“The Gay Agenda”

Yipes! There it was again – “the gay agenda.”

No, this wasn't coming from the God-fearing mouth of the ayatollah Ken Veenstra. (“Jonathan Wilson has made it rather clear that he wants to promote a gay agenda, an agenda of special rights,” the state senator from Orange City said during the debate before the senate rejected Wilson for the state board of education because he is gay). This latest came from the keyboard of Rekha Basu, the lone liberal op-ed page columnist who receives a paycheck from the Register.

“They grilled [Wilson] on their key contention,” she writes, “that he would promote a so-called 'gay agenda' . . . ”

Wow! The attack of the gay agenda, as Village Voice cartoonist Mark Fiore has termed it. This must be some pretty powerful stuff if even liberals are saying it. What could it be?

A Google search turned up a million-plus pages dealing with the gay agenda. Some pages weren't in English! Some referred to other countries! Omigod! It's around the whole world!

And the more I read, the more I realized that this gay agenda was so insidious that even those sworn to protect our family values couldn't save us from this scourge. On the site of the Family Policy Network, a socially conservative Christian organization, came this dire warning about – gasp! – pResident Bush:

“Despite repeated statements about being a Christian and expressing the desire to restore honor to the White House during his 2000 presidential campaign, pResident George W. Bush is advancing the homosexual agenda as much as any other president in history.” 

Bush! He's behind it, too? There's no place to run!

But . . . what is the gay agenda? And how can a simple, ordinary Iowan recognize it, no less protect himself and his children from it?

Finally, I found it. There it was, staring me in the face. The Cronus Connection website claimed to have a copy. But the site also contained this ominous warning:

“The Gay Agenda may contain some references that could, may and will offend some people. Please be forewarned that the contents are graphic, and may contain sexual references of the most offensive nature.”

Gulp.

But in the interests of The People's Right to Know, I had to click the button that read: “Show Me the Gay Agenda.” (I will have you know that I escorted my children out of the room first.)

So I clicked the button. And there it was, the Gay Agenda:

“To live free from persecution -so leave us the **** alone. Thank you for allowing us to educate you.”

How menacing can you get?