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Traditional Values Coalition
The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) was an American conservative Christian organization. It was founded in 1980 at Anaheim California by Rev. Louis P. Sheldon to oppose LGBT rights. Sheldon's daughter, Andrea Sheldon Lafferty, was initially the executive director and presently (since 2011) serves as president. TVC was influential in the 1980s and 1990s in lobbying for government policy based in Christian fundamentalism.
TVC was designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), citing TVC's use of "known falsehoods—claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities—and repeated, groundless name-calling."
The SPLC reported that the Traditional Values Coalition may have effectively ceased to function as of 2018. It was still filing IRS forms as of 2019.
Evangelical preacher Lou Sheldon was the California executive director of Anita Bryant's 1977 anti-gay Save Our Children campaign. Sheldon started his own organization in the 1980s to carry on his anti-LGBT advocacy, initially named the American Liberties Institute, later the California Coalition for Traditional Values, and finally the Traditional Values Coalition.
In 1984 TVC organized parents to oppose Project 10, a Los Angeles School District stay-in-school program for LGBT youth. TVC continued to battle the LA School District into the 1990s, but gradually expanded into a national organization with a Washington, D.C. headquarters.
TVC created a video called Gay Rights/Special Rights in 1993. The widely distributed video was a powerful tool in the anti-gay rights movement of the 1990s.
In the 1990s TVC claimed to represent over 43,000 Christian churches in the United States. Sheldon and his daughter Lafferty met with president US George W. Bush on eight occasions. TVC exerted considerable influence in the United States Congress in the 1990s.
Andrea Lafferty worked closely with her father at TVC from the late 1980s to the mid-2010s, becoming executive director by the year 2000 and gaining influence during the George W. Bush White House years from 2001 to 2008. Andrea Lafferty became president of the organization in 2011.
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Traditional Values Coalition
The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) was an American conservative Christian organization. It was founded in 1980 at Anaheim California by Rev. Louis P. Sheldon to oppose LGBT rights. Sheldon's daughter, Andrea Sheldon Lafferty, was initially the executive director and presently (since 2011) serves as president. TVC was influential in the 1980s and 1990s in lobbying for government policy based in Christian fundamentalism.
TVC was designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), citing TVC's use of "known falsehoods—claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities—and repeated, groundless name-calling."
The SPLC reported that the Traditional Values Coalition may have effectively ceased to function as of 2018. It was still filing IRS forms as of 2019.
Evangelical preacher Lou Sheldon was the California executive director of Anita Bryant's 1977 anti-gay Save Our Children campaign. Sheldon started his own organization in the 1980s to carry on his anti-LGBT advocacy, initially named the American Liberties Institute, later the California Coalition for Traditional Values, and finally the Traditional Values Coalition.
In 1984 TVC organized parents to oppose Project 10, a Los Angeles School District stay-in-school program for LGBT youth. TVC continued to battle the LA School District into the 1990s, but gradually expanded into a national organization with a Washington, D.C. headquarters.
TVC created a video called Gay Rights/Special Rights in 1993. The widely distributed video was a powerful tool in the anti-gay rights movement of the 1990s.
In the 1990s TVC claimed to represent over 43,000 Christian churches in the United States. Sheldon and his daughter Lafferty met with president US George W. Bush on eight occasions. TVC exerted considerable influence in the United States Congress in the 1990s.
Andrea Lafferty worked closely with her father at TVC from the late 1980s to the mid-2010s, becoming executive director by the year 2000 and gaining influence during the George W. Bush White House years from 2001 to 2008. Andrea Lafferty became president of the organization in 2011.