Dear brothers and sisters,

I resonate with Rev. Schanker's counsel. We have to uphold the ideal and stay on the point of what is right, and why it is right, and always love, not depersonalize, our enemy.

We need to make common cause with America's pro-family forces. It is an inter-religious front, by the way-Christian, Jewish and Muslim. Therefore we should not introduce the specifics of our theology (God is male/female, the blood lineage teachings, the messiah as True Parents). We should rely on social science, western (indeed global) tradition, and the teachings of all religions. I do not think we should be evangelical in this context, because it will make it more difficult for people of other faiths to work with us.

If we become really effective champions of this cause, then others naturally will be positive and interested in our Founder and the Blessing, without our bringing it up.

When a student at UTS, I wrote a paper on homosexuality and the (Christian) church. I found that gays can refute every biblical argument and argument from natural science-and that was 25 years ago! I also found, when I visited the Gay Men's Health Crisis office in NYC, that gays are nice people, so-oo nice. Their advocacy is not easy to defeat, as we measure the progress they have made.

We have to enter into this debate on the foundation of careful thinking, research and planning for the response that will come. We have to plan out what we want to achieve and how we hope to achieve it. We should be in conversation with other pro-traditional marriage leaders in our society. One of them is the Governor of Massachusetts, who wrote an excellent op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal about 3 weeks ago.

ITL, Tyler Hendricks

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