If you have ever expressed your disagreement with the homosexual lifestyle you have likely had someone respond: “How does what a person does in the privacy of his home hurt you”? Answer: When what is done in the privacy of one’s home is sanctioned by the government it creates a legitimization for that action or lifestyle that inevitably invades the homes of others through the media – newspapers, TV, movies, the internet – through the schools – requiring students, regardless of religious or moral beliefs, to take classes with the purpose of indoctrinating them with the State’s values – through the law – criminalizing thoughts, words, or actions (Hate Crime Laws) the State deems offensive or intolerant. The truth of this statement is evident to all but the willfully blind.

The media has been in the vanguard of legitimizing the homosexual lifestyle. Homosexually has been so mainstreamed that episodes on the Home and Garden TV network regularly feature segments of same-sex couples buying or remodeling homes tucked in between segments of heterosexual couples. The intent is to equate homosexuality with heterosexuality – and it is working. The success of Brokeback Mountain, a 2005 movie about two homosexual cowboys in Wyoming, won three Academy Awards and was a “Best Picture” nominee. Such acclaim powerfully reveals the normalization of the homosexual lifestyle.

Some public school districts have tyrannically usurped the rights of parents to determine what values and beliefs to instill within their own children. Nowhere is this more evident than in California. The Alameda Board of Education voted to supplement their anti-bullying policy with Lesson 9. But Lesson 9 has less to do with bullying than it does with promoting the homosexual lifestyle.

Lesson 9 consists of six 45-minute lessons, one for each year of school from kindergarten through fifth grade. The first grade lesson is reading and discussing the book, Who’s in a Family?, by Robert Skutch’s. This may sound innocent enough, but Skutch’s own words about this book spoken during a National Public Radio interview in 2005 reveals his agenda for writing it, an agenda with which the Alameda Unified school district evidently agrees. Skutch said: “The whole purpose of the book was to get the subject (of same-sex parent households) out into the minds and awareness of children before they are old enough to have been convinced that there’s another way of looking at life.” He went on to say: “It would be really nice if children were not subjected to the -- I don't want to use the word 'bigotry,' but that's what I want to say anyway -- of their parents and older people.”

The truth is plain for all to see. But can a school offering pro-homosexual curricula be guilty of Christian persecution? It could if parents are forbidden to opt their children out of it. And this is just what this California school district has done. They have abrogated parental rights and authority. Lesson 9 is not an elective; it is required indoctrination. Is it any wonder the Golden State is fast becoming the Fool’s Golden State?

But poisoning the minds of individuals through the constant glorification of illicit and perverse behaviors and lifestyles in the media, and the usurpation of parental authority to instill within their own children the values and morals they respect by forcing them to be indoctrinated with values and morals diametrically opposite to their own by tax-supported public schools are only two fronts in this cultural battlefield. A third front that has been fought for years with skirmishes of various intensity and consequences has now become, perhaps, the primary front in this war. This front is fought with more than words or rhetoric. Its combatants are armed with the Law.

The passage of Hate Crime laws and the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in some states are now being used to deprive individuals of their livelihoods. A case in point involves Peter M. Vadala.

On August 10th, 2009 Vadala was suspended from his job. On August 12th he was formally terminated. He had been a deputy manager at a Brookstone store in Boston’s Logan Airport. That he was fired is not noteworthy. But what he was fired for certainly is.

On August 10th a female sales manager from another Brookstone store was in the Logan Airport store. While there she began talking to Vadala about her upcoming wedding. During this conversation Vadala asked, “Where is he taking you for the honeymoon?” She responded by pointing out that she was not marrying a “he”, but another woman.

At that point Vadala, a Christian, attempted to change the subject. But the female manager continued to bring up the matter throughout the day. After the fourth or fifth time she did this Vadala finally said that his Christian beliefs made same-sex “marriage” unacceptable to him. Hearing this, the manager said, “Get over it…keep your opinions to yourself.” She then complained to Brookstone’s human resources department. A few hours later Vadala was informed by a human resources representative that he was being suspended without pay. Two days later he was fired. The charges? He was guilty of “imposing” his beliefs upon the lesbian manager which constituted “harassment”.

Brookstone’s hypocrisy is astounding! They judged the female manager’s continual comments about her homosexual “marriage”, which Vadala found offensive, justifiable. But one critical comment from him was constituted as “harassment”. This is a classic example of a double standard.

Equally astounding, and frightening, is a statement in Vadala’s termination letter. Susan M. McGrath, the Employee Relations Manager with Brookstone who investigated this incident, wrote, “I explained to you [Peter] that in the State of Massachusetts, same-sex marriage is legal and there will be people with whom you work who have fiancées or spouses who are the same gender. I further explained that Ms. _____’s statement that her fiancée is female was factual in nature and was not an expression of opinion or religious belief.”

The implications of this rationale are staggering. Brookstone is saying that because same-sex “marriage” is legal in Massachusetts voicing opposition to it amounts to harassment. Reasoning that an activity, lifestyle, or behavior is protected from opposition or criticism because it is legal would allow one to be fired for taking a stand against abortion or pornography.

The homosexual agenda is clear. Tolerance is not their goal. Acceptance is not their goal. Mainstreaming their lifestyle is and the only way to do that is to silence those who dare speak the truth. And what better way to do that than rob them of their ability to earn a living?

Vadala said, “The reason [I was fired] wasn’t that I didn’t do my job correctly. It was because I expressed my belief that homosexuality is wrong. That’s the reason I was fired.”

So, the next time someone asks you how what they do in the privacy of their home affects you, tell them Peter Vadala’s story. But be ready to join the unemployment line.