{"id":80061,"date":"2017-08-06T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T13:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=80061"},"modified":"2017-08-06T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T13:55:47","slug":"parents-beware-popular-gay-cartoon-used-to-stealthily-advance-lgbt-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=80061","title":{"rendered":"PARENTS BEWARE: Popular Gay Cartoon Used To Stealthily Advance LGBT Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>LGBT cartoon targets young boys, promotes gay relationships to children<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/In_a_heartbeat_810_500_55_s_c1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80063\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/In_a_heartbeat_810_500_55_s_c1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/In_a_heartbeat_810_500_55_s_c1.jpg 810w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/In_a_heartbeat_810_500_55_s_c1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/In_a_heartbeat_810_500_55_s_c1-768x474.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0DOUG MAINWARING<\/p>\n<p>August 3, 2017\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/\">(LifeSiteNews)<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2REkk9SCRn0\">In A Heartbeat<\/a><\/em>, declared by millions to be \u201cthe cutest thing I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d is a short animated video about a young boy&#8217;s middle school \u2018crush\u2019 on another boy, currently melting a few million hearts around the world each day.<\/p>\n<p>Posted on Monday, the four-minute video quickly went viral. By Tuesday afternoon, it had garnered 3.7 million \u2018views.\u2019 By late afternoon Wednesday, the number of views had doubled to 7.4 million. By Thursday morning, it was headed toward 11 million views.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, it\u2019s popularity is no surprise. It\u2019s a totally engaging, masterfully crafted little film, bound to receive many film festival awards. And because there\u2019s no dialogue, it offers global appeal and reach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/movies\/animated-short-film-boy-falling-102921540.html\">Yahoo\u2019s movie reviewer<\/a>\u00a0cheered it, saying, \u201cHopefully, given the response the short film has gotten, major studios will take notice of the fact that LGBTQ stories should be told, and that no matter your sexual identity, people can relate to those first flushes of love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The LGBT Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and others are showering it with praise.<\/p>\n<h3>Don\u2019t be fooled<\/h3>\n<p>While many inside and outside the gay world may find it heart-warming, resonating with their own inner-awkward-middle-school-boy, there\u2019s a problem with it. A big problem.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2REkk9SCRn0\">In a Heartbeat<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is getting a whole lot of attention but will do a disservice to those it aims to help. It will further undermine strong, healthy \u2014 extraordinarily necessary \u2014 male adolescent relationships. Once boys and adolescents are herded toward gayness in order to deal with the very common experience of social anxiety, directed to question their sexual orientation, their sexuality risks becoming \u2018re-wired.\u2019 And once &#8216;re-wired&#8217; in that way, it&#8217;s hard to undo. I should know. I was one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Before proceeding, watch the video:<\/p>\n<h3>The big problem<\/h3>\n<div class=\"article-video\" data-location=\"8\" data-yturl=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2REkk9SCRn0\">\n<div class=\"article-video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2REkk9SCRn0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>An official description of the movie tells us, \u201cA closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops out of his chest to chase down the boy of his dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The problem is this: The red-haired boy who is pictured is not a &#8220;closeted boy.&#8221; The animators may think they are portraying such a boy, but they are actually telling a completely different story.<\/p>\n<p>They show us a boy who demonstrates an extremely high level of social anxiety. When we first see him, he appears scared to death. He\u2019s nervous. He\u2019s panting. He experiences heart palpitations. He jumps behind a tree to hide from the second, dark-haired boy, and by so doing demonstrates his debilitating discomfort and inability to relate to his male classmate.<\/p>\n<p>And who is the kid he\u2019s running from, but clearly attracted to? He\u2019s a boy who displays any easy self-confidence \u2014 the type that all socially awkward boys envy and would like to be like. He appears unflappable, problem free, in complete control. He\u2019s so cool he can even spin an apple on one finger while walking and reading on the way to school. The fact that the red-haired boy hides behind a tree to avoid him reveals just how unnerving his feeling of not being accepted by his male peers troubles him.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s be clear: Shy boys at that age aren\u2019t searching for romance with their same-sex peers. They want just one thing and they want it desperately: acceptance. At that age, acceptance is more valuable than gold.<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018In a Heartbeat\u2019 is a dangerous distortion<\/h3>\n<p>The red-haired boy is not romantically attracted to the second boy, although that\u2019s what the movie\u2019s creators want you to think. He\u2019s attracted to a boy who is his opposite, self-confident and trouble-free.<\/p>\n<p>The movie\u2019s creators misinterpret their own character: He\u2019s not \u2018closeted\u2019 and he\u2019s not &#8220;outed&#8221; by his own heart.\u2019 He simply experiences a very high degree of social anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>And the answer for this young man is not \u2018romance\u2019 with another boy. The answer is acceptance \u2014 to develop and persevere in friendship, and in that to find acceptance. \u00a0Romance between males is a mirage, always proving to be elusive.<\/p>\n<h3>Real, authentic healing<\/h3>\n<p>The movie promotes escaping social anxiety disorder by \u201ccoming out\u201d and being \u201cgay.\u201d \u00a0But this is an escape from the disorder, not a means of healing it in order to become whole and healthy as a person.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons, an expert on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maritalhealing.com\/index.php\">marital<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.childhealing.com\/index.php\">child healing<\/a>, told LifeSiteNews\u00a0that the movie is \u201cpsychologically harmful to youth \u2014 not helpful to kids experiencing social anxiety disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet it is precisely those kids the movie is aimed at, and they are the ones put at risk by the narrative it promotes.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Fitzgibbons\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.childhealing.com\/articles\/SocialAnxietyDisorder.php\">ChildHealing.com<\/a>\u00a0website, \u201cSocial Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is the most prevalent of all anxiety disorders. A 2011 study of 10,000 American adolescents revealed that anxiety disorders were the most common disorder in youth, occurring in approximately one-third of adolescents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSAD is a marked and persistent fear in social situations characterized by pervasive social inhibition, timidity, lack of confidence and fear. It has an early age of onset, by age 11 years in about 50 percent and by age 20 years in about 80 percent of individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most important, \u201cResearch has shown that youth suicide risk decreases by delaying self-identifying as a homosexual. One study demonstrated that suicide risk among youth with same-sex attractions decreases 20 percent each year they delay labeling themselves as gay.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Homosexuality:\u00a0A thoroughly unsatisfying dead end for young males<\/h3>\n<p>Quentin Crisp, in his novel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Naked-Servant-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics\/dp\/0141180536\"><em>The Naked Civil Servant<\/em><\/a>, identified the conundrum facing gay men: \u201cIf the Great Dark Man met me, he would not love me. If he did love me, he could not be my Great Dark Man.\u201d In other words, Crisp is saying: \u201cIf I found the man of my dreams\u201d \u2014 as the boy in the \u2018Heartbeat\u2019 video seems to \u2014 \u201cno matter how attractive, masculine and virile; if he were interested in me either sexually or romantically or both, he could no longer be the man of my dreams because he would no longer be 100 percent \u2018straight.\u2019 There would be a huge chink in his armor, and he would disappoint me.\u201d One senses the snickering of Satan somewhere in the wings behind the hopeless, discouragement-fraught dreams of many gay men. No wonder so many become depressed. This is also why same-sex marriage will evaporate over time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/19\/magazine\/my-ex-gay-friend.html\">Michael Glatze<\/a>, now a Christian pastor and subject of the movie,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3713030\/\">I Am Michael<\/a><\/em>, was a practicing homosexual and gay activist until he experienced conversion to Jesus Christ. In 2013, he married his wife. In an open letter to Ricky Martin after Martin came out, Glatze wrote, \u201cHomosexuality is a cage in which you are trapped in an endless cycle of constantly wanting more \u2014 sexually \u2014 that you can never actually receive, constantly full of emptiness, trying to justify your twisted actions by politics and \u2018feel good\u2019 language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also told his own former \u201clover&#8221;: \u201cGod loves you more than any dude will ever love you. &#8230; Don\u2019t put your faith in some man, some flesh. That\u2019s what we do when we\u2019re stuck in the gay identity, when we\u2019re stuck in that cave. We go from guy to guy, looking for someone to love us and make us feel OK, but God is so much better than all the other masters out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Today\u2019s incessant booby trapping of close male relationships<\/h3>\n<p>The world today, influenced heavily by the LGBT community and an undiscerning media, undermines close relationships between adolescent\u00a0males, causing them to question their romantic and sexual orientation. This is precisely what this video sets out to do and is why it is so dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t a kid just really like another kid without it being interpreted as either romantic or sexual? ALL boys want close friendships with other boys. It\u2019s a basic human need.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/blogs\/in-a-heartbeat-video-dangerously-distorts-sexuality-for-young-boys\">http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/blogs\/in-a-heartbeat-video-dangerously-distorts-sexuality-for-young-boys<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LGBT cartoon targets young boys, promotes gay relationships to children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}