Homosexual adoption endorsed. (Insider Report).

A committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) "has endorsed homosexual adoption, saying gay couples can provide the loving, stable and emotionally healthy family life that children need," reported the AP on February 4th. "It's not a political issue," insisted Dr. Barbara J. Howard, an assistant pediatrics professor at Johns Hopkins University and co-author of the policy. "This is an issue regarding the well-being of the child."

In fact, this is another well-coordinated assault upon the embattled traditional family by cultural revolutionaries of the radical left. This process was described in the Winter 1996 issue of the Marxist journal Dissent by Michael Walzer. Referring to Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci, who urged his disciples to subvert the key institutions of society, Walzer noted that since the 1960s cultural Marxists have focused on "winning the Gramscian war of position." Their success can be measured by such accomplishments as "the transformation of family life" and "the emergence of gay rights politics, and ... the attention paid to it in the media."

In their revolutionary handbook After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s, avowed homosexuals Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen agree in principle with Walzer's analysis. They point out that homosexual activists have generally worked "to secure gay rights by conspiring with liberal elites within the legal and legislative systems.... The goal here has been to forge a little entente or conspiracy with the power elite...."

Such conspiracies will not succeed, Kirk and Madsen continue, unless efforts are made to enlist broad support by manipulating the sympathies of the public. The AAP's new policy cunningly expands upon that approach by focusing on the needs of children of "gay" parents. Thus Dr. Howard told the AP that allowing "gays" to adopt children is necessary to ensure that the affected children can obtain health insurance, parental permission for medical treatment, and so on.