A Fading Conviction

[jonathansfox]

Homosexuality: The Threat to the Family and the Attack on Marriage

From the website of the Family Research Council.

Peter Sprigg delivered these remarks on March 29, 2004, at the World Congress of Families III in Mexico City, Mexico.

[excerpt -- see link for full context]

...in order to defend what we are for--the family--we often must define

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Here's an article that has an opposite point of view?

[this_stray_dog]

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1466

Re: Here's an article that has an opposite point of view?

[jonathansfox]

Though I'm a contributing member to the Human Rights Campaign, I thought that the "gay agenda" talk above was an interesting read. The five points of the gay agenda they've outlined are, in a broad scope, essentially correct; the most questionable one on the surface is the "homosexual propaganda" in schools, but the only such propaganda worth putting in schools is just aimed at encouraging tolerance among youth, and that much is true.

The other questionable part is the "born gay" argument. Some groups seek to persuade people of that; others do not. There are some gay people who very firmly believe that they did not have a choice, while others believe they did make a choice. I think many gay rights groups are content to be hands-off until research is more clear. So it is true for many people that this is a goal, but it is far from a universal goal.

For the most part though, the real "gay agenda" does indeed cover hate crimes, civil rights, marriage, and encouraging a belief that homosexuality is normal and something to be, if