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The Florida Family Policy Council resource page (see: http://flfamily.org/issues-research/marriage-family/gay-marriage/) on gay marriage links to an extensive list of opinion pieces by authors such as Maggie Gallagher of the National Association for Marriage, Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council, and the Southern Baptist Conventions Al Mohler, who in an article titled Can Animals Be Gay makes the following case: those pushing for the normalization of homosexuality want to be able to point to research that would prove the normality of homosexuality in nature. Marriage and Family Foundation The photo caption reads, Alex Mitala leader of 10,000 churches in Uganda where Andys team trained over 400 pastors in Freedom Tools (for one version cfo this image, see: http://web.archive.org/web/20090315222511/http://www.thefreedomresource.org/). Over the decades since its 1976 launch, E&PPC has functioned as the cutting edge of the neoconservative-driven culture war against progressive theology and secularism (see: http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/02/09/elliott-abrams-the-neocon-s-neocon/ ). Since 1980, Compassion International's headquarters have been located in Colorado Springs, CO. You can call Compassion at (800) 336-7676, Monday through Friday, 7a.m. 2006 35,000 2012 1,300. 2002 12,150 In 2009 Coe was featured (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYeGR7O1lKI) in an NBC segment that showcased a 1989 speech Coe gave at the Glenn Eyrie headquarters of the (NCF-funded) organization The Navigators, during which Coe claimed that young Chinese Red Guard who were willing to chop off the heads of their own parents to advance the interests of the state drew inspiration from the teachings of Jesus. 2013 451,740, Christian Film and Television Commission (EIN 13-2961538). As described in a July 14, 2014 Twocare.org report ( http://www.twocare.org/gathering-greens-etc/ ), during the September 12-15, 2013 at the annual meeting of The Gathering, held in the Alliance Defending Freedoms home base of Scottsdale, AZ, three generations of the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby, were present for the event. 2006 30,000 Staff members have appeared throughout local and national media on such programs as The 700 Club, The Oprah Winfrey Show, ABCs World News Tonight, Good Morning America, MTV, The Sally Show, Geraldo, TBN, local and national radio programs. (see: https://www.portlandfellowship.com/history.php), 2007 37,500 National Organization For Marriage According to DNA, Stephen Langa is the East Africa Coordinator (see: https://www.disciplenations.org/samaritan-strategy-budding-in-sudan/) for Samaritan Strategy Africa, a trans-African network, with at least six regional offices, that provides Christian worldview training. 2004 2,200 In Asia, Compassion works in Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. 2006 4,233,159 Sexual, gender, and bodily diversity are characteristics of every society, every culture, and every country around the world and across time. Teen Challenge has officially endorsed exorcism as a therapy since 1996 (see main Teen Challenge entry), 2001 5,000 In 2008, money (cycled through the NCF) from the Green family, the owners of Hobby Lobby, a national chain of arts and crafts supply stores, almost single-handedly rescued financially troubled Oral Roberts University from bankruptcy. LGBTQI+ people are often not represented in political parties or among elected officials. 2012 28,500 Alabama Policy Institute 2012 1,000 It is due to their efforts that meaningful change is possible. 2011 12,200 Eternal Perspective Ministries As Ockenga conceived, the Neo-Evangelicals would not, like the fundamentalists had done in the 1920s and 1930s, flee modernity or separate themselves from secular society; they would instead infiltrate (Ockenga used this term) the secular realm, placing their operatives in key positions from which to advance their cause which was the divine redemption of the world, the evangelization of all its peoples, and the establishment of Gods dominion over all sectors of society. One of the foremost intellectuals of the dominionist Protestant right, Noebel has helped shape the political outlook of entire generations of American evangelicals through such tropes as his claim, as outlined in his 1965 pamphlet Communism, Hypnotism, and The Beatles, that the Beatles were part of a Soviet plot to brainwash American through rock music. 2010 8,800 2013 1,559,879, Family Research Institute (EIN 46-0649778). TruthXchange claims that all belief systems cleave into two grand patterns, one-ist and two-ist with two-ist systems representing the correct fundamentalist Christian viewpoint and one-ist belief systems representing pagan belief systems. In the Christian Reconstructionist vision, biblically mandated capital punishment via stoning, crucifixion, or burning at the stake (all forms of capital punishment mentioned in scripture) would be only rarely necessary exactly because of the severity of the punishment. 2012 42,700 2002 385 (Regeneration, Inc.) Mayflower Institute 3. 2010 1,000 ARFP has played a major role in the wave of religious freedom bills that began to flood into state legislatures in early 2014. 2002 1,000 2011 48,750 2007 4,500 At its height in the 1990s the Promise Keepers, which led the vanguard of the Christian mens movement, was able to pack football stadiums with crowds of 50,000 or more. In the Winter 2005 quarterly newsletter of The Gathering, in an op-ed titled Thou Shalt Not Kill the Family, Christian Reconstructionist pastor Kenneth L. Gentry argued that, per Leviticus 20:9, disobedient and incorrigible children should be put to death (see: http://thegathering.com/newsletter/2005-Winter.pdf). 2011 106,250 2009 7,050 2009 112,042 Violence, discrimination, stigma, and criminalization negatively impact the lives of millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTQI+) people around the world and contribute to poverty. 2009 297,229 2009 78,000 2003 0 Rather, the ADF provides not only legal assistance but also targeted financing to support specific litigation. 2012 0 2002 1,500 2005 110,749 2008 366,650 2006 75,000 2004 $25,000 No. , The Bible clearly teaches about these abnormalities. 2011 0 2005 0 As Hammonds minsitry website explains (see: http://www.frontlinefellowship.net/inc/sdetail/119/341), The Pink Agenda exposes the truth about homosexual behavior and its links to crime, violence, suicide, substance abuse, paedophilia and disease. How many countries does Compassion work in? Violence, discrimination, stigma, and criminalization negatively impact the lives of millions of LGBTQI+ people around the world and contribute to poverty and social instability. Christian Film and Television Commission In 2008 at The Gathering, Peb Jackson a Council on National Policy member who has served as a vice president at Rick Warrens Saddleback Church and also worked at the Maclellan Foundation (which at The Gathering 1997 helped organize an anonymous funding conduit for Gathering donors who wanted to give to project that would fight organized homosexuality) emphasized, to The Gathering foundation heads at the talk, the cost effectiveness of investing in Cromarties Faith Angle Forum project : Its great to see these consequential opportunities here, and for a few bucks this guy is one of the most effective returns on investment. On one tape, the Rev. 2013 8,200. 2008 6,000 2012 51,388 Compassion International is an American child sponsorship and Christian humanitarian aid organization headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that aims to positively influence the long-term development of children globally who live in poverty . 2001-2004 0 Henry Orombi has, in turn, worked closely with prominent (and frequent) The Gathering speaker Rick Warren, who has helped provoke schisms within the Episcopal Church (see: http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/12/22/7590) and even offered schismatic groups worship space at his Saddleback Church (see: http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/news_reports/rick_warren_offers_safe_harbor.html). Longtime head of The Family Douglas Coe is one of the three agents of The International Foundation listed on its 2012 990 tax form as having received financial compensation from the nonprofit. 2009 30,000 2008 5,300 2010 125,650 2010 2,195,647 The familial relationship has both helped to establish New Apostolic Reformation leader Silvoso as a superstar in the firmament of international right-wing evangelism, and also tapped Silvoso into the avante-gaurd of evolving missions strategy: Silvosos career began as a member of the Luis Palau Evangelistic Association ministry team. 2006 10,800 2007 70,500 Eschliman accused the LGBTQXYZ crowd and the Gaystapo of trying to make their sinful nature right with God. . We cannot derive our sexual morality from a laboratory much less from observations of an albatross colony., 2005 5,000 In South America, Compassion works in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. 2001 7,600 2001 2,500 2003 11,200 2012 310,415, Association of Christian Schools International (EIN 95-6072587 : also funded by The Gatherings Huston Foundation & Stewardship Foundation). 2005 0 Another Truro Church link to Uganda is through its support of the Uganda Christian University, through its organization Uganda Christian University Partners (UCUP), which receives NCF funding. poor. 2011 0 2010 158,000 2007 113,760 2009 5,350 Focus on the Family Patrick Henry College 13. More broadly, at the State Department, Abrams helped steer the Reagan Administration towards its support for Central American nations such as Guatemala and El Salvador that during the the early to mid-1980s, under the banner of anticommunism, were mounting genocidal counterinsurgency campaigns against their civilian populations. 2005 67,000 ( 50K AFA Radio ) However, our primary focus is individual child developmentan inside-out, bottom-up approach that recognizes the God-given value and potential of each individual child. 2007 35,000 Like Luis Palau, Ed Silvoso has also targeted a chosen liberal, gay-friendly enclave, San Francisco. 2012 874,930 2003 15,400 2005 155,635 According Martin Selbrede, to one of the current leaders of the Christian Reconstructionist Chalcedon Foundaiton, a possible deal between Gothard and R. J. Rushdoony in which Gothard would have published and promoted Rushdoonys books fell through because Gothard demanded, as a condition of the deal, that Rushdoony cut from his books Rushdoonys support for divorce in the case of marital infidelity. 2005 1,000 800-336-7676 Food For the Hungry leaders were signatories to the 1980s umbrella group Coalition on Revival, whose members pledged to give their lives if necessary to rebuild society along biblical lines and impose biblical law. Through 2010 200,000 Dobson, Eldridge told the group, and those of us at Focus on the Family in the public policy fight, see this issue as one of the key issues of our time. In the footnotes, on page 245, Reese refers readers to my friend David Kyle Fosters website: http://www.masteringlife.gospelcom.net, especially for homosexual issues., Andy Reese has contributed to the growing climate of homophobia in Uganda by traveling to Uganda to train pastors in the National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches, Ugandas biggest network of born-again churches boasting, by some claims over 10,000 member churches, by other claims 20,000. Within the books therapeutic paradigm, homosexuality is a coping mechanism to deal with emotional wounding: Some behaviors are are designed to protect the person from his pain or provide a solution to it: addictions, ritualized actions, anorexia, homosexuality, etc. In his capacity as a leader at Focus on the Family (from 1988 to 2000) Eldredge helped shape the Christian rights strategy on combating LGBT rights. 2011 812,500 As described by CBN itself, CBN proclaims the Gospel in 65 languages to 147 countries and territories through evangelistic TV programs, video evangelism, online ministry, and prayer centers. Copyright 2017 - Truth Wins Out. 2006 212,821 2012 885,955 Note: this is an evolving work. 2010 8,000 Despite this, there are brave, smart, strategic, passionate, and resilient LGBTQI+ leaders and civil society organizations in nearly every country and region who work tirelessly to advance the rights of all people across the diverse spectrum of sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics. Adding considerable intellectual gravitas to the project (and inspiring evangelical missions theorists such as Miller) has been the simultaneous rise of a secular school of thought, advanced most notably (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiELJTIQT8Q ) by Lawrence E. Harrison, a former USAID official who worked for two decades in Haiti, and by Samuel P. Huntington. The ACLJ also receives heavy funding from the Alliance Defending Freedom making it, in effect, an extension or subsidiary of ADF. 2011 2,750 2008 146,300 You asked them be women, I want to say. What is the mission of Compassion International? 2002 65,000 2013 55,490, The Lilburn Alliance Church is the Lilburn, Georgia home church of College of Prayer leader Fred Hartley, III. Such thinking goes to the very top of the elite evangelical right, as evidenced by The Fellowship head Douglas Coes insistence, captured on video in 1989, that Christians should follow Jesus with the same level of fanatical devotion shown by the followers of Hitler, Lenin, and Mao whose young Red Guard were willing, during the Cultural Revolution, to cut off the heads of their own parents for the good of the state (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYeGR7O1lKI ), 2007 0 2007 36,000 2013 10,345,242, Campus Crusade sub-ministries, 2001-2012 20,622,853 (see appended at end of alphabetized list). Potential criminals, evil doers, would be restrained by fear. How do I contact Compassion International? We are an independently owned and operated luxury day spa located in Ann Arbor, MI. 2004 245,445 ( 50K AFA Radio ) Louis Palau Association 2008 5,200 Learn how Compassion changed her future. 2011 3,000 Compassion International is an American child sponsorship and Christian humanitarian aid organization headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that aims to positively influence the long-term development of children globally who live in poverty. This web of deception, sin and wounding, created over time in an unsuspecting life, is called a stronghold. 2012 1,850 2003 1,000 2010 31,250 2003 277,613 The NCF provided over 25% of the ADFs annual budget in 2012. 2009 500,066 One of the most prominent Sozo entities is Andy Reese The Freedom Resource ministry (see: http://www.thefreedomresource.org/). This is where the Church of Satan was founded; where witches and warlocks have legal status; where homosexuals and lesbians heavily influence government; where selfisness rules. Your chosen sexuality is deeply tied to a pagan religious agenda that denies the Creator and sees no need for salvation. Wildmon was an original signatory to the Coalition on Revival. While Focus on the Family has within the domestic United States recently toned down its anti-gay rhetoric, FoF nonetheless continues to aggressively support, both domestically and internationally, coordinated and well funded attacks on LGBT rights. Institute in Basic Life Principles For practical reasons, the encyclopedia covers only a handful of the myriad anti-LGBT groups that NCF funds the most prominent or especially noteworthy organizations in terms of their anti-LGBT rights activities out of the over-17,000 entities funded by the National Christian Foundation as detailed in NCFs 2013 990 tax form filed with the Internal Revenue Service. 2006 994,520 2009 12,275 The site of this religious pep rallythe Truro Churchis where Judge Clarence Thomas worships. compassion international lgbt. 2008 2,145,693 2005 16,000 Christian Anti Defamation Commission CFTC founder and head Ted Baehr is a current Steering Committee member of the theocratic Coalition on Revival (see: http://www.reformation.net/ )whose members pledge to give their lives if necessary to impose biblical law, and a biblical template, in all sectors of society. The Institute On Religion and Democracy 2011 306,000 No to sodomy! 2005 1,675 Desert Stream Ministries Watoto Child Care Ministry its about helping people trapped in a cycle of sexual dysfunction. The Biblical family is predicated on Gods created order and His dominion mandate for men and women to be fruitful and multiply and to steward the earth. All of the above have been funded by the National Christian Foundation. 2023 Compassion International. Definitely! A brief history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social movements/Bonnie J. Morris, PhD. 2010 10,000 2006 500 2011 236,250 A video of the event is available for download from the AMA LGBT Advisory Committee. 2011 6,600 2008 166,366 Buck: McCabe nonetheless serves on the board of directors of the National Christian Foundation, one of the top funders of anti-LGBT rights groups on earth. The Villars Statement on Relief and Development (see: https://disciplenations.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/the-villars-statement-on-relief-and-development1.pdf ), signed by the 40-odd evangelicals attending Villars, stressed 13 key points: [W]e raise our concerns over the following issues. 2002 5,000 Phillip Monk, who claims he was relieved of duty for disagreeing with a lesbian commander over the issue of gay marriage (as reported by Right Wing Watch). It was founded and is still chaired by Mathew (Mat) Staver, who also serves as director of the Liberty Center for Law and Policy at Liberty University, and provides legal assistance with regard to religious liberty, abortion and the family.. 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. (see: http://www.tv.com/m/shows/the-700-club/trivia/). 2007 1,390,833 There was a sense of life and hope. The source data for funding listed in this reference work are 2001-2013 National Christian Foundation IRS 990 forms filed with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Our program is run entirely by local Christian 2013 1,856,381, Concerned Women For America (EIN 95-3580894). 2008 200 Use lay people to keep the anti-gay movement going 2008 1,000 The need to reaffirm the Biblical support for the family as the basic social and economic unit and its right to own and control property, and to stand against any ideology that would diminish the familys proper role in any of these areas. Why? 2011 1,199,576 Nothing could be further from the truth. 2011 77,200 Stated Coe, They have to put the purposes of the Red Guard ahead of their mother, father, brother, sister and their own life. 2013 1,239,850, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (EIN 95-1921156). . 2011 319,879 The Family Foundation of Virginia Is Compassion International a nonprofit organization? In 2005, along with the (NCF-funded) Alliance Defense Fund and (NCF-funded) Becket Fund, Advocates International joined what would be a successful effort to protect the religious free speech rights of Swedish Pentecostal pastor Ake Green (see: http://www.akegreen.org/en-2-left/en-2-5.htm), who was being prosecuted under hate speech laws for a 2003 sermon in which Green declared, Is homosexuality genetic or an evil force that plays mind games with people? The NCF-funded Food For The Hungry (also a USAID recipient) provided key seed money and leadership to found the nonprofit Disciple Nations Alliance. 2007 47,494 Various iterations of the First Academy student handbook contain similar provisions (see: http://www.thefirstacademy.org/files/tfa_community/Parent-Student_Handbook_2014-2015.pdf). The ADF is currently representing a group of plaintiffs challenging a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires employee health plans from for-profit employers to provide contraceptive coverage. Is Compassion International a nonprofit organization? church. 2001 40,000 Declared Advocates Guyana, While we defend the human rights of every individual, including homosexuals, we condemn the practice of homosexuality and its promotion through legislative amendments (see: http://www.guyanajesuits.org/cms-assets/documents/88691-264411.201238october-5catholic-standard.pdf). Beside his work with DNA, Langa also has been a speaker at the conferences of Transform-World, a global Transformation franchise run by evangelist and missiologist Luis Bush (no relation to family of Presidents George W. Bush and George Herbert Walker Bush) which operates from locations in Asia, to Ethiopia, to Brazil. 2003 3,964 2002 17,500 It has been 11 years since I graduated the Compassion Program. 2001 100 2013 6,100, Council For National Policy (EIN 72-0921017). Listed on 2023-03-02. The costs to family, children and culture are too great to concede this battle to those who would see marriage and family redefined to the point of irrelevancy., (see: http://www.mafamily.org/issues/marriage-and-family/same-sex-marriage/), Eric Metaxas, a recently featured speaker at The Gathering, is the scheduled speaker at an upcoming The bill was passed by the Kansas House of Representatives but not taken up by the Kansas Senate. In a section, on pages 49-50, titled A morally bankrupt climate has arisen, Luce bemoans, You walk past the Victorias Secret and glance into the storefront window: Your eyes fall upon massive posters of half-naked women, You stroll into Abercrombie and Fitch to pick up a catalog: You end upo paging through gay and lesbian pictures (set in strip clubs and shower rooms) that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, Transgendered persons are a non-issue, Gay Pride is celebrated, and some [Abercrombie and Fitch] commercials even seem to sell the idea of being gay more than a product., 2001 500 2009 106,000 We must never appear to be mean-spirited or bigoted. 3012 32,900, Illinois Family Institute (EIN 37-126588), The Illinois Family Institute is one of twelve organizations funded by the National Christian Foundation since 2001 that is on a Southern Poverty Law Center list of groups which pump out demonizing propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual minorities according to a 2010 SPLC report ( http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/the-hard-liners ), 2001 4,600 NCF funding to the AFM reflects the peak period of this effort, from 2004-2007. ADFs supportive function was expressly intended, by its founders, to give ADF leverage to corral existing Christian right legal groups and attorneys away from previously antagonistic legal strategies and towards complementary, mutually reinforcing approaches. March 9, 2017. 2013 37,250, The International Foundation/Fellowship Foundation (EIN 53-0204604), The main nonprofit foundation associated with The Family, AKA The Fellowship, which hosts the annual National Prayer Breakfast; The Family was the subject of the 2008 book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by journalist Jeff Sharlet (2008, HarperCollins). Many believed it helped defuse the radical leftist movement on that campus. In a similar manner in which the 1980s-era Coalition on Revival created plans for how to impose biblical law and the biblical worldview in all sectors of society, The Villars Consultation launched a now-burgeoning school of thought on how to integrate the biblical worldview into Christian aid and relief work. The problem, according to Eldredge, is an emasculating overemphasis on manners: Where are all the real men? is regular fare for talk shows and new books. It is little surprise that Campus Crusade is a major recipient of NCF funding; two of the three initial founders of the National Christian Foundation had close ties to Campus Crusade one as a former CCC financial manager ( Larry Burkett ), the other as a member of CCCs board of directors ( Ron Blue ). 2006 211,500 2010 81,074 At the presentation, a program director for the Maclellan Founbdation solicited funds (through an anonymizing mechanism, likely a donor-advised fund) to implement the plan. Your donation provides Health Care Age-Appropriate Christian Teaching Hygiene Training Education & Vocational Training encourage them through prayer, letter writing and financial support. Global Mobilization Ministries Lead us into battle, they roared. Don Schmierers long career of anti-gay activism ranges from his March 2009 participating, along with notorious anti-gay agitator Scott Lively, in the Kampala, Uganda anti-LGBT rights conference (Exposing the Truth behind Homosexuality and the Homosexual Agenda) widely credited with raising anti-gay hatred in Uganda to a fever pitch, to his presentation, to The Gathering in 1997, of a master strategy for combating organized homosexuality. A Director of Opposition Research for the Republican National Committee while in law school, Bauer served, from 1982-1987, as President Ronald Reagans Deputy Under Secretary for Planning and Budget in the Department of Education. Join the Compassion International team See Our Latest Jobs 5.0 Current Employee, more than 8 years Great mission & Great company Jan 26, 2023 - L&D Specialist Recommend CEO Approval Business Outlook Pros It's a Ransomed Heart Ministries One of the most prominent members of the Fellowship (according to the Billy Graham Archives at Wheaton College) was the late Nixon Administration lawyer and hatchet man Charles Colson. Obediently pursue Jesus command to be salt and light to the culture Humanly speaking, the San Francisco Bay Areahome to six million peopleseems to be beyond hope. 2009 100 2001 22,487 2005 150 In an October 2013 broadcast, Robertson likened transgender people to castrated horses (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-who-admits-he-doesnt-know-what-transgender-means-compares-transgender-people-h). The WCF has played a significant role in encouraging anti-LGBT legislation in Russia and Eastern Europe. 2002 18,600 Baehr has established a personal friendship with Natalya Yakunina, wife of Vladimir Yakunin, member of Russian President Vladimir Putins inner circles. Everett Swanson first ministered In footage promoted by the Luis Palau Association, Oyet can be seen praying over and laying hands on Andrew Palau; Oyet is also a featured member of Luis Palaus Next Generation Alliance. 2013 15,220. 2007 15,750 Liberty Counsel 2005 109,750 patterns of culture. 2005 20,000 (Conservative Caucus Research) 2008 81,400 Alex Mitala who has served as an apostle in the U.S.-based International Coalition of Apostles (now renamed the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders) has been a quiet but steady force in the mounting anti-gay crusade in Uganda. 2012 0 2010 1,080,234 2010 22,455 The tendency to focus on meeting material needs without sufficient emphasis on But, like Graham, Luis Palau also has ties to radically sectarian, dominionist streams of evangelicalism such as the New Apostolic Reformation, whose leaders urge their followers to burn or destroy all objects and scripture associated with competing faiths (and even with different sectarian forms of Christianity.). harmony with all of Gods creation, free from pain, suffering, and death. Donald Wildmon, an original signatory to the theocratic Coalition on Revival. Stephen Langa, one of the top Ugandan anti-LGBT activists, has worked closely with DNA since 2001 and has been described as an official DNA trainer. His Servants (www.catholicvote.org) The Fidelis Center mobilizes Catholics to pray for the Autocam v. Sibelius case (v. Obamacare) and against the legalization of same-sex marriage (see: http://www.catholicvote.org/arizona-losing-our-religion/ ). Later in the year, on October 14, 2009, Ugandan MP David Bahati tabled the bill. Lennar Mortgage Payment, Derrence Washington Parents, Articles C