A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance
by Steve West
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Key to Pandora’s Box
Section One: The Myth of the “Sexual Minority”
1 The Making of the Myth
2 Loving v. Virginia
3 The Founders of the Feast
4 The Ubiquitous, Ever-Growing, Self-Contradictory Acronym—Part I: LGBT
5 The Ubiquitous, Ever-Growing, Self-Contradictory Acronym—Part II: QIA2S+
Section Two: The Growth of the Movement
6 How We Got Here
7 The Enemy Within
Section Three: The Truth We Must Define and Defend
8 Is It Fair to Use the Bible?
9 What Happens When We Buy the Lie?
10 God’s Design for Marriage
11 And Such Were Some of You
Conclusion
Summary
Chapter 1: The Making of the Myth
The Advocate, a leading gay magazine, ran a cover article in December 2008 entitled, “Gay is the New Black.” This article ran after California voted against legalizing same-sex marriage. Gay advocates argued that discrimination against the gay community was the last battle to fight for the civil rights movement. The article did acknowledge that blacks had faced worse things than gays, but the connection was still drawn, and it has been continually used as powerful propaganda. In 2015 the US Supreme Court determined that same-sex marriage was a constitutional right. At the same time, Rachel Dolezal, the leader of a local branch of the NAACP, was discovered to be a white person who was claiming to be black. Dolezal based her ethnic self-identity on her feelings, desires, and how she identified, just like trans people do, but her defense was rejected. Legally, one can claim to be part of a sexual minority—even against biology—but one cannot claim to be part of a racial minority against one’s own biology.
It is vital to realize that the term minority today is not about mathematical percentages: it is a philosophical and political term used to denote those who are disadvantaged in an intersectional hierarchy and who are denied certain rights. Critical theorists deny the existence of God, and they believe that all moral restrictions are tools of power. Through all of human history, marriage has been understood to be a heterosexual institution, and the attempt to overturn this understanding of marriage cannot succeed without undermining and rejecting the Christian worldview and Scripture. To succeed in this project, advocates redefine words and replace terms. Behavior which is sinful is called an identity, and that identity is then tied to the struggles of other minorities and the civil rights movement. The Bible is used by advocates in a completely agenda-driven way to find support for non-orthodox and deviant views. When other groups try to use the same tactics to normalize what was once unimaginable—like pedophilia and polygamy—there is a pretended surprise. However, what is currently unimaginable for most people in society are the very things that many are intentionally aiming to normalize in the future.
Chapter 2: Loving v. Virginia
In 1958, the Lovings were married in Virginia. A few months later a Virginia court condemned their marriage as illegal, since it was a marriage between a white man and a black woman. Gay rights advocates insist today that the church is wrong about same-sex marriage, the way it was wrong for rejecting interracial marriage. This analogy, however, is fallacious. Slavery has existed throughout all of history, and there are tens of millions of slaves in the world today. Most commonly, people of the same race enslaved each other. In the American South, racism was an effect of slavery more than its cause. When the Supreme Court reviewed the verdict against the Lovings, they struck it down as unconstitutional. The gay rights lobby argues that legalizing same-sex marriage is the same as legalizing interracial marriage, but this does not follow logically. God alone can define marriage, and adding that marriage can only be between two people of the same race is unwarranted. It was the Virginia law that had redefined marriage away from God’s definition. Virginia’s law was also based on keeping white racial purity—it was inherently racist and white supremacist.
As laws are being changed in favor of the LGBTQ+ community, we need to know that these changes are based on political maneuvering rather than logic. Ad hominem attacks are used as people play the various minority cards and accuse others of bigotry. Advocates do not want to hear other minority voices of dissent, since that challenges their narrative that minorities are united in this struggle. Speaking up and speaking clearly against these things, however, can easily expose widespread lies and manipulation. Since they don’t have facts, they simply attack people’s character. Race and biological sex are not even remotely the same. Marriage has always been between a man and a woman, and restricting it to members of the same race is a violation of God-given rights. Trying to make marriage open to members of the same sex is a completely different matter, since it violates God’s institution. . . .
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