In the late 60's, it was really quite a novelty for this boy from
a small Idaho, farming community to go to San Francisco's Notorious gay
night club The Rendezvous and see Drag Queens and Female Impersonators
in Shows strut their stuff in exaggerated, pompous arrogance. To me, it
was all just a show. None of their actions were natural. The actions of
the Female Impersonators were obviously practiced, put on, forced, accentuated
and exaggerated. But why? Aside from the fact that any caricature of a
person can be comical, since females were regarded as second class citizens,
who in their right mind would want to trade being a male to be a female.
That was a dichotomy I could not fathom and I didn't even try! It was simply
a show that in the 60's was called "high camp" and like Milton Berle, it
could be very funny and humorous.
My parents, especially my mother, would constantly harangue about how the word 'gay" was taking on an "unnatural" meaning. I had been reading anything I could get my hands on that would explain homosexuality, what it was, who were stricken by this "terrible abomionation" and how it could be cured. I wasn't about to let anyone know that a couple years back in my past, I had engaged in repeated homosexuality with numerous friends, who now because of peer pressures, were not about t admit to it either. I wasn't worried about myself becoming a homosexual. I liked, dated, and fantasized about having sex with a females. However, the media sensationalized this growing communist conspiracy and threat and I wanted to stay informed just in case.
In the course of my general research, I had read that the art form known as Female Impersonation had been borrowed from the French Les Gais, who were, for the most part, heterosexually married, fathers and female impersonators who performed the female's role in theatrical performances. In France, in the 1800's, it was not only illegal for a woman to perform on stage and it was also thought that in those societies where women did perform on stage, the women were nothing but cheap whores and prostitutes.
In the late 1890's, when the U.S. Government commissioned a panel of "experts" to study and report on the phenomenon of "two people of the same gender having sexual relations together," what seemed like a very innocent, innocuous endeavor led by a sincere desire to learn and understand all aspects of the human experience, would very rapidly fuel the fires and fan the flames of hatred, bigotry, intolerance and murder. Very shortly, the results of the study would be seized and pounced upon by people who were so thoroughly bored with their own lives, that they felt compelled to meddle in the lives of their neighbors and tell them how they should conduct their private affairs. Under the guise of "Christian Righteousness" lead by professional religionists and faith merchants, this study lead to castigation's ostracism's, beatings and even murder of their own fellowman.
From the government study, etymologists coined the word "homosexual." The coinage of the word "homosexual" gave rise to its diminutive and bastardized form used as a slur which was proclaimed from the pulpits by the amoral, antichristian professional religionists and faith merchant fanatics. They were hell bent on castigating all homosexuals and purging them from society. Until then, homosexuality was a natural, regular, and although not frequent, it was a common occurrence. It was something no one ever talked about because Victorian Morals dominated every aspect of society. Since no one ever talked about what they did sexually, it was increasingly easy for the professional religionists and faith merchants to defame homosexuality from their pulpits because no one dared to contradict or defy them. Vocal opposition may have equaled castigation, being ostracized and banishment but in the end, silence equaled death. Since the faith merchants had joined forces with the forces of evil and were in opposition to a laws of nature and one of God's most precious gifts, they were able to spread their lies of fear and hatred, under the guise of Christianity, based entirely on a fear and ignorance of an unknown. Any right thinking Christian would have realized God doesn't work through slander, fear, intimidation or coercion but those weren't then and these aren't now easy times for true believers.
No one dared talk about sex, except the professional religionists and faith merchants and then it was to lie, twist and misconstrue the things people did in their proclaiming the evils of homosexuality. With 675 references and admonitions in the Bible against the evils of wanton heterosexual sex, the faith merchants would rather dwell on a topic that was only mentioned five times over a span of several thousands years than preach about something that was dear to their hearts and the sin of which they were guilty of themselves. They didn't care that all five of the scriptures had been and could be proven to have been grossly mistranslated. That was not consistant with the prevailing theology at the time nor was it conducive to converts and the steady in-flow of donations and contributions.
In about 1948, there was no such entity later referred to as "The Homosexual Community." Because of the intense anger, hatred and hostility that was inbred into the "peace loving Christian community" by a few disciples of Satan, few people, if any, would be caught dead referring to themselves as homosexuals, let alone even admitting to have experienced it. Those that did were beaten and killed. The few people who were later arrested for having been caught doing something most everybody occasionally did anyway, and because these people were jailed, later tried and convicted of an "act against nature, God and humanity," they were unceremoniously branded as "homosexuals." This action of intolerance, hatred and fear gave rise to the formation of homosexual community in the late 1930s, early 1940's.
Those referred to by society as "homos" or "homosexuals" were primarily the obvious drag queens and female impersonators. Drag queens were those who received emotional and sexual gratification from cross-dressing and making themselves look like a females. Female impersonators were not only drag queens and cross-dressers wqeren't exclusively homosexual. However, the female impersonators had taken it one step further than cross-dressers and had also made it their livelihood by performing on stage as impersonating usually a famous female that everybody knew.
In the 1940's and before, everybody thought of sex as being heterosexuality and the act as only being what is referred to as the "missionary position." Everything else, although frequently done by whores and prostitutes was unnatural. No one ever talked about sex, let alone mentioned it in polite company. Heaven forbid anyone say the word homosexual, in any company, polite, impolite or otherwise except to refer to someone as a "homo." That was the worst thing you could call someone. That word castrated, emasculated, cut up into little pieces and spit someone out in a fine spray that would easily evaporate into nothingness with the enunciation of a simple four syllable word.
The general knowledge of what "homosexuality" was or what "homos" were, was colored by the "Christian" revivalists who used every opportunity to rail against the "evils" of homosexuality from their pulpits. They had no opposition since the truth was not taught in schools and no one dared admit knowing anything about it or heaven forbid, having done it. As such, the so-called "Christian" revivalists could hold themselves out and over the people as the principle authority on God and homosexuality because no one would dare challenge them or set them straight.
After 50 years of a painstaking effort, the Professional Religionists and Faith Merchants were finally successful in creating an identifiable "homosexual" community which they could rail against, in their sermons. The few drag queens, professional female impersonators and those jailed, convicted and sentenced for being a homosexual, very loosely formed the makings of the "homosexual community" or later, what became known as the "gay community." As late as the late 1960's and early 1970's, the word "homosexual" was still very seldom if ever used. Instead, the slur "homo" was the chosen vernacular. By the mid and late 40's, the drag queens and the female impersonators had a real aversion to the "religious" community's use of the slur "homo." Some of the more astute female impersonators and drag queens put their "pussies" together -- as they loved to frequently say because it drove the homophobes of society up a wall -- and they realized they had borrowed the art form of female impersonation from the French Les Gai Paris, which in French simply meant, "The Gay Paris." They began to refer to their impersonation of females as the "Gai Art" and later to themselves as "gai.". True to the general and overall ignorance of the society at large regarding anything sexual, and lead by their favorite revivalist minister, society couldn't relate to the French spelling of the word and when someone said they were performing the "Les Gais" art form, society heard only "Gai" and related to it as "Gay." This gave rise to the bastardization and usage of the word "Gay" equating it to mean "homosexual."
From then on, female impersonators and drag queens referred to themselves as "gai." When people would ask them, "How do you want to be referred to," they would always say "Gai," preferring it to the diminutive of the word homosexual and its subsequent usage as the slur "homo." Hence, we see the formation of an entity known as the "homosexual community," and the frequent use of and bastardization of the French word "Gai" for the appeasement of the professional antichristian religionists and faith merchant's and their need for a common, little known and greatly maligned phobia with which to scream hell fire and brimstone from their pulpits fleecing the pockets of their parishioners. All this was done in the name of an "all-knowing, unconditionally loving, wise, charitable, compassionate and forgiving God."
What these professional religionists and faith merchants were blind to and ignorant of was, "if a child of the age of 1, 2 or 3 is for the most part, as God created him or her" and if a person and his or her family can remember the individual exhibiting obvious propensities and predisposition's for homosexuality since the age of 1, 2 and 3, was the individual not born to earthly parents as a perfect child of God? If so, then what in God's name has he or she got to repent of? One need not repent of being born left handed or blond hair! Is it not more likely that the professional religionists and faith merchants who have need of repent of their wicked, evil and malicious castigation of children of God based on their total and complete ignorance of the things of God.?
While man is here on earth, while we are away from home, the home where our Mother and Father in Heaven resides, the home where we were given birth in the spirit, nurtured and raised before being sent away from home, on a temporary journey to earth, mankind was instilled with innate courtesy and consideration for our fellow so-journ travelers and fellowman known as the ancient law of hospitality. Jesus Christ referred to that ancient law as, "Love your neighbor as thyself," and "Do unto others as you would have him do unto you." 2,000 years later, the professional religionists and faith merchants still haven't learned that one, very basic and very simple lesson. They surround themselves and delve into religious mysteries and theories while they ignore basic truths. We read in Isaiah 1:9-11 Jeremiah 23:14 and Ezekiel 16:49-50 that Sodom and Gomorrah weren't destroyed as a result of even any sexual sin, least wise homosexuality, but they were destroyed because they violated God's law of hospitality to their fellowman.
In Ezekiel, we read and read well for he that hath understanding and the Spirit of God, let him understand., "Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread. and abundance of idleness (free time, leisure and relaxation) was in her and her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty and committed abomination before me;...." Ezekiel lived roughly 1,500 years after Sodom and Gomorrah and was by far more of a contemporary of those times than the multitude of blasphemous, slanderous professional religionists and faith merchants 3,500 years later in the 20th Century. Ezekiel himself tells you that today's account of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis was erroneously translated. Ezekiel's account of the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, sounds suspiciously like 20th Century America led by that arch conservative, Jesse Helms.
Lest you make the mistake of many a professional religionists and faith merchants, the word "abomination" in Greek and Hebrew was like the word "sin." Any time you do or did something you know you shouldn't have done, whether it is murder or running a stop light, it is and was a "sin." As for the word "abomination" was in the words of one theologian Dr. Bailey, it was comparable to saying, "It was enough to gag a maggot." An abomination spelled out in Leviticus in no uncertain terms was having sex with a female during her menstrual cycle. Very unpleasant to some or most but certainly nothing to be concerned about or lose sleep over
In the name of Jesus Christ, God the Father, even Allah, the Merciful One, I call upon the pernicious, blasphemous professional religionists and faith merchants, ye even our fellow so-journ travelers and brothers in the spirit but who have adopted Satan as your God, to turn side from the evil you are doing, put aside your hatred and animosity, cease and desist your violation of the ancient law of hospitality. Leave Satan, come and together work to make our existence on earth a pleasant and memorable experience for all. Unless you repent of your grievous sins and iniquity, the Lord God will smite you with plagues, pestilence, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, famines and diverse body sores such as you have never seen. It will have been far better for Sodom and Gomorrah than for you for your sin is far more grievous in he eyes of God.
Compared to eternity, our existence here isn't even a blink of an eye or nano second. Your eternity will be one of an eternity of self-flagellation, weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. Repent now and prepare to meet your God!
In so doing, I call for the Gai (Gay) Community to put aside their Guerrilla
Warfare tactics of trying to shock the sensibilities of their fellowman
into an awareness of his and her pernicious contradictions in faith and
affront to their God . The time has come to show your fellowman that you
share his values and faith in God. Regain the respect of your brother.
There are those whose respect you will never earn. The respect of Satan,
you will never need. Satan fears you even now. God is a God of long-suffering
love, not instant shock treatment and gratification.
David R.W. Wadsworth
Servant of the Most High God
El Santuario Escondido
10387 Tioga Lake Drive
Escondido, CA 92029-5405
(760) 743-5293
drww@themillennialdispensation.org
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