Timmy posted this guide to defending marriage on his Facebook page.
Excerpt:
I. THE MOST EFFECTIVE SINGLE SENTENCE:
Extensive and repeated polling agrees that the single most effective message is:
“Gays and Lesbians have a right to live as they choose,
they don’t have the right to redefine marriage for all of us.”
This allows people to express support for tolerance while opposing gay marriage. Some modify it to “People have a right to live as they choose, they don’t have the right to redefine marriage for all of us.”
Language to avoid at all costs: “Ban same-sex marriage.” Our base loves this wording. So do supporters of SSM. They know it causes us to lose about ten percentage points in polls. Don’t use it. Say we’re against “redefining marriage” or in favor or “marriage as the union of husband and wife” NEVER “banning same-sex marriage.”
II. MAIN MESSAGE THE 3X5 CARD.
• Marriage is between a husband and wife. The people of [this state] do not want marriage to be anything but that. We do not want government or judges changing that definition for us today or our children tomorrow.
• We need a marriage amendment to settle the gay marriage issue once and for all, so we don’t have it in our face every day for the next ten years.
• Marriage is about bringing together men and women so children can have mothers and fathers.
• Do we want to teach the next generation that one-half of humanity—either mothers or fathers—are dispensable, unimportant? Children are confused enough right now with sexual messages. Let’s not confuse them further.
• Gays and Lesbians have a right to live as they choose; they don’t have a right to redefine marriage for the rest of us.
Mary also sent me this excellent peer-reviewed paper on traditional marriage and same-sex marriage, authored by two guys from Princeton University and one guy from the University of Notredame. One of those guys is the famous Robert P. George!
I’ve also prepared an evidential case against same-sex marriage using arguments that will be convincing to people who don’t have any religious commitment.
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Honestly, I don’t even think we need to exert any extra effort on this issue. For all the media attention and polling results, when given the opportunity to vote for whether marriage should be defined as one man/one woman, Americans support that definition nearly 2:1 even in the deepest of blue states.
If I may: http://truthinreligionandpolitics.com/2012/05/16/polling-discrepancies/
Though polling shows growing support, when given the opportunity to vote their conscience behind closed doors, they support marriage.
The key does seem to be wording. When presented as though you want to take “rights” away from homosexuals, people do not support that. When you ask if homosexuals should have the same rights as everyone else, people support that. But when you ask, “should marriage be defined only as between one man and one woman” people overwhelmingly support it.
I made this chart for reference on marriage amendment votes
http://truthinreligionandpolitics.com/state-marriage-amendment-votes/
Very good. ps: Highly recommend Prager’s very long treatise on homosexuality, written about 20 years ago. He devoted his entire issue of Ultimate Issues to it.
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