The Backlash! - October 1997

Organization News - American Family Association of Texas
P.O. Box 1685 -- Austin, TX 78767-1685
Phone: (512) 472-9196 - Fax (512) 472-3457

Feminist Radicals Target
Promise Keepers Movement

by Wyatt Roberts, Executive Director
On August 25, the National Organization of Women (NOW) announced it will launch a "No Surrender" campaign to counter the October 4th gathering of Promise Keepers scheduled for the Washington Mall and expose the group's "chilling" agenda.

"The Promise Keepers speak about 'taking back America' for Christ, but they also mean to take back the rights of women," NOW President Patricia Ireland said in a recent press release. "Their call for 'submission' of women is one that doesn't have a place in either the pulpit or the public sphere in the 1990s."

NOW editorial writers Alfred Ross and Lee Cokorinos describe Promise Keepers as "a product of the leadership of well-financed religious, conservative organizations designed to create a men-only movement to promote their ultra-conservative social and political agenda....Promise Keepers is attempting to re-segregate U.S. politics, this time along gender rather than race lines, calling for active male Christian leadership to set things right.

For more information contact:

National Organization for Women or email them at member@now.org.

Promise Keepers or email them at http://www.promisekeepers.org.

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