Studies in Crap: Left Behind visionary Tim LaHaye’s ‘penetrating’ look at The Unhappy Gays

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.

The Unhappy Gays

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Author: Tim LaHaye

Date: 1978

Publisher: Tyndale House

The Cover Promises: Gayness is a rusty, wormy chain.

Representative Quotes:

• “Homosexuals are regularly disinterested in gainful employment — their interest is sex, not work. Besides, when a man overindulges his sex glands, he doesn’t have much energy left.” (page 35)

• “The lenient attitude of many college administrators is appalling. They often make no attempt to fire known homosexuals from their faculty.” (page 198)

In the first pages of this moronic howl of a book, apocalypse profiteer and disdainer of lady-stink Tim LaHaye explains that “the homosexual epidemic” of the late 1970s is in some ways all his fault.

“Something strange is going on in America! My wife and I had been out of the country only nine months, holding family life seminars in forty-two countries around the world, but we noticed it immediately. Arriving in San Diego on a Sunday, I looked through my mail and found two letters from lesbians and four from homosexuals.”

Yes, denied his masculine example, America went gay.

That’s from the first chapter, which LaHaye — always eager to help your Crap Archivist out — titles “The Homosexual Explosion.”

Just a page later, he explains how his editor talked him into taking on a book like this: “Wendell Hawley of Tyndale House remarked, ‘The Christian community needs a penetrating book on homosexuality.'”