Ads hope to weaken marriage strongholds, starting in Miss.

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Friday, November 14, 2014
Charlie Butts   (OneNewsNow.com) Tuesday, November 11, 2014
 
The Human Rights Campaign is targeting Mississippi with activism and a media blitz designed to gain support for the homosexual lifestyle. The American Family Association, which is based there, is cautioning Christians not to be deceived.
 
Two lawsuits have been filed by lesbians trying to force same-gender "marriage" on the Magnolia State – where in 2004, 86 percent of voters approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage as one man, one woman. HRC is running an ad campaign to convince people of faith to desert the Bible's teachings on the subject. The campaign reportedly includes ads featuring two Mississippi residents: a conservative Southern Baptist mom with a "gay" son, and an openly gay 25-year-old Army Reservist in uniform.
 
Buddy Smith, executive vice president of American Family Association, says HRC's multimillion-dollar campaign is "very cleverly packaged" to destroy the opposition.
 
Smith
"And in this case the opposition is none other than the church of Jesus Christ, the gospel of Jesus Christ," he explains. "HRC says they're spending $8.5 million in hopes of changing the message of the church and the life-changing power of the gospel of Jesus Christ."
 
The $300,000-plus Mississippi ad campaign, which began airing TV commercials on Monday, is part of a three-year program that HRC began six months ago in three Southern states known for being among the most religious in the U.S. (Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas).
 
Smith urges people nationwide to not be fooled by the slick advertising and stick to the reality of scripture. "The life-giving message of the church and life-changing power of the gospel of Jesus Christ is that Jesus forgives sin and the sinner when we repent of those sins and allow him to deliver us and give us a clean and a new heart," he tells OneNewsNow.
 
In 2004, 75 percent of voters in Arkansas passed a marriage amendment to their constitution. That amendment was ruled unconstitutional in 2014 and is currently pending appeal to the Arkansas Supreme Court. Eight in ten Alabama voters approved a "Sanctity of Marriage Amendment" in 2006.