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Left,\u00a0<\/i>Jon Stryker, 62,\u00a0is the heir to namesake Stryker Corp., a medical device and equipment manufacturer. He has given nearly $250 million of his personal wealth to groups supporting gay rights and Jewish settlers in Arab East Jerusalem.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n There is nothing spontaneous or grass roots about the LGBT movement.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Cabalist Jews are using gender dysphoria to destabilize society.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Thanks to them, the LGBT rights agenda–note the addition of “T”–has become a powerful, aggressive force in American society. Its advocates stand at the top of media, academia, the professions, and, most important, Big Business and Big Philanthropy.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n The Billionaire Funding the LGBT Movement<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n by Jennifer Bilek\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n (henrymakow.com)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Not long ago, the gay rights movement<\/b>\u00a0was a small group of people struggling to follow their dispositions within a larger heterosexual culture. Gays and lesbians were underdogs, vastly outnumbered and loosely organized, sometimes subject to discrimination and abuse. Their story was tragic, their suffering dramatized by AIDS and Rock Hudson,\u00a0Brokeback Mountain<\/em>\u00a0and Matthew Shepard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Today’s movement, however, looks nothing like that band of persecuted outcasts. The LGBT rights agenda–note the addition of “T”–has become a powerful, aggressive force in American society. Its advocates stand at the top of media, academia, the professions, and, most important, Big Business and Big Philanthropy. Consider the following case.<\/span><\/p>\n Jon Stryker is the grandson of Homer Stryker, an orthopedic surgeon who founded the Stryker Corporation. Based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Stryker Corporation\u00a0sold $13.6 billion<\/a>\u00a0in surgical supplies and software in 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (left, Stryker & husband\/wife?<\/span>Slobodan Randjelovi\u0107)<\/span><\/p>\n Jon, heir to the fortune, is gay. In 2000 he created the Arcus Foundation, a nonprofit serving the LGBT community, because of his own experience coming out as homosexual. Arcus has\u00a0given\u00a0more than $58.4 million<\/a>\u00a0to programs and organizations doing LGBT-related work between 2007 and 2010 alone, making it one of the largest LGBT funders in the world. Stryker\u00a0gave more than $30 million to Arcus himself<\/a>\u00a0in that three-year period, through his stock in Stryker Medical Corporation.<\/p>\n Stryker founded Arcus right when the AIDS epidemic was being brought under control in the U.S.\u00a0Before he started Arcus, he was president of Depot Landmark LLC,\u00a0a development company specializing in rehabilitating historical buildings. This would serve him well when he later renovated space for Arcus in Kalamazoo. He was also a founding\u00a0board member<\/a>\u00a0of Greenleaf Trust, a privately held\u00a0wealth management firm<\/a>\u00a0also in Kalamazoo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Jon’s sister Ronda Stryker is married to William Johnston, chairman of\u00a0Greenleaf Trust<\/a>. She is also\u00a0vice chair<\/a>\u00a0of Spelman College, where Arcus recently bestowed a $2 million\u00a0grant<\/a>\u00a0in the name of lesbian feminist Audre Lorde. The money is earmarked for a queer studies program. Ronda and Johnston have gifted Spelman\u00a0$30 million dollars<\/a>\u00a0overall, the largest gift from living donors in its 137-year history.\u00a0She is also a trustee of Kalamazoo College (where Arcus bestowed a social justice leadership\u00a0grant for $23 million<\/a>\u00a0in 2012), as well as a member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows.<\/span><\/p>\n Pat Stryker, another sister to Jon, has worked closely with gay male\u00a0Tim Gill<\/a>. Gill operates one of the largest LGBT nonprofits in America and has been close to the Stryker family since Jon created Arcus. In 1999, Tim Gill sold his stakes to Quark, his computer software company, and went to work running the Gill Foundation in Colorado. Working closely with\u00a0Pat Stryker\u00a0<\/a>and two other wealthy philanthropists, who together became known as the\u00a0four horsemen<\/a>\u00a0due to their ruthless political strategies, they set out to change Colorado, a red state, to blue. They proceeded to pour\u00a0half a billion dollars<\/a>\u00a0into small groups advocating LGBT agendas. Gill noted in his opening introduction for Jon Stryker at the\u00a02015 GLSEN Respect Awards<\/a>\u00a0that, since knowing each other, he and Jon have “plotted, schemed, hiked and skied together,” while also “punishing the wicked and rewarding the good.”<\/span><\/p>\n Prior to 2015, Stryker had already built the political infrastructure to drive gender identity ideology and transgenderism across the globe, donating\u00a0millions to small and large entities. These included hundreds of thousands of dollars to\u00a0ILGA<\/a>, an LGBT organization for equality in Europe and Central Asia with 54 countries participating, and\u00a0Transgender Europe<\/a>, a voice for the trans community in Europe and Asia with 43 countries participating (Transgender Europe has also funded smaller organizations like\u00a0TENI<\/a>, Transgender Equality Network Ireland).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In 2008 Arcus founded\u00a0Arcus Operating Foundation<\/a>,\u00a0an arm of the foundation that organizes conferences, leadership programs, and research publications.\u00a0At one 2008 meeting in Bellagio, Italy, 29 international leaders committed to expanding global philanthropy to support LGBT rights. At the meeting, along with Stryker and Ise Bosch, founder of Dreilinden Fund in Germany, was Michael O’Flaherty–one of the rapporteurs for the Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender\u00a0Identity\u00a0(principles outlined in Indonesia in 2006). With the\u00a0Yogyakarta Principles<\/a>, the seeds were planted to bring in and attach\u00a0gender-identity ideology to our legal structures.<\/a>\u00a0O’Flaherty has been an elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee since 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n Out of the Bellagio meeting, Arcus created\u00a0MAP<\/a>, the LGBT Movement Advancement Project, to track the complex system of advocacy and funding that would promote gender identity\/transgenderism in the culture. Simultaneously, the\u00a0LGBTI Core Group<\/a>\u00a0was formed as\u00a0an informal cross-regional group\u00a0of United Nations member countries to represent LGBTI human rights issues to the U.N. Core Group members funded by Arcus include\u00a0Outright Action International<\/a>\u00a0and Human Rights Commission. Core Group member countries include Albania, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, El Salvador, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Montenegro, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uruguay, and the European Union, as well as the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n These initiatives promote gender identity and transgenderism by training leaders in political activism, leadership, transgender law, religious liberty, education, and civil rights. The lineup of Arcus-supported organizations advancing the cause is daunting:\u00a0Victory Institute<\/a>, the\u00a0Center for American Progress<\/a>, the\u00a0ACLU<\/a>, the\u00a0Transgender Law Center<\/a>,\u00a0Trans Justice Funding Project,<\/a>\u00a0OutRight Action International<\/a>,\u00a0Human Rights Watch<\/a>,\u00a0GATE,<\/a>\u00a0Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA),<\/a>\u00a0The Council for Global Equality<\/a>,\u00a0the U.N., Amnesty International, and\u00a0GLSEN<\/a>.\u00a0The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS<\/a>), in partnership with Advocates for Youth, Answer, GLSEN, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), has initiated a campaign\u00a0using a rights-based framework to inform approaches in reshaping cultural narratives of sexuality and reproductive health.\u00a0Sixty-one additional\u00a0organizations<\/a>\u00a0have signed a letter supporting an overhaul of current curriculums.<\/span><\/p>\n In 2013\u00a0Adrian Coman,\u00a0<\/a>a veteran of George Soros’s\u00a0Open Society Foundations<\/a>\u00a0(a\u00a0driver of transgender ideology<\/a>\u00a0that has begun initiatives to\u00a0normalize transgender children<\/a>), was\u00a0named\u00a0director of the international human rights program at the Arcus Foundation, to drive gender identity ideology globally. Previously, Coman served\u00a0as program director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.\u00a0And in 2015,\u00a0Arcus\u00a0worked closely with and funded NoVo Foundation programs\u00a0for transgenderism<\/a>. NoVo was founded by Peter Buffett, son of billionaire Warren Buffett.<\/span><\/p>\n These programs and initiatives advance gender identity ideology by supporting various\u00a0faith organizations<\/a>, sports and cultural associations, police department training and educational programs in grade schools, high schools (GLSEN<\/a>, whose founder was brought to Arcus in 2012 as board of directors, has influenced many K-12 school curricula), and universities and medical institutions–including the\u00a0American Psychological Foundation<\/a>\u00a0(APF). Arcus funds help APF (the leading psychology organization in the United States) develop guidelines for establishing trans-affirmative psychological practices. Psychologists are “encouraged” by those monies to modify their understanding of gender, broadening the range of biological reality to include abstract, medical identities.<\/span><\/p>\n Concurrently, Arcus drives gender identity ideology and transgenderism in the marketplace by encouraging businesses to invest in LGBT causes. Lest we forget, Stryker is heir to a $13.6 billion medical corporation. One only has to look at the corporations supporting LGBT during pride month this year to ascertain the success Arcus has had in this arena.<\/span><\/p>\n As the example of the Arcus Foundation shows, the LGB civil rights movement of yore has morphed into a relentless behemoth, one that has strong ties to the medical industrial complex and global corporatists. The pharmaceutical lobby is the largest lobbying entity in Congress. Although activists present the LGBT movement as a weak, powerless group suffering oppression and discrimination, in truth it wields enormous power and influence–power it increasingly uses to remake our laws, schools, and society.<\/span><\/p>\n Jennifer Bilek writes from New York City.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n ——-<\/p>\n Related<\/b>—Stryker Uses his money to subvert Christian Institutions\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n![\"Jon+Stryker+Party+Garden+Museum+Modern+Art+VsfIImcy5z5l.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.henrymakow.com\/upload_images\/Jon%2BStryker%2BParty%2BGarden%2BMuseum%2BModern%2BArt%2BVsfIImcy5z5l.jpg\")
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