What Is The "Homosexual Agenda" To You? [View All]

[ruggerson]

The Republicans are heading into the homestretch in this election, dredging up the dreaded "Homosexual Agenda" as their bogeyman of last resort.

The problem is, the GOP is never really specific about just what the supposed "homosexual agenda" really is. What are they actually talking about?

Are hordes of gay men and lesbians gearing up to take over Congress if Democrats win and pass legislation forbidding heterosexuality?

Well.... no, that's absurd.

Are gay men and lesbians poised to enact statutes mandating that the rainbow flag be flown next to Old Glory atop the Capitol?

Well, no... that too is ridiculous.

Are gays and lesbians secretly plotting to pass laws preventing conservative Christians from joining and serving in the armed forces of our great land?

Ummm.... nope.

The truth is that to the extent that the "Homosexual Agenda" really exists, it is part of a larger, historical, quite mainstream trend in American life. If is about equal access to all that America has to offer its citizens.

It is about equal rights under the law for a group that pays equal taxes to the government.

It's really that simple.

America is a work in progress and has serially extended, over its young life, the mantle of full citizenhood to previously disenfranchised groups after long political battles and, sometimes, bloody wars.

The movement for gay equality is just the normal, albeit slow and fitful, progression of American society and American history.

The dirty, little secret that the Republicans don't want people to find out is that the "homosexual agenda" is really, at heart, the "American Agenda."