Time Magazine Criticized for Blatantly Pro-Gay Article

Time magazine’s cover story in its October 10 issue, "The Battle Over Gay Teens," is a lengthy piece portraying the increasing phenomenon of American children identifying themselves as being gay at ever-younger ages. The article discusses the shocking trend in a positive way, praising the increasing prevalence of Gay Straight Alliance clubs in public schools across the nation. It also puts the spotlight on the Point Foundation, an organization that provides scholarships to youngsters purely on the basis of their claims to be gay. The article gives wholesale dismissal to any religious or professional therapeutic attempts to offer assistance to homosexuals wishing to change their orientation to heterosexual.

But Time failed to provide readers with one key piece of information that would have made it clear the piece was more of an editorial than a news-oriented piece. The reporter who researched and wrote the story is John Cloud, an openly gay man with a long history of advancing pro-gay causes, allegedly including the promotion of anonymous homosexual orgies. The article mentions near the end that the researcher on whom the entire article is based is also homosexual, and there is no mention that the author of the article has an overtly pro-gay agenda. That key researcher is Ritch Savin-Williams, chairman of Cornell University’s human development department and author of The New Gay Teenager. Near the end of the article Close says that Savin-Williams is "a 56-year old gay man with a slightly elfish mien." Apparently the demeanor of researchers is now an important factor in describing their findings, at least in Time magazine’s opinion.

Critics of the Time magazine article are vehemently denouncing it as a piece of blatant homosexual propaganda, because it attempts to say that it’s normal and natural for young children to claim to be gay. It offers particular condemnation for any psychological, psychiatric, or religious efforts sought out by homosexuals wishing to change their sexual orientation. "It’s important to note," Cloud says, "that nearly all mental-health professionals agree that trying to reject one's homosexual impulses will usually be fruitless and depressing." Such a statement—"nearly all"—is so obviously false that many high-profile ex-homosexuals such as Stephen Bennett have spoken out about the outrageousness of Time publishing an article so one-sided and written by a reporter with a definite agenda. Bennett says, "This article is filled with tons of misinformation, mocking of Bible-believing Christians, of people who have come out of homosexuality such as myself and who are happily married now."

The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, headed by Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, a psychologist, isn’t surprised by Time’s publication of Cloud’s latest article. NARTH’s website posted a statement about the article saying, "In past Time articles, Cloud has promoted gay political attacks against the Boy Scouts, portrayed transgender activists as a new oppressed minority group; wrote approvingly of anonymous gay sex orgies for an alternative newspaper in Washington, D.C.; and earlier had penned a guide to gay bathhouses in Washington, D.C." In fact, in the Washington City Paper, a publication geared toward homosexuals, Cloud once authored a piece called "The Naked City" that described his firsthand experiences at a group-sex party for homosexuals in the nation’s capital.

David Kupelian, author of The Marketing of Evil, a new book exposing the sophisticated homosexual propaganda machine, says that although the Time piece has outraged critics, it has still advanced the radical gay rights agenda. "When it comes to homosexuality and gay rights, most Americans simply have no idea what hit them," says Kupelian. He claims that the first chapter of his book unveils all of the "amazing techniques and strategies radical 'gay rights' marketers have used over the last 15 years to utterly transform Americans' views toward homosexuality." Kupelian adds, "An absolutely vital part of that marketing campaign is played by the not-so-mainstream media, including Time magazine."