tually marching, although crowds werernbrought out for the cameras. Thern”marchers” reached the capitol and heldrntheir rally in front of 400 people, reportedrnin the media as 2,000. On the other sidernof die capitol, pro-flag people gathered,rnabout 400 of us, reported by the media asrn200. (Wc were at a disadvantage becausernit was a workday.) The press missed, ofrncourse, the real news —the real historyrnbeing made. On the pro-flag side, tworndynamic, articulate black men spoke outrnfor the flag! Meanwhile, on the anti-flagrnside, a bunch of pasty old polihcians andrnacademics mumbled their leftist incantations.rnClyde Wilson is a professor ofrnAmerican history at the University ofrnSouth Carolina.rnLetter From Romernby Alberto CarosarnGay Pride Week in thernEternal CityrnThe European Union has reiterated itsrnappeal to all member states to pressrnahead with the legalization of homosexualrnunions, but resistance to the homosexualrnagenda is growing —especially inrnItaly.rnThe recently deposed government ofrnMa.ssinio I^’Alema had proposed to prohibitrndiscrimination based on “sexual orientation.”rnPersons or groups violatingrnthis law would have faced up to four yearsrnin prison. It is not difficult to identify therntargets of this legislation; conservativerngroups ranging from AssociazionernFamiglia Domani to Tradition, Family,rnProperty, and all those who promote arnsound natural and Chrishan order. Thernforemost target is the Catholic Church,rnwhich since her inception has promotedrngood and discriminated against evil.rnA worldwide Gay Pride Week gatheringrnis scheduled to take place in Rome inrnJuly as a counter to the Church’s JubileernYear. Rome Mayor Francesco Rutellirnearmarked a substantial amount of taxpayers’rnmoney for this event. But the re-rnL-ent regional election, in which the cen-rn;cr-right Freedom Front “Polo” defeatedrnthe D’Alema-led center-left coaliHon, hasrnchanged things. The newly elected presidentrn(governor) of Lazio, Rome’s region,rncalled for the march to be postponed untilrnnext year out of respect for the sacrednessrnof the Holy Year. The intentions ofrnthe gay-pride organizers were expressedrnon May Day, when tens of thousands ofrnpeople rallied under the supervision ofrnhard-line leftist unions and parties in PiazzarnNavona, one of Rome’s most beautifulrnsquares, to proclaim the rights of,rnamong others, the unemployed, immigrants,rnhomosexuals, and the homeless.rnA participant had painted the massi’ernVictor Emmanuel monument with arngraffito saying, “We’re gonna burn downrnthis Jubilee of yours.”rnItalian conservative and religiousrngroups have addressed an open letter tornAl Gore, expressing their concern that hernhas granted his official support to thernworldwide Gay Pride Week in his capacityrnas U.S. Vice President. They calledrnupon him to reconsider, respectfully askingrnriiat he either demand of the event’srnsponsors a commitment to prohibit anyrnpublic gestures in defiance of morals andrndecency, or withdraw his endorsement.rnThe backbone of the resistance to thernhomosexual movement is not located inrnopposition poliheal parhes but in grassrootsrngroups, which are exerting increasingrnpressure on moderate-conservativernpoliticians to honor their electoralrnpledges. The moderate conservativesrnwon an overwhelming consensus byrnpromising to uphold natural and familyrnvalues; they are now being asked to translaternwords into action. These grassrootsrnorganizations have good leverage at thernmoment, since the general elections arerndue in less than a year and politicians arernhighly sensitive to their re-election.rnBut even if we are successful in puttingrnoff the gay-pride march, we will have onlyrnwon a battle, not the war. We cannotrnfull}’ reverse the course of the radical homosexualrnagenda overnight. As one ofrnthe masters of the comiterrcvolution,rnPlinio Correa de Oliveira, wrote in Revolutionrnand Counter-Revolution, “ThernRevolution . . . uses its metamorpliosesrnnot only to advance but also to earn, outrnthe tactical retreats that have so frequentlyrnbeen necessary.”rnWliile in Stockholm two years ago forrnthe First World Cities ConferencernAgainst Drugs under the aegis of ECADrn(European Cihes Against Drugs), whichrnis probably the world’s leading organizationrnin fighting illicit drug use, I wasrnstruck by a passionate speech by an Australianrndeputy mayor, Warren Woodley.rnWith regard to an effective war on drugs,rnhe said, “We must raise the flag of truthrnto the world and take down the white flagrnof surrender.” With regard to the homosexualrnmovement, we must also takerndown the white flag of surrender andrnkeep on fighting unhl the end becausernwe fight for the truth. In the long run, therntruth will not simply win, but triumph.rnAlberto Carosa, the editor of FamigViarnDomani Flash, writes from Rome.rnLetter FromrnCorporate Americarnby John FreemanrnAt Ford, Diversity Is Job OnernThe chairman of Ford Motor Company,rnJacques Nasser, in a videotaped addressrnto a group of top executives forced to endurernanother in a series of “diversity-training”rnseminars, stated that he did not likernthe sea of white faces in the audience andrnthat one of his prime directives was to ensurernthat in the future, our companyrnwould reflect the broad spectrum of customersrnthat we serve. In case the pointrnhad not been driven home with sufficientrnclarity, a new compensahon plan was unveiled,rnunder which management payrnplans would be tied to the ])romotion andrnnurturing of “minorities.” .At this time,rnthe Ford definition of “minority” is broadrnenough to include women, black, Hispanic,rn”Native American,” and most foreignrnemployees (as long as thev are “personsrnof color”), but far too narrow torninclude decorated or disabled war veterans,rnAmerican blue-collar factory workers,rnor white men with Ph.D.’s in engineering.rnIt is still unclear what thernappropriate reaction should be from anrnaspiring Caucasian industrial captain:rnResign in shame in the name of racialrn”equality” to make room for the “victims”?rnIgnore the best and brightest candidatesrnin order to fill a quota, but at leastrnbring home the “minority’-bonus” bacon?rnOr, like an old soldier, just fade away intornsome obscure corporate backwater?rnAUGUST 2000/39rnrnrn