Greetings. It's Monday, June 3, 2024, and this is the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's article by Denison co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

In 1989, neurophysiologist Marshall Kirk and advertising executive Hunter Madsen joined their psychological and marketing expertise to chart a game plan to make same-sex marriage the law and sentiment of the land.

Their plan? Focus on the normalization of homosexuality.

Identify churches that can be manipulated to promote homosexuality,

and the idea that gays are victims, convince Americans that the issue is anti-discrimination,

not gay rights, reclaim or invent a noble history of gay people, and caricature opponents of gay marriage as hateful.

Their book became a seminal reading for gay activists, and their game plan worked.

According to Gallup, 68% of Americans opposed same-sex marriage in 1996.

Today, 71% support it. Now, activists have an entire Pride Month in which to

pursue their four-fold strategy, normalize LBGTQ behavior, legalize it, stigmatize those who

oppose their agenda, and criminalize such opposition. Meanwhile, evangelicals like me will be writing articles like

this one seeking to counter their strategy. Why? After all, we live in a free country where

legislated morality is typically defined as keeping us from harming each other. If people want to

live in same-sex relations, transition their

gender, or otherwise identify with LGBTQ ideology, what harm are they causing others? What business

is it of mine? Is my opposition, at its root, not homophobic discrimination? There are three

defensible reasons evangelicals oppose Pride Month agendas,

and one reason that is not. One, we genuinely believe LGBTQ lifestyle harm those who practice them,

demonstrating that gender-affirming therapies are often damaging to those who experience them.

We are likewise alarmed about

legislation limiting and even criminalizing parental engagement with regard to quote unquote

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