The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) is an American conservative Christian organization that represents, by its estimate, over 43,000 Christian churches throughout the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., its belief is in Bible-based traditional values as a "moral code and behavior based upon the Old and New Testaments". The group considers traditional values to include a belief "that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that the Lord has given us a rule book to live by: The Bible" and a commitment to "living, as far as it is possible, by the moral precepts taught by Jesus Christ and by the whole counsel of God as revealed in the Bible". The organization was founded by the Reverend Louis P. Sheldon who is the current chairman. His daughter Andrea Sheldon Lafferty is the executive director. (http://www.pfaw.org/)
The Traditional Values Coalition has been deemed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, as it spreads messages of hate and harmful speach, as well as its use of false facts that are used agains the LGBT community.
This is a list of the "Traditional Values" that this organziation that this group is trying to saved (in context)
- Right to life (against abortion and euthanasia)
- Sexual fidelity in marriage and abstinence before marriage
- Opposition to homosexuality and "other deviant sexual behaviors" (see below)
- Opposition to pornography
- Patriotism (supporting national boundaries, the Armed Forces, political participation, free enterprise, limited government, low taxes, and personal responsibility.)
- Opposition to "liberal" immigration reform (reform without first securing the U.S.-Mexico border)
- Freedom of Christians attempt to convert non-Christians
- Addictive behaviors (with opposition to gambling, the legalization of addictive drugs, alcohol, and smoking)
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Sources
~ http://www.pfaw.org/
~ http://www.traditionalvalues.org/content/defined/
~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Values_Coalition#cite_note-5
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