Concerned Women for America

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The Concerned Women for America (English for: Concerned Women for America , CWfA ) are a conservative Christian organization in the United States . It was founded in 1979 by Beverly LaHaye , the wife of evangelical pastor Tim LaHaye , and has approximately 500,000 members (as of 2011). The organization belongs to the American religious right .

description

She wants to strengthen her vision of six key issues in society:

Since the summer of 2013, supporting Israel has been another objective of the organization. The CWfA describes itself as the largest public policy women's organization with a rich 30-year history of helping its members across the country understand the principles of the Christian Bible at all levels of the public Spread order. The CWfA fights homosexual marriage and all forms of pornography. She also rejects embryonic stem cell research and cloning . She advocates that the theory of evolution is no longer taught in schools and that intelligent design be included in the curriculum instead . The CWfA works together with other organizations of the religious right against sexual education in schools and for that children and young people are taught in the spirit of sexual abstinence. In 1988, the CWfA rejected an Act for Better Child Care that would allow families with both parents to work for childcare. In March 2003, the CWfA expressed its support for a statement by Rick Santorum who appeared to compare homosexuality to incest , bigamy and adultery . The right to abortion is also fought against . Abortion is only allowed if the mother's life is at risk, but not after rape. The CWfA rejects feminism and believes that the women's movement is dominated by lesbians and has led to homosexuality.

documentation

In the documentary The Genius of Charles Darwin , narrator Richard Dawkins interviewed former Concerned Women for America president Wendy Wright about evolution. Dawkins published excerpts from this interview in his book The Lie of Creation .

Further comments

After the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina , Anthony Foxx a National Day of Reason ( National Day of Reason had demanded) (as a counterpart to the National Day of Prayer - the National Day of Prayer ), the chairman of the CWFI Penny Nance appeared on Fox News and was critical of the proposal.

In the interview, she said, “ GK Chesterton said that original sin is the only thing we really have 3,000 years of empirical evidence about. Clearly we need faith and it is stupid to contradict that. You know, enlightenment and reason led to moral relativism. And moral relativism led to the Holocaust . ”Before that, Nance had spoken out on the subject of abortion and found the policies that grant women the right to abortion to be“ worse than the Holocaust ”.

Presidents / CEOs

  • Penny Young Nance, CEO and President
  • Wendy Wright, President 2006–2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ronnee Schreiber: Pro-Women Pro-Palin, antifeminist: Conservative Women and Conservative Movement Politics . In: Gillian Peele and Joel D. Aberbach (Eds.): Crisis of Conservatism? The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement, & American Politics After Bush . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-976402-0 , pp. 132 f.
  2. ^ Matthew C. Moen: From revolution to evolution: The changing nature of the Christian right . In: Sociology of Religion . 55, No. 3, 1994, pp. 345-357. doi: 10.2307 / 3712058 .
  3. ^ William Martin: The Christian Right and American Foreign Policy . In: Foreign Policy . 114, No. 3, 1999, pp. 66-80.
  4. ↑ Jennifer Rubin: A strong new player in the pro-Israel community . In: Washington Post , June 5, 2013.
  5. ^ Barbara A. McCloskey: The Controversy Surrounding Stem Cell Research . In: Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice . 3, No. 1, pp. 4-13. doi: 10.1177 / 152715440200300102 .
  6. ↑ James Davison Hunter: Culture Wars: The Struggle to Control the Family, Art, Education, Law, and Politics in America. Basic Books, New York 1992, ISBN 978-0-7867-2304-1 , pp. 203 f.
  7. ↑ Susan Rose: Going Too Far? Sex, Sin and Social Policy . In: Social Forces . 84, No. 2, 2005, pp. 1207-1232. doi: 10.1353 / sof.2006.0032 .
  8. ↑ James Davison Hunter: Culture Wars: The Struggle to Control the Family, Art, Education, Law, and Politics in America. Basic Books, New York 1992, ISBN 978-0-7867-2304-1 , p. 188.
  9. ↑ Sean Loughlin: Santorum under fire for comments on homosexuality . In: CNN.com . April 23, 2003. Retrieved March 2, 2011.
  10. ↑ Pulkistenis, Heather Sternberg Pulkistenis, Elizabeth Bossom: Partial-Birth Abortion: A Chink in the Pro-Abortion Armor ( Memento April 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), Concerned Women for America, February 22, 2006, accessed April 16 2007.
  11. ↑ Jan LaRue: No 'Morning-After Pill' for Rapists ( Memento June 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), Concerned Women for America, March 16, 2006, accessed April 16, 2007.
  12. ^ Chip Berlet, Matthew Nemiroff Lyons: Culture Wars and Political Scpaegoatd: Gender, Sexuality, and Race . In: Right-wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. Guilford Press, New York 2000, ISBN 978-1-57230-562-5 , pp. 231 f.
  13. ^ Doris Buss, Didi Herman: Nation, Church, Family: The Christian Right Global Misson . In: Globalizing Family Values: The Christian Right in International Politics. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2003, ISBN 978-0-8166-4207-6 , p. 43.
  14. ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2318919/Anthony-Foxxs-National-Day-Reason-type-thinking-led-Holocaust-says-Penny-Nance.html
  15. ↑ Fox News Guest Penny Nance Ties Anthony Foxx's Day Of Reason To Holocaust . In: Huffington Post , May 2, 2013.
  16. ↑ http://www.christianpost.com/news/a-texas-sized-fight-for-life-99711/
  17. ↑ Our Experts . In: Cwfa.org , accessed on May 31, 2014.