A week ago, I said that I was considering making a Wiki to expose the secrecy of the Right Wing groups.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2751321&mesg_id=2751321I've been working on it, and I have a sample page to share with you all. This page is about the Traditional Values Coalition.
Traditional Values Coalition
Christian Right group led by Louis Sheldon and his daughter Andrea Sheldon-Lafferty.
1. Allegations of having Biological Weapons
1. Urine-filled balloons
2. Anthrax
2. "Cities of Refuge"
3. Derogatory references toward transgendered individuals
4. Received Abramoff money
5. Hate Group
Allegations of having Biological Weapons
Urine-filled balloons
* Christian conservatives showed up carrying urine-filled balloons during a gay and lesbian pride festival in Santa Ana's Centennial Park in 1988, they taunted attendees with chants of "Go back to your closet," and hired an airplane to fly over the event carrying a banner reading, "Sodomites out of Santa Ana! No AIDS in OC!" Lou Sheldon declaring, "We just want to show these people their sins and lead them down the right path." (1)
Anthrax
* In 2002, after a series of anthrax attacks were sent to several Democratic Senators' offices in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., National Public Radio reporter David Kestenbaum telephoned TVC executive director Andrea Sheldon Lafferty to ask if the group had been contacted by the FBI. Kestenbaum reportedly told Lafferty that TVC's criticism of Democratic U.S. Senators for opposing the use of the phrase "so help me God" in oaths sworn before Congress made TVC a likely suspect in the anthrax attacks. (2)
"Cities of Refuge"
* Louis Sheldon has declared that AIDS patients should be cut off from the rest of society and quarantined in "cities of refuge". (3)
Derogatory references toward transgendered individuals
* There are several instances where the Traditional Values Coalition has openly referred to transgendered individuals as being "she-males" (4), (5), (6). This term is considered to be derogatory by transgendered and non-transgendered individuals alike.
Received Abramoff money
* Jack Abramoff, through Susan Ralston, gave $25K to the Traditional Values Coalition. (7)
Hate Group
* The Traditional Values Coalition is considered to be a Hate Group by the SPLC.
(1) Orange County Weekly, Vol. 7 No. 40 June 7 - 13, 2002
(2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Values_Coalition(3)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/08/21/BAGGCKM69G1.DTL&type=politics(4)
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=1530(5)
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2316(6)
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=307(7)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539_3.html(8)
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp?source=redirect&url=tolerance-maps-hate&T=29&m=4