Hodges, which respectively held that private acts of consensual sex between same-sex couples and the right of same-sex couples to marry were fundamental rights guaranteed under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Supreme Court cases that granted new rights to LGBT individuals, such as Lawrence v. The term has been used in response to efforts to include protections for LGBT people under local and state anti-discrimination laws, as well as U.S. The term has also been used by some social conservatives to describe alleged goals of LGBT rights activists, such as supposed recruitment of heterosexuals into a "homosexual lifestyle".
The term "gay agenda" or "radical gay agenda" has been used by members of the Christian right to refer to efforts to change government policies and laws on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT) issues, for example, same-sex marriage and civil unions, LGBT adoption, recognizing sexual orientation as a protected civil rights minority classification, LGBT military participation, inclusion of LGBT history and themes in public education, introduction of anti-bullying legislation to protect LGBT minors-as well as non-governmental campaigns and individual actions that increase visibility and cultural acceptance of LGBT people, relationships, and identities. Īfter the Ball, a 1989 book on gay rights by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, despite being poorly received by the LGBT community, was cited by members of the Christian right as emblematic of the "stealth techniques" supposedly used by gay activists.
#Agenda definition series
The videos contained interviews with opponents of LGBT rights, and the series was made available through Christian right organizations. The Gay Agenda was followed by three other video publications: The Gay Agenda in Public Education (1993), The Gay Agenda: March on Washington (1993), and a feature follow-up Stonewall: 25 Years of Deception (1994). Paul Cameron-co-founder of the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality in Lincoln, later renamed the Family Research Institute-appeared in the video, wherein he asserted that 75 percent of gay men regularly ingest feces and that 70–78 percent have had a sexually transmitted disease. OCA used the video as part of their campaign for Ballot Measure 9 to amend the Oregon Constitution to prevent what the OCA called special rights for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. It was used in political campaigns, for example, by the Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA), a conservative Christian political activist organization. gave it to the other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was distributed in the US Congress, and Commandant of the Marine Corps General Carl Mundy Jr. Tens of thousands of copies of the video were sold. It was widely distributed, and propelled Springs of Life Ministries into the national spotlight.
The first video of the series was called The Gay Agenda and was released in 1992. In the United States, the phrase "gay agenda" was popularized by a video series produced by the evangelical religious group, Springs of Life Ministries in California, and distributed by many Christian right organizations. Cover of DVD The Gay Agenda: March on Washington
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