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BY PADDY WIGHTMAN

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but over the last few years what is referred to as the LGBT Movement has grown from strength to strength. Around 15 years ago this movement had little publicity, but it is now mentioned on a daily basis across the West’s top newspapers and news channels. It enjoys the support of the majority of Europe’s democratic parties and has activists embedded in all of them. It receives generous financial support from the taxpayer, both on a national and EU level. During the recent Pride events big corporations changed the colours of their logos to match the LGBT flag. It has even been granted access to schools, where the LGBT vision of life is taught to our children. Any mention of the movement in the Western press is more often than not accompanied by people waving colourful flags and smiling.

So, someone may ask, “What’s the problem? This is good, no? A part of society that was once imprisoned and subject to electric shock treatments is now free!”

Well, when I studied A-Level History at school, one of the most common ways of beginning an essay was, “On the surface, it appears that…but underneath the reality is…” or “While it may appear that…a rigorous study of the available sources allows one to conclude that…”.

In 50 years, when historians choose to study the LGBT movement, it is likely that they will begin their essays with: “While it appeared that the LGBT movement was simply righting the wrongs perpetrated against those people who were sexually attracted to people of their own sex and ensuring that these people were accorded the sufficient protections to live a life without fear of discrimination, the real objective of its leaders, that overrode all others, metamorphosed into grabbing political power through identity politics and holding onto it for as long as possible, whatever the consequences.”

Comparisons – the spearhead of today’s LGBT movement is now analogous – can be made with Communism, which seemed to promote the idea that everyone is equal, which sounded nice, especially to the workers in Tsarist Russia, but that quickly ended up, as George Orwell pointed out, with the movement’s leaders becoming a bit “more equal than others.”

Another aspect of Communism, which interestingly is largely brushed under the carpet by most academics (to the extent that no one blinks an eyelid when a History Professor hangs a Communist flag in his room, while a History Professor that hangs up a Nazi flag is lynched on the spot – even though both flags represent contemptible movements that have killed and maimed millions of people), is the brutal persecution (and yes, discrimination) of anyone that dares raise their head above the parapet and question the ideology proposed.

The LGBT movement is already way out there. And it’s seriously lost the plot. After a succession of achievements over the last fifteen years, now we are all bigots and homophobes for pointing out the insanity of its current causes. What the LGBT movement now wants is too often sinister, and anyone who gets in its way is a target.

And the problem with that, as History teaches us, is that if an ideology is not based on the truth, or doesn’t even pretend to be, crazy things can happen and the ones that end up losing are always the weaker members of society – such movements need victims as fuel. Based on the information published about today’s LGBT movement, one can conclude that:

Take the time to look up what LGBT now means:

“The initialism LGBT is intended to emphasise a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. It may be used to refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant adds the letter Q for those who identify as queer or are questioning their sexual identity; LGBTQ has been recorded since 1996. Those who add intersex people to LGBT groups or organizing use an extended initialism LGBTI. The two acronyms are sometimes combined to form the terms LGBTIQ or LGBT+ to encompass spectrums of sexuality and gender. Other, less common variants also exist, motivated by a desire for inclusivity, including those over twice as long which have prompted criticism.”

I rest my case (…and the next flight for Ascension Island is leaving in 20 minutes).

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