DICTATORSHIP OF SODOM. Part I.
The offensive against the traditional family is the offensive against Russia itself

Western non-governmental organizations, media and officials accuse Russia of "impairment of rights of sexual minorities", as well as of being totalitarian, suppressing freedom of speech, persecuting the sectarians and violating the fundamental values of liberal democracy in many other ways. No wonder that Victor Shenderovich (as we read entries in his blog) as well as young Russian opposition members (varying from "Yabloko" and "Solidarnost" to "anarchists" and "National Bolshevik Party"), financed by the Western funds and international organizations, are very active in their defending the rights of gays and lesbians.

Results of "Enlightenment"

Homosexuality (Greek "homoios" — similar + Latin "sexualis" — sexual) — a sexual attraction among members of the same sex as well as sexual intercourse between them. ("Mir Slovarei", electronic encyclopedia).

We don’t know whether the ancient Greeks used this word in this very meaning, but they certainly knew the phenomenon itself. From the point of view of the official "historiography" of homosexuality, the term was first introduced by Austro-Hungarian publicist and translator Karl-Maria Kertbeny (his birth surname is Benkert) who had published a pamphlet as an open letter to Prussian Minister of Justice — the pamphlet "exposed" the heartless formalism of the Prussian laws. Nevertheless, the introduction of that term and of the topic of "homosexuality" in European press was not coincidental.

"Age of Enlightenment" resulted in the "rational freethinking" becoming a justification of lewdness and cynicism of the majority of the society’s elite: aristocracy, businessmen and the intellectuals. It has become fashionable to dismiss the religious dogmas and to resolve the issues of moral and of social problems being guided by "pure science" only; that means, being guided by their own thoughts only. Of course, all that proved to be a fiction, and the rejection of the "absolute dogmas" in the name of the "true humaneness" opened the way for far more serious society manipulations.

In the nineteenth century homosexuality entered the public realm for the "enlightened" part of the "civilized world" population. From the ancient times it was considered to be a sin, though accompanying the humanity throughout its history, but in the age of freethinking it became a not-so-blameworthy thing. The primary secularization helped changing the legal status of homosexuality from "felony" to "formally blamed". The weakening of the religion and traditionalism’s positions in the societies of the "enlightened countries" resulted in prosecuting homosexuality by secular laws only, in case of raping or seduction. To tell the truth, the severe punishment for the fact of homosexual relations itself had been introduced in the late Medieval time, when the severest legal measures against homosexual persons were introduced, including the capital punishment (up to burning them at the stake). That was a reaction to the spreading of idleness that served as the basis for unnatural passions, and the decline of moral, among the causes of which was the "Renaissance" pseudo-philosophical freethinking, which, in turn, had its roots in anti-religious doctrines.

As the result of Enlightenment, the laws became more secular, and morals became more liberal. France has achieved the "best" results in this field in Europe. When the term "homosexuality" was first introduced, the famous city of Paris saw the flourishing of male prostitution and wealthy papas, buying boys in the specialized quarters (the word "pederasty", originally meaning "sexual intercourse with a child" in Greek, had become a synonym of homosexuality in France) could have only minor problems (if any), not causing any serious consequences, with vice squads and social reprobation. In that circumstances the intellectuals who had these "inclinations" began to develop the conceptual justifications for their "being other". The enlightened circles did not considered them to be "ill" or "infected", but the homosexual "love" was still called a perversion. No wonder that the major part in that was not played by light-minded French people, it was played by Germans, who were under the heavy burden of the conservative views. The first adepts of the sexual equality of rights were helped by the allegorical Neo-paganism, which was inherited by the Enlightenment culture from the Renaissance. In the middle of the nineteenth century the German lawyer Karl Ulrichs wrote that homosexual people were people with female souls imprisoned inside their male bodies and called them "Urnings", referring to the Greek goddess Urania, a patron of homosexual love.

Anglo-Saxon trail

The term "homosexuality" started being popularized in the Anglo-Saxon world. When Oscar Wilde, one of the forerunners of forthcoming Nietzscheism and post-modernism in the art, had faced the charges of "immoral conduct" (he was sentenced to two years in prison), someone noticed that if the writer had "become close" with a usual young man, and not with a young offspring of an influential family, he wouldn’t have attracted the attention of justice. A year before that an amateur psychologist Havelock Ellis published his book titled "Sexual perversions", and to write it, he used the term "homosexuality" and the works of the German psychiatrists, with the importance of Sigmund Freud’s ones was especially stressed. The latter postulated the priority of sexual energy, a sexual instinct getting shape of hetero- or homosexual passions from certain social circumstances. Such postulates made it possible to transfer homosexuality from the field of medical science, to which it was assigned before that and in which it was considered to be an inborn or acquired pathology, an illness (a perversion) to the field of social sciences. As for the authorities of the then British Empire, they considered this justification of homosexuality "inappropriate" and decided that is shouldn’t be treated in too liberal way. Ellis’ book was prohibited, and the show trial aimed to punish Oscar Wilde (an idol of informal circles) was organized.

But the keen-nosed businessmen from the "Land of the Free" from overseas, where the capital punishment for sodomy had been abolished after gaining independence (even earlier than in revolutionary France) offered their services, and, starting from 1901, researches done by Ellis and other innovators in the sphere of humanities, were published in the USA, mainly in Philadelphia (though according to some available data, their heirs and owners still reside in the historical capital of the liberal ideology and the present capital of the free morals — in the city of Amsterdam). Anyway, the French elite, the German science, the English beau monde and the money of the international capital gave birth to the paradigm of the liberal democratic values, that from the very beginning included the sexual equality of rights. It had to wait for its turn for long, but 90 years after the American edition of the above-mentioned book by Ellis was published, a film bearing a distinctive title "Philadelphia" (it means "fraternal love" in Greek), with Tom Hanks as an HIV-infected homosexual person, marked the final establishment of "sexual tolerance" in the Western society. By the way, a year after that, Tom Hanks starred as Forrest Gump in another significant movie, which made the hollywoodized world respect mentally impaired people. And 12 years after that, he played in the screen version of "Da Vinci Code" which gave to ignorant "mass culture customers" inadequate ideas about Christianity and about permissibility of orgies as a religious ritual. The interesting point is that Tom Hanks, according to the media, describes himself as an Orthodox Christian (!) after adopting the religion of his wife, who is Greek.

American "cultural breakthrough"

As the new Western world society was born in the crucibles of world wars and economical perturbations, the theory of the sexual equality of rights was getting ready to become widespread. The USA was weaving up the new ideologemes that threaten us all now. And many of them, in fact, focused on defending the normalcy of homosexuality and its right to play an important part in our society.

The sexual revolution was not a spontaneous thing pre-determined by some objective things — as we all used to perceive it. It was an inevitable consequence of what the advocates of the homosexual persons’ rights reverently call Enlightenment. An alliance of ruling elite, international capital and scientific intellectuals, after "enlightening" themselves, started with "enlightening" the society, which was shaken to the core by the global cataclysms. During 1950s — 1960s, on the brink of Information Age and cultural globalization, the Western society was dramatically renewed — the sexual revolution and young men’s rebellion, on the background of which there was active social atomization, new shape of social-economic relations and opposing the Red Threat, threw the older types of world outlooks and morals to the scrap-heap of history. And they have used press, newly-born electronic mass media and cinema with pretty much skill which enabled them to preserve the achieved results and to gain some more.

As for the sexual revolution, its "scientific and theoretical basis" is credited to the names of the founders of American sexology Margaret Mead and Alfred Kinsey. The former tried to prove the normalcy of unlimited sexual intercourse, or promiscuity. She depicted free love in an attractive way in her book entitled "Coming of Age in Samoa", which was published as early as in 1928, and which bore fruit in the time of the sexual revolution itself. Her mentor was Franz Boas, a prominent figure in cultural anthropology (here we see one more American term!) who followed the principles of cultural determinism as interpreted by Social Darwinism — human personality and human society were merely sums of some addends (factors), and, having the appropriate resources, we were able to constitute a society from nothing. Such humanitarian determinism of "enlightened" (in the Western sense of this word, we prefer to call it "antireligious") Western science and establishment really determines a lot in the present-day life of the world, as we can see in social programs, officially endorsed by governments and international foundations. As for the "Coming of Age in Samoa" book, an Australian researcher Derek Freeman, after several expeditions of his own, had to denounce her main postulates by revealing the real morals of the aborigines (in pre-Christian times, sex before marriage, without being married, adultery and rape were punished by capital punishment only; non-liberal morals were preserved among those converted to Christianity, although after many sermons the "mob law" was less used, and the violators of the social taboos were given an opportunity to repent their sins.

Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Bloomberg University, IN, using money from Rockefeller foundation and under the auspices of the US National Research Council (the name of the Institute was probably taken from the similar foundation in Germany, which had been prohibited by the Nazi). He has informed the world (probably, developing ideas inherited from Freud) about non-existence of either homo- or heterosexuality and about sexuality which is the only thing that exists. According to his famous scale, bisexual persons are in the middle, and the opposite poles are formed by strongly homo- and heterosexual persons. If you are a homosexual person, it is, according to him, just a manifestation of nature’s variety, and not a defective state at all. Considering homosexuality as a sin is nothing more than a religious dogma, suppressing human nature, and that was taught by Freud himself. Freudism is now a kind of religious consciousness in the USA and in the Western countries in general — you may give your confession a miss, but you MUST visit your psychoanalyst.

Color "gay revolution"

Thus the way was paved to the famous question stated in the late twentieth century by famous American conservative politician Patrick J. Buchanan in his book "The Death of the West": how could it turn so that this country, founded on the Christian values, had changed from mass religiousness to the typical attributes of our time — sexual scandal involving President Bill Clinton and his wife’s refusal to visit a traditional St. Patrick’s parade in New York because gays and lesbians were not allowed to participate in it (Hillary Clinton is an Irish Catholic)?

After a social liberalization of 1960s and 1970s American homosexuals decided to energize the process of fighting for their rights. If sexist and racial discrimination is to be eliminated, we are obliged to do the same with the sexual discrimination, they claimed. "You are what you feel, don’t deny yourself, or else you’ll get ill" — after all, these were the postulates of as prominent scientists as Freud, Mead, Kinsey... Anyway, it was the way these postulates were presented and perceived.

At the beginning, there were little of active members of what we call "gay movement". Much time has passed and today we are not able to trace all the details, but it is highly possible that these ideas were promoted using the same technologies (and getting support from the same circles) that were used during the "color revolutions" that had happened not long ago. Before the sexual revolution homosexual people did not try to make a show of their homosexuality, but starting from 1960s we encounter a new term — "gay", literally meaning "merry, bright, extravagant". Then we saw a colorful several-hundred-thousand gay pride parades in Berlin or San Francisco. Gay propaganda added one more meaning to the above-mentioned word, deciphering in as "guy as you". In 1960s, the US was still a conservative country as far as the public morals were regarded. Homosexual people were considered disloyal and their night spots were frequently raided by police and detainees’ names were published in newspapers. Two main goals of the gay movement leaders were to make homosexuals less shy (gay pride parade motto was "Be proud of yourself!") and to gain the right to be treated as respected members of society. They "embedded" struggle for their rights in the struggle for rights of others and against other types of discrimination, and this tradition still exists today.

Western non-governmental organizations, media and officials accuse Russia of "being sexually intolerant", as well as of being totalitarian, suppressing freedom of speech, persecuting the sectarians and violating the fundamental values of liberal democracy in many other ways. No wonder that Victor Shenderovich (as we read entries in his blog) as well as young Russian opposition members (varying from "Yabloko" and "Solidarnost" to "anarchists" and "National Bolshevik Party"), financed by the Western funds and international organizations, are very active in their defending the rights of gays and lesbians.

By Marat Kunaev

To be continued