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Arlington Group
The Arlington Group is a coalition founded in 2002 of several of the most significant socially conservative Christian groups in the United States, including Focus on the Family, the American Family Association and the Free Congress Foundation.
The group seeks to establish consensus goals and strategy among its members and translate its combined constituency into an force to be reckoned with in American politics.
Members of the Arlington Group have been active in Marriage and family on the ballot that define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Membership
The organization's deliberations are strictly off-the-record, and membership was previously held confidential, but the group launched a website in July 2006 which lists its member organizations.[1] In March 2007, the home page was taken down; according to an article in the Boston Globe, it was "abruptly disabled earlier this month after the Globe began making inquiries".[2]
Each group's principal serves as its Arlington Group "member", but many of the groups are headed by a single principal (e.g., Focus on the Family and Focus on the Family Action are both headed by James Dobson), the site's list is somewhat confusing; and members are not required to disclose their participation. However, the following organizations and individuals have been identified as members:
- Alliance Defense Fund - Alan Sears
- American Family Association - Donald Wildmon
- American Values - Gary Bauer
- Bott Radio Network - Richard Bott
- CatholicVote.Org - Raymond Flynn
- Center for Moral Clarity - Rod Parsley
- Citizens for Community Values - Phil Burress
- Coalition of African American Pastors - William Owens
- ConservativeHQ.com - Richard Viguerie
- Coral Ridge Ministries and Center for Reclaiming America - D. James Kennedy
- Covenant Marriage Movement - Phil Waugh
- Exodus International - Alan Chambers
- Family Research Council and FRC Action - Tony Perkins
- Florida Family Policy Council - John Stemberger
- Fieldsted & Company - Howard Ahmanson, Jr.
- Focus on the Family and Focus on the Family Action - James Dobson
- Free Congress Foundation - Paul Weyrich
- High Impact Leadership Coalition - Harry Jackson
- Inspiration Television Network
- Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration and Vision America - Rick Scarborough
- Liberty Counsel - Mathew Staver
- Liberty University - Jerry Falwell
- National Association of Evangelicals - Leith Anderson
- Ohio Restoration Project - Russell Johnson
- Salem Communications - Stuart Epperson
- Southern Baptist Convention - Richard Land
- Susan B. Anthony List - Marjorie Dannenfelser
- Teen Mania Ministries - Ron Luce
- TeenPact - Tim Echols
- TheVanguard.Org - Rod D. Martin
- Tradition, Family, Property
- Traditional Values Coalition - Lou Sheldon
External links
- Wikipedia's article on the Arlington Group
- Arlington Group website
- "The Arlington Group", by Paul Weyrich
- "The Money Behind the 2004 Marriage Amendments", by the Institute on Money in State Politics
- Backers of Gay Marriage Ban Use Social Security as Cudgel, from the Washington Post
- Religious Leaders Threaten Bush, from the Washington Blade
- Did Christian conservatives receive assurances that Miers would oppose Roe v. Wade?, from the Wall Street Journal
- ADL Urges Joint Effort Against Right
- Council for National Policy, a related group
