Family Activist Warns Public of 'Soft Rhetoric' from Anti-Family Group
by Bill Fancher
August 7, 2006
(AgapePress) - - After several court losses in their effort to get same-sex "marriage" established into state laws, homosexual activists and their supporters have formed a new alliance. Dr. Janice Crouse of the Beverly LaHaye Institute (BLI) says this new alliance, called "Beyond Marriage," wants to refocus its efforts. As she puts it, they have "developed what they're calling a new strategic mission."
According to Dr. Crouse, the alliance has issued a vision statement that attempts to cloak its ideas in sof rhetoric. "They're talking about 'daring to dream' and having a philosophy where 'there's room for all,'" she explains, "so they really do have all of this rhetoric that [they hope] is going to appeal to people who are not in favor of gay marriage." (See earlier article)
Crouse, senior fellow at BLI, says the vision statement is "very carefully crafted" for a specific reason.
"[T]hey really want to broaden their agenda and change their language so that they will appeal to the American public," says the family activist, "but they're also very clear that they want to break down all the norms and eliminate all the barriers that the traditional family has always erected against any other definition of family."
The goals of the coalition are many, says Crouse's organization: separation of church and state in all matters pertaining to relationships, households, and families; access to government support programs regardless of marital or citizenship status; and lobbying efforts to prevent state regulations from adversely affecting individuals' "sexual lives and gender choices, identities, and expression."
Pro-family leaders have been warning that this was the ultimate goal of the homosexual marriage movement all along. Traditionalists claim the alliance's vision statement opens the door to a total redefinition of marriage and the family, permitting any alternative.
Bill Fancher, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
