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Anti-Family Lobby Group Seeks Coordinator to Rally Christians to Homosexual Marriage Cause

By Hilary White

HARTFORD, Connecticut, February 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Connecticut "gay-marriage" lobby group, Love Makes a Family (LMF), is looking for a "religious-organizing project coordinator" to lobby churches and clergy and help with the work of legitimizing homosexual "marriage" among Christians.

LMF website says, "A large portion of the Coordinator's time will be spent meeting directly with congregations around the state where support for marriage equality already exists and providing information and training to individuals within those congregations to increase their involvement."

The coordinator will be expected especially to work with the "large number" of clergy who have signed a statement of support for marriage equality, "to help them become more engaged in the marriage equality movement".

Susan Campbell, a columnist for the Hartford Courant, who has been supporting the "same-sex marriage" bid, wrote that this effort "may come as a surprise to some". "An organization some religious types deem satanic - pushing, as it is, for gay marriage - is actually reaching out to religious types itself."

But defenders of the traditional family have long been aware of the work done by the homosexual movement to infiltrate and use the communication structures of churches to their purposes.

The homosexual activist movement has been greatly aided by flanking organizations, ostensibly made up of non-homosexual supporters, such as "PFLAG" (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). These were founded at the same time as the more mainstream gay activist groups, specifically to generate sympathy among the general public and to represent identical political doctrines to the mainstream of society, especially in churches.

PFLAG has been particularly successful in Christian denominations, including the Catholic Church, in re-framing the discussion of homosexuality from one concerned with Christian teachings on sexual morality to one exclusively concerned with "equality" and "rights" issues.

So mainstream is support for the homosexual political movement's goals among academically trained Christians, that the job description specifies the successful candidate will have a "divinity school/seminary degree or previous religious organizing/involvement." At the same time, he or she will have a "familiarity with major faith communities in Connecticut...particularly those supportive of LGBT rights."

Indeed, Susan Campbell points out that Anne Stanback, executive director of LMF, is herself a graduate of Yale Divinity School and a member of Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford.

In 2005, Connecticut became the second state in the US, following Vermont, to enact a civil union law. The civil unions law is facing a court challenge at the same time a bill to bring about legal "same-sex marriage" is pending in the legislature.

A poll released in April, 2005 showed that 53 per cent of Connecticut voters opposed "same-sex marriage", while 42 per cent approved. Governor Jodi Rell has said she will veto any "same-sex marriage" bill that comes across her desk and that the current civil unions legislation "covered the concerns that have been raised".

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