Intimidate & Shame LGBT tactics
Leaders of the LGBT community have largely abandoned any attempt to rationalize or debate their agenda. Rather, they seek to impose it through intimidation and shaming, and the exercise of raw political power. They are determined to use this power to shut down organizations and groups that help people wishing to leave the LGBT lifestyle, and they want to shut down any attempt to oppose the imposition of their gender ideology.
There are a number of groups in the country, many of them Christian ministries, that work to help members of the LGBT community to leave that lifestyle. Very often, these ministries are led by people who themselves are former homosexuals.
There is considerably less support for gender-confused individuals struggling to better understand the issues and research information that raises questions or doubts about transgenderism.
These two things have something in common – helping people leave the LGBT lifestyle and questioning the science of transgenderism would both become illegal discrimination if the grossly-misnamed "Equality Act" becomes law. We call it the InEquality Act because of the unfair way it imposes major elements of the LGBT agenda on people.
Virtually the entire foundation of the LGBT movement is built on a series of carefully crafted lies, half-truths, and misrepresentations. Two of the biggest are that gays and lesbians are "born that way" and that some people are born "trapped in the wrong body." It is just immoral lust.
Both these claims are demonstrably untrue, but independently produced scientific evidence is not anything that LGBT leaders are much interested in discussing.
Under the InEquality Act that they are sponsoring, both "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" become protected classes under federal anti-discrimination law. That means that acting in a way that offends someone who is LGBT could subject you to a claim of discrimination.
This includes things like using the wrong pronoun, questioning the legitimacy of gay 'marriage,' counseling someone struggling with same-sex attraction on leaving the LGBT lifestyle, or any number of other actions. It even could impact religious schools and institutions that require employees to agree to a code of conduct that respects their faith beliefs.
The InEquality Act is the greatest legislative threat we've ever faced. It has already passed the US House of Representatives and could be brought up in the Senate at any time. There's a lot of work to do to defeat the InEquality Act. Even more importantly, we must take on the underlying beliefs and assumptions that are being used to advance the LGBT agenda. We've had some good successes advancing our points in the public square
