The following comes from a Dec. 23 story on LifeSiteNews.
A new study on persuasion shows the lengths the homosexual movement will go to advance its agenda and also how pro-homosexual advocates collaborate with Planned Parenthood to promote abortion.
Sending homosexual individuals door-to-door to speak with people in person was highly effective in changing their view of homosexual “marriage,” the study found, and the same method is now being employed in an attempt to normalize abortion, with financial backing from the nation’s largest abortion provider.
The study, titled “When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmission of support for gay equality,” was published earlier this month by the journal Science and conducted over 12 months using the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s political canvassing tactics, according to a report by the Washington Post.
Led by University of California, Los Angeles doctoral student Michael LaCour and Columbia political science professor Donald P. Green, it found that a 20-minute personal discussion brought about a change in attitude that not only lasted, but also spread to others in the household as well. The change documented in the study was also more effective when the contact was made by someone who identified as homosexual.
“We’re optimistic that our approach can be adapted to persuade voters on other issues,” LA LGBT Center Vote for Equality director Dave Fleischer said in a statement. “We’re currently canvassing to reduce prejudice against transgender people and, with funding from Planned Parenthood, to increase support for abortion and reduce the stigma against those who have one. The research data from those projects is preliminary, but very encouraging.”
Fleischer, who is homosexual, moved to California from Ohio in 2009 to work against the state’s 2008 pro-marriage ballot measure Proposition 8, according to a report by Bloomberg.com, and he used to work for radical Saul Alinksy’s community organizing group Industrial Areas Foundation.
Fleischer spent “roughly half his career working for gay groups and the remainder for other campaigns and causes on the left,” the report said, and he was the impetus behind the canvassing campaign’s jump over to pushing abortion.
“On the left, it has become a source of frustration that the swift acceptance of gay rights has not been accompanied by a broader liberalization of sexual attitudes, particularly around reproductive issues,” Bloomberg.com said. The “stubborn” issue of abortion was something else Fleischer had his eye on, it said.
“That’s where the anti-abortion side has succeeded,” Fleischer said. “They’ve made people feel that to speak up and say something positive about abortion is something where you risk disapproval, then you’d be suggested to a certain amount of stigma. This is even truer around abortion than it is same-sex marriage.”
Fleischer intended to frame the discussion with the pro-abortion canvass around personal identity as opposed to right and wrong, according to the Bloomberg report, since it was his position that opposition to abortion is founded in a stigma toward women who have had or could have an abortion.
The campaigns’ first step is to specifically target demographics known to oppose the issue.
Canvassers in the pro-homosexual campaign were sent to Los Angeles-area neighborhoods where Proposition 8 had 2-to-1 support.
Mirroring a drug-trial, the study assigned groups to receive either “treatment” or a placebo, the New York Times reported, treatment being a visit to their home by either an openly homosexual canvasser or a straight one, both starting a scripted conversation. The placebo was either a talk about recycling or no canvassing at all.
“Instead of robotically delivering the message,” Fleischer told the New York Times, “we coached canvassers to be respectful, to listen, to ask questions and dig deeper, and not to judge voters.”
Voters canvassed on marriage swung by around 20 percent in favor of same-sex “marriage,” as gauged by a five-point scale, the Times report said.
Both straight and homosexual canvassers changed opinions, but the opinions of voters canvassed by homosexuals stayed as favorable when surveyed nine months later. The opinions on homosexual “marriage” of voters canvassed on recycling did not move. The study also showed that participants’ altered views toward marriage influenced the thinking of others in the same household.
“The data show that in 20 minutes, the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s volunteer canvassers accomplished what would have otherwise taken five years at the current rate of social change,” Fleischer said in his statement. “How did we do it? Our team had heartfelt, reciprocal and vulnerable conversations on the doorsteps of those who opposed marriage for same-sex couples, and volunteers who were LGBT came out during their conversations.”
He approached Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, the CEO of which had sat on the anti-Proposition 8 campaign board, and asked if the LGBT Center could manage its canvassing program.
The abortion giant teamed with the Los Angeles LGBT Center last fall just before the 2014 midterm elections to put this into motion, the Bloomberg report said. Both the homosexual activist group and the nation’s largest abortion purveyor brought people in to talk to voters about abortion.
“We want to change people’s minds in the long term, not just through Election Day,” said Laura Gardiner, the LGBT Center’s national mentoring coordinator, coaching their canvassers.
Training for the pro-abortion canvass was much more extensive than the usual political canvassing preparation, according to Bloomberg.com, with 90 minutes set aside to groom volunteers for three hours of door-knocking and making personal connections.
Those leading the pro-abortion canvassing session recognized that the earlier pro-homosexual canvassing uncovered a low-cost technique that both activated and hastened the process of changing minds, the Bloomberg report said, offering a plan of action instead of passively waiting for opinions to move further in their direction.
The campaigns will continue, in addition to canvassing on abortion and the transgender issue, campaigns are being conducted on illegal immigration and gun violence.
This effort to normalize abortion is the latest by the pro-abortion movement, dismantling the previous mantra that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare.”
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This effort to normalize abortion is the latest by the pro-abortion movement, dismantling the previous mantra that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare.” = Diabolical disorientation thriving on the culture of death.
Luke 23: [26-30] And as they led him away, they laid hold of one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country; and they laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus. And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of women, who bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the paps that have not given suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us; and to the hills: Cover us.” – Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible
Of course HomoFascists will support Planned Parenthood, as they despise marriage — normal marriage, that is — and its miracle: children. Abortion is welcomed by those that cannot have children, unless a homosexual man and woman mate: oh yuck, icky, nasty, nay, nay, nay.
Kindly shut the door on these lepers, as you would is someone came around collecting for Al Qaeda or ISIL/ISIS, or the Nazi Party. These are truly awful, vile, demonically possessed people. Avoid them. Then raise Holy Hell in a public way that your front door was soiled by these rodents. Culture of Death indeed (thank you, St. John Paul II).
I was disgusted to find Planned Parenthood literature on my front porch several days ago. Ironically, I was out shopping for Christmas, that wonderful holiday that celebrates the birth of a baby, when PP minions left that trash at my home.
“Knocking on doors” and “canvassing” for the good is called “evangelization.” Where are the traditional marriage folks and committed Catholics in this endeavor? Face it, we are being “out hustled.” That’s what’s really wrong.
I agree, Mary…isn’t that what the Legion of Mary does…go door to door? I live in the country and no one comes to my door but Jehova’s Witnesses, who I always treat respectfully as at least they are giving up their time for what they believe. I love the film Rosselini’s The Flowers of St.Francis, that ends with his followers all throwing up their walking sticks and each following the direction they pointed to go out into all the world and evangelize.
The Church and conservative activists would be well advised to use this same approach on single issue topics. According to the article,
“Our team had heartfelt, reciprocal and vulnerable conversations on the doorsteps of those who [were] opposed.”
We’ll, there’s a lot to learn here. These folks are getting folksy with people. The enemy sure does love a good costume! My suggestion is to out-nice them, out-smile, out-compassion them. Catholic teaching is to “love your enemy, do good to those that hate you” so if they show up at your door, be so sweet and nice, having compassion for them that it hurts. Believe me, that approach will drive them away faster than any hatred, which will only feed their hubris. Two can play this game.
Is it any wonder that the demons of abortion and gayand lesbianism would be coordinating and working together to destroy the family, and eventually the hearts and souls of mankind? It is amazing how deceived so many blind people happen to be, especially those that think of themselves as christians, let alone Vatican 2 catholics. Pray to the Holy Innocents that the mass genocide in our country that has been authorized, promoted, and led by our evil leaders, plus the whole world and its leaders will be stopped. How many more innocent souls will die and go to Limbo without seeing with their own eyes the marvelous Beatific Vision? The counter is over 50 million alone in our degenerating nation. How long before our government and society elitests see the evil they have wrought and promoted and its eventual destruction of what we have held in this our country as so dear, our God and our God-given freedoms! Don’t be afraid to speak up and against the evil that is going on. You maybe labeled as a hater by those deceivers, those whom are truly the haters of the Holy Innocents, but as civil, law abiding defenders of God’s Laws, you are not haters in the eyes of God. Pray the rosary for peace throughout the world and the destruction of its evil forces led by satan and his demons.
They have their temples to moloch (PP clinics), with the table of sacrifice (abortion)and a manifesto. They even send out holiday cards with birth control devices as decorations in the form of a wreath..utterly repelent and pathetic. I say pathetic because the whole premise, like evil itself, is so banal, crass and mediocre…the very opposite of the beauty and truth of God. It is truly appaling how far gone this whole ‘movement’ is. I can’t help but pity these people who believe so strongly in something so utterly grotesque and twisted. I would hate to be one of them. God help them. What a life! (a living death)
If they were to come to my door, I would be respectful, I would tell them that we love them and respect them………BUT WE WILL NEVER CONDON THEM!!!
And that we pray for them to come out of the darkness into the light, as we want everyone to go to Heaven :)
Why be respectful, “Diane”. Isn’t it better to simply show them the door, and tell them not ever, never, to come back again.
Certainly pray for them, but you need to fight them. Tell your neighbors (although watch out as many may be sympathetic to them), and complain to your HOA board (if you have one).
Never show them kindness or courtesy. You are dealing with Satan.
I have to disagree with you, St. Chris…these people still have souls, they still are alive and there is always hope that they can be saved from hell, maybe even by you. Never show them courtesy? God wants NONE to be lost. Why are you so afraid? Fear not. This could be a real opportunity to put your faith into practice. Jesus has saved far greater sinners than these. None of these people are satan until they are dead and utterly lost. Where is your compassion?
St. Christopoher,
Jesus tells us we are to love everyone! That means we want the best for them…….to have a conversion and to go to Heaven when God calls them!
But, like I said before, we NEVER condon any immoral actions.
“Diane” and “Dana”: You are good people, and voice important things about helping all along toward salvation. It is true that we should all do this.
But, beware of Satan. As scripture tells us, the Devil has children. He is far more intelligent and clever than any of us can be. We can pray for these people, and I stand corrected, if you mean that you would talk to the HomoFascists about the Faith and about the evil that their lifestyles reflect.
Unfortunately, many in the homosexual community want nothing to do with the Catholic Faith, except to change it. Just take a look at the completely crazy and heretical statements of Abp. Johann Bonny (Antwerp) virtually demanding that the Church eliminate its doctrine forbidding homosexual sex, and, instead, to embrace this evil. That is what these people at your front door will believe, not the Catholic Faith.
The problem with “dialogue” with such people is that it matches your strength with Satan’s. They are diabolical and thereby aided in the formulation of their “pitch” to you. Do you think that you can stand up to them (without having a small crack of disbelief start by what they say)?
Better to say to them that: (1) you are a practicing Roman Catholic, (2) you will pray for them, but (3) both abortion and homosexuality are wrong and will lead to damnation. Tell them this and wait for them to say, “but Francis says, ‘who are we to judge’ and the Synod almost approved gay relationships’; stuff like that. Then you are into self-doubt, perhaps. Simply make your statement, then say, “good-bye”. And shut the door. They know where the location of a convenient Catholic Church.
Now that I can agree with, St. Chris! If they came to my door they would be met with a St. Francis Holy Water font, a muzazza by the door with the ten commandments curled inside, a copper & steel scary mask my husband made ( to scare away evil spirits) and other impedimenta that reveal there aren’t your ordinary secular occupants inside. haha. Also, I have blessed salt in the corners of our entry way. They’ll be meeting with skirmishes before they even get to the heavy artillery inside ( one whole wall of medieval art, icons, sacred paintings, etc) an open Douay-Reims 1955 illustrated ‘Bible on the library table , and on and on. I have to say, though my husband has an antipathy to religion he’s really good about having authentic Catholic art about the house…it’s hidden in plain sight…so beautiful no one complains. As a matter of fact, I’m going to start painting an icon later this winter…after I finish my Chaucer chess set. I’m afraid PP gets really short shrift in this area…they had a clinic (no abortions) and they got run out of town after a very brief stay. Anyway, your advice is good. God bless, you .
You are right. These Culture of Death peddlers are telemarketers, trained to believe that you have not definitively said NO until you hang up on them. In this case, shut the door.
This so-called “victory,” for the homosexual “marriage” activists– is shallow, and temporary! It is similar to ignorant, but well-meaning people, in Communist countries, being propagandized “successfully,” by Communists. It doesn’t last! Many Americans today, since the diabolical 1960’s era– have very little moral, religious, and intellectual training! They are unaware of the truth, unchallenged lifelong, spoiled, shallow, not used to thoroughly thinking things through— and may simply seem to “accept” (or feel sorry for) homosexuals demanding so-called “marriage.” Just as many of the older “me-generationers” dumbly accepted the pressures by the media, for acceptance of the babyish immorality of “situation ethics,” birth control, and pre-marital sex. However, some of these people may finally have experiences in life, that cause them to “wake up,” use their heads, think things through carefully— and see the truth! What a spoiled, too-wealthy, babied, immoral, lazy, illiterate, unthinking society!! Human nature is so DUMB!! However, all triumphs of Evil are false, and temporary– God wins, eventually, over all things!
Agreed.
Sending Gaystapo Mau Mau Artistes to pound on the front doors of the politically incorrect is an effective Terror Tactic, as the ‘SA’ Storm Troopers of the Homo-Nazi Reich also showed.
The widespread development of ‘Gaystapo Enemy lists’ – like the “Lavender Liberal” Stalker List (my name is on it) Targeting those who donated in support Genuine Marriage via the successful Proposition 8 Campaign…
– Coupled with the Vicious Retaliatory Tactics that have Destroyed Careers ranging from Brendan Eich of Mozilla to Bakers, Florists and anyone else who can be threatened with the Power of the Gaystapo & its Media Enforcers – has indeed proven effective at ‘Publicly’ changing positions…
– If not actually Convincing anyone that Homo-Anal Coprophile Behaviors remain other than physically harmful pathological disease spreading perversions.
When the Homo-Nazi Storm Troopers under their boy raping homo-anal coprophile pederast founder Ernst Rohm (and syphilitic prostitute protege hitler) took their act to the streets – they used the Stiff Arm ‘Heil’ Salute as an intimidation tool.
A ‘Happy’ Homo-Nazi would ‘greet’ strangers on the street, or inside businesses, with the ‘Heil’ – and Anyone who failed to return it was immediately put on the Retaliation List – often winding up in places like Dachau (the first camp – opened by Rohm’s SA to intimidate All Germans)… for ‘political re-education’
After Rohm’s ‘SA’ leadership were assassinated by Hitler’s Homosex SS – an Inter-party war saw ‘Rohm’s Avengers’ put in the same camps – with a Brown Triangle (later changed to pink) as their identifier.
What?
When you write like this Michael, I simply have to skip over it…you’re not speaking to us, you’re haranguing. Would you talk like that if you were sitting across a table from us, sharing a cuppa coffee and a doughnut?
Dana – covering your eyes and ears while running from ugly truths, eventually leads to the same hard fall taken by the ‘Good German’s of the 1930s.
Yes – I use factually accurate, historically correct examples exposing the Evil Again threatening our society where appropriate – like Gaystapo Stalkers going door to door Spreading Fear to the Masses.
SEE
“Christians, Stand Your Ground Against Homofascism
Matt Barber
https://townhall.com/columnists/mattbarber/2014/12/29/christians-stand-your-ground-against-homofascism-n1936186/page/full
Defense of God’s design for natural marriage – along with the God-given, constitutional freedom of conscience to decline participation in and, thereby, endorsement of, its unnatural and sin-based counterfeit, so-called “gay marriage”
– is now among America’s premier civil-rights struggles.
…10 years ago I was fired from a major fortune 100 company for… an op-ed acknowledging the requisite binary male-female nature of authentic marriage and human sexuality…
It’s getting ugly out there, and it will only get worse. The cases are piling up…
– I submit that, if and when you, dear Christian, are placed in a situation that compels you to choose between obedience to God’s just laws or man’s unjust laws, that you not only refuse to obey the unjust laws, but refuse to quit.
Stand your ground… Do not resign your post. Force the government to overtly persecute you – to take punitive action against you for your righteous stand. Even if you face chains.
Pray for courage, and God will provide it.
That’s true, Michael, and God grant us the strength and endurance to stand for what we believe. I didn’t disagree with WHAT you said, just how it was said. Sometimes you get on a roll and what you write is really hard to follow. Your last post was easily understood because you were writing from the heart. The thing I try to remember is God made EVERY person and he made each of us with the same end in mind…that we return to Him. It grieves Our Lady to see these people in darkness, and no matter what evil they perpetrate, we must remember that God loves them. I don’t want to see these people as homofascists, gooks, Krauts, etc. but as human beings…otherwise I’m afraid I’ll lose my salvation because I will hate them. Like you I’ve been hurt for other reasons over the years but I have forgiven those who did it, remembering how many I’ve hurt. (though it’s definitely an ongoing process) Does that make sense? We should be vigilant and know homosexualists are the enemy, but our battle plan should be to win them over with the greatest weapon in our arsenal…with love, thereby heaping coals on their heads. I wish. ;) The difference from that and what others here believe is, I don’t think love means having to be smiley and sweet all the time…that’s the secular view of love, to be like syrupy greeting cards and sooooooo nice.
FYI, LGBT people don’t want “counterfeit, so called “gay marriage” ” either.
“Your Fellow Catholic”: LGBT people cannot have a morally licit marriage, under any circumstances.
If a judicially-directed “marriage” is fashioned by the US Supreme Court for LGBT people, it will be by definition “counterfeit”.
And, the bogus nature of any such marriage cannot be re-defined by a few bishops, or the Pope, either. The 2015 Synod can result in nothing that gives any credibility to the notion of “precious gay relationships”. Instead, the Church should be fashioning a universal plan of outreach to all homosexuals to help them avoid homosexual sex, to deal with their attractions in a sexually-obsessed world, and to achieve salvation (instead of inviting scandal by simply heretical propositions by people like Abp. Forte).
Michael Mcdermott,
I do not think that you have Aspergers Syndrome where a very brilliant person is capable of relentlessly quoting and remembering numerous facts while seemingly being devoid of close interpersonal skills. But what if I am wrong and this IS you’re unique God given way to OPEN the eyes of certain individuals. Shame on anyone who picks on someone who was willing to tell the truth over a big fat lie. Perhaps even the homosexuals, (who I have noticed willingly praise your posts when you on rare occasion, donut and coffee clutch it up on CCD) will open their blinded eyes. You earned a prized BINGO card so someone is paying attention. Who knows but you and God. BTW Aspergers Syndrome individuals are also often accused of haranguing when really that is not their intention either.
Michael Mc Dermott it takes great fortitude and humility to announce that you lost your job for telling the truth. You have nothing to be humiliated about but the reason I use the word humility is because the enemy will seek to use that as a tool to criticize instead of recognizing the supernatural underlying courage and conviction that it takes to be fully aware that one might lose their livelihood when refusing to tap dance with evil. Sadly today you can often still hear good people say that there is no such thing as an evil person.
I’m puttin’ on my top hat,
Tyin’ up my white tie,
Brushin’ off my tails. Wheee. Just tapping my way across the keys Catherine. I didn’t know you were a psychoanalyst ! Do tell…what makes you think Michael has Asberger syndrome? I’m all agog and frankly, pretty tired as well what with picking on poor Michael and all. Sure wears a person out. Oh, wait, let me show you my new soft shoe routine. I can do it in capital letters too. Hubbard hubba!
Again, wait, what??
I take inspiration from President Abraham Lincoln during the Darkest Days of 1862 (Knee deep in alligators, snapping at him from All sides) -Who succinctly and clearly Defined the True ‘state of the union’ – and the Need to Defend It.
He neither appealed to his base with glib feel good jingoism; nor made a pity plea to opponents to ‘all just get along’ – and quit bickering so we could get back to having some fun.
Lincoln found himself at a historical juncture similar to Ours (Pearl Harbor, 9/11…) that would not go away ‘Gaily’ – like a slick hollyweird movie with ruby red slippers where ‘there’s no place like home’.
Our place is indeed SSADLy similar to Lincoln’s.
Christians Worldwide are Beheaded on line for lamesteam media amusement, and those willing to live as slaves must put a ‘N’ (Nazorean) on their doors.
The World Weeps for the Christian Girls (Nigerians) kidnapped in to Slavery (By African Terrorists) – but has forgotten conveniently about the Christian Boys Dormitory set on Fire, with all who tried to escape Shot.
The American Church is undergoing Attacks reminiscent of of Cromwell stabling his horses in Irish Churches…
– Only Not Parliament but POTUS ‘Down Low’ Soetoro gaily uses ‘pen & phone’ to befoul his ‘enemies’ Houses of Worship
Barry’s Turkey Baster Creationist ‘justice system’ has even Trashed Marriage & Banned Gender Science as Thought Crime.
Lincoln Said: “We shall either nobly save or meanly lose this last best hope on earth.”
Choose Fast Campers – You’re Needed Now
There are a couple of things that come to mind here. First, the abortion industry’s attempts to normalize abortion really demonstrate their profound lack of understanding about human nature. Almost everybody accepts that’s it’s wrong. Only the most bitterly pro-abortion people take the position that leads to the infamous “choice on earth” cards or t-shirts that say “I’ve had an abortion!”. What I found while discussing with women is that they knew it was wrong but they were being weak and/or felt trapped. I even had one woman sob on the sidewalk in front of the clinic and say she just hoped that God would forgive her, and while I don’t understand how she thinks, I’m pretty sure she’s not going to run out and buy a t-shirt that says “I had an abortion!” I think it will be her painful secret she takes to her grave. Even the pro-abortion people have to be careful walking this line. They want to make it normal but they find that people are repulsed when they become too flippant and treat abortion like they are just going in to get their teeth cleaned and it’s really no big deal.
Second, changing my mind about abortion and changing my mind about recycling are very different. One is an eternal objective truth of God and one is more of a public policy issue. Another thing that came to mind is that people might behave differently when you show up at their house. I wonder if they would behave differently if they were in a public space like a mall. When I have people come to my home to try and sell me things, I’m always polite because I have children and this is my home and sometimes people are crazy. Although I would never back down on abortion I wonder if others would, simply to avoid a confrontation at their home with a stranger who came to discuss a provocative topic.
But Life Lady has a good point. We can still learn from this. I think there is something to be said for taking our pro-life views into the world. Right now social media is a good place for that but also in our one on one relationships with people. I know I’m not too persuaded by someone who showed up once at my house but I am by the people who I have consistently around me. We should always be bringing the message of life into the world starting with those of us around us.