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2009 5,800 2007 2,078,944 2006 152,080 2011 564,750 Learn how Compassion changed her future. In 2009, during his visit to Uganda for an anti-homosexuality conference, Scott Lively gave a special presentation at the Watoto Church. 2007 25,900 Teen Challenge centers receive public funding. 2012 222,600, Ransomed Heart Ministries (EIN 84-1535770), Former Focus on The Family leader and Ransomed Heart Ministries head John Eldredge is author of the bestselling book Wild At Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Mans Soul (2001, Thomas Nelson. 2004 0, North Carolina Family Policy Council (EIN 56-1751596), 2002 2,500 2003 37,000 This is good news to anyone seeking to escape a hollow lifestyle dishonoring to his Creator. 2007 238,700 ( Trinity Academy, no EIN given ) Head of Faith 2 Action Janet Porter, ne Janet Folger, fronted for the 1998 Truth In Love ex-gay promotion campaign that briefly helped establish ex-gay leaders such as John and Anne Paulk as household names across America. South Tampa Fellowship Church 2003 50,000 Raising funds, from The Gatherings deep-pocketed investors, to implement that plan was a program manager for the Maclellan Foundation one of the most significant foundations at The Gathering and central to the creation of the National Christian Foundation. Intercessors For America Explained Palau to Olasky, Our school superintendent, who happens to be a very prominent member of the gay and lesbian community, came and said, We want you to find a church partner for every school in Portland public schools. So we now have 252 public schools with an evangelical church partner simply asking the question, How can we serve? Its been a revolution in relationships.. (see: http://www.ifapray.org/prayertopics.php?id=5), 2001 20,000 Their blood shall be upon them. The children Compassion serves receive, among other things: the opportunity to hear the gospel and learn about Jesus; regular Christian training; educational opportunities and help; health care, hygiene training and supplementary food if necessary; a caring and safe Christian environment to grow in self-confidence and social skills; personal attention, guidance and love. Controversy subsequently arose when media noticed a passage in the pledge that, as characterized by CNN, contained a controversial preamble suggesting black children born into slavery had better family structures than black children now. (see: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/11/gop-candidates-caught-in-slavery-controversy/). 2004 6,000 (Conservative Caucus Research) Thus, at the root the wretched of the developing world were suffering because they possessed the wrong ideas, the wrong beliefs, the wrong culture. 2008 166,366 2003 40,705 Ethics and Public Policy Center 2012 2,640 If the dispute isnt resolved to Eschlimans satisfaction, he could sue in federal court to seek financial damages. 2012 0, Global Aid Network EIN 95-4578963 2001 10,000 2010 1,900 The Alabama Policy Institute is listed, by the Family Research Council, as one of the State Family Policy Councils (see:http://www.frc.org/state-policy-organizations). Few people knew that its leaders were on the staff of Campus Crusade For Christ. 2012 0 No to sodomy! 2002 700 2013 54,100. 2013 54,494, Healing Rooms Ministries (EIN 91-2011121). 2009 90,000 Compassion International Devops Specialist - Splunk Colorado Springs, CO 30d+ 2004 5,850 2003 4,000 2007 23,850 2006 601,138 ( Trinity Academy, no EIN given ) E&PPC Vice President Michael Cromartie serves (along with Marvin Olasky and E&PPC fellow Herbert Schlossberg) on the advisory board of the Cornwall Alliance, which in recent years has depicted concern over global warming as part of a vast satanic conspiracy referred to as the green dragon. 2007 323,766 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 ). 2008 135,168 2007 212,500 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, who was personally groomed as a Fellowship leader by longtime Fellowship head Doug Coe (Colson has also been one of the most frequnetly featured speakers at The Gathering.). According to the Compassion International consolidated audit of June 30, 2018 (Note 9, Global Partner Alliance): According to the Compassion International consolidated audit of June 30, 2018 (Note 2, Severance Benefits). The 2012 990 tax form of the Council For National Policy lists Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, as the current CNP president. 2010 174,550 They adopted the appearance and some of the methods of the radical left, and were so successful that eventually there was more talk on campus about Jesus Christ than about Karl Marx. 2005 5,0 Definitely! 2003 0 Alliance Defending Freedom lawyers have been the chief litigants for the Bronx Household of Faith in the case. A person then either tries to arrange their life in reaction to, or avoidance of, these painful areas Per the Villars Statement. According to Food For The Hungry/UK, Samaritan Strategy Africa is a team of African leaders who have banded together to execute an ambitious plan to take the DNA teaching across the continent. (see: http://www.uk.fhi.net/hopeforafrica.html). 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. Theocratic libertarianism has become a foundational philosophy for some of the Religious Right, but it is also surprisingly seductive to Tea Partiers and young people, some of whom may not fully understand what is supposed to happen after the federal government is stripped of its regulatory powers. (see: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/1/6/14215/07913/). 2011 2,860 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission office in Milwaukee arguing that he was terminated May 5 because of his religious beliefs. Compassion International leader Dan Brewster, Director of Holistic Child Development Academic Programs for Compassion International, has been in the forefront of the development of the 4/14 Window concept, as outlined in Brewsters 2011 Compassion International book Child, Church, and Mission (http://www.europeanea.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/dan_brewster_childchurchmission_revised-en-web.pdf) which features the same imperative, on indoctrinating children, as expressed in the quote above, from Wess Stafford. 2013 299,886, Foundation For Moral Law (Judge Roy Moore) (EIN 03-0502850), Alabama Chief Justice Judge Roy Moore is widely known for installing a two and a half ton Ten Commandments monument at the Alabama State Courthouse in 2001. 2010 3,000 2009 297,229 The way God used sponsors through Compassion to Reviews by Gary North and others in Rushdoonys movement praised Schlossbergs book for its presentation of Christian Reconstructionist ideas. 2006 99,800 2006 65,050 2004 10,200 2003 277,613 2008 366,650 Privacy Statement and Conditions of Use In an indication of how far the Truro Anglican Church has drifted towards New Apostolic Reformation movement, in January 2014 the church held a Sozo Prayer Training Seminar. 2007 236,000 2004 190,850 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. Create the impression that the anti-gay movement is a grass-roots movement 2007 472,812 From April 16-18, 2009, less than a week before the draft of Ugandas Anti Homosexuality Bill was introduced in Ugandas Parliament, the Atlanta-based College of Prayer held two major events in Kampala, including a Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast that was broadcast on Ugandan national radio. 2007 275,053 This beacon provides an assessment of a charity's financial health (financial efficiency, sustainability, and trustworthiness) and its commitment to governance practices and policies. 2010 41,000 2011 1,274,773 2002 114,125 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. The International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims ( IRCT Crimes /a a. 2006 11,200 In March 2002, during the time of his first trip to Uganda, anti-LGBT agitator Scott Lively was serving as Director of AFA California. 2011 1,000 According to AFA 990 tax forms, the national American Family Association was at that time providing material assistance to its state-level affiliates. relationship more powerful than poverty changing their life and yours! At The Gathering 1997, this Fieldstead special team presented a sophisticated, multi-level plan for fighting organized homosexuality( see: http://www.twocare.org/transcript-the-gathering-1997-the-homosexual-agenda/). 2013 27,000, Total 140,600 (The NCF has also given $721,211 to In Touch Mission International, sister ministry of Frontline Fellowship), As one description put it, The Georgia Family Council is your typical anti-gay organization: supporting legislation to ban gay marriage and calling the legalization of gay marriage regression. (see: http://www.policymic.com/articles/12219/all-the-anti-gay-companies-you-fund-when-you-spend-5-25-on-a-chick-fil-a-sandwich), 2001 44,200 2007 $1,000 In a December 13, 2005 op-ed titled The War on Christianity posted on the TVC website, Rev. Through Cromartie come close ties between E&PCC and the elite Washington, DC evanglelical network known as The Fellowship which hosts the National Prayer Breakfast and has been accused, by jourbalst Jeff Sharlet, of having inspired Ugandas festering national anti-LGBT rights crusade. and instead of helping them we are papering over their problems . 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. The world will come to learn, for example, that though God passionately loves every homosexual, remaining in that sin will cause someone to fall under the sword of His judgment. 2012 77,600 Schlossbergs ministry, the NCF-funded His Servants, sells a line of ex-gay reparative therapy books translated into multiple languages including Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, and Hindi. 2007 1,000 2010 130,600 2004 229,761 The Mayflower Institutes Marshall Foster was an original Coalition on Revival signatory. You might have thought I would be afraid of you, look down on you, judge you, or consider you unworthy of friendship. Head of The Liberty Institute Kelly Shackleford, Esq. The core ideas are derived from Christian Reconstructionism. This is the only way communities can truly heal and thrive. Compass to Compassion will be held October 11-12 at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. 2009 0 Activists in states that allow gay marriage have been targeting bakeries and photography studios owned by citizens who oppose gay marriage based on deeply-held religious beliefs. 2009 4,000 2010 16,750 And they would even seem perplexed by the question. 2009 20,000 2012 0, Keynote EIN 33-1863088 2003 5,500 2010 750 2004 3,000 Your support gives a child life-changing 2005 15,900 2009 5,250 Christian Film and Television Commission 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. 2002 0 2008 31,800 Noebels most notable contribution, as expressed in his 1991 book Understanding the Times: The Religious Worldviews of our Day and the Search for Truth (1996, Harvest House, republished in 2006) may be his idea that secular humanism has replaced communism as the leading threat to America and Christianity. 2008 2,000 2006 10,800 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. On the international front, Focus on The Familys more recent active participation in the World Congress of Families which has included the participation of top Focus on the Family leaders in WCF planning sessions further underlines the fact that the softening of FoFs anti-LGBT rhetoric has been mainly a public relations ploy. 2004 0 education, more likely to have salaried 2013 25,300, (EIN 64-0607275 note: the AFA has also received substantial funding from The Gathering attendee Ken Eldred, through his Living Stones Charitable Trust [EIN 52-7038921] which from 2009 to 2011 gave the American Family Association $800,000), The American Family Association is headed by the Rev. Fosters institute promotes a Christian nationalist version of American history. Nazario had made Eldredges book required reading for La Familia Michoacana members and, according to a report from the Mexican Justice Department, had paid Mexican rural teachers to distribute Wild At Heart through the Michoacan countryside. 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). 2013 329,100, Teen Challenge (see section on Assemblies of God. significance, and moral discernment. 2010 158,000 About Compassion International 0. share. Johnson enthusiastically endorses the Freedom Resource ministry of NCF-funded Andy Reese, whose book Freedom Tools explicitly describes homosexuality as linked to demon possession. Some seemed transfixed; some spoke in tongues, The Rev. Besides his ongoing hostility to LGBT rights, Florida Family Council head Stemberger has been accused, by the National Black Justice Coalition, of making racist public comments for seeming to suggest, on a Florida talk radio show, that August 2014 riots in Ferguson, Missouri riots that followed the fatal police shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager were not really about the police shooting but were, rather, manifestations of a barbarian society caused by a decline in traditional marriage. According to the Center For Arizona Policy, which boasts that since 1995 130 CAP-supported bills have become law, There are many documented cases of homosexuals modifying their behavior and becoming heterosexual through Christian ministries and counseling. A third MLM board member of is British evangelist Peter Horrobin, one of the worlds leading experts, among Protestant charismatic Christians, in the practice of exorcism. 2003 200 The Cornwall Alliance asserts (http://www.cornwallalliance.org/alert/cornwall-alliance-releases-an-evangelical-declaration-on-global-warming/) that the Earths biological and climate systems are controlled and regulated by divine provenance: We believe Earth and its ecosystemscreated by Gods intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. 2011 212,425 eternal salvation, but also for the transformation of culture and economic life. Wrote Gentry, the family must align itself with God and His Law, rather than with blood ties or emotional attachment, as is so often the case. Cromartie took over as acting director for E&PPC in 2001, with the departure of E&PPC president Elliott Abrams, who had served since 1996. 2009 12,000 2010 1,080,234 2009 2,099,144 Develop a long-term project to convince evangelical pastors to support the anti-gay movement. Their hero, Mao Tse Tung, is estimated to have murdered upwards of 60 million people during his reign of terror in China. 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. mysterious ways to fulfill the plan. The Christian Legal Society also filed an amicus brief (see: http://www.clsnet.org/page.aspx?pid=534) in the The Bronx Household of Faith v. Board of Education of the City of New York court case which concerns the right of religious entities to rent worship space in public schools. 2011 58,589 2004 15,000 2004 271,525 We have it both in English and Spanish. Other major ministries on the evangelical right, such as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, are now looking towards Kevin Palaus model as a possible way to rebrand conservative evangelicalism, to move past the stigma of the divisive culture wars especially the perception that the movement is anti-gay. Until the unexpected demise of Vision Forum Ministries in the wake of a sex scandal that embroiled its head Doug Phillips, Vision Forum was one of the leading Christian Reconstructionist organizations in America. But in all cases, we provide love, education, In his book That None Should Perish: How To Reach Entire Cities For Christ Through Prayer Evangelism(Regal Books/Gospel Light 1994) Silvoso enthused, Because of my association with Luis Palau and his team, I knew that we were on the cutting edge of Gods movement in Latin America. These people are playing for keeps. (also see entry for the Revival Prayer Alliance), 2001 2,000 2008 5,920 TruthXchange 2007 190,316 Langa was also featured at a 2010 Transform World conference in Ethiopia. 2003 0 Focus on the Family The Family Foundation of Virginia Continue Reading Share this post: Alliance For Marriage As UK academics Gregory Deacon and Gabriel Lynch describe in their monograph Allowing Satan in? 2009 7,500 2009 5,000 2008 6,000 [19][20] The research, by Bruce Wydick, Paul Glewwe, and Laine Rutledge, evaluated Compassion efforts in six countries, with 10,144 children studied, reporting "large, statistically significant impacts on years of schooling; primary, secondary, and tertiary school completion; and the probability and quality of employment." 2013 0 ( 83,981 to John Hagee Ministries, EIN 74-1764843 ), The Liberty Counsel is a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated anti-gay hate group. In this paradigm, Homosexuality is generally understood as, variously, caused by or association with demon possession or demonization; homosexual acts open the door to those conditions. harmony with all of Gods creation, free from pain, suffering, and death. (http://www.transform-world.net/newsletters/2013/Global414Summit.pdf). After talks back and forth, in 2017 the BJP-led Indian government barred Compassion from transferring funds into India, forcing the group to close its operations in that country. 2004 5,000 2008 170,430 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! 2009 12,750 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. Trinity Academy 2010 8,000 ), 2001 25,000 Promise Keepers 2008 64,150 2013 100, International House of Prayer (EIN 74-2938033), 2001 to 2003 0 expanded to serve over 25 different countries and over four million children. 2010 2,710 In was in some ways an unlikely pick for Colson, because Cromartie had been a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War while Colson, during his time in the Nixon presidential administration, had as one of his dirty tricks operations arranged for union operatives from the AFL/CIO to savagely attack and beat with steel reinforcement bars protesters at a Manhattan anti-Vietnam war rally (an incident known as the Hard Hat Riot.). 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. 2008 71,200 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. 2010 82,788 2007 2,000 2009 175,300 ( 50K to AFA radio ) 2011 2,306,758 2003 0 Bob Lake was a co-founder of Lake, Hill & Myers, a Salt Lake City based CPA firm that was founded in. 2013 1,950, Mercy Ministries of America (EIN 72-0973419). Oyet (see: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/6/15/15356/9867) has helped propagate the most extreme anti-LGBT vilification in Uganda, including participating in Ugandan Martin Ssempas public screenings of fringe gay pornography. 2012 106,250. 2003 10,500 2006 155,000 2012 35,450 Encourage informed Christian thinking about contemporary social issues 2004 1,000 AIM was conceived from the efforts of Scottish missionary Peter Cameron Scott, and launched its missions and church-planting work with an 1895 expedition to Kenya, where AIM is particularly well established in Africa. 2011 131,100 2002 10,180 2008 7,800 TheCall held a major stadium rally prior to the 2008 election, but also maintained eight California field offices for turning out the pro-Proposition 8 evangelical church vote. 2005 0 2010 32,100 2004 0 King was their man and nothing was allowed to get in their way.. The Rev. 2007 44,560 247Sports 247Sports Home FB Rec FB Recruiting Home News Feed Team Rankings Commitments Decommitments Scheduled Commits Player Rankings Player Search Crystal. Describing his time in Uganda, Hartley stated, in a November 27, 2009 appearance on a colleagues radio show, just two weeks ago I was with the members of parliament and had a marvelous time, these are dear brothers and sisters in Christ and they are in earnest about righteousness and the cause of Christ and the amazing thing is they are standing for righteousness in areas that where we have long ago sold ourselves down the river but theyre looking to us for spiritual mentoring to, that they as kings and queens so to speak can stand in kingdom alignment and operate according to Biblical principles in their spheres of influence. 2012 6,400 The Greens are frequent attendees of The Gathering. see: http://transform-world.net/newsletters/2010/Ethiopia.pdf). 2006 1,000 Compassion International, one of the worlds biggest evangelical aid agencies, has played 2009 3,000 2006 4,000 2007 11,116 2006 38,000 2009 23,461 The First Academy is run by the Orlando First Baptist Church a fact which is only mentioned on the First Baptist Church website inside several biographies of church leaders who run the First Academy (see: http://www.firstorlando.com/about/meet_our_leadership/pastors_and_ministry_leaders_bios/articletype/articleview/articleid/13). Fellowship of Christian Athletes (see: http://www.americanpastorsnetwork.net/resource/resist-the-green-dragon/). Our programs, services, and learning opportunities align with our mission, vision, and core values, reflecting the tenets of the Knight's Call, while using data to inform how . 2006 30,823 Both scientific research and the personal experience of thousands of people show that a homosexual orientation can usually be unlearned. The Fall resulted in Gods curse on creation and in destructive patterns of thought, culture, and Hammond has also depicted the late Nelson Mandela as, first and foremost, a terrorist. 2012 2002 1,000 2013 450. God and His Law In 2012 the Liberty Counsel agreed to represent evangelist Scott Lively in a lawsuit filed by the NYC-based Center For Constitutional Rights, on behalf of the Ugandan gay rights group SMUG (Sexual Minorities Uganda). account. 2011- 170,000 To return to list, use your browsers back button. Not blood, but faith should rule us. It is a travesty that a Massachusetts court decided to thrust a radical social experiment upon an unwilling populace by legalizing same-sex marriage. This government endorsement of motherless and fatherless families is both reckless and dangerous. In early 2015, leading up the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, the Liberty Counsel organized a Defend Marriage Pledge, who signatories wanted to warn the Court not to cross the redline of natural marriage (see: http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14102&AlertID=1917 ), 2004 15,000 This section is a list of LGBT organizations that work internationally for LGBT Diversity.. This effort which has neutralized, at least in a public relations sense, charges that participating churches are anti-gay, has helped ignite church growth in Portland according to Palau: Were beginning to see churches grow and new churches planted, because weve demolished that straw man argument of Oh, youre just anti-this and anti-that. South Lake, for example, has planted a church in the Roosevelt neighborhood with 150 people coming. 2006 50,000 2011 2,800 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/). Another data point in AIs pattern of anti-LGBT rights activism came in 2008 at the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights when, At the 44th session in Abuja, Nigeria in November 2008, a further draft resolution was proposed at the NGO forum condemning violence and the culture of impunity of violations of human rights of LGBTI people. In his writing Ockenga, the first president of the National Association of Evangelicals, described the Neo-Evangelical project both as infiltration (a tactic that would soon be ascribed, during the coming McCarthyite Red Scare, to American communists, socialists, and even liberals accused of being fellow travelers) but also in terms of the strategy and tactics of actual warfare. 2013 2,350, Campus Crusade For Christ (EIN 95-2814920). Political movements (like Nazism and Communism) trained legions of children with the goal of carrying their agenda beyond the lifetimes of their founders. 2004 0 2008 2,800 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. 2002 0 Hope For The Heart 2006 14,100 2013 0, Faith 2 Action (Janet Porter/Janet Folger) (EIN 74-3068193). 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. As Katherine Stewarts book The Good News Club describes, Child Evangelism Fellowship promotes a fundamentalist, Christian nationalist, supremacist form of Christianity suffused with anti-LGBT hostility. In his 1986 book Kingdoms At War: Tactics For Victory In Nine Spiritual War Zones, Bright openly endorsed both the theocratic Coalition on Revival (see: http://www.reformation.net/) and the writings of top Christian Reconstructionists including R. J. Rushdoony. In 2012 Christian Union held an eight-school conference on faith healing featuring the New Apostolic Reformations Che Ahn, co-founder with Lou Engle of the virulently anti-gay group TheCall. 2011 55,000 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. 2008 493,765 2011 5,000 2005 22,000 without recognizing the value of incentive, opportunity, creativity, and economic and 2002 2,284 2012 26,800 According to the Frontline Fellowship book description, The Pink Agenda poses the following questions: Why do men involved in homosexuality and sodomy have an average life expectancy of 42 compared to 73 for other men? Why are homosexuals 24 times more likely to commit suicide than other people? Does the international gay movement include the lowering of the age of consent for sex with children, especially boys, and the normalization of pedophilia?. 2006 46,350 In Touch Mission International is a sister ministry of Front Line Ministries, headed by Peter Hammond a leading Christian Reconstructionist and current Coalition on Revival Steering Committee member. Anderson has come to occupy an increasingly prominent position among those in the anti-LGBT rights movement attempting to establish intellectually defensible arguments against same-sex marriage and in April 2014 made the claim that same-sex marriage is an elite luxury good bought for on the backs of the poor. (see Heritage Foundation entry), The same 2014 Ivy League Christian Observer features a sympathetic, in-depth portrait of Kyle Duncan, who is the lead attorney for the Hobby Lobby stores in a case that challenges provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and which is due to be decided by U.S. Supreme Court in Summer 2014.