This is an Excerpt from the Book entitled Stand for the Family: The Family Defense Handbook by Sharon Slater, Family Watch International and UN Family Rights Caucus
Ten Key Anti-Family Strategies Used by Sexual Rights Activists
If you watch the anti-family activists systematically
implement their agenda at the international, national and local level, an obvious
pattern emerges. Their strategies and tactics are very predictable. By
understanding these strategies, you will
be better able to identify and counteract them.
1️⃣ The
Desensitization Strategy. e.g, the increase in public “Gay Pride” events in countries
across the world and in people “coming out of the closet” to announce their
homosexuality. Those promoting abortion have even gone so far as to wear
T-shirts proclaiming “I had an abortion.” And prostitutes have organized
themselves into political groups as “sex workers” to publicly promote their
“work” as a legitimate profession.
The liberal media constantly use this strategy, regularly
projecting sexually explicit images into our lives and gradually increasing
their intensity, until many of us aren’t even aware of how far our own views
have been changed
2️⃣
Bypass the People Strategy. According to the Bypass the People Strategy, if you can’t
get your agenda passed by a legislature or by a vote of the people, use the
courts. In bypassing the legislature or the vote of the people and taking your
cause straight to the courts, you can save time and money. It’s much easier to
convince a few judges to mandate your agenda.
Activists used this strategy to legalize abortion in the
United States with the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. They succeeded even
though the Constitution nowhere mentions abortion as a fundamental right, most
states at the time had laws against abortion, and polls showed that the
majority of Americans were against legalizing abortion. This strategy also was
used by homosexual activists to legalize same-sex marriage by judicial mandate
in Massachusetts, Connecticut, California and Iowa.
Another way to apply the Bypass the People Strategy is to
get policies adopted in UN documents and then use the UN to pressure countries
to change their laws.
3️⃣
I’ll-Make-it-Mean-What-I-Want Strategy. If you can’t get what you want by popular vote, passing a
law, finding a sympathetic judge, or by getting it included in a treaty or
other UN document, you can always fill the entity implementing or enforcing
relevant laws and regulations with your people. Then you can interpret a law to
mean anything you want.
4️⃣
Tsunami Strategy. Using the Tsunami Strategy, introduce a plethora of bills or
proposals in a variety of venues so your opponents find it difficult, if not
impossible, to keep track of and stop all of them. This happens at the UN, in
Congress, and in state legislatures where anti-family provisions are often
tacked onto a number of unrelated bills, resolutions or documents. Anti-family
forces figure that if they introduce an idea enough times in enough variations,
and in enough different venues, they eventually will win. And they often do. Activists using this strategy successfully passed a number of
pro-homosexual bills in California.
5️⃣
Name Calling and Discrediting Strategy. If you cannot defeat the message, attack the messenger. Call
your opponents politically toxic names or otherwise discredit them. For
example, label anyone who supports a moral issue an “extremist,” a “right wing
radical,” or a “religious fundamentalist.” Brand anyone who believes that
homosexual behavior is unhealthy or not good for society as “hateful,”
“intolerant,” “homophobic,” “bigot” or a “Nazi.” Use “anti-choice” to label
those who believe that taking the life of an unborn child is wrong. Finally,
characterize opposing views or positions as “hate speech” or “unchristian.”
6️⃣
Victim Strategy. Existing laws in the United States already protect every
individual (regardless of sexual orientation) from harassment and violence.
Schools also have policies that protect students from being singled out and
harassed.
Nevertheless, claims of persecution of homosexual students
in schools are used to justify mandatory “tolerance” and “diversity” programs
that teach open acceptance of and respect for homosexual behavior.
7️⃣
Incremental Strategy. E.g Legalizing
sodomy set the stage for the adoption of a slew of other laws and policies that
incrementally advanced the sexual rights agenda to the point that all
California schools are required to promote homosexuality. The California
legislature has passed a bill making it illegal for a therapist to treat a
child with unwanted same sex attraction if the therapy is aimed at helping the
child reorient to a heterosexual orientation
8️⃣
Emotion Strategy. If you can’t win on the merits, strike an emotional chord,
start crying or tell a sad story, and compassion will take over. This Emotion
Strategy was used effectively at the UN during an HIV/AIDS conference in 2006,
when, for the first time, an HIV-positive person was invited to speak to the
entire UN General Assembly. The woman shared a heart-wrenching story about how
she had been abused and infected with AIDS by a man and the tragic consequences
she had experienced. She ended her speech demanding abortion rights for women
and sexual rights for homosexuals. She received a standing ovation because she
got everyone emotionally involved with her story—even though her experience had
nothing to do with abortion or homosexuality.
9️⃣
Call it a “Human Right” Strategy. At the UN, once something is labeled a human right it is
considered sacred. The UN Human Rights Council monitors human rights abuses
around the world. So part of the anti-family agenda is to get the UN Human
Rights Committee to consider anything related to their agenda to be a
“fundamental human right.” Then the Committee can help force that “right” upon
the world even if it’s not specifically spelled out in a treaty.
🔟 Useful Euphemism
Strategy. If the majority would object to your agenda, re-label it
with respectable nice-sounding words or phrases. For example, call abortion a
“choice” and pedophilia “intergenerational sex.” Pressure people into accepting
your agenda in the name of “equality,” “tolerance,” “diversity,” “freedom” or
“nondiscrimination.” This is one of the most common strategies, and thus it is
important to understand.
Action-What You can do
- Learn to recognize these strategies in articles, editorials and in discussions with others on family issues. Point them out to those who are attempting to use them.
- Write letters to the editors of newspapers or comments in response to articles that appear on the Internet whenever you see family issues unfairly addressed using these strategies. The more readily you can identify these strategies, the more effectively you will be able to address them.
