1) It isn’t surprising at all, in retrospect, that AIDS became a “plus” and not a “minus” (or the end) of sodomite practice. Everyone loves a martyr. And this is the same with Christian theology, no? The church advances in rough times when the ‘sentence of death’ is passed and experienced… the Cross of Jesus.

2)A fifth primary enemy must be the general public’s “ick” response, which was overcome through self-effacing humor. The statistical data that shows the reality of (particularly) sodomite men’s ACTUAL lives – little conception of monogamy (vis-a-vis Dan Savage), family tension, drugs, suicide, etc. was kept in the closet, so to speak, while the smiley, friendly, and creative ‘face’ of sodomy was shown on primetime television. Will and Grace pioneered, Modern Family sealed the deal, and not movies, sit-coms, dramas, etc. will treat the utter normalcy of gay and lesbian relationships (marriages) as fact and in much the same way we view racial integration. The use of mass media to normalize sodomy and lesbianism in the minds of ‘middle America’ has been non-stop and very successful.