Responding to the LGBT movement’s southern strategy
If you were trying to expand acceptance for “ LGBT rights” where would you launch a public relations blitz? Well, the Human Rights Campaign , which calls itself “the largest national LGBT organizer in the South,” has decided the answer is Mississippi. Yes, deeply conservative Mississippi, where just 22 percent of the voters believe that so-called same-sex marriage should be legal. It’s the focus of a $310,000 PR campaign called “All God ’s Children” and it’s promoting tolerance for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people, as well as their lifestyle decisions. The initiative includes television commercials, phone calls, door-to-door canvassing, and online advertising. It sounds a lot like the work that goes into an evangelistic campaign, as does the language being used: “We are all God’s children,” the campaign says. “It is only for God to judge, not us. We need to treat everyone with respect.” The campaign in the Magnolia State is part of a larger, $8.5 million effor...