Groups to Worry About
(Some of these groups also appear on my Political Lynx page, under
"Know The Enemy")
American Family Association
P.O. Box 2440
Tupelo, MS 38803
(601) 844-5036
Internet address: www.afa.net
Formerly: National Federation for Decency
President: Rev. Donald Wildmon
Date of founding: 1977
Place of founding: Tupelo, MS
Activities: The American Family Association's (AFA) activities include boycotting sponsors of TV shows with "excessive" sex and violence.
AFA also
objects to TV programs which it thinks display an anti-Christian bias. Among
its hundreds of targets over the years are "Cheers," "The Johnny Carson
Show," "Saturday Night Live," "Roseanne," "Nightline" and "NYPD Blue." In 1994, the AFA spent
some $3 million on a newspaper, radio and direct mail
campaign discouraging advertisers from airing commercials during "NYPD
Blue." In addition to targeting network television, AFA actively campaigns
against public television. The group has called for the shutdown of PBS. As
a result of the AFA's campaign, many state legislatures reduced funding for
public broadcasting.
The group also spearheaded the attack on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), using direct mail and extensive print advertising to distort the
NEA's record of sponsorship of the arts. The AFA also involves itself in
public school censorship. AFA filed lawsuits attempting to ban the
curriculum, "Impressions," from public school classrooms on the grounds that
it "promotes the religion of witchcraft." The AFA Law Center is staffed by
six full-time attorneys with a network of more than 400 affiliate lawyers.
AFA's Washington D.C. Office of Governmental Affairs provides information on
proposed federal legislation and monitors the activities of Congress, the
White House, and the federal agencies.
Most recently, the AFA has been vigorously promoting a boycott against the
Disney corporation and its subsidiaries. The AFA is protesting Disney's
extension of company benefits to same-sex partners of gay and lesbian
employees. It also objects to various films and television shows produced by
Disney subsidiaries, claiming they support violence, anti-Christian themes,
incest, graphic sex, hard drug use, profanity and obscenity.
Along with several other Religious Right groups, the AFA is currently
participating in a campaign against American Airlines. The AFA signed onto a
letter condemning the airline for its gay-friendly policies. In addition,
the group has called on the airlines to stop its "endorsement of a radical
movement that seeks to use government and corporate power to impose
obligatory acceptance of homosexuality on all of society."
Membership: AFA claims over 500,000 members.
State chapters: 450 local affiliates across the country. The Sacramento
Union reported that the California AFA chapter has nearly 300,000 active
supporters.
Publication: AFA Journal (published monthly), with a circulation of nearly
400,000.
Radio: Produces the radio show, "AFA Report," a 30-minute feature available
on about 1,200 local radio stations. AFA also has a broadcast ministry,
American Family Radio, with over 100 radio stations in 24 states across the
country.
Finances: AFA is a 501(c)(3). Total revenue for 1996 was $8.9 million.
Staff: About 120 employees and four full-time lawyers.
Quotes from Don Wildmon: "It's not only a cultural civil war, it's a fight
over the very existence of society as we've known it." (Memphis, TN
Commercial-Appeal, 8/5/90)
"What we are up against is not dirty words and dirty pictures. It is a
philosophy of life which seeks to remove the influence of Christians and
Christianity from our society." (New York Times, 9/2/90)
On President Bill Clinton and gays: "He [Bill Clinton] made a covenant with
the homosexuals -- with the radical homosexuals. He has catered to them. He
has solicited their support. He has said to them, 'if you give me your
support, if you give me the vote, if you give me the money, I will give you
what you want. I will put -- from the highest office in this country -- I
will put the stamp of approval on your actions.'" (National Affairs
Briefing, 8/92)
"Christianity and politics not only do mix, but for democracy as we have
known it to survive, they must mix." (Miami Herald, 11/16/93)
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Christian Coalition
P.O. Box 1990
Chesapeake, VA 23320
(804) 424-2630
Internet address: www.cc.org
Founder: Pat Robertson
President: Donald Hodel
Executive Director: Randy Tate
Date of founding: 1989
Activities: The Christian Coalition's central goals are two: to take working
control of the Republican party by working from the grassroots up; and
electing "Christian candidates" to public office. The group has had
considerable success in both areas, claiming control at several state
Republican central committees and winning election to public office for
Christian Coalition members and endorsees.
The Christian Coalition distributed --33 million voter guides for 1994
general election. For the 1996 election, the group mailed 45 million voting
guides and made personal contact with 10 million voters using phone banks.
The group has also focused on other issues such as defunding the National
Endowment for the Arts, campaigning against gay rights and opposing equal
rights for women, including reproductive freedom. In the fall of 1995 the
Christian Coalition launched the Catholic Alliance in an attempt to boost
its membership among pro-family Catholics. However, the Alliance met with
limited success and has now severed its ties with the Christian Coalition
and is an independent group.
The coalition has recently undergone a change in leadership with the
departure of Executive Director Ralph Reed in September of 1997. It has also
suffered a severe decline in donations, from $26.5 million in 1996 to $17
million in 1997. As a result of this steep loss in revenue, the group has
reorganized by cutting staff and dropping its minority outreach program, the
Samaritan Project. Since Reed's exit, the organization's strategy of working
closely with the Republican Party has changed. Its new strategy, called Families 2000, will be to reach out to churchgoers and focus on such social
issues as abortion, gay rights, pornography, and gambling. The new plan also
calls for recruiting 100,000 church liaisons by November 2000. The coalition
continues to push for legislative measures designed to promote inner-city
projects including educational vouchers. The group also supports education
savings accounts, known as "education IRAs," to pay for private school
tuition and home schooling.
Membership: The coalition claims 1.9 million members. However, the actual
number of supporters may be only 300,000-400,000 members, which is based on
the more reliable measure of how many households received the Christian
American during the year.
State chapters: 2,000 across the United States.
Publications: Christian American (has now ceased publication) and Religious
Rights Watch.
TV: Pat Robertson's "700 Club" has about 7 million viewers every week.. The
group's hour-long satellite television show, "Christian Coalition Weekly,"
which was broadcast over America's Voice (formerly known as National
Empowerment Television), was recently canceled.
Finances: The Christian Coalition is a 501(c)(4) organization, and is
therefore, partially tax-exempt; it can lobby, but cannot endorse
candidates. Contributions to the group have dropped from a record of $26.5
million in 1996 to around $17 million in 1997.
The coalition's tax exempt status is still under review by the IRS. In
addition, the group has been sued by the Federal Election Commission. The
FEC is arguing that the coalition coordinated political efforts with
Republican candidates from 1990 to 1994. Both actions are pending.
Staff: 80
Quotes from Pat Robertson: "The feminist agenda is not about equal rights
for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that
encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice
witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." (Pat Robertson direct
mail, Summer 1992)
"We want...as soon as possible to see a majority of the Republican Party in
the hands of pro-family Christians by 1996." (Denver Post, 10/26/92)
"I believe that during the next couple of years there will be a fierce
struggle between the militant leftists, secular humanists, and atheists who
have dominated the power centers of American culture for the past 50 years
and the Evangelical Christians, pro-family Roman Catholics, and their
conservative allies. The radical left will lose its hold, and by the end of
this decade control of the major institutions of society will be firmly in
the hands of those who share a pro-family, religious, traditional value
perspective." (Pat Robertson's Perspective, July - August/1991)
On South Africa: "Again I think 'one man one vote,' just unrestricted
democracy would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for
the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need
and have a right to demand a protection of their rights . . . ." (700 Club,
3/18/92)
Quotes from Ralph Reed: On the coalition's election plan in San Diego, CA:
"It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is
allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's better to move
quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. You've got two choices: You can
wear cammies and shimmy along on your belly, or you can put on a red coat
and stand up for everyone to see. It comes down to whether you want to be
the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Viet Cong. History tells us
which tactic was more effective." (Los Angeles Times, 3/22/92)
On election strategy: "I want to be invisible. I do guerrilla warfare. I
paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in
a body bag." (Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 11/9/91)
"We tried to charge Washington when we should have been focusing on the
states. The real battles of concern to Christians are in neighborhoods,
school boards, city councils and state legislatures." (Washington Post,
3/14/90)
Quote from Donald Hodel: "A group like ours may, in fact, have greater
impact if it is not visible. One of the strengths of a grassroots campaign
is that it doesn't show up on a radar screen." (Kansas City Star, 1/25/98)
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Citizens for Excellence in Education / National Association of Christian
Educators
P.O. Box 3200
Costa Mesa, CA 92628
(714) 251-9333
Internet address: www.nace-cee.org
President: Dr. Robert L. Simonds
Date of founding: 1983
Place of founding: Costa Mesa, CA
Activities: Citizens for Excellence in Education (CEE) is one of the most
active groups challenging books, educational materials and curricula in the
public schools. CEE has initiated various censorship incidents involving the
"Impressions" reading series, drug-abuse prevention programs and self-esteem
curricula. CEE is intent upon restoring religion in the public schools. One
way the group hopes to accomplish this is to rid schools of textbooks that
supposedly teach "secular humanism" and that mention the theory of
evolution. In addition, CEE also helps to elect its members to school boards
across the country. As of January 1994, CEE claimed to have helped elect
12,625 parents to school boards in only five years. Bob Simonds, president
of CEE, has stated that he "want[s] to revert to Christian control of public
schools." However, in a recent fundraising letter, Simonds is now telling
his members that "Christians must exit the public schools." In order to help
people transfer their children to Christian or home schools, Simonds has set
up a project called Rescue 2010. The plan's goal is to fill current
Christian schools and start a school in every church facility by the year
2010.
Membership: 325,000
State chapters: CEE claims about 1,700 chapters and 878 Public School
Awareness (PSA) church committees. These committees are established in
churches in order to influence and bring about change in local public
schools.
Publications: Education Newsline (quarterly newsletter). Family Building
Blocks (bimonthly newsletter). How to Elect Christians to Public Office
(1985) is a 65-page booklet instructing Christians on how to win school
board seats.
Radio: Issues in Education is heard on 100 stations.
Finances: $610,000 annual budget is mainly from individual donors.
Quotes from Robert Simonds: "As the church watches from the sidelines, the
ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to
enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate
against Christian families." (CEE President's Report, 3/91)
On multiculturalism, values clarification and self-esteem: "The Los Angeles
riots, showing sickening disregard for the life and property of neighbors,
were spawned right in our public school classrooms. We have been teaching
multiculturalism instead of Americanism, for ten years now, and
indoctrinating our children with values clarification and 'self-esteem.'
(CEE President's Report, 6/92)
"There are 15,700 school districts in America. When we get an active
Christian parent's committee in operation in all districts, we can take
complete control of all local school boards. This would allow us to
determine all local policy: select good textbooks, good curriculum programs,
superintendents, and principals. Our time has come!" (CEE direct mail)
"We need strong school board members who know right from wrong. The Bible,
being the only true source of right and wrong, should be the guide of board
members. Only godly Christians can truly qualify for this critically
important position...." (How to Elect Christians to Public Office, 1985).
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Concerned Women for America
370 L'Enfant Promenade SW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20024
(202) 488-7000
Internet address: www.cwfa.org
Founder and Chairman: Beverly LaHaye
President: Carmen Pate
Date of founding: 1979
Place of founding: San Diego, CA
Membership: CWA claims over 500,000 members.
Activities: Concerned Women for America (CWA) is anti-gay, anti-choice and
anti-sex education. In addition, CWA opposes funding the National Endowment
for the Arts. It has lobbied against the Freedom of Choice Act and gay
rights legislation in many states. In the area of education, CWA fights
against sex education curricula that is not abstinence based and opposes
anti-drug and alcohol abuse programs that emphasize self-esteem. Many
challengers to books and curricula in public schools use CWA's materials.
Grassroots activity for most states is headed by a CWA Area Representative
and a steering committee. This group monitors state legislation, organizes
Prayer/Action chapters and coordinates the "535" program, CWA's grassroots
congressional lobbying program.
State chapters: 1,200 chapters across the country.
Publication: Family Voice (published monthly, has 200,000 subscribers) and
Issues at a Glance (monthly). Family Watch, a church communication, reaches
500,000 people in churches across the country.
Radio: CWA's daily 30-minute radio show, "Beverly LaHaye Live," reaches an
estimated audience of 750,000.
Finances: Income was $11.3 million for 1996.
Staff: 25
Quotes by Beverly LaHaye: "Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a
nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our
government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not
use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in
office." (Ms., 2/87)
On censorship: "I am aware that America is and must always be a land of
freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for
everything." (CWA News, 3/91)
Mrs. LaHaye warned her members that homosexuals "want their depraved
'values' to become our children's values. Homosexuals expect society to
embrace their immoral way of life. Worse yet, they are looking for new
recruits!" (CWA direct mail, 5/92)
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Eagle Forum
Box 618
Alton, IL 62002
(618) 462-5415
Internet address: www.eagleforum.org
President: Phyllis Schlafly
Date of founding: 1972
Place of founding: Alton, IL
Membership: 80,000 (1996)
Activities: The Eagle Forum opposes the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion
rights, AIDS education, sex education that is not strictly abstinence-only,
self-esteem programs in public schools, funding for the National Endowment
for the Arts and federal support for daycare and family leave. Recent
activities include the distribution of an Eagle Forum television
"documentary" on the United Nations (U.N.). The television report recounts
how U.N. treaties and conferences are supposedly undermining American
independence and "paving the way for global control." The group also opposes
a national educational testing plan and school-to-work legislation. Phyllis
Schlafly is an outspoken critic of public education and her materials are
frequently cited by local schoolbook censors. Schlafly founded the
Republican National Coalition for Life in 1990, and was a driving force
behind the Republican party's strict anti-choice platform plank. Eagle Forum
also has a political action committee with offices in Washington, DC. It
also has chapters in all 50 states.
Publications: The Phyllis Schlafly Report (monthly with 80,000 subscribers),
Education Reporter (monthly). Mrs. Schlafly also writes a syndicated column
which appears in newspapers across the country.
Radio: Mrs. Schlafly's radio commentaries are heard on daily on 270 radio
stations.
Television: Phyllis Schlafly does a weekly commentary on the America's Voice
network (formerly known as National Empowerment Television).
Quotes from Phyllis Schlafly: On sexual harassment: "If there's no proof,
it's all in your mind. We don't want a policeman at every water cooler, you
know." (USA Today, 9/9/91)
"Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no
question that it will encourage sexual activity." (New York Times, 10/17/92)
On the election of President Bill Clinton: "Some people think that
pro-family and conservatives do better in adversity than they do in success,
and I think there will be a great rallying of the pro-family movement."
(Family News in Focus, 11/5/92)
"You can't get into negotiations with the feminists because you will lose.
They will slit your throat. They have no sense of fair play or compromise."
(National Affairs Briefing, 8/92)
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Family Research Council
801 G St., NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 393-2100
Internet address: www.frc.org
President: Gary Bauer
Date of founding: 1981
Activities: The Family Research Council (FRC), headed by Gary Bauer, was a
division of Focus on the Family from 1988 to 1992. Since the 1994 election,
FRC has emerged as a leading conservative think-tank lobbying against
reproductive freedom, civil rights for gays, and funding of the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Moreover, FRC supports a school prayer amendment and would like to
"disestablish" the Department of Education. In recent years, Bauer has
gained more media attention and has replaced Ralph Reed (former Christian
Coalition executive director) as the spokesman for the Religious Right.
Bauer made a determined, but ineffectual, run for president in the year 2000.
Membership: 455,000 members.
Publications: Washington Watch (monthly with a circulation of 400,000) and
Family Policy (bimonthly). Ed Facts (available via fax, e-mail or internet
on a weekly basis). CultureFacts (available by fax or e-mail). i.e. (Ideas &
Energy) monthly newsletter provides articles on political, social, and
cultural trends for high-school students. Also produces numerous issue
papers.
Radio: Gary Bauer's "Daily Commentary" (90-second commentary available
Monday-Friday on 400 radio stations across the country).
Finances: $14 million budget.
Staff: 70
Quotes from Gary Bauer: On the decision by Cracker Barrel Restaurants to
refuse to hire homosexuals: "I believe in the equality of all races and I do
not believe in the equality of all sexual acts." (Family News in Focus,
3/4/91)
"I think of Justices Souter, Kennedy, and Justice O'Connor who voted against
us on that [Lee v. Weisman] decision and on the abortion decision. The
thought struck me that these must be the only three people in America who
don't understand why they were put on the Supreme Court." (National Affairs
Briefing, 8/92)
On funding the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA): The NEA "has allowed
itself to be used by a small cadre of cultural revolutionaries, militant
homosexuals and anti-religious bigots who are intent on attacking the
average American's most deeply held beliefs while sending them the bill."
(FRC direct mail, 10/90)
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Focus on the Family
P.O. Box 35500
Colorado Springs, CO 80935
(719) 531-3400
Internet address: www.fotf.org
President: Dr. James C. Dobson
Date of founding: 1977
Activities: Focus on the Family (FOF) conducts seminars across the country
to help evangelical Christians become involved in the political process.
Focus on the Family has used its radio show and magazine, Citizen, to urge
"pro-family" voters to become active in state and local primaries and
caucuses. FOF has 34 state affiliates including the Pennsylvania Family
Institute, the North Carolina Policy Council and the Rocky Mountain Family
Council. The group is anti-choice, anti-gay and against sex education
curricula that are not strictly abstinence-only. Local schoolbook censors
frequently use Focus on the Family's material when challenging a book or
curriculum in the public schools. Focus on the Family split from Gary
Bauer's Family Research Council in October 1992.
Membership: 2.1 million members.
Publications: Ten monthly magazines which include Focus on the Family,
Citizen, Parental Guidance, Clubhouse and Clubhouse Jr. reach an estimated
three million homes. Focus on the Family also publishes a variety of books.
Radio: FOF broadcasts "Family News in Focus," a daily radio show heard on
more than 1,500 facilities, and the daily one-half hour "Focus on the
Family" program, which reaches about 5 million listeners each week.
Finances: $114 million annual budget.
Staff: About 1,300
Quotes from James Dobson: "Co-educational sex education sheds children,
girls especially, of natural modesty." (Barren County, KY Progress, 8/31/89)
"Does the Republican Party want our votes, no strings attached--to court us
every two years, and then to say, 'Don't call me; I'll call you'--and to not
care about the moral law of the universe?...Is that what they want? Is that
the way the system works? Is this the way it's going to be? If it is, I'm
gone, and if I go, I will do everything I can to take as many people with me
as possible." (Statement from 2/7/98 Council for National Policy meeting,
Wash. Times 2/17/98)
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Free Congress Foundation
717 Second St., NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 546-3000
Internet address: www.fcref.org
President: Paul Weyrich
Date of founding: 1977
Activities: Paul Weyrich, president of Free Congress, has had a long history with the Religious Right. He helped draft Rev. Jerry Falwell to head the
Moral Majority, and founded the Heritage Foundation. After less than a year
at the Heritage Foundation, Weyrich went on to establish the Free Congress
Foundation (FCF). During the early 1980s, the foundation had a reputation as
being a pacesetter for Religious Right politics, in part because of the
coalitions which operated under the group's umbrella project, Coalitions for
America. These coalitions cooperated to draft legislation, plan media
strategies, and exchange ideas and research.
FCF is a research and education organization aggressively involved in
grassroots activism. The group pioneered America's Voice (formerly known as
National Empowerment Television), a cable network designed to rapidly
mobilize Religious Right followers for grassroots lobbying.
The foundation also has formed the Judicial Selection Monitoring Project,
which lobbies for the appointment of judicial conservatives to the federal
courts. In addition, the project seeks to establish an extensive national
network that can be ready to organize support for conservative appointees to
the courts and opposition to moderate or liberal appointees.
Finances: Income is over $9 million.
TV: America's Voice reaches an estimated 11 million viewers and its annual
budget is $6 million. Paul Weyrich stepped down as president of the network
in late 1997 after being asked to resign.
Some of America's Voice programs include "Direct Line with Paul Weyrich,
"The Michael Reagan Show," and the "Christian Coalition Weekly."
Internet address for America's Voice: www.americasvoice.com
Quotes from Paul Weyrich: "We need to get active at the local level. We will
never control the situation in Washington until we control the situation
back home." (National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, Winter 1990)
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National Right to Life Committee
419 7th St. NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20004
(202) 626-8800
Internet address: www.nrlc.org
President: Wanda Franz
Executive Director: David O'Steen
Date of founding: 1973
Activities: The nation's largest anti-abortion rights organization, the
National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) has a political action committee and
educational trust fund. One of the main goals of the organization is the
passage of a constitutional amendment banning abortion. The Committee
campaigned heavily against the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) the summer of
1992. NRLC is also active in such issues as euthanasia, infanticide, fetal
experimentation and in vitro fertilization. The Committee opposes RU-486 (mifepristone) and some forms of contraceptives, including "the pill."
Membership: 7 million.
State chapters: More than 3,000 local chapters in all 50 states.
Publication: National Right to Life News (monthly newsletter).
Finances: NRLC's annual budget is $12 million.
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Operation Rescue National
P.O. Box 740066
Dallas, TX 75374
(214) 348-8866
Internet address: www.orn.org
Executive Director: Flip Benham
Founder: Randall Terry
Activities: Operation Rescue National (ORN), an anti-abortion group whose
influence has declined since its inception, is still involved with direct
action against abortion clinics. The group used to conduct weeks-long
"rescues" at family-planning clinics in targeted cities, at which protesters
blockade clinics and verbally and physically harass patients. ORN has
developed programs targeting grassroots activists. One example is the
"Impact Team Program" which trained activists in local communities to manage
their own protests.
In February of 1994, Reverend Keith Tucci resigned as Executive Director and
Flip Benham stepped in to take his place and moved the group's headquarters
to Dallas, Texas. Since the resignation of Tucci, ORN has been distancing
themselves from the more radical antiabortion activists who condone
violence. Their recent protests have met with little publicity and have had
low attendance. Numerous court fines and judgments have been levied against
ORN and its leaders in the past few years. Yet little of the money owed by
ORN has been collected, since finding the group's assets has proven
difficult. Officials in Dallas, however, were successful in seizing
furniture, computers, and office equipment from ORN's headquarters in April
of 1995. Additionally, the group was recently fined $10 million as a result
of a 1993 lawsuit.
In 1997, ORN started a "Back to School" campaign. In an attempt to dissuade
teens from having abortions, ORN activists displayed gruesome photos of
aborted fetuses outside several high schools across the country. This
campaign ended up backfiring in early 1998 when Flip Benham was arrested and
sentenced to six months of jail after leading a protest at a Lynchburg, VA
high school. Benham, along with a group of 150 Liberty University students,
harassed high school students saying that they would go to Hell if they did
not save unborn babies and accept Jesus Christ as their savior.
Membership: Was up to 35,000 in 1989 (WP, 11/24/91).
Publication: Operation Rescue National (monthly newsletter)
Radio: Randall Terry has his own call-in talk radio show, "Randall Terry
Live" which airs five days a week for one hour.
Finances: 1992's budget was about $400,000. The group has been repeatedly
fined by the courts, and according to one estimate it owes about $2 million
in fines and legal fees.
Quotes from Randall Terry and Operation Rescue: "Christians beware... To
vote for Bill Clinton is to sin against God. (OR pamphlet, 10/92)
"[The judiciary is] the lap dog of the death industry." (Fresno, CA Bee,
8/20/89)
"Blackmun and Stevens are enemies of Christ. When history's final editorial
light is cast upon them 50 or 100 years from now, they're going to be
remembered with Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin." (Christianity Today,
9/10/90)
"People have got to ask themselves . . . what kind of America do we want?
What principles do we want guiding this country's education, judiciary? We
want biblical principles. Because if we don't have biblical principles, we
have heathenism. We have anything goes! We have humanism! We could have
barbarism!" (A Call to Action, 5/9/91)
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Traditional Values Coalition
100 S. Anaheim Blvd., Suite 320
Anaheim, CA 92805
(714) 520-0300
Internet address: www.traditionalvalues.org
Chairman: Rev. Louis Sheldon
Date of founding: 1981
Activities: The coalition opposes gay rights, reproductive freedom, the
teaching of evolution in the public schools and sex education that does not
stress abstinence to the exclusion of information on birth control and
disease prevention. It was active in battles over constitutional amendments
outlawing civil rights protections for gays and lesbians in Colorado and
Oregon. TVC has also helped organized anti-gay initiatives in California,
Arizona, Missouri, and Washington. The group was also instrumental in
convincing the California State Board of Education to reject a health
education curriculum that touched on such subjects as homosexuality and
AIDS.
Membership: 32,000 churches nationwide representing about 12 denominations.
State chapters: 20 state chapters and an office in Washington, D.C.
Finances: $2 million annual budget.
Quotes from Louis Sheldon: "Give us a few more years under the belt and we
will learn how to replace many of the school board members. Give us more
time to understand how the system works, and we'll work the system even
better than one could ever imagine." (CNN News, 9/2/90)
"On the issue of homosexuality, we are the same place we were in the 1930s
with alcoholism. Back then, we said, 'once a drunk, always a drunk.' But now
we know many alcoholics can recover." (Wash. Times, 2/5/90)
"Homosexuality is trying to declare itself a minority, like blacks....We
very much learned to enjoy blacks, Hispanics, Asians and the handicapped.
But the way you experience sex is emotional, not like the color of your
skin." (USA Today, 9/11/96)
"There is a war waging in America. The battle is over values, beliefs and
the cultural basis of western civilization.... he elitist avant-garde arts
community uses the NEA to advertise and disseminate their political beliefs.
The NEA then uses our scarce tax dollars to fund works which are intended to
shock Americans into an acceptance of dysfunctional behavioral lifestyles
and to destroy the family." (Hearing on the NEA, 4/91)
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