The The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths
No longer satisfied with “mere acceptance” by our society, heterosexual political pressure groups have launched a well-planned, well-financed campaign, which, if left unchecked, threatens to destroy the most fundamental structures of American society. This report considers the implications of the heterosexual agenda (both overt and hidden), the problems it has already caused and its potentially disasterous results for society.
Check out the 36 page PDF file.
Excerpt:
Tags: LGBT, Social JusticeThe Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths is a parody. I wrote it to show how Focus on the Family, American Family Association, and many others produce some pretty convincing anti-gay books, videos, web pages, and other tracts. In doing so, I used social science research exactly as they do. The only difference between what I did and what they do is this: I showed you exactly what I did every step of the way.
I have counted fifteen key steps to writing an antigay tract. But there is one common element that ties these steps together: fear. Each step builds on the previous one, reinforcing the things the writer wants his readers to be afraid of. It starts with a fearful premise reinforced with fearful “facts,” and leads to the fearful consequences of those “facts.” It ends with a fearful depiction of the future for our society if these fearful problems aren’t dealt with.
http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_21244799.shtml
That site’s article is a textbook example of an anti-gay tract. It’s disgusting.
I think, based on a brief conversation with Eric, that the above link could benefit from a mention that you can compare it, a real live anti-gay “Christian” tract, to the 15 steps outlined in the article Eric is pointing out here. It’s as if the writers of the tract followed the tounge-in-cheek advice.
I wonder how well you could transfer over the writing format to other human attributes commonly listed in employment discrimination policies, or even just any old human attribute. I suspect most of them would work for slander generally. It would also be an interesting project to see how well they work for analyzing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Tracts I would like to read:
The Presbyterian Agenda
The Senior Citizen Agenda
The Pregnant Woman Agenda
There’s a scene in The Exorcist where the younger priest is complaining that there are so many demons to keep track of, and the older priest grabs him and screams, “There is only One! There is only One Demon!” Without necessarily carrying that to its literal, logical extent, it seems as though this little joke is pretty good at pointing out that the momentary form of hate is less important than the fact that it is hate in any form.