Within this sidebar portion, the American Guardian has archived dozens of articles, written by themselves, and other so-called experts, detailing the dangers of homosexuality. They have literally created an index where anyone can go and find misinformation and manufactured lies about gays and lesbians. This part of the website is what is the most interesting to me: the American Guardian essentially seizes - and turns upside-down -- pro-queer social movements, the push for civil rights, and health issues. They take quotes and action out of context to create logical, supported (by their own study conclusions and survey results) arguments against each LGBT theme. While the website is full of false information, it disseminates it in a rational way - so much so that the articles are reasonable and believable. The number of 'hits' clearly demonstrates a significant support base from a network of followers who do prescribe to what they are saying.
In the American Guardian archive articles, the order perspective prevails. It prescribes to the dominant order of social control, where a sexual hierarchy has pre-defined the division between good and bad people. Queers are simply considered not natural because the gender style differs from biology. That abnormality is caused by defective life choices, and therefore less deserving of social power and status. In the same sense, the American Guardian rejects any semblance of the essentialist argument of being "born that way." They believe that being queer is a sinful personal decision, and not an inherent quality - removing the blame from God. In a section concerning the "Ten Percent Myth," the website asserts "[being] born that way fails to explain why homosexuals commonly use the terms 'alternative lifestyle' and 'sexual preference,' which both imply that they choose their lifestyle. The terms are artificial, sloganistic constructs coined for public consumption." The Guardian had taken the same essentialist conflict within the LGBT community and turned it around on them.
Basically, the American Guardian is looking to strip queers of their civil rights. The archived articles revolve around different reasons why minority status should be withheld from gays and lesbians, and particularly singles out the right to privacy as something queers don't deserve. The opinion is that "because homosexuals participate in activities that are utterly revolting to the public, the right to privacy is tailor-made for the gays to advance their own perverted agenda." They consider LGBT claims of a right to privacy to be a cover-up for wantonly spreading AIDS. The threat to health professionals, spouses, and other "innocents" (i.e. non-queer) is repeatedly cited as a result of the promiscuous sexual addictions and unsafe sex that all gays indulge in. AIDS is called "Darwin's process of natural selection, operating in a truly naked and overt manner" where only those protected "by traditional morality" will survive. The Guardian want readers to believe that homosexuals are not deserving of the same civil rights and human privileges that the rest of society enjoys because of their behavior. With the numerous study results, charts, survey percentages, and anecdotes about queer attitudes, the American Guardian wants to make believers out of people. As a part of the Christian right, the website wants to take those already initiated into anti-queer doctrines, and give them 'hard data' about exactly why they should consider gays to be a societal defect, unworthy of decent treatment. Unfortunately, I do think that this website accomplishes that rather well -- the two million plus hits seem to illustrate that fact. It seems significant that the American Guardian is the creator of HateWatch.org also. The name of that particular website might seem positive, but after going to the link, the viewer sees that Planned Parenthood and the Anti-Defamation League are considered to be hate groups against the "American way of life." Looking at all these aspects, it becomes clear that the Guardian is seeking out a specific cross-section of Christian, patriotic conservatives, interested in preserving the status quo (or even making it more traditional). Besides being united to 'friends and allies' through sharing anti-queer convictions, this group also sets up camp with the pro-life/anti-abortion alliances and "family values" campaigns.
Their arguments are powerful and compelling to those that might already agree - like those in the aforementioned group. However, in the grand scheme of the continuing debate on sexuality, this site seems relatively less consequential. There are hundreds of websites just like it out on the internet, and for those that are truly absorbed in a critical discussion of the Cultural Wars, the American Guardian is just yet another faction championing the religious right.