Enlist our congregations to get involved in the political process, 2001 1,000 2008 22,500 Addressing a rally against same-sex marriage, according to USA Today was Family Foundation of Kentucky executive director Kent Ostrander, who in a statement that likened the legalization of same-sex marriage to martial law told his audience, Across the nation, it is tantamount to martial law on state marriage policies when relatively few federal judges are overturning marriage amendments that millions of people have voted upon and decided, 2001 4,000 2004 14,900 2012 57,500 Thank you for helping with the medical bills when I almost lost my eyesight. The Assemblies of God runs a network of hundreds of addiction recovery centers, both in the U.S. and internationally, called Teen Challenge. How many countries does Compassion work in? This web of deception, sin and wounding, created over time in an unsuspecting life, is called a stronghold. Prison Fellowship Ministries 2012 31,550 The passage read, Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USAs first African-American President., At an April 2014 Iowa Family Leader candidates forum, IFL head Bob Vander Plats stated, When you abort 55 million babies, when you undermine the family and marriage, Gods first institution, and you say marriage can be anything you want it to be, when you trample on religious liberty in the Constitution You cannot run away from the heart of God and expect God to bless the country., During the event, three candidates running for U.S. Senate vowed to block federal judges who did not adhere to natural law provided by God. 2013 1,950, Mercy Ministries of America (EIN 72-0973419). As Katherine Stewarts book The Good News Club describes, Child Evangelism Fellowship promotes a fundamentalist, Christian nationalist, supremacist form of Christianity suffused with anti-LGBT hostility. 2006 2,950 2006 520,080 2009 32,000 2011 142,500 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. 2009 525,418 An Ounce of Prevention was the first in a series of books and resources, on how to prevent homosexuality, produced and sold by Schmierers [NCF-funded] His Servants ministry, which has had offerings from the book, video, and curriculum line translated into multiple languages including Russian, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, and Portuguese. 2011 11,200 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. Up to 1995, Ahmanson was one of the top funders of the Chalcedon Institute, the leading think tank of the Christian Reconstructionism movement, whose leaders propose mandating the death penalty for a range of offenses including adultery, blasphemy, childhood rebelliousness, female unchastity (sex before marriage), homosexuality, and witchcraft. 2012 2011 0 2007 2,400 In 1997 at The Gathering, Schmierer led a session during which he and other anti-LGBT rights strategists including Herb Schlossberg outlined a mutli-dimensional strategy to combat organized homosexuality. ), Louis Palau also has been an honorary co-chair of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, an organization dominated by NAR apostles from the International Coalition of Apostles (according to the NDPTFs 990 tax forms, which list multiple ICA apostles on the NDPTF board.). 2008 5,920 2011 30,400 Frequently Asked Questions About Compassion International Acknowledge God as the Creator and Governor over His creation (Genesis 1:1) 2008 1,500 (Bethel Church no EIN provided) 2005 4,600,955 While Christian Reconstructionisms 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. 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 NARs biggest apostolic association, the International Coalition of Apostles. 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. 2002 50,000 2003 15,000 2006 1,000 2007 1,574,257 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 Christs 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. 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.. The EEI approach to same-sex marriage shines through in a January 2013 EEI website op-ed : Arent you glad were such a tolerant nation? Use ideas and language that appeal to the public 2002 1,000 2008 225,855 2003 5,500 His Servants 2013 54,494, Healing Rooms Ministries (EIN 91-2011121). 2005 0 The congregation vowed in song that they would fight until every nation is on its knees before Jesus Christ. In a 2010 interview, Oyet told French video documentarist Domenic Mesmin that, it is not Uganda that is putting a death penalty on homosexuals, it is God and his word.. 2010 79,325 The faithful stood much of the time with arms lifted high, palms facing skyward, singing tributes to Jesus Christ. Tjey are pain-management coping mechanisms. 2005 138,653 As the Southern Poverty Law Center puts it, Paul Cameron is an infamous anti-gay propagandist whose one-man statistical chop shop, the Family Research Institute, churns out hate literature masquerading as legitimate science. On its 2007 IRS 990 tax form, RPI lists two grants to Bishop Julius Oyet, totaling $11,350, as scholarships for travel to US from Uganda. 2006 233,900 But amidst the move of Exodus International away from its previous endorsement of reparative therapy, the Portland Fellowship was one of the ex-gay ministries which broke away from Exodus to form the hard-line Restored Hope Network of which Portland Fellowship head Jason Thompson was an original board member. 2009 5,285,042 The target salary range for this position is $43,000 - $50,000. If only you knew that one day I would go on and sponsor another kid in my community and be a source of hope to others. Eschliman accused the LGBTQXYZ crowd and the Gaystapo of trying to make their sinful nature right with God. . If only you knew that one day I'd become a soldier. The South Tampa Fellowship Church main website does not specify that its Celebrate Recovery program can cure same-sex attraction.That program maintains its own website, distinct from the churchs website, and a search for the word homosexual on the Celebrate Recovery South Tampa Fellowship Church website produces no results at all. Schlossbergs ministry, the NCF-funded His Servants, sells a line of ex-gay reparative therapy books translated into multiple languages including Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, and Hindi. Palau is also linked to top NAR leadership by marriage, to Louis Palaus sister Ruth Noemi Palau (now Ruth Silvoso.) The work of Christian relief and development, therefore, must involve spiritual 2011 1,260,040 By 2006, when the National Christian Foundation gave $12,000 to Paul Camerons Family Research Institute, over two decades had passed since Cameron had been disavowed by two of Americas most important relevant professional associations. We are an independently owned and operated luxury day spa located in Ann Arbor, MI. 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. 10% of Compassion International employees are Black or African American. This U.S. and international chain of Assemblies of God addiction recovery centers uses non-medical, unscientific methods, including exorcism, for treatment of addiction and attempts to change sexual orientation. 2007 44,560 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. Alliance For Marriage Your donation provides Health Care Age-Appropriate Christian Teaching Hygiene Training Education & Vocational Training 2008 2,097,372 A Project of Compassion International. I want to let you know that I am also a sponsor of one little girl from the same slum I grew up in. Alliance Defending Freedom lawyers have been the chief litigants for the Bronx Household of Faith in the case. Along with Ugandan Martin Ssempa another Ugandan who has been both in the forefront of Ugandas 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. In March 2009, Don Schmierer, a program director at Ahmansons 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. Hammond writes, concerning the late Martin Luther King, Jr., King was not a legitimate reverend, he was not a bona fide PhD, and his name was not really Martin Luther King, Jr. What is left? In 2008, Orombi spearheaded the launch of Rick Warrens Purpose Driven Living program in Uganda (see: http://www.christianpost.com/news/rick-warren-launches-purpose-driven-plan-in-uganda-31752/ and http://www.rickwarrennews.com/080329_uganda.htm). 2002 1,647 2007 1,000 "This is not an endorsement of same-sex marriage. 2007 30,400 2012 28,500 2009 7,920 In 1985 Howard Ahmanson told the Orange County Register that My purpose is total integration of biblical law into our lives. 2006 100 Headed by longtime ex-gay leader David Kyle Foster, Mastering Life Ministries (MLM) is currently producing (as its main organizational project) the Pure Passion video series which features videos of ex-gay leaders, and alleged experts who purport to describe long-discredited cures for same-sex attraction. Director of TruthXChange Dr. Peter Jones is author of Letter To a Homosexual Friend, in which he writes (see: http://truthxchange.com/books/letter-to-a-homosexual-friend/). Ugandan Stephen Langa, on of the top lobbyists for the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill and a close ally of Livelys, is an elder at the Watoto Church. 2004 27,500 I was told that it was the devil trying to control me and lie to me. ( see: http://thetruthaboutmercy.wordpress.com/tag/nancy-alcorn/ ), 2001 200 Writing for Freedom Writer, journalist Mike Shaver described (see: http://www.publiceye.org/ifas/fw/9408/gleneyrie.html) the presentation of Focus on the Family leader John Eldredge who outlined a stealth strategy in which national-level organizations such as Focus on The Family would operate through state and local proxy groups: John Eldridge, the first speaker, brought greetings and warm regards from Dr. Dobson of Focus on the Family. Dr. 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). Christian Anti-Communism Crusade Dacus subsequently apologized for the comparison. In 2008, Mitala presented Ugandan Martin Ssempa with an award for what the Ugandan government-controlled New Vision news service termed Ssempas anti-gay crusade (see: http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/649677). ex-gay apologetics (see: http://www.probe.org/site/c.fdKEIMNsEoG/b.4465835/k.9241/Homosexuality.htm), 2002 5,000 2003 20,000 In our country today, there is tremendous pressure on Christians, churches, and Christian organizations to lower our moral standards. As legal fights over religious convictions on family and LGBT rights have continued to make their way through the courts and Congress, Bethany Christian decided to incorporate the move toward. 2003 122,700 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. 2004 139,200 With at least 49 dead and another 50 injured, this hate crime is being called the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. And for all the encouragement, prayers and support. 2008 10,300 Amidst the campaign, Anne and John Paulk were featured in a 1998 cover story in Newsweek which in 2014 would run a de-facto apology for its glowing 1998 story on allegedly successful examples of reparative therapy (see: http://www.newsweek.com/ex-ex-gay-pride-249282). 2005 7,400 2009 12,000 That support 2007 11,116 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission office in Milwaukee arguing that he was terminated May 5 because of his religious beliefs. We want our program to be effective, so we monitor the child development centers to make sure they are making a difference in the lives of the children we serve. 2013 0, Massachusetts Family Institute (EIN 04-3113783). 2002 12,978 Described the church website (see: http://truroanglican.com/events/sozo-prayer-seminar/). 2013 1,000. 2011 6,600 Hagees decades-long career of fulmination against homosexuality and LGBT rights includes sermons with titled such as the 1996 sermon Homosexuality: Alternative or Abomination (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iDAeQCUEYA) in which Hagee claimed that AIDS could be spread by mosquitoes and, quoting one alleged medical authority, asked, are you worried about your salad being served in a restaurant that employs homosexuals? Ethics and Public Policy Fellow Herb Schlossberg was the intellectual architect of the stealth group strategy to fight organized homosexuality outlined at The Gathering in 1997. NCF is the biggest philanthropy represented at The Gathering, which as an event was conceived at a mid-1980s meeting at The Fellowships The Cedars Arlington, VA Mansion retreat center overlooking the Potomac River. 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. Compassion International | Company Overview & News - Forbes 2006 37,500 2010 113,000 Citizens For Community Values was a top financial sponsor of the wave of 2004 state ballot amendments banning same-sex marriage. 2003 234,392 [19][20] The research, by Bruce Wydick, Paul Glewwe, and Laine Rutledge, evaluated Compassion efforts in six countries, with 10,144 children studied, reporting "large, statistically significant impacts on years of schooling; primary, secondary, and tertiary school completion; and the probability and quality of employment." MDentistry: advancing health through education, service, research and discovery. 2010 1,064,925 2012 25,500. Trinity Academy Raising funds, from The Gatherings deep-pocketed investors, to implement that plan was a program manager for the Maclellan Foundation one of the most significant foundations at The Gathering and central to the creation of the National Christian Foundation. 2013 8,200. This seminar focuses on teaching useful tools for setting people free: the healing of past wounds in order to break strongholds; replacing lies with truth; and closing doors to spiritual opposition., The course description linked directly to the bethelsozo.com website of NAR leader Bill Johnsons NCF-funded Bethel Church (see Bethel Church section). To bring down the wrath of God to bear on all those who practice evil! (see: http://www.politicalresearch.org/1994/03/). Ware is co-author, with Young Earth creationist Ken Ham, of the 2007 book Darwins Plantation: Evolutions 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.. 2010 0 The Everett Swanson Evangelistic Association was founded in 1952 by the Rev. For more information about Compassion, visit compassion.com . Consequently, it is not surprising that one of the most prominent AIC churches in Kenya, Nairobis Africa Inland Church Ziwani, has recently served as a launching point for Kenyan Vice President William Rutos mounting rhetorical attacks on LGBT rights and same-sex marriage. 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 Chinas bloody Cultural Revolution. 2005 0 These kids are in desperate need of the basics like food, water and medicine. 2011 785,243 2013 0. A Christian school in Kansas is at the centre of mounting controversy after it emerged that it reserved the right to expel students if any of their family members were gay or transgender. 2004 16,000 2006 88,650 2013 6,100, Council For National Policy (EIN 72-0921017). The homosexual rights ordinance was overturned by an 81 to 19 percent margin. Other founding members of the Restored Hope Network include Ron Smith of New Hope Ministries, Andy Comiskey of Desert Stream Ministries (NCF-funded, see entry), David Kyle Foster of Mastering Life Ministries (NCF-funded, see entrry), Dr. Robert Gagnon of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (NCF-funded), Stephen Black of First Stone Ministries, and Jason Thompson of Portland Fellowship (NCF-funded, see entry), 2012 3,600 Nonetheless, major leaders associated with The Gathering such as the late Charles Colson led aggressive efforts to build co-belligerant working relationships between Protestant evangelical and Catholic groups. All Rights Reserved. Compassion International Response Thank you for your feedback! Such hate speech is frequently dismissed by the American mainstream as fringe, and Pat Robertson characterized by secular media as a merely a crank. 2012 9,900, Formed in 2003 under the name Christian Witness To a Pagan Planet, TruthXchange claims homosexuality and yoga advance an anti-biblical pagan agenda and promotes the sort of Christian presuppositionalist worldview precepts also advanced by Summit Ministries (and which closely resemble Christian Reconstructionist presuppositionalism.). 2004 6,000 (Conservative Caucus Research) family, and work, but equally in the shaping of the culture and social life. In Touch Mission International is a sister ministry of Front Line Ministries, headed by Peter Hammond a leading Christian Reconstructionist and current Coalition on Revival Steering Committee member. 2004 1,000 Set up your online account. Phillips referred to R.J. Rushdoony as his spiritual mentor. Hope for The Hearts downloadable PDF resource on homosexuality ( http://www.hopefortheheart.org/pdfs/OLQR-pr-Homosexuality.pdf ) attributes male same-sex attraction to stereotypical, cliches such as Failure to identify with his weak or absent father Viewing his father as weak and powerless and his mother as overpowering. Many believed it helped defuse the radical leftist movement on that campus. 2005 1,600 King was their man and nothing was allowed to get in their way.. 2010 125,650 relationship more powerful than poverty changing their life and yours! Writes ILCO, Hobby Lobby and some forty other corporations in the case oppose the acts 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. Vision Forum has published writers such as William O. Einwechter, who not only argues for the criminalization of homosexuality but also for the execution, per Old Testament scripture, of disobedient children. 2008 5,000 2006 10,000 This substantial increase in NCF funding to Becket presents strong evidence for the central role played by both NCF and the Alliance Defending Freedom (NCFs heaviest funded legal organization, which received $11,341,187 from NCF in 2013) in the Hobby Lobby case and the dozens of similar cases across American that ADF argued and supported in the lead-up to the Hobby Lobby decision including the Conestoga Woods v. Sebelius case that was folded into the Hobby Lobby case. Truro Anglican Church 2009 5,000 Various iterations of the First Academy student handbook contain similar provisions (see: http://www.thefirstacademy.org/files/tfa_community/Parent-Student_Handbook_2014-2015.pdf). 2006 46,350 2012 0 2010 23,700 One key concept is the idea that underdevelopment and poverty stem from a lack of a Christian (fundamentalist) worldview. 2011 2,750 Violence, discrimination, stigma, and criminalization negatively impact the lives of millions of LGBTQI+ people around the world and contribute to poverty and social instability. 2010 700 2012 11,200 CNA, Nursing Home, Caregiver. More recently, the Alliance Defense Fund / Alliance Defending Freedom has become a leader in the American Christian rights international export and encouragement of anti-LGBT legislation. (see: http://www.americanpastorsnetwork.net/resource/resist-the-green-dragon/). 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. 2011 55,000 2007 121,100 2009 12,750 2006 50,000 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. Described as the best junket in all of journalism, The Faith Angle Forum has established Michael Cromartie as one of the go-to sources on questions regarding religion and politics for many of the top journalists reporting on religion. Every financial process undergoes intensive and continual scrutiny to ensure that funds are properly received, tracked, and managed. From April 16-18, 2009, less than a week before the draft of Ugandas Anti Homosexuality Bill was introduced in Ugandas Parliament, the Atlanta-based College of Prayer held two major events in Kampala, including a Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast that was broadcast on Ugandan national radio. The Navigators is among an elite core of evangelism and discipleship-focused ministries closely associated with The Fellowship which hosts the annual National Prayer Breakfast. 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 1994 the Glenn Eyrie castle headquarters of The Navigators hosted a secret anti-LGBT rights conference which included representatives from Focus on The Family, the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, the Christian Coalition, Concerned Women of America, and the Christian Reconstructionism-linked U.S. Taxpayers Party. When the Father tells you to do something, Cox says, you dont argue with HimYou dont need to know why. During a 1987 sermon at his church, according to two people who were there, Cox preached that the goal of the charismatics is to establish the Kingdom of God on Earth, adding, The Kingdom of God is not a Democracy. After that sermon, he embraced a member of his flock, Oliver North, Who knows why Thomas attends services at Truro. But even if it isnt, anyone can choose to refrain from homosexual (or heterosexual) sexual practices. Compassion International, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The project is headed by Campus Crusade For Christs Warren Willis, who first brought anti-LGBT rights agitator Scott Lively to Uganda, in March 2002. Food For the Hungry leadership participated in the 1987 Villars Consultation, which helped map out a Christian Reconstructionism-inspired vision for evangelical aid and economic development efforts that grew and flourished (with the help of US government funding) over the subsequent three decades. 2004 2,200 6. An entire literature, from Miller and other evangelical aid and development theorists, now spells out exactly how the Villars Statement vision is to be, in quite practical terms, applied in the field; and, major evangelical aid and relief organizations are now integrating this approach into their international programs. We've discovered that changed circumstances rarely change people's lives, while changed people inevitably change their circumstances. 2009 1,371, Youthbuilders (formerly National Institute of Youth Ministry. All Rights Reserved. 2011 130,349 2008 30,000 Ugandan Julius Oyet, one of the co-authors of the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill has spoken at Enlows 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). 2010 25,000 One close colleague of David Noebel has been Christian Reconstructionist Peter Hammond who might be characterized as South Africas Scott Lively. 2008 2,800 2007 1,000 No. First of all thank you for your confidence. Ex-gay Desert Stream Ministries is currently housed at Mike Bickles 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. 2006 43,134 Under the guidance of Rushdoonys Reconstructionists, evangelicals in COR drafted a series or documents that mapped out how biblically-derived principles could be applied in all spheres of society. The Biblical emphasis, then, is What is the mission of Compassion International? 2010 30,100 2008 0 Indiana Family Institute Christian Legal Society We would sing, dance, and eat a lot. At the ceremony, Mitala told Ssempa, You are not fighting alone. 2002 26,250 So much hinges on what happens with the full agenda of the militant gay movement., Emphasizing the importance of keeping up a smooth public relations front, Eldredge told attendees, We must never appear to be attempting to rob anyone of their rights their constitutional rights. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqjW6jmoXZM), 2004 100,000 began at the Fall and continues through history. TruthXchange 2007 1,250 The problem, according to Eldredge, is an emasculating overemphasis on manners: Where are all the real men? is regular fare for talk shows and new books. Compassion International - Wikipedia In 2012, Cass presented, as one of several irrefutable proofs that Barack Obama is NOT a Christian, Obamas support for gay rights. The extensive foundational ties of the Rutherford Institute to Christian Reconstructionism are outlined by journalist and researcher Frederick Clarkson, in a chapter of Eyes Right: Challenging the Rightwing Backlash (1995, South End Press, edited by Chip Berlet) : The Rutherford Institutes John Whitehead was a student of both Schaeffer and Rushdoony, and credits them as the two major influences on his thought. 2005 46,825 In its support of WCF, E&PPC has been joined by Fieldstead and Company, the major philanthropic vehicle for anti-LGBT rights funder Howard Ahmanson. MLM repackages discredited ex-gay propaganda, especially video, for international audiences. 2005 27,840 2010 32,000 LGBTQI+ people face criminalization in nearly 70 countriesseveral of which can impose the death penalty. 2004 3,000 UN experts urge religious leaders to show respect and compassion for 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).