Letters

Hidden agenda (letter)

Dr Arthur Hartwig

Contents - Sep 2003 - Buy a copy now Editorial: The future of the Anglican Church - Peter Westmore New auxiliary bishops appointed to the Sydney Archdiocese - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World - AD2000 Dissident US group establishing a foothold in Australian parishes - Mary-Ruth Monsour Catholic summer conferences in the United States: signs of hope - Richard Egan Culture: Second 'Carnivale Christi' Catholic arts festival scheduled for Melbourne - Michael Gilchrist Events: Hearts On Fire Vocations Congress for Melbourne Archdiocese - Joanne Grainger Understanding the Catholic Liturgy since Vatican II - Dom Alcuin Reid OSB Pope John Paul II calls for greater use of Latin - Denis Murphy Homosexual conduct: how Gospel teaching can be distorted - Bill Muehlenberg Letters: Not closing ranks (letter) - Alan Gill Letters: Hidden agenda (letter) - Dr Arthur Hartwig Letters: Liturgical choices (letter) - Marguerite Fennell Letters: New Mass (letter) - Philip Robinson Letters: Converts (letter) - Kevin Tighe Letters: Selfhood (letter) - Robert Prinzen-Wood Letters: Prophetic words (letter) - Errol Duke Letters: Freedom to be born (letter) - George F. Simpson Abridged Papal encyclicals available - Fr M. Durham Letters: Correction - Chris Hilder Books: OLD THUNDER: A Life of Hilaire Belloc, by Joseph Pearce - Scott J. Bloch (reviewer) Books: Some Fell On Rock, by Fr John O'Neill - Fr Peter Joseph (reviewer) Books: The Practical Preacher: Handy Hints for hesitant homilists, by Paul Edwards SJ - Anthony Cappello (reviewer) Books: Great books at the best prices! Reflection: A Christian response to bereavement: Jesus' ministry to the sick and dying - Fr Dennis Byrnes

Kevin McBride (August AD2000), under "Sex education in SA", asks "Is there some hidden agenda?" The US experience suggests there certainly is.

Psychoanalyst Charles W. Socarides in Homosexuality: a Freedom Too Far (p. 288) writes: "Gays used the anti-AIDS campaign as a wedge to help indoctrinate our school children with their views about same-sex as a legitimate, alternative lifestyle ... Pro-gay activists, homosexual or otherwise, now portray same-sex sex as normal as apple pie, and intimidate others with different views, especially in the higher reaches of academe. And they are aided and abetted by the major media. The movement has already accomplished what every human society would have trembled to tamper with, a revision of the basic code: that men and women mate with the opposite sex and not with each other."

When one recalls how "Gay Related Immune Disorder" euphemistically became AIDS, so that homosexual activity (or more preciseIy sodomy) would not be seen as the predominant factor in the spread of this infection, the Socarides' view expressed above becomes a more than adequate explanation for the ever-increasing push to lower the age of "sex education". How better to lower children's resistance to the unnatural?

ARTHUR HARTWIG (DR)
Auchenflower, Qld

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 16 No 8 (September 2003), p. 15