Leaving the ‘Gay Cult’ and the politicisation of ‘Change’: How the decriminalisation of homosexuality silences dissenters

Aug 8, 2017 by Jill

Dr. Mike Davidson, CEO of Core Issues Trust, reflects on the effect of the decriminalisation of homosexuality on ministries like his, which offer therapy to those seeking help for unwanted same-sex attraction.

In his new Book ‘The New Politics of Sex. The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power’, Stephen Baskerville (2017) shows how both radical feminism and homosexualism have exceeded the boundaries of any former revolution. They have invaded and assumed control not only of the public space, but more potently and frighteningly, they have invaded the private space. Sexuality has now not only been politicised, liberalised and criminalised, it is also being globalised. And what people think and do privately is increasingly under the creeping control of the totalitarian state. The problem is, he points out, that even the conservatives who have faithfully warned of this growing ideological stranglehold, and who challenge issues such as abortion and same-sex ‘marriage’, no longer question the assumption that our private lives are a matter for state regulation. According to him, “The key to understanding the success of the sexual revolution is to understand it is not the radicals but conservatives that have not only allowed it to triumph unopposed but in some instances facilitated its rise to power” (2017:24). Sexual liberation begets social disintegration, which in turn calls for social control. It’s not the radicals who need to be feared as much as the conservatives who allow the erosion of family values, personal privacy, critical thinking and civic freedoms “through the relentless politicisation of private life by an ideology to which we are now so acculturated that we are largely immune from realizing its effects”. (Baskerville, 2017:29)

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