As the SPLC describes, the Liberty Counsel is affiliated with Liberty University Law School in Lynchburg, Va., a legacy of the late conservative icon Jerry Falwell. Gothard insisted that divorce be prohibited under any and all circumstances so, the deal, potentially very lucrative for both parties, fell apart. 2003 (ORU MIssion) $150 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. 13. Johnson enthusiastically endorses the Freedom Resource ministry of NCF-funded Andy Reese, whose book Freedom Tools explicitly describes homosexuality as linked to demon possession. Community development is important work that addresses the external circumstances of poverty and is an important complement to our work. Watoto Child Care Ministry 2009 0 Mission Statement. Your donation helps children when they need it most.. For information regarding COVID-19 and how Compassion is working through it, please visit our COVID-19 FAQ page. 2005 67,000 ( 50K AFA Radio ) Up until the death of its founder D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Ministries served as a leading force for Christian dominionism in America. The Becket Fund is also an organizational partner of the American Religious Freedom Program (ARFP), a sub-project of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (see E&PPC entry). Dr. Antonios worked the crowd into a frenzy, shouting that Africa will become a graveyard for homosexuality! multiple times. (see: http://www.truthwinsout.org/news/2013/05/35215/). 2013 166,250. I wanted to tell you, thank you so much for helping us rebuild our house when we lost it to flames. 2011 1,260,040 We've discovered that changed circumstances rarely change people's lives, while changed people inevitably change their circumstances. Regeneration is billed as one of the oldest ex-gay ministries. While Michael Cromartie served to connect Chuck Colson with elite mentors in the emerging Neo-evangelical movement who imparted a level of intellectual sophistication to Colsons fervent neophyte born-again faith, Colson may well have influenced Michael Cromartie in ways just as profound Cromarties next career move would be to join the recently launched Ethics and Public Policy Center that, among its various projects, has served as an indefatigable cheerleader for American military adventurism. There are many charities like World Vision that support Children in need, Compassion International and One Child Matters are two others that come to mind right of hand.) 2011 149,998 Schmierers Celebrating Gods Design: A Balanced and Biblical Perspective on Todays Toughest Youth Problems, co-written with Lela Gilbert (Promise Publishing, 2002) was endorsed by Jim Burns. The Family Foundation of Virginia 2006 75,000 From the start, E&PPCs applicaton of Judeo Christian morality was highly selective. 2012 885,955 2009 100 We are an independently owned and operated luxury day spa located in Ann Arbor, MI. 2012 236,763, Watoto Child Care Ministry (EIN 59-3445250). 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. World Outreach Ministries 2005 1,001,000 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. 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. In his 2008 book The Seven Mountain Prophecy: Unveiling The Coming Elijah Revolution, Enlow writes, on page 171, A mass homosexual parade and celebration that was to bring many millions of dollars to New Orleans was scheduled the week Katrina hit the city. Few Christian leaders, and vanishingly few politicians, are avowed Christian Reconstructionists. Develop a long-term project to convince evangelical pastors to support the anti-gay movement. 2012 0, Faculty Commons EIN 95-6006173 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. A lock () or https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely. 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. One of the most effective Christian movements in the late 60s and early 70s was the Christian World Liberation Front at the University of California, Berkeley. ) Vision Forum has published writers such as William O. Einwechter, who not only argues for the criminalization of homosexuality but also for the execution, per Old Testament scripture, of disobedient children. 2011 1,500 2011 8,600 2010 23,700 2003 500 2004 1,742,865 2010 5,850 2009 2,500 Compassion International Wields Data to Protect and Care for Children in Poverty Key Challenges To serve and protect nearly 2 million children around the world, Compassion International needed a way to ensure system uptime, secure financial data and screen sponsors faster and more effectively. We must never APPEAR to be attempting to rob anyone of their rights, of their constitutional rights, I think the gay agenda, and I would not say this as frankly as I will now in other cultural contexts, I think the gay agenda has all the elements of that which is truly evil. Eldridge outlined an agenda for the religious right to follow in its assault on gay rights. 2004 143,810 2004 15,000 Compassion. 2011 1,023,800 [26] Compassion provided services under its Child Sponsor Program to 145,000 Indian children. The legal organizations supported by ADF (most of which are also funded by the National Christian Foundation) represent most of the anti-reproductive rights and anti-LGBT rights legal activism in America and are now playing, as well, a major role in mounting international efforts to restrict LGBT rights. 2005 109,750 But is it hopeless? I continued, however, to struggle with denial and a growing temptation to drink (see: http://www.crtampa.com/2013/celebrate-recovery-connection-july-312013/ ), 2008 3,000 When you sponsored me, I was just another malnourished kid with brown hair, a big stomach and weak bones. Massachusetts Family Institute 2003 85,750 While Bahatis religious affiliation has been characterized as traditional Anglican, the Truro Church is anything but. 2013 5,000, Rutherford Institute lawyers successfully argued, before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the (NCF-funded) Good News Club ministry which specifically targets young children in its evangelism efforts and promotes religious supremacist and eliminationist ideology the Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001) Supreme Court case. 2006 22,500 (Conservative Caucus Research) When people were held in bondage to hunger and deprivation by unjust social | Reset password Create An Account Creating an account allows you to track your sponsorships, donations, and more. 2003 5,000 2010 32,100 The California School Project co-partners with the Pacific Justice Institute to evangelize in California schools. CU leader Matthew Bennett is one of 15 leaders in a secretive 2014 anti-LGBT rights initiative called the Princeton Group. 2013 33,125. In 2005, Julius Oyet who has held top leadership roles in Ugandas two born-again umbrella associations traveled to Ed Silvosos yearly Nation transformation conference near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Second, the revenue growth metric was replaced by a debt to asset ratio. This ratio measures the assets a charity holds on its financial statements. 2023 Compassion International. 2003 21,000 Noebels book characterized homosexuality as a kind of national death wish which sought to change the natural order created by God himself.. 2006 10,800 It is impossible to call yourself a Christian and defend homosexuality. (page 69), On page 70 of his book, Hagee characterized Gods destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: God executed an urban renewal program with fire and brimstone. [26] The Ministry of External Affairs later stated that the ban had nothing to do with the ideology of Compassion International.[27]. Your donation helps children when they need it most.. The former head of late TV preacher D James Kennedys now defunct dominionist Center For Reclaiming America For Christ, Gary Cass has been a featured speaker at Christian Reconstructionist conferences (see: http://www.alternet.org/story/55717/). Howard Ahmanson is a frequent attendee at The Gathering who has been one of the most significant funders of anti-LGBT rights activism on the evangelical right. 2011 8,900 2004 5,000 At a Spring 2010 Kampala, Uganda rally, Oyet told his audience, It is not Uganda putting a death penalty on homosexuals, it is God and his word! Now, listen to me the sodomy people, the homosexuals, are even more foolish than dogs. 2010 158,000 2001 100 2005 4,600,955 Listed on 2023-03-02. has a history of hyperbolic claims, such as concerning the U.S. Air Forces firing of Senior Master Sgt. 2005 5,000 2011 319,879 2012 1,300. Even if it could be proven that the homosexual orientation is inborn (some people are still desperately trying to prove this), the choice of homosexual behavior is still just that a choice To have desire toward something does not mean one is helpless to control his behavior. Noebels anti-gay writing includes his 1977 book The Homosexual Revolution: End Time Abomination (dedicated to Anita Bryant) which characterized homosexuality as a kind of national death wish that sought to change the natural order created by God himself and the 1996 book AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, (co-authored with Wayne C. Lutton and Paul Cameron). [9], The organization also helps in emergency situations and in the funding of health centers. 2010 25,000 The Navigators is among an elite core of evangelism and discipleship-focused ministries closely associated with The Fellowship which hosts the annual National Prayer Breakfast. 2005 16,000 2009 247 Typically viewed as marginal, the movement has nonetheless gained widespread ideological traction through its promotion of a libertarian vision for radically shrinking government a vision that is not inherently theocratic but nonetheless advances the Reconstructionist political agenda, which foresees churches and local government moving into the void created as federal and state government are radically pared down. [7], Compassion helps those in impoverished areas, using a holistic approach to child development. Eschliman accused the LGBTQXYZ crowd and the Gaystapo of trying to make their sinful nature right with God. . But Daly is in fact the President and CEO of Citizenlink (formerly called Focus on the Family Action), FoFs 501(c)(4) lobbying and political action wing which gives several million dollars a year to fund the constellation of family policy organizations that promote the evangelical rights social policy agenda at the state level including bills such as Kansas House Bill 2453 (note: HB 2453 was the creation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center see E&PPC section.). Specifically, the study concluded, "the Compassion child sponsorship program increases years of completed schooling by 1.031.46 years over a baseline of 10.19 years and increases the probability of primary school completion by 4.07.7 percentage points (baseline 88.7 percent), secondary school completion by 11.616.5 percentage points (baseline 44.9 percent), and university completion by 2.12.4 percentage points (baseline 4.3 percent) [and found] impacts of 5.16.3 percentage points on the probability of salaried employment in adulthood and a 6.56.7 percentage point increase in the probability of white-collar employment, as well as modest evidence for causal impacts on community and church leadership." 2006 155,000 I have never met a former white, former black, or a former hispanic In contrast, the homosexual lifestyle is immoral, and a matter of personal choice, not unalterable destiny. 2008 0 2006 100 Summit Ministries 2007 1,250 They didn't have children when they sponsored him, and they told Kennedy he was their first son. The Lord knows that sexually twisted people will rape the animals. [4] The name of the association changed to Compassion, Inc., in 1963, inspired by Jesus' words "I have compassion on the multitude. Shocked by rising crime, teen pregnancy, and divorce throughout the 1970s and 1980s, top leaders of the emergent Christian right, such as Bill Bright, had turned to the radical solutions outlined by the overtly theocratic Christian Reconstructionism movement. In its Fall 2011 issue, the Ivy League Observer featured an article by one of the leaders of the Princeton Group initiative, venture capitalist Chuck Stetson, a co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage and the CEO of the (anti-gay) National Marriage Week. Recently the California legislature decided that homosexual history in American will be taught to kindergartners Its shameful that the homosexuals can get a curriculum in the public school and the children of God cannot The church was not put here to whine. The people who have come into institutions are primarily termites. 2010 125,650 2012 688,176 2011 100 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 2013 2,410,707. Teen Mania Ministries 2002 1,000 2003 66,500 2008 50,000 family, and work, but equally in the shaping of the culture and social life. 2013 1,950, Mercy Ministries of America (EIN 72-0973419). The closest bathroom was a 10-minute run away from home, and the closest school that his parents could afford was a 2-hour walk, barefoot. 2006 48,852 2006 111,500 Ransomed Heart Ministries To help operationalize the inclusion of LGBTQI+ people into USAIDs development approach, USAID released the LGBTQI Vision for Action, a document that reflects USAIDs commitment to protect LGBTQI+ people from violence, discrimination, stigma, and criminalization and advance their human rights; and Suggested Approaches for Integrating Inclusive Development Across the Program Cycle and in Mission Operations, a document that identifies ways to include marginalized and vulnerable groups in USAIDs work. Hartley also had glowing words for Julius Oyet: Uganda, its an amazing thing. Now, 11 years after Kennedy graduated from Compassion's program, he writes one final letter: Receive heartfelt greetings from me. 2005 1,194,145 You had better be. The existence of gay demons is taken for granted within Andersons oeuvre (note: Anderson sits on the board of advisers of Mastering Life Ministries, which is run by ex-gay leader David Kyle Foster. 2011 48,750 The Disciple Nations Alliances 2008 IRS 990 tax form lists a DNA grant to Samaritan Strategy Africa of $144,500. In a 1993 speech, prominent Christian Reconstructionist Joseph Morecraft exclaimed that the role of civil government should be to terrorize evil doers to be an avenger! He has crusades with up to 50,000 people and Ive seen three thousand saved in one night. These powers include the ability to raise the dead, which is frequently attempted at the Bethel Church (see: http://www.redding.com/photos/2010/jan/17/37811/). 2007 64,300 ), Louis Palau also has been an honorary co-chair of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, an organization dominated by NAR apostles from the International Coalition of Apostles (according to the NDPTFs 990 tax forms, which list multiple ICA apostles on the NDPTF board.). 2004 85,500 including the International Society for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses (2010), the National Association of School Nurses (2017), and the National . 2007 20,000 (Conservative Caucus Research) A Project of Compassion International. 2012 392,100 But in all cases, we provide love, education, Through sponsorship, children are able to participate in a church-based program that offers life-changing benefits that range from educational opportunities to health care. 5. 2007 2,500 The Family Foundation of Kentucky 2008 17,100 Rutherford Institute head John W. Whitehead denies being a Christian Reconstructionist, and a 2007 interview with the nonprofit advocacy group Jews on First (see: http://www.jewsonfirst.org/08a/whitehead.html) seems to indicate that Whitehead has moved some ideological distance from Christian Reconstructionism since his the days of his close association with Christian Reconstructionisms founder R. J. Rushdoony and Rushdoonys most important financial patron Howard Ahmanson, also one of the Institutes top financial backers. 2005 0 2002 5,000 Dr. Steven F. Hotze learned this in Houston. church. 2008 22,500 What specific benefits does a child receive through sponsorship? 2006 20,000 Efforts to claim a genetic basis for homosexuality are rooted in the assumption that our genes tell us what Gods intention for us is Only the Word of God can tell us what Gods intention is. http://www.thegoodnewsclub.com/blog/2013/03/good_news_clubs_and_the_gay_agenda3) a national Good News Club conference which featured, as a keynote speaker, NCF-funded evangelist Charles W. Ware who co-authored with Young Earth creationist Ken Ham the book Darwins Plantation: Evolutions Racist Roots (2007, Master Books) in which Ware and Ham write, The homosexual agenda is extending its tentacles throughout the United States culture via media, entertainment, education, and the political system. (p. 168). 2008 5,920 2012 -1,800,186, Traditional Values Coalition (EIN 33-0625188). 2002 1,000 But another speaker at the conference was even more significant, for having helped create the broader anti-LGBT rights strategy in which Lively has played an aggressive role. It's a 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. Freedom in Christ Ministries 2009 962,969 Mercy Ministries of America 2004 7,300 2003 55,000 I want to let you know that I am also a sponsor of one little girl from the same slum I grew up in. In 1953, he began to raise funds, and the next year he developed sponsorship programs to help support orphans for a few dollars a month. The Greens are frequent attendees of The Gathering. ARFP has played a major role in the wave of religious freedom bills that began to flood into state legislatures in early 2014. 2003 0 Compassion International has 3,000 employees, of which 39 are in a leadership position. And we need your help. 2011 8,660 Explains author and researcher Rachel Tabachnick, [Theocratic libertarianism] would dramatically reduce the federal government and control society through enforcement of biblical law at the local and state levels. Evidence has emerged that Nazarios Knights Templar members proved their loyalty through an act of cannibalism. That was based on the Bible, by the way. During the sermon he also predicted, It wont be long until well be calling pedophiles happy people. (see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/rick-scarborough-gay-use-sodomites-_n_2733482.html), In a late 2013 radio appearance with (NCF funded) anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera, Scarborough discussed the possibility of filing a class action lawsuit against homosexuality on the grounds that homosexuality much more likely leads to AIDS than smoking leads to cancer. (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scarborough-we-need-class-action-lawsuit-against-homosexuality), 2005 0 Among legislators on Capitol Hill who participate in Capitol Ministries are some of the most extreme far-right congressional representatives and senators in America including ( http://capmin.org/site/index.php/about/congressional-sponsors ) : Representatives Michele Bachman, Paul Broun (who has declared that evolution is from the pit of Hell !), Louis Gohmert, Steve King, and Joe Wilson, who interrupted President Barack Obamas 2009 State of the Union speech by shouting out You lie!. 3. 2012 see CCCs Jesus Film Project (over $12 million in FYI 2012) 2010 17,450 2. 2008 20,000 LGBTQI+ people face criminalization in over 70 countries - several of which can impose the death penalty - and anti-LGBTQI+ violence can be life-threatening. 2009 3,300 2012 230,615, Officers Christian Fellowship (EIN 38-1415401), ( see: http://www.ocfusa.org/static/uploads/bible-studies/genesis19.pdf ), 2001 3,000 2008 817,000 2008 541,414 2002 21,500 2013 5,766,158, Citizens For Community Values (EIN 31-1075684). Founder and director of mission at Global Mobilization Ministries is Alison Barfoot, who is described as a key actor directing the Uganda Anglican Church towards an oppositional stance towards homosexuality in the book American Culture Warriors in Africa: A Guide To The Exporters of Homophibia and Sexism ( 2014, Political Research Associates). In an April 2014 CBN commentary bemoaning the impact of the Obama administration and their allies, Pat Robertson stated, Something has got to be done, we have to get free of these people because its like a mass of termites that is eating away at the structure of this great edifice we call the United States of America and theyre burrowing in and theyre getting paid to destroy us. (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-lambasts-obama-administration-termites-destroying-america), Robertsons use of the term termites was not new. Christian Anti-Communism Crusade Everett Swanson was on a successful preaching tour in South Korea when he encountered the bitter poverty of Korea's unwanted children. 2005 27,500 2008 4,000 NCF funding to the AFM reflects the peak period of this effort, from 2004-2007. 2001 200,000 2002 65,000 2010 106,000 Council For Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 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. 4. 2007 113,200 2004 0 As reported in Kenyan media (see: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/mobile/?articleID=2000168074&story_title=DP+William+Ruto%3A+homosexuals+have+no+place+in+Kenya ) on July 6, 2015 Ruto declared, in a speech at the Ziwani Church, The other day you heard that in America the court has ruled about homosexuality but in this country we will defend what is right and what our faith states., Ruto continued, God did not create man and woman for a man to come and marry another man. In a December 13, 2005 op-ed titled The War on Christianity posted on the TVC website, Rev. 2005 22,000 2008 35,000 (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpRV0spflIE#t=1m). 2009 4,709,207 2002 26,250 While National Christian Foundation funding of the Chalcedon Foundation has been small, a frequent attendee at The Gathering (the NCF is the biggest foundation represented at The Gathering) has been Howard Ahmanson, one of Chalcedons main sources of financial support up into the mid-1990s. 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. Beyond the amounts listed below, it also receives substantial funding through the NCF-funded Alliance Defending Freedom. Everett Swanson first ministered Citizens For Community Values was a top financial sponsor of the wave of 2004 state ballot amendments banning same-sex marriage. 2011 6,343 2011 373,373 Writes political scientist John R. Pottenger, in his book Reaping the Whirlwind: Liberal Democracy and the Religious Axis (2007, Georgetown University Press), As senior minister of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and president of Coral Ridge Ministries, an international Christian broadcasting organization based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Kennedy preaches sermons reflecting the doctrines of theonomy and dominionism of Christian Reconstructionism. Just a sexual degenerate with a Marxist agenda Even in the 1960s, the controlled media and politicians were determined to push their racial mixing program on America. With its close ideological ties to the virulently anti-LGBT rights, theocratic Christian Reconstructionism movement (explored later in this article) it is hardly surprising that the ADF is as evidenced by its involvement in planning meetings of the World Congress of Families, one of the main vectors by which American conservative evangelicals are exporting their culture war agenda including hostility to reproductive and LGBT rights in the vanguard of rapidly globalizing culture wars. Beisner was also general editor for the worldview documents, on how to implement biblical law in all spheres of society, produced by the theocratic Coalition on Revival. 2008 1,000 2004 2,200 2008 1,999,900 2013 53,732, 2005 0 Described as the best junket in all of journalism, The Faith Angle Forum has established Michael Cromartie as one of the go-to sources on questions regarding religion and politics for many of the top journalists reporting on religion. This is good news to anyone seeking to escape a hollow lifestyle dishonoring to his Creator. 2004 67,500 This seminar focuses on teaching useful tools for setting people free: the healing of past wounds in order to break strongholds; replacing lies with truth; and closing doors to spiritual opposition., The course description linked directly to the bethelsozo.com website of NAR leader Bill Johnsons NCF-funded Bethel Church (see Bethel Church section). In 2010 Christian Union brought Intelligent Design expert Walter Bradley to Princeton and its Ivy League Christian Observer has showcased Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Michael Behe, author of the influential ID book Darwins Black Box. 2002 1,929,607 The ADF in turn works with state-level family policy organizations created under the aegis of (NCF-funded) Focus on The Family and which interface closely with the (NCF-funded) Family Research Council. University of Michigan. Jones two presentations for the Resisting the Green Dragon series are titled Rescuing People from the Cult of the Green Dragon and Go Therefore and Make Disciples: Advancing the Gospel in a World Permeated by Environmentalism. ACLJ has established satellite legal centers active in Europe, Russia, and Africa, which fight against LGBT rights and legal abortion, and the religious rights traditional panoply of culture war issues (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-freedom-and-liberty-group-aclj-backed-russian-gay-propaganda-and-blasphemy-b ).
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