Homosexuals and other members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community are discriminated against on a daily basis. Many people in this community even face institutionalized discrimination by the government. This deep-rooted problem has been neglected for quite some time, but lately many organizations have been fighting to rectify this issue. One of them is a non-profit called the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, who for several decades has been a stakeholder in litigating for the LGBT community’s civil rights. An organization that has similar ideals with the SPLC is Truth Wins Out, or TWO. In the recent past they have been fighting against cultural discrimination through educating the masses. While the SPLC and TWO use
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TWO is an organization formed by Wayne Besen, a former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, to fight what it considers "anti-gay religious extremism", especially the ex-gay movement. Besen formed Truth Wins Out on June 7, 2006 as a response to the belief that a person 's homosexual orientation can change. In particular, TWO is critical of organizations and religious ministries which treat homosexuality as a diseased behavior pattern that can be "cured". Besen later launched the related RespectMyResearch project to document what he views as distortions of science by the ex-gay movement, especially Focus on the Family. The mission of TWO is to “debunk harmful lies, discredit hateful myths, and counter anti-gay organizations” in order to destroy the hateful environment that people of LGBT live in through of donation and help of …show more content…
This strategy looks over that ally forces have to get divided in order to attack on multiple angles. (Sunzi 473) In this case both allied forces are attacking this issue from two very different angles, but could be working significantly more effectively if they were to combine their resources, and strategically use each other expertise. The SPLC attacks anti-LGBT policy, and groups through the court system. While in contrast TWO fights for cultural acceptance, by breaking the foundations of the many myths, and baseless statements about people of LGBT. TWO can effectively “chip away at the underlying ignorance that fuels anti-LGBT attitudes, we can ultimately win our fight for fairness and achieve full equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people worldwide”(TWO). Separately these organizations are making progress improving the standing of LGBT as citizens, and as people in our culture. These methodical methods, will eventually lead them to fulfill their goal of civil rights, and cultural
TWO is an organization formed by Wayne Besen, a former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, to fight what it considers "anti-gay religious extremism", especially the ex-gay movement. Besen formed Truth Wins Out on June 7, 2006 as a response to the belief that a person 's homosexual orientation can change. In particular, TWO is critical of organizations and religious ministries which treat homosexuality as a diseased behavior pattern that can be "cured". Besen later launched the related RespectMyResearch project to document what he views as distortions of science by the ex-gay movement, especially Focus on the Family. The mission of TWO is to “debunk harmful lies, discredit hateful myths, and counter anti-gay organizations” in order to destroy the hateful environment that people of LGBT live in through of donation and help of …show more content…
This strategy looks over that ally forces have to get divided in order to attack on multiple angles. (Sunzi 473) In this case both allied forces are attacking this issue from two very different angles, but could be working significantly more effectively if they were to combine their resources, and strategically use each other expertise. The SPLC attacks anti-LGBT policy, and groups through the court system. While in contrast TWO fights for cultural acceptance, by breaking the foundations of the many myths, and baseless statements about people of LGBT. TWO can effectively “chip away at the underlying ignorance that fuels anti-LGBT attitudes, we can ultimately win our fight for fairness and achieve full equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people worldwide”(TWO). Separately these organizations are making progress improving the standing of LGBT as citizens, and as people in our culture. These methodical methods, will eventually lead them to fulfill their goal of civil rights, and cultural