(AgapePress) - A pro-family group is accusing the White House of a pattern of appeasement when it comes to the homosexual agenda.

The Family Research Council (FRC) says the latest incident involves the apparent willingness of the Bush Administration to cave in to homosexuals' demands for changes to the controversial $15 billion international AIDS bill. FRC quotes a report which says the president is ready to endorse the idea of using taxpayers' dollars for condom handout schemes in Africa -- a move, it says, that will just make it more difficult to pass amendments promoting abstinence and monogamy.

As FRC president Ken Connor puts it: "The White House capitulation to the condom crowd appears to be yet another aspect of a stealth strategy to pander to the homosexual lobby." Homosexual activists are strong advocates of the "safe sex" concept that widespread availability of condoms in an area of sexual promiscuity is a remedy to the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

He also points to the fact that the president has previously appointed a homosexual activist to the White House AIDS Office, and approved a taxpayer-funded "domestic partners" package for homosexuals in the District of Columbia.

Connor warns: "This misguided political strategy will serve only to alienate pro-family voters."

Tiresome Double-Standard
Homosexual advocacy groups are continuing their attack on Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum for comment he made last week in which he equated homosexuality with incest, adultery, and bigamy. The statements led to a firestorm of criticism of the Republican lawmaker, one of the strongest pro-family advocates in Congress. [See Earlier Article]

Peter LaBarbera

Peter LaBarbera of the Culture and Family Institute says the attacks on Santorum are part of an intimidation strategy that homosexuals are using to try and silence all criticism of homosexuality. While pro-homosexual forces call for tolerance of their lifestyle, LaBarbera says they are most intolerant of criticism -- and that double-standard is getting old.

"I think people are starting to tire of this idea ... that anybody who says anything remotely critical of homosexual behavior is being shouted down or being boycotted or being attacked as a bigot," LaBarbera says.

LaBarbera thinks the homosexual community wants expression of religious beliefs limited to the interior of the church. But he says calling people "bigots" will not change the fact that the Bible condemns the lifestyle as "sinful" and "abnormal."

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