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.

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 NCF’s 2013 990 tax form filed with the Internal Revenue Service.

The NCF’s “core beliefs” include the statement, “the entire Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God; the only infallible rule of faith and practice.” (see: https://www.nationalchristian.com/vision)

NCF’s founders have helped create and lead the elite anti-gay evangelical right – NCF co-founder and current board member Ron Blue has swerved on the Campus Crusade for Christ board and NCF co-founder (the late) Larry Burkett worked as a financial manager for CCC; Burkett was also a founding member of the Alliance Defense Fund (now renamed Alliance Defending Freedom); NCF co-founder and current NCF board member Terry Parker has served on the board of the Family Research Council (see encyclopedia entries for these three organizations.)

Since its founding in 1982, the NCF has given out over $5 billion in grant money, and over 2.5$ billion of that went out in a five year period, from 2009-2013. By 2013, based on its $603 million in grants in FY 2012, the National Christian Foundation was judged by the Chronicle of Philanthropy to be America’s 12th biggest private foundation.

Consider the NCF’s startling rate of growth over the last 6 years – in 2009, the National Christian Foundation gave out $328 million in grants; NCF’s 2015 ministry report states that its preliminary (un-audited) grant total for FY 2014 was $875 million.

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. Years 2002-2013 of those forms can be downloaded here, from the National Center For Charitable Statistics.

Note: this is an evolving work. Please return soon, as entries will be added on an ongoing basis.

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Advocates International

Africa Inland Mission International

Alabama Policy Institute

Alliance Defense Fund / Alliance Defending Freedom

Alliance For Marriage

American Center For Law and Justice

American Decency Association

American Family Association

Americans For Truth About Homosexuality

American Vision

American Values

Assemblies of God

Association of Christian Schools International

Bethel Church

California Family Council

California School Project

Campus Crusade For Christ

Capitol Ministries

Center For Arizona Policy

Chalcedon Foundation

Child Evangelism Fellowship

Christian and Missionary Alliance

Christian Anti-Communism Crusade

Christian Anti Defamation Commission

Christian Broadcast Network

Christian Film and Television Commission

Christian Legal Society

Christian Union

Citizens For Community Values

Compassion International

Concerned Women For America

Coral Ridge Ministries

Council For National Policy

Council For Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

Daystar Church

Desert Stream Ministries

Disciple Nations Alliance

Eternal Perspective Ministries

Ethics and Public Policy Center

Evangelism Explosion

Exodus International

Family Research Council

Family Research Institute

Faith 2 Action

Fellowship of Christian Athletes

Fidelis Center For Law and Policy

Florida Family Policy Council

Focus on the Family

Food For The Hungry

Foundation For Moral Law

Freedom in Christ Ministries

Friends of the Bridegroom

Frontline Fellowship

Georgia Family Council

Global Mobilization Ministries

Harvest Evangelism

Healing Rooms Ministries

His Servants

Hope For The Heart

Illinois Family Institute

Indiana Family Institute

Institute in Basic Life Principles

The International Foundation

In Touch Mission International

Intercessors For America

International House of Prayer

Iowa Family Policy Center

John Hagee Ministries

Liberty Counsel

Lilburn Alliance Church

Louis Palau Association

Marketplace Leaders Ministries

Marriage and Family Foundation

Massachusetts Family Institute

Mastering Life Ministries

Mayflower Institute

Media Research Center

Mercy Ministries of America

Michigan Family Forum

Minnesota Family Institute and Council

Minneosta Teen Challenge

Mission America Coalition

National Organization For Marriage

New Hope Charitable Foundation

New Jersey Family Policy Council

North Carolina Family Policy Council

Officer’s Christian Fellowship

Oral Roberts University

Pacific Justice Institute

Patrick Henry College

Pennsylvania Family Institute

Philadelphia Biblical University

Portland Fellowship

Prison Fellowship Ministries

Probe Ministries International

Promise Keepers

Ransomed Heart Ministries

Regeneration Ministries

Revival Prayer Institute, Inc.

Rutherford Institute

Samaritan’s Purse

South Tampa Fellowship Church

Southeast Christian Church

Summit Ministries

Teen Challenge

Teen Mania Ministries

Trinity Academy

The Becket Fund For Religious Liberty

TheCall

The Conservative Caucus

The Family Foundation of Kentucky

The Family Foundation of Virginia

The First Academy (of Central Florida)

The Heritage Foundation

The Howard Center

The Institute On Religion and Democracy

The Liberty Institute

The Navigators

Traditional Values Coalition

Truro Anglican Church

TruthXchange

Truth In Action

Vision America, Inc.

Vision Forum Ministries

Voice of the Martyrs

Watoto Child Care Ministry

The Witherspoon Institute

World Outreach Ministries

Youthbuilders





Advocates International (EIN 54-1646669)

Advocates International bills itself as the world’s biggest faith-based legal association, with thousands of legal professionals around the globe. According to its website, AI “informally links 30,000 advocates and jurists in 156 nations through 100 national Christian lawyer groups linked by six regional networks.” (see: http://www.advocatesinternational.org/content/brief-overview-advocacy-1991-2010)

While Advocates International states that “The goal of AI is justice with compassion in Christ”, it also promotes an anti-LGBT agenda and is developing a close working collaboration with related groups, such as the (NCF-funded) Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly Alliance Defense Fund) that are emerging in the forefront of the mounting international war on gay rights (see: http://www.advocatesinternational.org/webfm_send/260).

In September 2009, AI’s Africa affiliate Advocates Africa hosted a conference (see: http://www.advocatesinternational.org/content/advocates-africa-0), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at which ADF Senior Vice President Jeffery Ventrella led a plenary session with the title “Religious Freedom, the Homosexual Agenda and Advocacy”. The likely content of Ventrella’s speech at the session can be inferred from a June 18, 2010 talk Ventrella gave at the ministry of (NCF-funded) TruthXchange, during which Ventrella approvingly quoted TruthXchange head Dr. Peter Jones (whom Ventrella referred to as a friend),

“Whether Christians realize it or not, we are part of a human history that is destined for confrontation and conflict with pagan spirituality and that spirituality is driven, in our times, by a militant homosexual agenda.” (see: http://vimeo.com/26365697)

During his talk, Ventrella mentioned giving presentations around the world on the homosexual agenda, including in Ethiopia – in an apparent reference to his talk at the 2009 Advocates International Ethiopia conference.

Featured speakers at the 2009 AI Ethiopia conference included Campus Crusade for Christ (now rebranded as “Cru”) Vice Presidents Bekele Shanko and Delah Adadevoh – who in 2013 were two of the three featured speakers at Campus Crusade For Christ’s “Pamoja III” conference held from late December 2012 into early January 2013 near Lagos, Nigeria – a conference which drew upwards of two thousand young evangelical leaders from across Africa.

During Campus Crusade’s Pamoja III conference, as described in a Truth Wins Out special report which broke the story on the virulently anti-gay conference, the other featured speaker was Ethiopian Dr. Seyoum Antonios, who,

“claimed, among other things, that seventy percent of gay men have “fecal sex,” which involves ingesting large amounts of feces; that thirty-three percent of gay men are pedophiles, and that gay couples are coming to Africa to “steal their children” and turn them into homosexuals; that homosexuality has come to Africa “to kill us,” and thus must be eradicated; that gays are fifteen times more likely to be murderers; and that Africans should reject aid from Western organizations that are “trying” to infiltrate their continent with the homosexual agenda. 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.

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/)

Giving special presentations at the Advocates International / Advocates Africa Ethiopia conference in 2009 were the following National Christian Foundation-supported organizations: Prison Fellowship International, Campus Crusade for Christ, Alliance Defense Fund, International Justice Mission, and Pepperdine University, USA.

Former Dean of Pepperdine University and now-President and Chancellor of Baylor University Kenneth Starr serves on the Advocates International board (see: http://www.advocatesinternational.org/node/697).

Pepperdine University has established close ties to the Ugandan justice system (see: http://law.pepperdine.edu/news-events/news/2010/05/judiciary.htm), through its “Global Justice Program”.

In 2012, Advocates International’s affiliate Advocates Guyana, responding to a possible push in the Guyana National Assembly to de-criminalize same-sex relations, issued a statement that such a legislative action would be “an assault on our Guyanese beliefs and value system” and “an assault on the family”. Declared Advocates Guyana, “While we defend the human rights of every individual, including homosexuals, we condemn the practice of homosexuality and it’s promotion through legislative amendments” (see: http://www.guyanajesuits.org/cms-assets/documents/88691-264411.201238october-5catholic-standard.pdf)

Another data point in AI’s 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. A representative of Advocates International,26 challenged the resolution on the basis that there was no consensus on the issue.” (see: http://agi.ac.za/sites/agi.ac.za/files/2_case_study_sibongile_ndashe.pdf)

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 Bible clearly teaches about these abnormalities. Sexual abnormalities are a deep cancerous tumor in the entire society. The Lord knows that sexually twisted people will rape the animals. Not even animals can avoid the fiery passion of man’s sexual lust.” (see: http://www.eaec.org/bibleanswers/ake_green_sermon.htm)

Advocates International speakers have participated in the (NCF-funded) Howard Center’s World Congress of Families events, which have been closely tied to growing anti-LGBT persecution and anti-gay legislation in Russia, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere.

According to AI, its Family Task Force “generally supports the principles and purposes of the World Congress of Families and participates in its global meetings.” (see: http://www.advocatesinternational.org/library/family-and-community)

2001 – 51,000

2002 – 171,000

2003 – 21,000

2004 – 21,000

2005 – 16,000

2006 – 1,000

2007 – 15,100

2008 – 26,400

2009 – 16,850

2010 – 2,450

2011 – 6,600

2012 – 5,740

2013 – 9,750





African Inland Mission International (EIN 11-1873101)

Africa Inland Mission International

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. Let us pray for the church in America and the world to stand firm in the Truth of God, that same-sex marriage is a violation of the word and the will of God.”

AIM International supports the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) network of Africa Inland Churches that are, in effect, their own continent-wide denomination. 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.

AIM is among a class of Anglo-American pseudo-denominations (such as the Christian And Missionary Alliance and Serving in Mission), launched in the 19th Century, that are nominally “non-denominational”, heavily missions oriented, and aimed at evangelizing the world’s thousands of “unreached people groups” categorized by such mammoth evangelical global intelligence gathering projects as the Joshua Project, which makes its detailed ethnographic data on thousands of world “people groups” available to various missionary efforts and organizations.

Like the Christian And Missionary Alliance, as it has grown and developed AIM has quietly drifted towards beliefs and practices associated with the New Apostolic Reformation movement and its outlier movements in charismatic evangelicalism, as well as towards the wider church growth movement from which many of the key NAR ideas and practices emerged.

As described in the World Evangelical Alliance book “Doing Member Care Well: Perspectives and practices From Around the World” (page 153, edited by Kelly O’Donnell, 2002, World Evangelical Alliance Missions Commission), AIM has focused especially on building missions infrastructure, including a partnership with the Wycliffe Bible Translators/SIL (also heavily funded by the National Christian Foundation):

“Africa Inland Mission has historically had a vision to provide services for the broader missions community of like- minded mission agencies in East Africa. The counseling ministry is a good fit for the AIM International Services Department, which also provides bush flights, freight shipping and clearing, a guest- house, financial services, etc. AIM has also been involved in developing and manag- ing institutions such as Rift Valley Academy and Kijabe Medical Center.”

As a young man, Peter Cameron Scott “joined the Christian Alliance Training Institute in New York, run by Albert Benjamin Simpson who was the founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination.” As described in this encyclopedia, in the entries on the Revival Prayer Institute, the Lilburn Alliance Church, and the Christian and Missionary Alliance, CMA has emerged as a major force in the war on LGBT rights in sub-Saharan Africa. Many CMA churches are now fully New Apostolic, in their beliefs and practices.

The NAR and its charismatic predecessor movements (often referred to under the umbrella term “Neo-Pentecostalism”) are especially committed to opposing LGBT rights, and their demon-obsessed theology – a particularly potent weapon for attacking LGBT populations and other targeted societal groups – has been promoted by AIC churches since the early 1990s (see footnote), when American evangelicals began heavily exporting their Neo-Pentecostal Spiritual Warfare/Spiritual Mapping ideas and practices, especially to to Africa.

In a 1999 book, NAR leader C. Peter Wagner described one of the key three “moral nonnegotiables” of New Apostolic churches: “Homosexuality is a sin against God” [from page 7 of his book Church Quake! The Explosive Power of the New Apostolic Reformation (Regal Books, 1999)]

Consequently, it is not surprising that one of the most prominent AIC churches in Kenya, Nairobi’s Africa Inland Church Ziwani, has recently served as a launching point for Kenyan Vice President William Ruto’s mounting rhetorical attacks on LGBT rights and same-sex marriage.

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. We believe in God. This is a God-fearing nation and we will be firm on what is right.”

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. As UK academics Gregory Deacon and Gabriel Lynch describe in their monograph “Allowing Satan in? Moving Toward a Political Economy of Neo-Pentecostalism in Kenya” (from the Journal of Religion in Africa #43 (2013) 108-130, published by Brill),

“[T]he AIC actively fostered neo-Pentecostal ideas, for example through the AIC press publication of Delivered from the Powers of Darkness by the influential Nigerian evangelist Emmanuel Eni, which gave a personal account of Eni’s time as a witch and his redemption through his acceptance of Jesus (Ogembo 2001). Ellis and ter Haar (1998) discuss this particular tract in terms of its reference to evil and therefore as an implicit critique of power and corruption. However, in Kenya these ideas fed into Moi’s portrayals of the country’s socioeconomic woes as resulting not from poor leadership but from individual sin that had allowed Satan to enter the nation. Continuing in this vein, Moi commissioned an inquiry into devil worship as an offfĳicial response to a growing belief that ‘devil worship was becoming prevalent in Kenyan edu- cational institutions’ (Ogembo 2001, 7).”

2013 – 135,392



Alabama Policy Institute (EIN 63-0809568)

The Alabama Policy Institute is an example of the overlap of the State Policy Institute system (which promotes pro-business, anti-regulatory legislation authored by ALEC, the American Legislative Council) and the Family Policy Council network associated with Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council (which promotes “pro-family” legislation and issues, as those are typically defined by the religious right.)

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). A February 20, 2014 op-ed run on the Alabama Policy Institute website states (see: http://www.frc.org/state-policy-organizations),

“[T]he endgame of homosexual activists is not simply to upend duly enacted laws defining marriage. The ultimate goal of their agenda is to use the force of law to silence sincerely held religious beliefs in opposition to same-sex marriage.

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…

…Targeting, intimidation and coercion are the tactics of regimes our nation has fought time and again over its history.

[…]

…The battle to protect basic freedoms never ends and all freedom-loving people must engage or those freedoms will soon be lost.”

2001 – 22,500

2002 – 17,500

2003 – 10,000

2004 – 15,691

2005 – 22,000

2006 – 30,000

2007 – 23,850

2008 – 46,250

2009 – 89,200

2010 – 79,325

2011 – 106,250

2012 – 123,469

2013 – 142,794





Alliance Defense Fund / Alliance Defending Freedom (EIN 54-166459)

Up into 2014, the ADF offered a book – as a complementary gift to ADF donors, that was co-authored by ADF founder and president Alan Sears and which claimed that “[homosexual] activists have followed a strategy akin to what Hitler used back in the 1920s and 1930s to take over Germany”. ADF is tied to anti-LGBT rights activism from the U.S. to Belize to Russia and has played a major role in the the anti-gay World Congress of Families (see: http://www.twocare.org/the-secret-american-money-behind-the-world-congress-of-families/ ).

The umbrella coalition known as the ADF plays a preeminent coordinating and funding role for legal organizations of the Christian and religious right. 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.

As explained during a 2006 3 and 1/2 special briefing to The Gathering (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LYLMYvUhoQ ), The ADF was created expressly to aid existing legal organizations, and local attorneys, in their culture war legal battles; it does not compete with existing Christian right legal organizations, nor does it take over local Christian right legal fights. Rather, the ADF provides not only legal assistance but also targeted financing to support specific litigation. ADF’s 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.

During that 2006 ADF briefing to The Gathering, Family Research Council head Tony Perkins gave a special presentation in which Perkins declared the LGBT rights movement to be the second most dire threat to America next to militant Islam.

The Alliance Defending Freedom was launched in 1994 with a conference call co-hosted by Campus Crusade For Christ founder Bill Bright, who in turn was an inner-sanctum member of the Washington D.C. network known as The Fellowship (long headed by Douglas Coe.) Other co-founders included evangelist D. James Kennedy, James Dobson, and the less well known financial adviser Larry Burkett, one of three co-founders of the now-mammoth National Christian Foundation.

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 Sharlet’s 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.

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.

From 2012-2014 the ADF played a major, if not the central, behind the scenes role in the Hobby Lobby v. Burwell Supreme Court case and the welter of similar “religious liberty” court cases that were being litigated across America (see entry on The Becket Fund.)

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.

In 2003, ADF filed a brief in a support of now-overturned sodomy laws in the Lawrence v. Texas case, and in 2008 ADF defended California’s ban on same sex marriage in Hollingsworth v. Perry. 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.

Over the last decade ADF lawyers emerged in the forefront of legal efforts to block same-sex marriage in states across the nation. More recently, the Alliance Defense Fund / Alliance Defending Freedom has become a leader in the American Christian right’s international export and encouragement of anti-LGBT legislation.

The ADF was a co-convener of the 2012 World Congress of Families conference in Madrid, and ADF chief counsel Benjamin Bull has traveled to Russia to meet with Russian legislator Yelena Mizulina, who has led legislative efforts in the Russian Duma to pass anti-LGBT and anti-reproductive rights legislation. More recently, ADF joined a number of major US-based (and NCF funded) Christian right groups such as the Family Research Council and Focus on The Family at planning sessions for the 2015 World Congress of Families event in Salt lake City, Utah (see: http://worldcongress.org/files/1114/4483/3500/WCF_News_November_2014.pdf )

While liberal activist groups such as Thinkprogress ( http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/05/01/3429448/alliance-defending-freedom/ ) have provided in-depth coverage of ADF activism, existing reports (excepting the work of Twocare.org ) have failed to identify what is by far the biggest source of ADF funding, the National Christian Foundation.

The NCF provided over 25% of the ADF’s annual budget in 2012. In addition, many of the ADF’s other substantial funders, including the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation and the Edgar and Ellen Prince Foundation, are represented at The Gathering along with the National Christian Foundation.

As explored in a 2014 Twocare.org report, The Alliance Defense Fund has close ties to the Christian Reconstructionism movement and has directly co-sponsored Christian Reconstructionist conferences, such as a 2007 conference with the Christian Reconstructionist Vision Forum (see: http://www.alternet.org/story/55717/).

Top Christian Reconstructionists such as R.J. Rushdoony (widely considered the movement’s founder) have advocated imposing capital punishment (via such “biblical” methods of execution as stoning, crucifixion or burning at the stake) for violations of mosaic law such as adultery, homosexuality, female un-chastity (sex before marriage), witchcraft, idolatry, and blasphemy.

2001 – 102,750

2002 – 185,479

2003 – 663,000

2004 – 877,650

2005 – 534,992

2006 – 1,517,669

2007 – 1,574,257

2008 – 2,674,708

2009 – 4,032,927

2010 – 9,357,128

2011 – 9,606,281

2012 – 10,065,276

2013 – 11,341,187

Total – 50,958,635



Alliance For Marriage (EIN 52-2198448)

The fortune of the narrowly-targeted Alliance for Marriage has risen and fallen with the religious right’s efforts to prevent the legalization of same-sex marriage. NCF funding to the AFM reflects the peak period of this effort, from 2004-2007.

AFM’s past support for civil unions may have ultimately led to its downfall, with harsh criticism ( http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-gay-marriage-movement-fractures ) of the ADF’s approach coming from the more virulently anti-LGBT groups that have gained prominence within the Christian right even as barriers to same-sex marriage began to fall in one U.S. state after another.

2001 – 10,000

2003 – 120,000

2004 – 330,000

2005 – 427,500

2006 – 217,500

2007 – 315,000

2008 – 115,000

2009 – 106,000

2012 – 3,000

2013 – 0

total – 1,644,000



American Center For Law and Justice (EIN 54-1586817)

Started by televangelist Pat Robertson, the ACLJ has an active relationship with Robertson’s Regent University. ACLJ has established satellite legal centers active in Europe, Russia, and Africa, which fight against LGBT rights and legal abortion, and the religious right’s 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 )

The ACLJ also receives heavy funding from the Alliance Defending Freedom – making it, in effect, an extension or subsidiary of ADF.

2001 – 6,250

2002 – 30,100

2003 – 137,850

2004 – 190,850

2005 – 137,850

2006 – 224,650

2007 – 275,053

2008 – 225,855

2009 -193,765

2010 -182,625

2011 – 277,260

2012 – 278,045

Total – 1,882,893



American Decency Association (EIN 38-2772745)

ADA is a Michigan spinoff of Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association. Wildmon was an original signatory to the Coalition on Revival.

2001 – 100

2002 – 100

2003 – 2,500

2004 – 10,200

2005 – 15,700

2006 – 10,000

2007 – 30,400

2008 – 17,100

2009 – 16,500

2010 – 16,750

2011 – 15,800

2012 – 15,800

2013 – 25,300





American Family Association

(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. Donald Wildmon, an original signatory to the theocratic Coalition on Revival. The AFA is classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group (see: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/american-family-association)

While some organizations on the Christian right have over the past several years moderated their anti-gay rhetoric, the AFA’s anti-gay speech has become, if anything, even more extreme.

Since 2010, the AFA’s director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy Bryan Fischer has been rebroadcasting tropes originally minted by Scott Lively, that Hitler and top Nazis were gay. In a May 27, 2010 AFA column (see: http://www.afa.net/blogs/blogpost.aspx?id=2147494882) Fischer wrote,

“Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews…

[…]

Scott Lively’s well-documented book, “The Pink Swastika,” exposes a secret homosexual activists don’t want you to know about Nazi Germany: that although the Nazis did persecute homosexuals, the homosexuals the Nazis persecuted were almost exclusively the effeminate members of the gay community in Germany, and that much of the mistreatment was administered by masculine homosexuals who despised effeminacy in all its forms.

What follows is a summary of the information contained in Lively’s book…”

Scott Lively has made repeated appearances on AFA Radio, including a 2013 appearance with the AFA’s Sandy Rios, during which Lively claimed that the biblical flood was God’s punishment for the writing of “wedding songs to homosexual marriage”. (see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/noahs-flood-caused-by-wedding-songs-homosexuals-scott-lively_n_2450404.html)

In March 2002, during the time of his first trip to Uganda, anti-LGBT agitator Scott Lively was serving as Director of AFA California. According to AFA 990 tax forms, the national American Family Association was at that time providing material assistance to its state-level affiliates.

2001 – 15,450

2002 – 4,200

2003 – 4,000

2004 – 245,445 ( 50K AFA Radio )

2005 – 67,000 ( 50K AFA Radio )

2006 – 42,200

2007 – 194,545 ( 101K to AFA radio )

2008 – 284,700 ( 143K to AFA radio )

2009 – 175,300 ( 50K to AFA radio )

2010 – 296,490 (1,500 to AFA radio )

2011 – 267,309 ( 50,850K to AFA radio )

2012 – 427,694 ( 419,617 to AFA Radio)

2013 – 208,554

Total – 2,232,587



Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (EIN 541829289)

One of the most flamboyantly anti-gay groups on the Christian Right, AFTAH is classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group. In 2013, AFTAH head Peter LaBarbera spoke at an anti-gay rights conference at Jamaica, during which he touted ex-gay therapy, stating, “The dirty little secret that the media and homosexual activists are desperate — desperate — to squelch is that people are coming out of homosexuality every day. 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.

While NCF funding of LaBarbera/AFTAH has been minor, it is nonetheless surprising given LaBarbera’s long history of inflammatory anti-LGBT rhetoric (see extensive Truth Wins Out coverage at http://www.truthwinsout.org/tag/peter-labarbera/ ).

2007 – 5,500

2008 – 6,000

2009 – 5,000

2010 – 2,500

2011 – 0

2012 – 1,000

2013 – 1,000



American Vision (EIN 58-1374143)

Classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group, American Vision is an openly Christian Reconstructionist ministry.

In 2013, American Vision head Gary DeMar stated, “I’m sure that people who have jumped ship to embrace pro-homosexual marriage have not thought through the consequences of their decisions, especially young people who are almost always in an affirming mood. The day will come when they will have children, and there won’t 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

2002 – 0

2003 – 500

2004 – 0

2005 – 5,0

2006 – 5,000

2007 – 30,000

2008 – 5,000

2009 – 2,500

2010 – 100

2011 – 0

2012 – 0

2013 – 0



American Values (EIN 52-1762320)

American Values is headed by Gary Bauer. A Director of Opposition Research for the Republican National Committee while in law school, Bauer served, from 1982-1987, as President Ronald Reagan’s Deputy Under Secretary for Planning and Budget in the Department of Education. Bauer served as President of the Family Research Council from 1988-1999.

On page 35 of the American Values 2012 990 tax form, the American Values “Statement of Values” declares, “The liberal culture has targeted our kids. Hollywood serves up a steady diet of irresponsible sex and violence. The pro-abortion crowd gives them condoms and birth control pills.

…American Values will oppose condom handouts and fight to keep the gay agenda out of the schools.

American Values will help empower your kids to stand against the liberal culture.

[…]

American Values will respond to the attack on marriage. 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.

American Values, with your help will fight this radical agenda state-by-state and here in Washington.”

2001 – 34,250

2002 – 26,500

2003 – 27,000

2004 – 14,000

2005 – 20,750

2006 – 33,250

2007 – 66,500

2008 – 366,650

2009 – 37,850

2010 – 34,350

2011 – 42,000

2012 – 48,000

2013 – 33,125

Total – 822,075



Assemblies of God

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.

The AoG statement also suggests that AIDS may be a punishment from God and states, “Former homosexuals describe a disgusting lifestyle of perversion and sexual obsession.”

According to the AoG statement “One of the myths propounded by pro-homosexual advocates is that homosexual orientation is genetically determined and that people have no choice in the matter. There is no scientific evidence to support this claim.”

It also cites long-debunked research: “In a study of the median age of death for heterosexuals and homosexuals, less than 2 per cent of homosexuals survived to age 65.”

The Assemblies of God runs a network of hundreds of addiction recovery centers, both in the U.S. and internationally, called Teen Challenge. Some Teen Challenge centers practice “reparative therapy” and attempt to change sexual orientation through exorcism.

Some U.S. Teen Challenge centers receive public funding.

One of the Assemblies of God official websites features ( http://agtv.ag.org/gtc-demon-possession ) a video presentation, given at the 1996 Teen Challenge National Conference, in which late pastor Herb Meppelink describes the nuances of demon-deliverance, otherwise known as exorcism.

A 2010 talk2action.org story ( http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/11/1/175127/415 ) documents examples of exorcisms at Teen Challenge centers.

2003 – 0

2004 – 3,000

2006 – 99,800

2007 – 83,400 (combined, all AoG entities/missions)

2011 – 5,005,293

2013 – 281,431 ( AoG World Missions )

(other AoG ministries and nonprofits)

Assembly of God Phillipsburg, KS

2012 – 15,404

EIN 480584200

2011 – 400

2012 – 500

EIN 43-1002542

2011 – 2,000

2012 – 2,000

Ein 44-0577787

2011 – 118,280

2012 – 310,415





Association of Christian Schools International (EIN 95-6072587 : also funded by The Gathering’s Huston Foundation & Stewardship Foundation)

As a January 2013 report ( http://www.southerneducation.org/getattachment/135f0b35-4738-441e-a2ac-013eaa255183/Georgia%E2%80%99s-Tax-Dollars-Help-Finance-Private-Schools.aspx ) from the Southern Education Foundation – “Georgia’s Tax Dollars Help Finance Private Schools with Severe Anti-Gay Policies, Practices, & Teachings” – describes,

“The Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) accredited 94 private schools in Georgia at the beginning of 2012, 76 of which were eligible to receive tax-funded scholarships. ACSI does not promulgate a public statement of faith for its members, but it publishes model policies and practices as well as provides advice and counsel on how schools can best exclude or expel gay students.”

The Association of Christian Schools International provides academic certification for numerous Protestant fundamentalist private schools with explicit anti-gay policies, as detailed in the (also see “The Hidden War On Gay Teens, Rolling Stone magazine, October 10, 2013 – http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-hidden-war-against-gay-teens-20131010 )

2004 – 10,000

2005 – 0

2006 – 8,000

2007 – 6,000

2008 – 10,000

2009 – 0

2010 – 1,000

2011 – 21,000

2012 – 31,400

2013 – 1,000



Bethel Church, Redding, CA (EIN 94-1514037)

The Redding, CA Bethel Church has been the launching pad for a growing national network of the religious right’s “2.0” ex-gay ministries, called “Sozo” (see: http://bethelsozo.com/sozo-network/) Sozo is a non-copyrighted, non-trademarked brand name for the Bethel Church style of “spiritual healing”. According to Bethel Sozo, “Sozo ministry is a unique inner healing and deliverance ministry aimed to get to the root of things hindering your personal connection with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. With a healed connection, you can walk in the destiny to which you have been called.”

“Deliverance” is the frequently used shorthand for “deliverance from demon spirits”, otherwise known as exorcism.

National Christian Foundation funding of the Bethel Redding, CA church can only be positively determined for one year, 2009, but Bethel Redding is by far the most prominent of any of the several churches named “Bethel” in the U.S., so the likelihood is that some of the vastly increased NCF funding going to Bethel churches is going to Bethel Redding.

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. 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/)

One of the most prominent Sozo entities is Andy Reese’ “The Freedom Resource” ministry (see: http://www.thefreedomresource.org/). Reese’ ministry is promoted by the NCF-funded Mastering Life Ministries. Reese is author of the book “Freedom Tools For Overcoming Life’s Tough Problems” (2008, Chosen Books/Baker Publishing Group).

Bill Johnson, the head of Bethel Church Redding wrote the forward to Reese’ “Freedom Tools” and Johnson’ plug, “This book is sure to bring healing to the church” is featured on the front cover. Another prominent endorser of “Freedom Tools” has been Rich Stearns, president of World Vision U.S.A.

Freedom Tools presents demon deliverance as an integral part of the process of psychological and spiritual “healing”. Within the book’s 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. Tjey are pain-management coping mechanisms.

A person then either tries to arrange their life in reaction to, or avoidance of, these painful areas…

This web of deception, sin and wounding, created over time in an unsuspecting life, is called a ‘stronghold’. It feels hopeless and unchangeable. That place, or those places, may be inhabited by the demonic–a base of operations.” (Freedom Tools, pages 76-77)

Freedom Tools goes into considerable detail concerning the actual process of carrying out exorcisms, including providing specific language, chants or incantations, which are to be used in the process. On page 171 Reese writes,

“Most of the time when we know we have dealt with lies and are ready to cast out, we simply call the demon by the name of its apparent function within the person and command it to leave, all without incident of resistance. Often we lead the person to speak the commands.

The person senses a lightness, relief, inner cleanness, etc.” (Freedom Tools, page 171)

But exactly what is being “cast out” seems open to other interpretations given Reese’ statement, on the same page, that “the ability of the demonic to resist being removed is often directly proportional to the person’s belief system and especially their choice, their true will and desire.”

The words “homosexuality” and “homosexual” appear only once each in Andy Reese’ book Freedom Tools. In the footnotes, on page 245, Reese refers readers to “my friend David Kyle Foster’s 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, Uganda’s biggest network of born-again churches boasting, by some claims over 10,000 member churches, by other claims 20,000. Reese’ publicity for the book has included distributing a photo of Reese standing alongside former National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches overseer Alex Mitala, who is holding Reese’ book. The photo caption reads, “Alex Mitala leader of 10,000 churches in Uganda where Andy’s 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/)

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.

In 2008, Mitala presented Ugandan Martin Ssempa with an award for what the Ugandan government-controlled New Vision news service termed Ssempa’s “anti-gay crusade” (see: http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/649677). At the ceremony, Mitala told Ssempa, “You are not fighting alone. We are with you.” and according to New Vision Mitala “said homosexuality was one way of making the world extinct.”

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. 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). The ceremony was presided over by Ugandan First Lady Janet Museveni.

All three – Janet Museveni, Joshua Lwere, and Alex Mitala have traveled to the Argentina “nation transformation” conferences of New Apostolic Reformation leader Ed Silvoso, who helped launch what is perhaps the NAR’s biggest apostolic association, the International Coalition of Apostles.

Later in 2013, Joshua Lwere aggressively lobbied for passage of the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

During the same time period, Lwere traveled to the United States for megachurch speaking appearances during which he characterized homosexuality as one in a number of “demonic strongholds” that can oppress cities and geographic territories.

That paradigm, Spiritual Warfare/Spiritual Mapping, was not native to Africa. It was pioneered in the late 1980s by a core group of New Apostolic Reformation leaders including Ed Silvoso, C. Peter Wagner, Cindy Jacobs, and others and subsequently exported to Africa and the developing world. (see: http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/1273/fighting_demons__raising_the_dead__taking_over_the_world/)

2006 – 1,500 (“Bethel Church” no EIN provided)

2007 – 5,350 (“Bethel Church” no EIN provided)

2008 – 1,500 (“Bethel Church” no EIN provided)

2009 – 4,400 (EIN of Bethel, Redding, CA provided)

2010 – 1,581 (“Bethel Church”, no EIN provided)

2011 – 87,300 (“Bethel Church”, no EIN provided)

2012 – 313,100 (“Bethel Church”, no EIN provided)

2013 – 65,850 (“Bethel Church”, no EIN provided)





California Family Council (EIN 16-1667739)

The CFC played an important organizing role in the successful effort to pass California’s anti-same sex marriage Proposition 8.

2001-2005 – 0

2006 – 155,000

2007 – 1,000

2008 – 432,000

2009 – 55,100

2010 – 5,600

2011 – 12,200

2012 – 6,400

2013 – 60,050



California School Project (EIN 20-3226605)

The California School Project co-partners with the Pacific Justice Institute to evangelize in California schools. The project is headed by Campus Crusade For Christ’s Warren Willis, who first brought anti-LGBT rights agitator Scott Lively to Uganda, in March 2002. CSP gives school presentations and promotes the establishment of Bible clubs in schools.

2008 – 1,000

2009 – 0

2010 – 500

2011 – 0

2013 – 2,350



Campus Crusade For Christ (EIN 95-2814920)

Campus Crusade has played a significant, if little-noticed, role in exporting the religious right’s anti-LGBT rights agenda.

Campus Crusade founder Bill Bright’s efforts to political mobilize conservative evangelicals began in the 1970s and Bright’s ties to far-right business elites enabled him to play a major role in recruiting financiers to bankroll the emergent religious right that burst into national consciousness in the late 1970s to early 1980s.

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 CCC’s board of directors ( Ron Blue ).

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 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. Bright co-authored the book with Coalition on Revival signatory Ron Jenson.

In a chapter of the book titled “War Strategy: We Need a Battle Plan”, Bright and Jenson write, on page 61,

“Satan is a master of surprise, and often he does it by slowly desensitizing us, lulling us to sleep so that we are unaware of his schemes. By contrast, too often Christans broadcast all they do… There are times we need to keep quiet. Dr. Steven F. Hotze learned this in Houston. In an attempt to defeat proposed legislation favorable to homosexuals, he organized a low-profile, grass roots campaign. When the news finally reached the media, it was too late. The homosexual rights ordinance was overturned by an 81 to 19 percent margin.

We might also start various ‘front’ groups. 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. It was organized to counteract the radical movement on campus. Few people knew that its leaders were on the staff of Campus Crusade For Christ. 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. Many believed it helped defuse the radical leftist movement on that campus…”

In the mid-1990s, Bright was one of the co-founders (along with James Dobson, Larry Burkett, D. James Kennedy, Donald Wildmon, and Marlin Maddoux) of the Alliance Defense Fund (now Alliance Defending Freedom) that according to Human Rights Campaign Vice President Fred Sainz is “easily the most active antigay legal group” ( see: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/us/legal-alliance-gains-host-of-court-victories-for-conservative-christian-movement.html ) and which has emerged as a significant force in the World Congress of Families that internationally has rallied social conservatives worldwide against gay rights, and reproductive and women’s rights.

During a 2006 three and a half hour presentation at The Gathering, Alliance Defense Fund leaders recalled how Bright co-led, along with the late D. James Kennedy, the initial conference call, of several dozen evangelical organizational leaders, that led to the formation of the ADF.

During the presentation, one ADF speaker declared that (the principle of) separation of church and state was not in the Constitution. Joining the presentation, Family Research Council head Tony Perkins declared the gay rights movement to be the second greatest America faced, second only to militant Islam.

According to Scott Lively, credited with helping inflame anti-LGBT hatred from Eastern Europe and Russia to Uganda, Bright and lively were friends (see:http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/newsarchives.php?id=8239619); and according to Lively it was Campus Crusade For Christ leader Warren Willis who initially brought Lively to Uganda, in March 2002, to speak along with Ugandan Stephen Langa at an anti-pornography conference (see: http://www.defendthefamily.com/_docs/resources/3038513.pdf).

In 2013, Campus Crusade hosted a pan-African conference (see: http://www.truthwinsout.org/news/2013/05/35215/ ), titled “Pamoja 3” that was attended by several thousand young evangelical leaders from across Africa, during which top-billed speaker Dr. Seyoum Antonios, who leads an effort in Ethiopia to legislate capital punishment for homosexuality, vowed before cheering conference attendees that, “Africa will become a graveyard for homosexuality!”

In his speech, which was introduced by Campus Crusade for Christ Vice President Bekele Shanko (originally from Ethiopia), Antonios claimed “that seventy percent of gay men have “fecal sex,” which involves ingesting large amounts of feces; that thirty-three percent of gay men are pedophiles, and that gay couples are coming to Africa to “steal their children” and turn them into homosexuals; that homosexuality has come to Africa “to kill us,” and thus must be eradicated; that gays are fifteen times more likely to be murderers; and that Africans should reject aid from Western organizations that are “trying” to infiltrate their continent with the homosexual agenda.”

Also co-leading the “Pamoja 3” conference along with Shanko and Antonios was Campus Crusade For Christ Vice President Delanyo Adadevoh (originally from Nigeria). Since the mid-2000s, Adadevoh has led the formation of a pan-African evangelical Christian “transforming leadership” network ( see: http://transformingleadership.com ) which has featured the enthusiastic participation of Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza – who in 2009 signed into law repressive new anti-LGBT legislation and is an acolyte (see: http://www.twocare.org/anti-gay-nar-backs-embattled-president-of-burundi/ ) of the New Apostolic Reformation movement that is in the vanguard of antigay activism on every continent on Earth except Antarctica.

Adadevoh’s “International Leadership Foundation” website ( note: Adadevoh’s ILF is to be distinguished from another, more prominent US-based entity with the same name – http://http://www.ileader.org ) currently advertises upcoming ILF seminars to be hld in the African nations of Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Nigeria, and South Africa.

2001 – 2,345,482

2002 – 3,125,85

2003 – 2,646,613

2004 – 3,332,936

2005 – 2,898,640

2006 – 4,233,159

2007 – 4,587,858

2008 – 4,667,026

2009 – 5,285,042

2010 – 4,576.272

2011 – 4,045,406

2012 – see CCC’s Jesus Film Project (over $12 million in FYI 2012)

2013 – 10,345,242

total 2001-2013 — $44,956,959

Campus Crusade sub-ministries, 2001-2012 — 20,622,853 (see appended at end of alphabetized list)



Capitol Ministries (EIN 68-0005663)

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 Obama’s 2009 State of the Union speech by shouting out “You lie!”.

The Capitol Ministries document “The Bible And Policy: Same-Sex Marriage” conflates same-sex marriage with bestiality: “If one reasons pragmatically for the approval of same-sex marriage, e.g. “the gays whom I employ seem happy,” then how does one respond to the happy employee who just married his or her horse?” The same document cites Leviticus 20:13: “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. 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)

The sudden near-cessation of NCF funding to Capitol Ministries correlates with rising negative publicity over Washington politicians associated with the The Family/Fellowship that followed in the wake of journalist Jeff Sharlet’s two books on The Family.

2001 – 0

2002 – 100

2003 – 37,000

2004 – 33,000

2005 – 20,500

2006 – 211,500

2007 – 401,000

2008 – 493,765

2009 – 612,500

2010 – 1,000

2011 – 0

2012 – 5,000

2013 – 1,800



Center For Arizona Policy (EIN 86-0618922)

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.[5] This strengthens the case that homosexuality is a behavior based on choice, not on genetic fate. Organizations like the members of the Restored Hope Network continue to show that there is help and potential for overcoming sexual sin in any form.” (see: http://azpolicypages.com/marriage-family/homosexuality/)

2001 – 36,000

2002 – 32,500

2003 – 55,100

2004 – 40,000

2005 – 81,393

2006 – 233,900

2007 – 236,000

2008 – 190,400

2009 – 201,250

2010 – 174,550

2011 – 236,250

2012 – 177,350

2013 – 166,550



Chalcedon Foundation (EIN 95-6121940)

Chalcedon is the preeminent think tank of the Christian Reconstructionism movement (see: http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v08n1/chrisre1.html), founded by the late Rousas J. Rushdoony. States prominent Christian Reconstructionist David Chilton, “”The Christian goal for the world,” is “the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics.”

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.

Rushdoony, and leading Christian Reconstructionists such as Gary North, have advocated the imposition of biblical law, substantial parts of the pre-Talmudic Mosaic code, in all spheres of society. This would include Old Testament scriptural mandates on capital punishment for a range of offenses including adultery, homosexuality, witchcraft, blasphemy, idolatry, female unchastity (sex before marriage), and incorrigible rebelliousness among children.

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).

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. God and His Law

must have priority over feelings and sympathies.

[…]

Not blood, but faith should rule us. Not pity, but God’s Law must govern our conduct toward those who have set themselves against God—even if they are our own children.”

While Christian Reconstructionism’s punitive legal agenda has gained the movement moderate notoriety, often overlooked is its wider vision for government and society – a type of “theocratic libertarianism” (see: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/1/6/14215/07913/) which envisions dramatic reductions in the size of federal and state government, whose functions would be limited to little more than providing for national defense and meting out the draconian punishments required under Reconstructionism’ interpretation of biblical law. 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. 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/)

Few Christian leaders, and vanishingly few politicians, are avowed Christian Reconstructionists. But the very existence of the movement serves to move the Overton Window, by making positions that might otherwise seem extreme look moderate by comparison.

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. Potential criminals, “evil doers”, would be restrained by fear. 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! To bring down the wrath of God to bear on all those who practice evil!” (see: http://www.politicalresearch.org/1994/03/)

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. Under the guidance of Rushdoony’s Reconstructionists, evangelicals in COR drafted a series or documents that mapped out how biblically-derived principles could be applied in all spheres of society. Through COR, the numerically small Christian Reconstructionist movement has been able to

Many of prominent The Gathering participants and funders (such as Howard Ahmanson, Marvin Olasky, and Herb Schlossberg) have direct ties to leading Christian Reconstructionists, and numerous ministries funded by the National Christian Foundation are headed by signatories to the Coalition on Revival. NCF also funds several ministries of unabashed Christian Reconstructionists including current Coalition on Revival steering committee member, South African evangelist Peter Hammond.

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 Chalcedon’s main sources of financial support up into the mid-1990s.

Up to 1995 Ahmanson gave Chalcedon over $750,000 and sat on the Chalcedon Institute’s board. In 2001, Howard Ahmanson was at R.J. Rushdoony’s dying bedside.

At The Gathering 1997, under the auspices of Howard Ahmanson’s Fieldstead Institute, Ahmanson’s private unincorporated funding vehicle, one current and one former (Herb Schlossberg) Fieldstead program director gave a presentation outlining a master strategy for combating “organized homosexuality”.

Elements of that strategy – which included the dual approach of demonizing LGBT people and promoting ex-gay therapy – have since been implemented in Russia, Uganda, and elsewhere around the globe.

Master architect of that plan Herbert Schlossberg has close ties to leaders of the Christian Reconstructionism movement including Gary North and the late Howard Phillips.

Christian Reconstructionism’s founder R. J. Rushdoony declared Schlossberg’s book “Idols For Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture” to be one of the most important books of the 20th Century. Reviews by Gary North and others in Rushdoony’s movement praised Schlossberg’s book for its presentation of Christian Reconstructionist ideas.

In 1985 Howard Ahmanson told the Orange County Register that “My purpose is total integration of biblical law into our lives”. In a 2004 interview with the Orange County Register Ahmanson indicated that although it was not a “necessary” practice, the stoning of homosexuals, as a capital punishment, might be morally acceptable.

In March 2009, Don Schmierer, a program director at Ahmanson’s Fieldstead Institute (sometimes referred to as “Fieldstead and Company”) who co-led the 1997 presentation with Schlossberg, spoke at a Kampala, Uganda conference credited with dramatically escalating anti-gay hatred in Uganda.

Schlossberg’s 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. Schmierer’s ex-gay book line appears to have been the fruition of one of the components of the plan to combat “organized homosexuality” that Schmierer and Schlossberg laid out at The Gathering in 1997.

2002 – 1,000

2003 – 0

2004 – 400

2005 – 0

2006 – 100

2007 – 0

2008 – 2010 – 0

2011 – 100

2012 – 0

2013 – 0



Child Evangelism Fellowship (EIN 95-1502345)

The Child Evangelism Fellowship has established its “Good News Clubs”, that target young school children for evangelizing, in thousands of public schools across America. As detailed in a Twocare.org investigative report, CEF was one of the leading ministries engaged in the 1992-1997 program under which American evangelicals indoctrinated millions of school children in former Soviet Union countries (see: http://www.twocare.org/how-antigay-american-fundamentalists-indoctrinated-russias-school-children-1992-1997/)

As detailed in journalist Katherine Stewart’s book “The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children” (2012, Public Affairs, a member of the Perseus Book Group), in its 2001 ruling in the case Good News Club v. Milford Central School, the United States Supreme Court that public schools could not exclude religious groups from establishing after-school activities in those schools because religion, the majority opinion argued, is essentially a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment.

In a dissenting opinion, Justice Souter wrote that “this case would stand for the remarkable proposition that any public school opened for civic meetings must be opened for use as a church, synagogue, or mosque.”

Subsequent legal decisions which built upon that decision established that religious groups can rent out public school facilities on the weekends. By 2011, one survey found weekend churches had been established in roughly twenty percent of all public schools in New York City.

Following the Good News Club v. Milford Central School ruling, religious groups rushed to create after-school programs in public schools. The most prolific of these has been Child Evangelism Fellowship, which has established its “Good News Club” Bible classes in over three thousand public schools across the nation.

As Katherine Stewart’s book “The Good News Club” describes, Child Evangelism Fellowship promotes a fundamentalist, Christian nationalist, supremacist form of Christianity suffused with anti-LGBT hostility.

In 2010, Stewart attended the CEF’s triennial National Convention, which featured as a keynote speaker Dr. A. Charles Ware president of Crossroads Bible College.

Ware is co-author, with Young Earth creationist Ken Ham, of the 2007 book “Darwin’s Plantation: Evolution’s Racist Roots” which on page 168 states, “The homosexual agenda is extending its tentacles throughout the United States culture via media, entertainment, education, and the political system.”

On page 172, Ware and Ham wonder how same-sex marriage will not lead to legalized bestiality:

“If homosexual relationships are legitimized based upon personal desires, where does society draw the line with other deviant and destructive behaviors that some find despicable? What makes marriage to children, multiple parties, deceased individuals, or animals wrong?”(p. 172)

2001 – 83,500

2002 – 15,300

2003 – 122,700

2004 – 143,810

2005 – 51,320

2006 – 742,245

2007 – 531,510

2008 – 147,980

2009 – 306,780

2010 – 457,779

2011 – 184,065

2012 – 269,715

Total – 3,056,704



Christian and Missionary Alliance (EIN 13-1623940)

Christian and Missionary Alliance leaders have played a significant role in organizing and inspiring Ugandan religious and political leaders in the vanguard of Uganda’s anti-LGBT crusade, through their organization of the Atlanta-area based international “College of Prayer”.

The “College of Prayer” works to establish local prayer and worship groups of anti-gay Christian leaders and politicians across Africa and the developing world.

One of those groups is a chapter of the College of Prayer in Uganda, launched by American COP founder Fred Hartley Jr. III and led by Ugandan evangelist Julius Oyet.

COP Uganda includes as a member Ugandan MP David Bahati – who introduced a draft of the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill to Uganda’s parliament in early 2009. Oyet himself claims to have helped co-author the bill.

2001 – 700

2002 – 1,000

2004 – 75,500

2005 – 195,441

2006 – 75,000

2007 – 2,734,300

2008 – 123,495

2009 – 1,145,916

2010 – 850,892

2011 – 319,879

2012 – 1,223,550

2013 – 1,239,850

total – 7,985,346



Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (EIN 95-1921156)

Founded in 1953 by Fred C. Schwarz, the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade became, following Schwarz’ death, a project of Summit Ministries (also funded by NCF) led by Dr. David A. Noebel (see: https://www.schwarzreport.org/about ) who in 1977 published his book “The Homosexual Revolution”, dedicated to anti-LGBT rights crusader Anita Bryant.

Noebel’s book characterized homosexuality as “a kind of national death wish” which sought to “change the natural order created by God himself.”

Summit Ministries is closely aligned both with the John Birch Society and the Christian Reconstructionism movement, and focuses on the indoctrination of youth through the creation of “worldview” curriculum and by running a summer youth camp program that teaches Summit’s “worldview” to attendees.

2001 – 0

2002 – 4,000

2003 – 4,500

2004 – 4,500

2005 – 4,500

2006 – 4,000

2007 – 4,000

2008 – 0

2009 – 2,800

2010 – 6,300

2011 – 4,000

2012 – 4,000

2013 – 0



Christian Anti Defamation Commission (EIN 65-0962138)

The former head of late TV preacher D James Kennedy’s 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/).

In 2012, Cass presented, as one of several “irrefutable proofs that Barack Obama is NOT a Christian”, Obama’s support for gay rights. “[T]he Bible is very clear about homosexual acts being a very evil thing”, wrote Cass. (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/obama-not-christian-because-bible-very-clear-about-homosexual-acts-being-very-evil-thing)

2009 – 400

2010 – 0

2011 – 3,000

2012 – 0

2013 – 0



Christian Broadcasting Network (EIN 54-0678752)

As exhaustively documented by Right Wing Watch (RWW), a project of People For the American Way, the Christian Broadcasting Network, founded by Pat Robertson, has been a major global vector for anti-LGBT propaganda and right-wing conspiracy theory (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/search/node/%22Christian%20Broadcasting%20Network%22)

In 2013 on CBN, Robertson made the claim, as characterized by RWW, that “gay people in San Francisco try to cut people’s fingers with special rings in order to infect them with AIDS” (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gay-aids-ring-video-pat-robertson-doesnt-want-you-see). Robertson’s seemingly endless propagation of anti-gay tropes includes suggestions that homosexuality is caused by sexual molestation (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-ask-your-gay-son-if-his-coach-molested-him). 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)

Robertson’s vilification extends to eliminationist hate speech targeting entire societal groups. 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 it’s like a mass of termites that is eating away at the structure of this great edifice we call the United States of America and they’re burrowing in and they’re getting paid to destroy us.” (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-lambasts-obama-administration-termites-destroying-america)

Robertson’s use of the term “termites” was not new. In 1986, Robertson stated, “It is interesting, that termites don’t build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into institutions are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have…. The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.” (Pat Robertson, as quoted by New York Magazine, August 18, 1986)

Feminism has also attracted Robertson’s ire. In a 1982 fundraising letter he proclaimed, “The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. 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/)

Such hate speech is frequently dismissed by the American mainstream as fringe, and Pat Robertson characterized by secular media as a merely a crank. But the Christian Broadcast Network’s global reach enables it to disseminate content in countries where such claims, from Pat Robertson and other CBN figures, may go unchallenged. 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. Through CBN offices in more than 20 countries, local Christians are equipped to produce quality media, provide discipleship, and facilitate humanitarian relief in their regions.” (see: http://www.cbn.com/partners/about/our-ministries/project-globalreach.aspx)

2001 – 12,000

2002 – 26,250

2003 – 29,300

2004 – 170,375

2005 – 155,635

2006 – 520,080

2007 – 1,108,780

2008 – 717,690

2009 – 1,370,350

2010 – 970,150

2011 – 212,425

2012

2013 – 451,740



Christian Film and Television Commission (EIN 13-2961538)

The Christian Film and Television Commission produces Movieguide, which assesses the suitability of movie and television programming for conservative Christian audiences.

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.

Baehr has established a personal friendship with Natalya Yakunina, wife of Vladimir Yakunin, member of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circles. Yakunin runs the Russian rail system. Natalya Yakunina is a major leader in Russia’s anti-LGBT rights Christian conservative, nationalist backlash.

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.

2001 – 5,000

2002 – 20,300

2003 – 10,000

2004 – 2,200

2005 – 1,001,000

2006 – 504,500

2007 – 11,500

2008 – 56,150

2009 – 194,750

2010 – 130,600

2011 – 58,000

2012 – 0

2013 – 54,100

Total 2,048,100





Christian Legal Society (EIN 36-6101090)

The Christian Legal Society has partnered with the (NCF-funded) Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly Alliance Defense Fund) in the Christian Legal Society v. Martinez case which came before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010. In that case, CLS and ADF argued that an officially recognized student CLS chapter at a public university could bar LGBT students and non-Christians from leadership positions.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against the Christian Legal Society, that a CLS chapter at a public law school could only be recognized by the school if it allowed non-Christians and gays to become chapter leaders. (see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/christian-legal-society-martinez-upends-campus-religious-groups_n_1508295.html and http://www.clsnet.org/page.aspx?pid=528)

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. Alliance Defending Freedom lawyers have been the chief litigants for the Bronx Household of Faith in the case.

As the Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union Donna Lieberman testified in 2012 in the ongoing court case, the Bronx Household of Faith ‘rejects New York State law recognizing same-sex marriages because it fails to recognize “the authority of God, creator and sovereign of the universe, as the authority above the state.’ “ (see: http://www.nyclu.org/content/testimony-new-york-city-council-regarding-churches-worshipping-schools)

2001 – 1,000

2002 – 1,000

2003 – 3,500

2004 – 4,000

2005 – 6,000

2006 – 24,000

2007 – 15,000

2008 – 103,500

2009 – 64,800

2010 – 88,550

2011 – 67,850

2012 – 48,678

2013 – 36,000



Christian Union (EIN 22-3834440)

Christian Union was created to evangelize at the elite East Coast universities Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. CU leader Matthew Bennett is one of 15 leaders in a secretive 2014 anti-LGBT rights initiative called the “Princeton Group”.

Christian Union events and magazine coverage have showcased numerous leaders who have been featured speakers at The Gathering including Eric Metaxas, the late Charles Colson, and Marvin Olasky.

Christian Union promotes the leadership and the demon-obsessed doctrines of the New Apostolic Reformation, including the practice of exorcism, and has held conferences promoting some of the most extreme ex-gay ministries in America – such as Ellel Ministries USA, and some of the most extreme leaders – such as Che Ahn, who now heads the NAR’s Wagner Leadership Institute (WLI). One of the adjunct faculty of WLI has been Julius Oyet, who claims to have co-authored Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Bill.

In 2010 Christian Union organized rallies – at Princeton, Dartmouth, U Penn, and Yale – for the virulently anti-gay ministry the International House of Prayer, which was featured heavily in the 2013 award-winning documentary God Loves Uganda (see: http://www.godlovesuganda.com/). IHOP head Mike Bickle has stated that homosexuality “opens the door to the demonic realm” and characterized the “gay marriage agenda” as “rooted in the depths of hell” (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mike-bickle-warns-homosexuality-opens-door-demonic-realm) Bickle has repeatedly preached that, according to the Bible, in the coming end-times two-thirds of Jews will be forced into work camps, prison camps, and death camps. (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpRV0spflIE#t=1m)

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.

In 2012 Christian Union held an eight-school conference on faith healing featuring the New Apostolic Reformation’s Che Ahn, co-founder with Lou Engle of the virulently anti-gay group TheCall.

In the same year, Christian Union’s Doxa Conference series featured Ugandan evangelist John Mulinde, who helped organize a May 2010 TheCall rally in Kampala, Uganda – a rally which featured both Lou Engle and top Ugandan leaders in the forefront of Uganda’s anti-gay crusade and the push to pass Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Bill.

Also in 2012, as described in CU’s publication the Ivy League Christian Observer, Christian Union’s Winter staff conference featured Andy Taylor, national director of Ellel Ministries USA. Ellel promotes the doctrine that homosexuality can be caused by demon possession and teaches methods for exorcising such demons. In 2007 Ellel Ministries co-head Jill Southern stated,

“[Homosexuality] is usually a result of homosexual abuse in very early childhood when they were wrongly touched but there are other possible causes such as gender confusion and rejection by a peer group as a ‘weakling’… So this spirit of homosexuality has an appetite for homosexual acts, and is using your body for its own appetite. When a homosexual person confesses and repents the sin, we can tell the spirit to leave and the homosexual desire will also go… When we engage in ungodly sex, we are enjoining our spirit to the demonic spirit behind it, and this destroys our lives.Ungodly sex allows our spirit to be penetrated by the demonic power behind the ungodly act.” (see: http://www.exgaywatch.com/2007/11/uk-charismatic-leader-sexual-abuse-causes-spirit-of-homosexuality/)

Matthew Bennett, Christian Union co-founder, could be found in 2014 among the 15 listed leaders of a new entity, called the “Princeton Group”, formed for “developing and deploying an action plan to protect marriage and preserve religious liberties”. (see: http://www.hrc.org/blog/entry/nom-exposed-exclusive-key-nom-figures-scheming-behind-the-scenes-action-pla)

Other members of the Princeton Group include key players in the fight against same-sex marriage and LGBT rights including the following leaders whose respective organizations have received National Christian Foundation funding: Brian Brown, President of the National Organization for Marriage, Maggie Gallagher, Co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage, Luiz Tellez, President of the Witherspoon Institute, Alan Sears, President of the Alliance Defending Freedom, and William Mumma, President of the Becket Fund.

The ideological bent of Christian Union shines through in its semi-annual publication the Ivy League Christian Observer:

In the Winter 2014 issue, we find a glowing cover of an October 2013 appearance of Heritage Foundation fellow and Princeton alumnus Ryan P. Anderson at a Princeton University event sponsored by the Anscombe Society. 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. Writes ILCO, Hobby Lobby and some forty other corporations in the case “oppose the act’s requirement for employers to expand health coverage to include contraceptives linked to early abortions.”

According to Political Research Associates Senior Fellow Frederick Clarkson, a decision in favor of Hobby Lobby and its co-plaintiffs could result in an historically unprecedented expansion of religious freedom rights to corporations that would allow exemptions from existing federal and state law based simply on viewpoints or religious belief. Thus, either individuals or corporations might legally be able to discriminate, in what Clarkson calls the “sacralization of bigotry” (see: http://www.politicalresearch.org/2014/06/03/video-fred-clarkson-explains-the-fight-for-religious-freedom/)

Christian Union also promotes the religious right’s typical slate of positions – opposition to legal abortion and stem cell research and support of sexual abstinence and Intelligent Design.

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 “Darwin’s Black Box”.

2004 – 0

2005 – 138,653

2006 – 500,000

2007 – 1,400,000

2008 – 2,145,693

2009 – 1,955,276

2010 – 1,818,940

2011 – 3,172,300

2012 – 3,381,000 (“The Christian Union”)

2013 – 5,766,158



Citizens For Community Values (EIN 31-1075684)

Citizens For Community Values was a top financial sponsor of the wave of 2004 state ballot amendments banning same-sex marriage. While National Christian Foundation direct funding of CFCV has been modest, heavy NCF funding has flowed, indirectly, to CFCV through the Alliance Defense Fund/Alliance Defending Freedom.

2001 – 18,000

2002 – 17,500

2003 – 0

2004 – 0

2005 – 0

2006 – 0

2007 – 0

2008 – 2,000

2009 – 0

2010 – 1,000

2011 – 1,000

2012 – 2,800

2013 – 200



Compassion International (EIN 36-2423707)

Compassion International, one of the world’s biggest evangelical aid agencies, has played

a quiet but significant role in exporting the anti-LGBT ideology of the American evangelical right, especially through its material and leadership support of evangelist Luis Bush’s “Transform World” initiative.

Compassion International is publisher of Bush’s 2009 book “The 4/14 Window: Raising Up a New Generation to Transform The World”, and Vice President of Compassion International Bambang Budijanto serves on the Transform-World steering committee. (http://www.transform-world.net/newsletters/2013/Global414Summit.pdf).

In the forward to Luis Bush’s book, then-Compassion International President Wess Stafford stated,

“Every major movement in history has grasped the need to target the next generation in order to advance its agenda and secure its legacy into the future. Political movements (like Nazism and Communism) trained legions of children with the goal of carrying their agenda beyond the lifetimes of their founders. World religions have done the same with the systematic indoctrination of their young—even the Taliban places great emphasis on recruiting children. … It seems that, historically, the Christian evangelical movement is one of the few that has allowed children to remain a second-rate mandate—the Great Omission in the Great Commission.”

Bush’s book also states, “Secular education does not enlighten; rather, it dims one’s grasp of the ‘real reality’ rooted in scripture… Godless secular indoctrination is an age-old problem.”

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 Brewster’s 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.

Luis Bush’s book “The 4/14 Window” presents Ugandan Stephen Langa as having helped reverse Uganda’s rising HIV infection rate. Along with Ugandan Martin Ssempa – another Ugandan who has been both in the forefront of Uganda’s state-supported anti-gay rights crusade and also a leader in promoting sexual abstinence over the previously successful “ABC” approach to HIV/AIDS mitigation – Stephen Langa was a co-author of the 2004 Uganda National Abstinence and Being Faithful Policy and Strategy on Prevention and Transmission of HIV. Since implementation of the new abstinence-based policy, Uganda’s HIV infection rate has risen.

In 2009, the year the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill was introduced in Uganda’s parliament by MP David Bahati, Stephen Langa was a featured speaker at the 2009 Transform World conference held by Bush in New York City, as a leader of the “family and religion” track. Langa was also featured at a 2010 Transform World conference in Ethiopia. see: http://transform-world.net/newsletters/2010/Ethiopia.pdf). In

Stephen Langa has been widely recognized as one of the leading Ugandan figures lobbying for passage of the Anti Homosexuality Bill. 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).

2001 – 18,588

2002 – 12,978

2003 – 277,613

2004 – 1,389,832

2005 – 714,581

2006 – 1,814,722

2007 – 2,078,944

2008 – 2,862,715

2009 – 2,099,144

2010 – 1,529,263

2011 – 1,274,773

2012 – 1,062,527

2013 – 1,856,381

Total – 16,992,061



Concerned Women For America (EIN 95-3580894)

Concerned Women For America has been one of the active U.S. participants in the World Congress of Families, and along with two other NCF-funded World Congress of Families participants, Focus on the Family and Family Research Council, has led the American Christian right’s establishment as a presence at the United Nations.

(note: other The Gathering foundations give substantially more funding to CWA than does NCF)

2001 – 600

2002 – 106,000

2003 – 1,600

2004 – 7,300

2005 – 1,600

2006 – 6,400

2007 – 10,000

2008-2010 – 0

2011 – 12,163

2012 – 14,500

2013 – 15,220

Total – 175,383



Coral Ridge Ministries (EIN 65-0496702)

Up until the death of its founder D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Ministries served as a leading force for Christian dominionism in America. 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. 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. We are to exercise godly dominion and influence…” (pp. 235)

Kennedy’s now-defunct Center For Reclaiming America was known for

2001 – 16,600

2002 – 21,643

2003 – 85,750

2004 – 271,525

2005 – 157,700

2006 – 43,500

2007 – 25,900

2011 – 22,750

2012 – 0

2013 – 6,100



Council For National Policy (EIN 72-0921017)

While The Gathering is almost exclusively an affair of the dominionist Protestant evangelical right, The Council for National Policy brings together top funders of both the secular and theocratic far-right with movement activists and strategists.

CNP membership has included the Koch brothers, many The Gathering funders including Howard Ahmsanson and members of the DeVos, Coors, and Friess clans, and also overtly secular funders such as Richard Mellon Scaife.

In a 2005 interview, seminal architect of the religious right and new right Paul Weyrich stated that the Council for National Policy was “an organization that, in the words of Rich DeVos, brings together the doers with the donors.” (see: http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1016)

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.

2001 – 7,600

2003 – 3,500

2004 – 5,850

2005 – 5,000

2006 – 9,000

2007 – 9,000

2011 – 6,000

2012 – 57,500

2013 – 15,060



Council For Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (EIN 36-3635678)

CFBM&W is a Southern Baptist Convention-affiliated initiative to defend traditional sex roles.

2001 – 21,000

2003 – 15,400

2005 – 2,500

2009 – 100

2011 – 100

2012 – 200

2013 – 0



Daystar Church

Daystar Church head pastor Johnny Enlow is one of the most outspoken New Apostolic Reformation leaders on homosexuality. Ugandan Julius Oyet, one of the co-authors of the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill has spoken at Enlow’s Daystar Church and Enlow has been a speaker along with Oyet at conferences organized by his church member Os Hillman (himself a recipient of National Christian Foundation funding).

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. Baal was doubling up in the city by adding homosexual decadence to his existing active altar there. Hurricanes Wilma and Rita also each brought judgment on cities that were about to host major gay events—Key West and Cancun—thus seriously curtailing the celebration of gay acceptance. God loves homosexuals so much that he will spare no expense in making it clear that homosexuality is an abomination to Him and that He can deliver someone from it.”

On page 68, Enlow writes,

“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. Feelings don’t validate a homosexual lifestyle any more than they validate a murderer’s desire to kill….

One of the primary roles of future government leaders will be to instruct in righteousness. The more God’s judgments are poured out on earth, the more explicitly will they be able to give that instruction.”

2011 – 1,000



Desert Stream Ministries (EIN 95-3889820)

Ex-gay Desert Stream Ministries is currently housed at Mike Bickle’s International House of Prayer and is one of the member ministries in the “Restored Hope Network” that represents an attempt to rally the remaining ex-gay ministries still active after the collapse of Exodus International, in which Andy Comiskey once played a major leadership role.

In 2010, Desert Stream Ministries head Comiskey admitted (see: http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressrelease/2010/03/7561/) that Desert Stream had been “cast out of our home church”, the Vineyard Anaheim church, because “a longstanding staff person from Desert Stream had sexually abused at least one teenager who had sought help from us.”

2003 – 0

2004 – 5,000

2005 – 5,000

2006 – 50,400

2007 – 1,250

2008 – 9,452

2009 – 12,882

2010 – 5,850

2011 – 3,000

2012 – 6,500

2013 – 0

Total – 99,334



Disciple Nations Alliance (EIN 95-0682390)

The Disciple Nations Alliance teaches “Biblical worldview” seminars to developing world leaders. The core ideas are derived from Christian Reconstructionism. One key concept is the idea that underdevelopment and poverty stem from a lack of a Christian (fundamentalist) worldview. DNA co-founder Darrow Miller is on the Summit Ministries Worldview Academy faculty list.

The NCF-funded Food For The Hungry (also a USAID recipient) provided key seed money and leadership to found the nonprofit Disciple Nations Alliance.

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. In 2013 Langa traveled to Arizona to meet with DNA leaders Darrow Miller and Bob Moffitt.

While the leaders of Disciple Nations Alliance claim no official legal or financial connection to Langa’s activities, DNA’s own statements and tax forms tell a different story.

The Disciple Nations Alliance’s 2008 IRS 990 tax form lists a DNA grant to “Samaritan Strategy Africa” of $144,500. 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. 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)

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. Transform-World promotes doctrines from the theocratic Coalition on Revival.

In the forward to the 2009 Luis Bush/Transform-World book “The 4/14 Window: Raising Up A New Generation To Transform The World”, which is published by Compassion International, Wess Stafford, longtime head of the Compassion International aid and development charity, describes the need to target children 4-14 years old for indoctrination – as 20th Century political movements such as Nazism and communism have done.

Along with Purpose Driven Life book author Rick Warren, Stafford was a featured speaker at The Gathering 2007. Along with Stafford, Warren also an advocate for the indoctrination of youth as practiced by violent secular 20th Century revolutionary movements such as Nazism, Bolshevism, and communism under Chairman Mao Tse Tung during China’s bloody Cultural Revolution.

Such thinking goes to the very top of the elite evangelical right, as evidenced by The Fellowship head Douglas Coe’s 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

2008 – 9,000

2009 – 18,000

2010 – 113,000

2011 – 306,000

2012 – 0

2013 – 184,000



Eternal Perspective Ministries (EIN 94-3125475)

EPM’s Randy Alcorn is one of the most prolific authors on the Christian Right (see: http://www.epm.org/books/)

EPM’s website features a major resource section on homosexuality (http://www.epm.org/resources/tag/homosexuality/) and in that section, in a March 29, 2010 op-ed titled “Is The Homosexual Lifestyle Worthy Of Minority Status?”, Alcorn writes,

“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.

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.

Both scientific research and the personal experience of thousands of people show that a homosexual orientation can usually be unlearned. But even if it isn’t, anyone can choose to refrain from homosexual (or heterosexual) sexual practices. This is good news to anyone seeking to escape a hollow lifestyle dishonoring to his Creator.

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God freely forgives those who repent of a godless lifestyle — including materialism, adultery, prostitution or any homosexual or heterosexual sin…

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