Even animals are wiser than homosexuals! Cromartie steered Colson away from the separatist and politically disengaged stream of fundamentalism, and towards the quietly but heavily politicized Neo-evangelical movement that had been launched in the 1940s under the leadership, especially, of theologian Harold Ockenga and his close friend Billy Graham another key member of The Fellowship. Dr. Baehr is on the Board of Advisers of (NCF-funded) Mastering Life Ministries, headed by David Kyle Foster, which promotes videos of ex-gay ministry leaders. [note: both Howard Ahmanson, George Grant especially for his pioneering work in launching the ex-gay movement), Darrow Miller, and Herb Schlossberg have played major (and mostly unnoticed) roles in the American religious rights domestic and international wars on LGBT rights.]. Philadelphia Biblical University 2009 0 Most of the high-level Ugandan Christian leaders in the vanguard of Ugandas anti-LGBT rights crusade have ties to the NAR (Henry Luke Orombi) or have served directly in its America-based apostolic and prophetic networks (Julius Oyet, Alex Mitala, Joshua Lwere, John Mulinde). 2010 328,969 2007 1,000 Current E&PPC fellow Herb Schlossberg who served as a Fieldsteads program director during the 1990s, conceived the master religious right plan for fighting organized homosexuality that was presented at The Gathering in 1997. 2011 8,660 My family also got a mattress, and we graduated from sleeping on dirt floors on cardboards to a comfortable mattress. For more information, visitcompassion.comor follow us onFacebook,Instagram, andTwitter. We want children to have the opportunity to see living faith in action, hear the gospel and be discipled in the ways of Christ. 2005 10,000 2011 2,000 Their blood guiltiness is upon them., The document also makes the strange argument, Not only is homosexuality and same sex marriage voided by God in His Word, but Biology as well condemns homosexuality and same sex marriage: One cannot be a homosexual evolutionist., (see: http://capmin.org/site/resources/bible-studies/5-28-12.html). In the video Alcorn states, Jesus did not say to medicate a demon, he said to cast them out.. 2004 0 Consequently, it is not surprising that one of the most prominent AIC churches in Kenya, Nairobis Africa Inland Church Ziwani, has recently served as a launching point for Kenyan Vice President William Rutos mounting rhetorical attacks on LGBT rights and same-sex marriage. 2002 159,000 2006 0 2006 5,000 Rutherford Institute 2006 504,500 2008 33,000 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. 2004 15,000 But neither they nor their families are under any compulsion to become Christians. 2009 175,300 ( 50K to AFA radio ) 2005 82,800 2003 3,500 2002 0 The strategy of the homosexual rights movement is to use the courts and state referendum to redefine marriage And they intend to silence or destroy any group that opposes their political goals. They shall surely be put to death. 2013 1,500, Mastering Life Ministries (EIN 62-1542382). Ethics and Public Policy Center Certified Nursing Assistant /CNA + PT. 2013 800, Widely known as the Latin Billy Graham, Louis Palau established his name and career through nation-hopping evangelistic crusades (though Palau now eschews the term crusade, as divisive.). Acknowledge God as the Creator and Governor over His creation (Genesis 1:1) Illinois Family Institute Natural disaster. As a June 30, 2015 AIC Kenya Facebook page post ( https://www.facebook.com/AICKENYA?fref=nf ) states, The US Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex marriage is a legal right across the United States. 2005 70,029 compassion international lgbt. Ed Silvosos Harvest Evangelism ministry works directly with Ugandan First Lady Janet Museveni rumored in Uganda to be the most important driving political force behind the Anti Homosexuality Bill and also includes, in its International Transformation Network team Ugandan evangelist Julius Oyet, who claims to have been part of a committee that conceived the bill and picked MP David Bahati to introduce it in Ugandas parliament. 2012 4,000 Gender confusion, according to Eldredge, results when young boys are not allowed to fully express their innate aggressive, even violent, urges. 2003 234,392 2013 0, Faith 2 Action (Janet Porter/Janet Folger) (EIN 74-3068193). Shutting down of Compassion International: What the controversy is all 20012006 0 States Burns, Celebrating Gods Design is a unique new curriculum series that takes a balanced and biblical look at important youth issues including gender confusion, tolerance, and challenging family dynamics., 2001 156,000 2009 962,969 Create the impression that the anti-gay movement is a grass-roots movement Subsequent legal decisions which built upon that decision established that religious groups can rent out public school facilities on the weekends. 2012 35,062, The Great Commission Foundation 95-2814120 Thus, the ADF is in effect a spinoff from the elite networks of conservative evangelicals associated with The Fellowship and its offspring The Gathering, a fact which provides strong corroborating evidence for journalist Jeff Sharlets case (as outlined in several chapters his 2009 book C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat To American Democracy [2009, HarperCollins] see: http://harpers.org/blog/2010/09/inside-c-street-six-questions-for-jeff-sharlet/ ) that The Fellowship has played a major role in inspiring Ugandan religious and political leaders to create and promote the infamous Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill. The day will come when they will have children, and there wont be a thing they will be able to do to stop predators from taking advantage of their children because it will be against the law to discriminate. , 2001 5,000 2009 0 Transform World is affiliated with the overtly theocratic Coalition on Revival and is using major portions of the Coalition on Revival Worldview Documents (also known as the 17 Sphere Documents) in the Transform World Connections Handbook which is being given to conferees. (see: http://www.churchcouncil.org/ICCP_org/Adopting_Organizations/AAA_Intro_Page.htm). While the Pentecostal denomination the Assemblies of God is not typically identified as an anti-LGBT hate organization, the officially AoG statement on homosexuality ( http://ag.org/top/beliefs/relations_11_homosexual.cfm ), approved in 1979 (and not updated since then) cites Old Testament scripture, including scripture from the book of Romans, which mandates capital punishment for homosexuality. 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 ). He has crusades with up to 50,000 people and Ive seen three thousand saved in one night. Michigan Family Forum 2001-2004 0 What follows is a summary of the information contained in Livelys book, Scott Lively has made repeated appearances on AFA Radio, including a 2013 appearance with the AFAs Sandy Rios, during which Lively claimed that the biblical flood was Gods punishment for the writing of wedding songs to homosexual marriage. Meanwhile, NOM leaders such as Brian Brown has emerged as aggressive participants in the World Congress of Families that is credited with helping to inspire anti-LGBT and anti-reproductive rights legislation in Russia and Eastern Europe. 2004 10,200 In 2013, Mitala passed leadership of the National Fellowship of Born-Again Churches on to Joshua Lwere, in a ceremony in which Mitala called upon Lwere to fight homosexuality and pornography in Uganda as a Uganda news service characterized it. 2007 7,960 2001 2,500 By contrast, the activities of the foundations whose heads attend the yearly conference known as The Gathering can be readily traced through funding patterns in the 990 tax forms that those foundations file yearly with the Internal Revenue Service, and also through audio archives of sessions from the yearly The Gathering conference going back to 1996. 2012 310,415, Association of Christian Schools International (EIN 95-6072587 : also funded by The Gatherings Huston Foundation & Stewardship Foundation). 2003 1,600 2012 14,650, 2001 1,000 2005 16,000 (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/obama-not-christian-because-bible-very-clear-about-homosexual-acts-being-very-evil-thing), 2009 400 Like Luis Palau, Ed Silvoso has also targeted a chosen liberal, gay-friendly enclave, San Francisco. But even if it isnt, anyone can choose to refrain from homosexual (or heterosexual) sexual practices. 2007 5,000 2004 0 2005 20,740 Earths climate system is no exception. Bickle has preached that Apostle Paul preached that In the last days the homosexual agenda will become so intense that, before the Lord returns, marriage will be outlawed in various parts of the earth and stated that the gay marriage agenda is rooted in the depths of Hell. 2005 1,000 2007 10,000 Assemblies of God 2004 10,500 2009 7,920 2008 167,200 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. 2008 2003 62,113 65% of Compassion International employees are women, while 35% are men. That was a covenant, a pledge. 2007 4,500 2005 22,000 The South Tampa Fellowship Church presents a textbook quality case study in how the ex-gay industry has gone underground. Bauer served as President of the Family Research Council from 1988-1999. Obediently pursue Jesus command to be salt and light to the culture If the dispute isnt resolved to Eschlimans satisfaction, he could sue in federal court to seek financial damages. 2010 7,925 He has been relentless in encouraging his followers to political action: As the vice-regents of God, we are to bring His truth and His will to bear on every sphere of our world and our society. 2003 20,000 2006 13,200 2012 427,694 ( 419,617 to AFA Radio) 2007 $1,000 2008 71,200 2006 33,250 The Heritage Foundation 2001 10,000 2012 84,628 Compassion coordinates every aspect of the trip, including travel, meals, tips and gratuities, fees related to the travel, and sightseeing fares. 2012 35,450 The Navigators Hammond is also author of the book Biblical Principles for Africa, which presents a Christian Reconstructionist template for society, and his ministry gives Biblical worldview seminars throughout Africa, patterned after the Biblical Worldview trainings held by the James Dobson-endorsed Summit Ministries. 2009 12,275 The Biblical emphasis, then, is Compassion International 2009 30,000 God created mankind in His own image, endowing man with freedom, creativity, 2002 10,000 Throughout his career Palau has been close to Billy Graham and also tightly linked to The Family/Fellowship, which hosts the National Prayer Breakfast. (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpRV0spflIE#t=1m). in their community, *2008, Dr. Bruce Wydick, University of San Francisco. Stated Mitala, Some Ugandans are praising homosexuality and some believe it is their right but you should stand not to allow this moral decay in this country. (see: http://chimpreports.com/index.php/news/10456-bishop-lwere-urged-to-fight-homosexuality-pornography.html). Also participating was Hugh O. Maclellan of the Maclellan Foundation one of the most important funders of the NCF and an attendee at The Gathering. 2007 5,000 see: http://transform-world.net/newsletters/2010/Ethiopia.pdf). Everett Swanson was on a successful preaching tour in South Korea when he encountered the bitter poverty of Korea's unwanted children. 2011 106,250 2008 26,400 Stephen Langa has been widely recognized as one of the leading Ugandan figures lobbying for passage of the Anti Homosexuality Bill. 2013 60,050, California School Project (EIN 20-3226605). 2002 1,000 In Central America and the Caribbean, Compassion works in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and Mexico. 2001 7,600 2010 500 2012 17,050, Great Commission Foundation EIN 35-1057090 2002 171,000 2008 46,250 Yes. 2010 656,976 2012 1,123,200, The Heritage Foundation maintains an extensive website subsection devoted to arguments against LGBT rights, especially same sex marriage (see: http://www.heritage.org/issues/family-and-marriage/protecting-the-institution-of-marriage), Heritage fellow Ryan T. Anderson has come to occupy an increasingly prominent role among the opposition to marriage equality (see: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/05/21/2040851/the-arguments-against-marriage-equality-apparently-have-nothing-to-do-with-gay-people/), In April 2014 Anderson made the claim that same-sex marriage is an elite luxury good bought for on the backs of the poor. (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/heritage-foundations-ryan-anderson-calls-gay-marriage-elite-luxury-good-bought-backs-poor), 2001 10,000 2007 4,000 Much of his talk seems to be lifted directly from anti-gay American researchers like Dr. Judith Reisman of Liberty University and the widely discredited Paul Cameron. 2012 1,000 He knew he had to do something. And the literal term Mathare means "to struggle" or "to fight for" because people from Mathare have to fight for everything. Evangelism Explosion 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. In 2011, the IFPC, known for hosting Republican candidate debates, released a pledge on family values, The Marriage Vow A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family, which included support for the anti-same sex marriage Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), that was quickly signed by presidential hopefuls Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann. The student application for First Academy contains a series of moral codes for applicants to agree to including, I will avoid cursing, sexual immorality (including professing to be a homosexual/bisexual or practicing homosexual/ The Villars Consultation was in fact a sub-project in a much wider and more ambitious Ahmanson/Fieldstead project that ran from the 1980s into the early 1990s: the sponsorship of the TURNING POINT Christian Worldview series, a whole line of books (over a dozen) which analyzed and critiqued various contemporary policy issues through a Christian Reconstructionism-informed analytic lens. 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. 2007 30,400 Many of these children grow up to become positive influences in their own communities. 2003 1,000 2005 1,675 2011 10,000 Palau is also linked to top NAR leadership by marriage, to Louis Palaus sister Ruth Noemi Palau (now Ruth Silvoso.) 2008 34,000 The CFC played an important organizing role in the successful effort to pass Californias anti-same sex marriage Proposition 8. 2011 1,260,040 2004 5,850 Another vector for the widespread diffusion of Christian Reconstructionist ideas has been the Coalition on Revival: COR was an initiative launched in the mid-1980s under the intellectual shepherding and guidance of top Christian Reconstructionists such as R. J. Rushdoony, Gary North, Gary DeMar, and David Chilton, that helped move previously apolitical fundamentalist and charismatic Christians towards political engagement and activism. 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!. Promotes conferences that seek to change gay people, Admits: I believe homosexuality is harmful to all, including society, and is against the teachings of the God of the Bible, Equates homosexuality with bestiality and adultery: The Judeo-Christian worldview at the heart of Western culture and so our legal and governmental systems (Ten Commandments, an eye for an eye, the very concepts of mercy, justice and rehabilitation) promotes marriage and family while decrying other modes of sexuality homosexuality, bestiality, adultery, etc, Uses skewed research from activists who share his view to claim that gay men can change from homosexual to heterosexual orientation and that homosexual orientation is not an immutable fact of nature or Creation., IFI President Smith has testified before the Indiana House in favor of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage (see: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/01/22/3195191/indiana-house-committee-advances-constitutional-amendment-banning-sex-marriage/). 2003 3,000 Leviticus 20:13 states: If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. On its 2007 IRS 990 tax form, RPI lists two grants to Bishop Julius Oyet, totaling $11,350, as scholarships for travel to US from Uganda. 2002 76,500 footnote: The AIC has played a substantial role in the recent political ecology of Kenya, and its promotion of Neo-Pentecostal doctrines has helped steer national discourse away from questions regarding political leadership and corruption and towards narratives concerning personal morality. 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. LGBTQI+ people may also experience rejection from families, religious communities, and other social networks. 2009 19,900 2009 4,400 (EIN of Bethel, Redding, CA provided) The International Association of Healing Rooms miracle healing franchise is run by one one of the apostles in the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders (formerly the International Coalition of Apostles, led for the decade of the 2000s by church growth guru C. Peter Wagner). It has been 11 years since I graduated the Compassion Program. 2002 141,948 Foundation For Moral Law In his book C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat To American Democracy (Little, Brown, 2010), Jeff Sharlet charged that the international neo-fundamentalist, Washington D.C.-based network known as The Family had helped to inspire Ugandas Anti Homosexuality Bill. One alleged Mercy Ministries former client testifies, I was judged right from the start because of my sexuality and they continually told me that was wrong and I shouldnt have those thoughts. No to sodomy! Nothing could be further from the truth. It was a project of the Chick-Fil-A led Marriage CoMission, a coalition of dozens of ministries and organizations dedicated to fighting the downward spiral of marriage and the traditional family in America., The project included the participation numerous anti-LGBT organizations and leaders including Exodus International, Citizens for Community Values, the Alliance For Marriage (a driving force behind state anti-same sex marriage amendments), leaders from Focus on the Family, leaders from The Navigators, Campus Crusade For Christ Military Ministry, Alan Carlson and Larry Jacobs of the Howard Center, members of the Georgia Family Council, and representatives from Campus Crusade For Christ (Family Life). 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." My boys chew their graham crackers into the shape of handguns at the breakfast table wrote Eldredge, in Wild At Heart. 2008 1,000 2012 0 2011 2,750 What does the Bible call homosexuality? (TVCs Web site includes a section titled Causes and Cures Of Homosexuality And Gender Identity Disorders.) In 1995, he even persuaded conservative members of the House of Representatives to hold hearings on the alleged gay infiltration of public schools. 2007 11,116 Natalya Yakunina is a major leader in Russias anti-LGBT rights Christian conservative, nationalist backlash. 2011 3,000 (http://www.transform-world.net/newsletters/2013/Global414Summit.pdf). How does Compassion choose which countries to work in? Over the past decade, Louis Palaus son Kevin Palau has taken his fathers ministry in a bold new direction, through a partnership with the secular, liberal city of Portland Oregon in which each year thousands of volunteers from hundreds of area churches volunteer in a civic improvement campaign. International House of Prayer Use ideas and language that appeal to the public 2010 30,100 Beyond the purview of LGBT rights, Shackleford has depicted health care reform as an attack on religious freedom that indicates a government that is totalitarian. The main initiative of the Howard Center has been the World Congress of Families, a global initiative which has brought together family values-oriented social conservatives, both secular and religious, from different religious traditions, and across Christian denominational divides. 7. 2008 4,500 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. World Vision Lifts Gay Marriage Ban - Soncured Records Self-compassion involves extending kindness toward the self, especially during times of difficulty. 2004 75,500 This is the work of God, this is the work of Jesus. The prior year, in 2012, LaBarbera was a participant in the 2012 World Congress of Families, in Madrid. I will not send them away hungry" (Matthew 15.32). When the news finally reached the media, it was too late. 2013 1,000. Beyond the amounts listed below, it also receives substantial funding through the NCF-funded Alliance Defending Freedom. Our Where We Work section contains general information about each country we work in, along with more specific information about major regions of each country. 2002 12,978 Hammond has also depicted the late Nelson Mandela as, first and foremost, a terrorist. That support 2009 4,900 2002 5,000 "If only you knew": Former Compassion-sponsored children write one last American Center For Law and Justice 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/). 2012 3,381,000 (The Christian Union) 2005 0 2008 190,400 Bethel Redding is one of the strongholds of the fast-growing New Apostolic Reformation movement and promotes the doctrine that believers can wield all of the miraculous powers described in the New Testament book of Acts as having been demonstrated by Jesus apostles following his death. In our country today, there is tremendous pressure on Christians, churches, and Christian organizations to lower our moral standards. American Decency Association 2012 350,000 2008 0 not on sinful structures, but rather on sinful human choices that perpetuate 2008 10,000 This encyclopedia documents the role of the National Christian Foundation as the leading domestic U.S. funding source for organizations and institutions involved in anti-LGBT rights activism and which are ideologically hostile to gay rights. Brian Cox, associate rector of a sister church, the Church of the Apostles, exhorts Truros congregants to obey unquestioningly Gods commands. One letter featured in this video comes from Kennedy. 2002 18,600 2011 10,000 2003 4,000 2007 34,400 Minnesota Family Institute and Council Exodus International Since the Rev. 2007 50,000 , (see: http://www.twocare.org/transcript-the-gathering-1997-the-homosexual-agenda/). 2012 313,100 (Bethel Church, no EIN provided) And just like Darrell and Denise's encouraging letters did for Kennedy, a sponsor's love brings hope to a child that will last a lifetime. De-facto head of the Ethics and Public Policy Center is Vice President Michael Cromartie, a frequently featured speaker at The Gathering. Violence, discrimination, stigma, and criminalization negatively impact the lives of millions of LGBTQI+ people around the world and contribute to poverty and social instability. The College of Prayer Uganda includes MPs David Bahati, Benson Obua-Ogwal, and Nsaba Buturo all of whom have played a part in the promotion of the bill, which Oyet has himself enthusiastically promoted (including working with Martin Ssempa, in gathering several million signatures for a petition calling on Ugandas parliament to pass the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill. 2007 16,824 2002 106,000 Uganda says no to sodomy! How does Compassion work? 2011 806,879 The arbitrary new nations (e.g. 2008 84,820 I enjoyed going to Compassion center regularly. We might also start various front groups. 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. Alliance Defending Freedom lawyers have been the chief litigants for the Bronx Household of Faith in the case. Sozo is an exciting and growing prayer ministry that was birthed out of Bethel Church in Redding, California, helping people to receive salvation, healing and deliverance. Up until the death of its founder D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Ministries served as a leading force for Christian dominionism in America.