Know Your Enemy!

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I notice I haven't done one of these in a while. I get all of these from Know Your Enemies

Randy T. Phillips

President

Promise Keepers

P.O. Box 18376

Boulder, CO 80308

303/421-2800

FAX 303/421-2918

"Promise Keepers (PK) is a Christ-centered ministry
dedicated to uniting men through vital relationships to
become godly influences in their world.... Promise Keepers
believe God wants us to be a spark in His hand to ignite a
nationwide movement calling men to reconciliation,
discipleship, and godliness." The organization develops
material to be learned and discussed in small Bible-study
groups, then brings those groups together in national
gatherings, regional convocations, and "leadership
conferences." One of the most rapidly growing movements on
the religious right, Promise Keepers was founded in 1990 by
Bill McCartney, head football coach at the University of
Colorado, after he came under fire for homophobic diatribes.
The 1990 inaugural gathering, held in Boulder, attracted 72
men. Last year's PK rallies drew over 230,000. In 1996,
this overwhelmingly white organization hopes to bring a
million men together in Washington, DC. PK tapes and
literature, such as Seven Promises of a Promise
Keeper by Tony Evans, condemn homosexuality, stress
male primacy in the home, blame most of the ills of society
on "the feminization of men," and offer strategies for
silencing the opposition. Gatherings attract a broad range
of reactionary Christian fundamentalists, including some
extremists. Information booths at PK events are
smorgasbords of Christian-right propaganda, and tend to
include hate literature from defrocked "psychologist" Paul
Cameron and radical
Christian Reconstructionist sources.
From April through October 1995, a series of two-day Promise
Keeper "Wake Up Calls" filled sports arenas across the
country. Ask to be placed on the PK mailing list.