Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look in an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Back in 2012, 31% of those who attended religious services weekly supported so-called same-sex marriage.

Well, according to recent Gallup polling data, that number is now 41%, and across the general population, support sits at over 70 percent.

Earlier this month in a world news article Dr Rosaria Butterfield described how what she

called a moral revolution was instigated by activists who were committed to playing

the long game and how it has been so effective.

Specifically, Dr. Butterfield underscored the impact of a book that was published all the way back in 1989.

In After the Ball, how America will conquer its fear and hatred of gaze in the 90s, a neuropsychologist

Marshall Kirk and an advertising executive, Hunter Matzen, outlined a game

plan to change how homosexuality was viewed in this country.

Part of their plan was to normalize so-called same-sex marriage for Americans, especially for Christians.

The game plan was simple, and it was straightforward.

First, Kirk and Mattson advised activists to be on their best behavior and to focus attention on the victimization of gays and lesbians.

Or as Butterfield described it in her article, quote,

the authors declared it in plain English, no public sex, no gay disturbances until gay marriage is the law and Christians see us as victims."

And to accomplish this, activists needed to identify easy to manipulate churches, churches that would easily capitulate and promote the idea that gays are victims.

Second, Kirk and Mattson directed activists to redirect the issue at hand from gay rights to anti-discrimination.

Third, activists would also need to claim or invent a noble history for gays and lesbians.

According to Dr. Butterfield, quote, anyone single over 40 and dead could be marshaled to the cause

as a gay forebear, end quote.

And finally, Kirk and Mattson said that activists should,

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