>From: Larry4444@aol.com
>Date: Thu, 02 Jun 94 20:22:41 EDT

P-FLAG: Beware of hate groups   has been updated to include an E-mail
address.

                               B E W A R E
                GROUPS THAT PROMOTE HATRED AND HOMOPHOBIA
                    UNDER THE GUISE OF "FAMILY VALUES"

   You can do a lot to change the way people think by educating them to the
HATEFUL agenda behind organizations that hide beneath the innocuous banner
of "family values."

AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION
   Promotes the "agenda" through court actions; also targets
media/entertainment industry.  Concerns include homosexuality, pornography,
profanity, "anti-Christian bigotry," liberal media. Influential on National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA) funding and public school curricula
censorship.  600,000 members, 640 local chapters.  (Head: Donald Wildmon)

CONCERNED WOMEN OF AMERICA
   Anti-gay, anti-abortion, "pro-family" agenda via grassroots  organizing
and Congressional lobbying.  Pressures elected officials via local groups
("prayer chains").  600,000 members, 800 US  chapters.  (Head: Beverly
LaHaye)

EAGLE FORUM
   A women's organization powerful in national and Republican party
politics thanks to Phyllis Schlafly, founder.  Mother of a gay man, she
opposes AIDS education, sex education, daycare, family leave, abortion
rights, the ERA, and NEA funding.  80,000 members.   (Head: Phyllis
Schlafly)

FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
   Lobbies against G/L/B civil rights, reproductive freedom, government-
funded health care, child care and equal protection laws for women  in the
workplace.  Says lifting the military ban on gays will  dramatically
increase AIDS incidence.  Not the same as Paul  Cameron's Family Research
Institute.  Split from Focus on the Family in 1992.  (Head: Gary Bauer)

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
   Employs almost 1,000.  1,550 radio stations worldwide.  A leader  in the
passage of Colorado's Amendment 2 to disallow equal rights for G/L/B. 
Conducts seminars nationally to involve fundamentalists in political
process.  (Head: James Dobson)

TRADITIONAL VALUES COALITION
   Opposes gay rights, reproductive freedom, teaching evolution, and sex
education except abstinence.  Newest group is National Task Force  for the
Preservation of the Heterosexual Ethic in America.  Active  in DC, OR, and
CA to outlaw civil rights protections for G/L/B people. Now organizing
anti-gay ballot initiatives in California and elsewhere. Helped repeal G/L
rights in Irvine and Concord, CA.  Advocates AIDS quarantine.  25,000
Churches nationally.  (Head: Rev. Lou Sheldon)

FREE CONGRESS FOUNDATION
   A research/education organization.  Formed National Empowerment
Television (NET) to mobilize Right for grassroots lobbying.  Hopes to
expand to cable TV.  Operates Judicial Selection Monitoring Project.  Has
four TV shows including two to target black  conservatives and college
campuses.  (Head: Paul Weyrich)

OPERATION RESCUE
   Nationally known for violent shut-downs of abortion clinics and
vandalizing property, terrorizing women and health-care providers including
stalking, harassment, and other intimidation tactics. Trains activists. 
Added gay rights to agenda when Clinton proposed to lift the military ban. 
35,000+ members.  (Head: Randall Terry)

CHALCEDON
   Principle center of the Christian Reconstruction Movement.  Leader  in
establishing Christian legal organizations and a major think tank.
Publisher, speakers bureau, and seminar presenter.  (Head: Rousas John
Rushdoony)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATORS/CITIZENS FOR
EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION
   Goal is to bring public education under Christian control.  Priority is
disruption of public schools via attacks on curricula, text books, and
school boards.  1,250 chapters.  (Head: Dr. Robert L. Simonds)

   In addition to those listed above, the Christian Coalition, the Oregon
and Idaho Citizens Alliances, and Colorado for Family Values are all
organizations that abuse the TRUE meaning of family.

   If you know of any others that P-FLAG should be concerned about, please
send their names to P-FLAG, P.O. Box 96519, Washington, DC 20090-6519.

P - F L A G   C e l e b r a t e s   R e a l   F a m i l y   V a l u e s.

P-FLAG
P.O. Box 96519
Washington, DC  20090-6519

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