Republican sex, while all the while imagining the hot, mind-bending sex the homosexuals are having. Anyway, after some futher Googling I was delighted to find that Mr. Knight was the author of one of my favorite WorldNetDaily pieces of all time, "Iraq Scandal is ‘Perfect Storm’ of American Culture."  I don't know if you recall it, but it was the column that blamed Abu Ghraib on ... wait for it ... women, porn, and gays.  Here are some highlights: We have arrived at the "Perfect Storm" of American cultural depravity. Along with photos of Iraqi prisoners being abused in an American prison, we now apparently have photos of American soldiers having sex and committing homosexual acts on prisoners. We were told putting women into combat areas is progressive and enlightened. We were told pornography is liberating, and that anyone who objects is a narrow-minded Puritan who needs therapy. We have been flooded with porn imagery on mainstream television and in magazine ads. Where did those soldiers get the idea to engage in sadomasochistic activity and to videotape it in voyeuristic fashion? Easy. It's found on thousands of Internet porn sites and in the pages of "gay" publications, where S&M events are advertised alongside ads for Subarus, liquor and drugs to treat HIV and hepatitis. We were told homosexuality is harmless and normal, and the military should live with a "don't ask, don't tell" policy that allows homosexuals to stay in the barracks. We were told that men "marrying" men and women "marrying" women is inevitable – not only for America, but for the world. Imagine how those images of men kissing men outside San Francisco City Hall after being "married" play in the Muslim world. We couldn't offer the mullahs a more perfect picture of American decadence. This puts Americans at risk all over the world, especially Christian missionaries who are trying to bring the Gospel to people trapped in darkness for millennia. So, as you can see, blaming Rumsfeld (or Gonzales or anybody in the Bush administration) is misguided and evil, because this whole mess is the fault of Bill Clinton, female military personnel, Hugh Hefner, gay porn sites, and those homosexual couples who got married in San Francisco.  (Damn those newlyweds for making life more difficult for Christian missionaries who are trying to save the benighted Muslims!) So, how do we fix things, now that we went to war with ill-trained, ill-prepared troops (and not enough of them), and the war isn't going as grandly as advertised, and the Muslim world hates us?  Easy.  We get the female soldiers out of Iraq, stamp out porn in the military, and kick out homosexuals out of the service.  Oh, and we should also ban Howard Stern, and stop teaching kids about sex.  [Normal Americans] should demand governments – local, state and federal – cease all activities that undermine moral order. Practically speaking, this means: [...] Demanding that schools stop promoting "safe sex" and homosexuality in the name of "AIDS education" or "safe schools." These are recruitment schemes into early sex and homosexuality, with documented, ghastly results. Now, for the wrap-up: Liberals shamelessly accuse the Bush administration of a cover-up and are seeking the scalp of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. They demanded an apology, and they got it from both Mr. Rumsfeld and President Bush himself. But that's not enough. They want to use this scandal to undermine the war effort and to damage the president. Surely the images of bizarre sexual activity cannot really offend them. It's standard fare among some of their more active supporters. Yes, apparently Mr. Knight actually belives that liberals go around arresting people off the street, stripping them, and stacking the unwilling participants in naked, human, homosexual pyramids.  But only on weekdays.  On weekends they kill a few people and pose with the dead bodies.  So, any outrage liberals express on the subject of torture must be feigned, because after all, some of them are homosexuals, and those people make bread out of the blood of Christian children. Anyway, I think that the D.C piece was just the second in Mr. Knight's series of: "The Gays Must Not Be Allowed to Live Anywhere In This Country."  Watch for an upcoming article about "How Those Two Guys Who Claim They Are Just Roomates Ruined Neeley, Iowa by Keeping Their Yard Looking So Nice They Made Everybody Else's Look Bad By Comparison." 4:57:23 AM

America's Worst Mummy/Teacher™ In regard to the popular NRO column "The Swamp Creature, our friend Jim at The Rittenhouse Review presents this week's "Paris Manly Moment" (and it's follow-up, the "Mummy Emasculating Moment").  We thank Jim for covering this, since our friend TBogg has temporarily abandoned Meghan to focus on America's Worst Mother In Training™, Britney Spears. But here is my contribution to the Gurdoning of America. The Main Plot: The pregnant Meghan has to climb up the stairs to see what her damned kids want now, and then she has climb down the stairs to get one of them some f*%^$ing toilet paper, and she barely has time to down half of her mai tai before the kid starts screaming that he or she is still waiting for the TP -- and yet it's the high-and-mighty school teachers who get the gifts at the end of the school year!  And to add insult to injury, the accursed competent moms keep hectoring Meghan with notes that request her contributions to this pandering to the NEA cartel (and since Meghan has three children in school, this could run her as much as $36)!  But Meghan passively-aggressively resists complying with this politically correct nonsense by never getting around to writing a check.  Another conservative solution to a liberal society! And since Meghan is going to start home schooling her manly son Brackish and her kindergarten-aged daughter Pleurisy, next year MEGHAN will get all of the gifts.  Boy, that will be sweet.  Meghan is preparing for her new role as pedagogue -- she's even purchased the edifying books with which she will ensure that her children get a lovely upperclass, 19th century, conservative education that will stand them in good stead for their future jobs as wives, performance artists, and communists. “Wow!” everyone breathes, as I cut the cardboard and pull out a magnificent and glossy box decorated with snippets of fine art. “It’s your Phonics Museum, Violet,” I tell her, to the envious tongue clicking of the others. “You’re going to learn to read and write fluently this summer with the help of these beautiful paintings. See? Here are the flash cards — that’s a painting by Winslow Homer, darling, and — oh. Wow. Oh, dear. Help.” It's at this point that Meghan spies the teacher's manual, and realizes that in opting for home schooling she will be expected to spend more time with the little toilet paper-demanding creatures than she already does.  And then she thinks, hey maybe the foreign nanny can do the actual teaching if Meghan just supervises from the den with the door closed and the shades drawn. And anyway, it's not like she has to actually teach Brackish anything, since he's perfect already. “Aw, cool! What are these?” “Those,” I tell Paris, closing the Phonics Museum with a powerful sense of periodontal surgery postponed, “are biographies of famous Americans for you to read this summer.” “Abraham Lincoln, Pocahontas, Ben Franklin, oh, wow, Buffalo Bill — !” However, young Brackish will soon be in for a rude shock when he learns that the Buffalo Bill he's expected to read about isn't a psycho serial killer who makes coats out of human skin due to being totalled screwed up by a smothering/rejecting mother, but is instead is some uncouth cowboy. Meghan's Kids Are Smarter Than Anyone Else's Moment: “Is she one of yours?” “Yes,” I say. The mother nods sagely. “Good job.” “It’s not me,” I have to admit, shaking my head. “It’s her.” Yeah, 12-year-old Freedom Maxi is the smart one of the bunch, and that's why she refused to be home schooled.  However, in exchange for the perk of going to an actual school, she has to agree to eat meat, pay for half of her vitimins, foreswear modernity, and marry David Frum's son in 2010 in order to forge the most powerful NRO dynasty the world has ever known, except for the Buckley one. Moment of Childhood Whimsy and Wonder: “No, “ he says, scornfully. “I’m the imp of the trees. Obviously.” Now I eagerly await TBogg's contribution to the Meghan epic. 3:09:15 AM