By Reuben David

Sex sells. It sells big time in America. No nation on earth toys with sexual experimentations as much as America does.

With movies like "Brokeback Mountain" grabbing Golden Globe awards, every notion of moralizing human sexuality is not just frowned upon, but fought against. It seems like it would be un-American to impose traditional marriage.

Biologist Alfred Kinsey's dream of creating a "sexual utopia" rocked the country's moral mores in the '60s and its ripples are felt even now as educational curriculum and American society has taken a different sexual turn.

This time it's not Kinsey's findings but former conservative Christian, and ghostwriter to Billy Graham and Jerry Fallwell, Mel White's non-violent campaign for "freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance."

Soulforce, co-founded by White with his partner Gary, derives inspiration for non-violence from Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

As an Indian, I feel strongly that Gandhi would have never complied to have his picture and name associated with a movement that is far from what he taught and lived for. Millions of Indians will balk at the notion of Gandhian inspiration for non-violent gay life propaganda.

Soulforce, an interfaith and ecumenical movement has begun a nation-wide "Equality Ride" campaign to address gay life issues targeting Christian universities. The organization's "civil rights movement" styled campaign runs against the spirit and nature of human civilization that has been marked by heterosexual behaviors for thousands of years.

One does not have to look closely at the people of the world to see how life is lived. Put simply, families are created by a man-woman union.

From Kenya to Kansas to Kuala Lumpur, families are established and recognized by the notion of heterosexual union. Plato argued a long time ago, "One certainly should not fail to observe that when male unites with female for procreation, the pleasure experienced is held to be due to nature, but contrary to nature when male mates with male or female with female"

Religion is not bigoted against same sex unions-but nature is. India alone, with a billion people, has never witnessed a ritual of youths and adults suddenly discovering themselves as "gay" one morning. China, another nation of a billion people, has not seen anything like a spate of cowboys falling in love with each other.

This is a guerilla war against traditional human marriages.

America's founding is unmistakably inspired by Judeo-Christian ethics that have championed traditional views of human sexuality. When I wake up in the morning I do not hear the bells or chants of a Hindu Temple, nor do I hear the Mosque blaring its prayers. To an average foreign tourist, America comes alive with Christian underpinnings everywhere.

A mere twisting of biblical Scriptures to accommodate one's movement is not going to convince the public. Mere history and knowledge of Hebrew and Greek is not going to convince the millions of Christians worldwide who hold onto a traditional, Bible-based understanding of marriage that constitutes a man and a woman.

The biblical heritage goes back to the Middle East where even today marriages are understood in terms of man and woman, not man and man. If the Bible propagated same sex unions it should have turned much of the Middle East into San Francisco by now.

The gay propaganda steered by Soulforce is a dangerous idea to the American society. The liberal Christians, who are awash in their own understanding of Christianity, are setting a cataclysmic precedent to human society. The pernicious effects of their movements are clearly visible to the eyes of the outsider.

There's an old Japanese proverb that says, 'Don't ask the fish what the water is like, for it's just an environment in which it lives." I would say, "Don't ask an American what American society is going through, for it is just the environment in which they live."

While the world's less fortunate are going without food, shelter and clothing, it is a monumental shame to waste one's energy, time and resources to fight for a movement that has no redeeming value for life except that it seeks to annihilate families in the long run.

Reuben David teaches mass communications at North Central University.