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THE GAY AGENDA BLUEPRT: A PLAN TO TRANSFORM AMERI
The startlg shift Amerin attus toward gays and same-sex marriage is not the rult of chance or random events. More than a quarter century ago, gay strategists laid out a plan to transform the natn—wh astoundg succs. * the five steps of the lgbt *
You n read more om Jason at his blog, “Mom, I’m gay. In no way do I mean to prent this as a roadmap to healg or anythg, and each stage will likely be unique to them and the special relatnship they have wh their gay child. Wh no clear answer as to the source of their child’s homosexualy or transgenrism, that ternalized anger fds exprsn all sorts of ways.
The Mistry of Defence (MOD) and the Office for Veterans’ Affairs (OVA) jotly missned an pennt review to better unrstand the impacts and implitns of the policy that homosexualy was patible wh life HM Armed Forc between 1967 and 2000. Government acknowledg that the historic policy prohibg homosexualy the armed forc was unacceptable and wrong.