Homosexuality in America (Ignatius Press, 1989)
By Congressman William Dannemeyer
In order merely to begin to slow the spread of AIDS, Congressman Dannemeyer strongly recommends testing for the HIV virus; compulsory reporting to health authorities by physicians who discover the virus in their patients; contact tracing of the sexual partners of those infected; the restoration of laws against sodomy; and the rejection of AIDS anti-discrimination laws. Any one of these is guaranteed to bring down the wrath of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Dr. Dannemeyer clearly articulates that his country’s lazy tolerance of prideful, aggressive homosexuality is part of its “corruption of spirit.” This “leads to selfishness and preoccupation with pleasure, eventually to the exclusion of what is usual and normal.” The point is reached where “excess and perversion come into fashion, and after that – catastrophe.”
This workmanlike book gives voice to Congressman Dannemeyer’s concern that Americans wake up to the moral corruption in their midst. Only then will they have the strength of will to resist, and finally overcome, the raucous, relentless political and social pressure of the homosexual lobby. If the country does not re-embrace its Christian spiritual roots and regain its clarity of vision and moral strength, it may very well make wrong decisions which will plunge it into “a dark night of the soul.”
To support his call for the enactment of the above recommendations, Congressman Dannemeyer has given the reader a clear-eyed look at the homosexual danger. In even, moderate tones he exposes the strong-arm, abusive tactics that forced the weak-willed American Psychiatric Association to reverse itself and declare homosexuality a “normal condition.” The homosexuals managed then, and have managed since, to suppress scientific opinion and impugn the integrity and motives of those who hold opinions different from their political agendas. In addition, it has taken on state and federal legislators and triumphed there too. State after state has quietly repealed anti-sodomy laws, deeming them interference in the private affairs of consenting adults.
The awful fact is that what happens privately between homosexuals affects not just them but the rest of the nation. AIDS and a multiplicity of other exotic diseases spread out from those “private” acts, laying waste innocent bystanders. Consequently, Congressman Dannemeyer wants public health officials to treat AIDS in the same way it does other communicable diseases. In the past these methods have proved successful. They should be put into effect again. The public health danger is too great to be overly concerned with the so-called privacy issue which, interestingly, was never an issue in previously less dangerous social diseases which were treated in the same way Mr. Dannemeyer wants AIDS treated.
To combat the disease effectively the public must stop believing the deceptions of the homosexual lobby. It would have us believe homosexuals are like everyone else, except that they have chosen or grown up with a different orientation. Like it or not, says Dannemeyer, homosexuality is a perversion of normal sexual relations. To the extent that we tolerate the rampant expansion and open avowal of that perversion is the extent to which we attest to our own moral corruption and blindness. The result can only be thousands, maybe millions, dead. It is a price we can ill afford to pay. W.J. Douglas Ball is a freelance author living in Mississauga, Ontario.
