In an article today for Focus on the Family, writer Catherine Snow contends that respected Christian and Jewish groups are actually “a ‘who’s who’ of Leftist, humanist, abortion and gay organizations.”
Focus warned that “liberal groups” were asking President Obama to repeal a 2002 executive order that allows Focus and similar groups to collect and abuse taxpayer dollars for the purpose of enriching favored religions and discriminating against religious and sexual minorities.
But Focus drastically shortened the coalition’s membership list: It removed most of the Christian and Jewish groups, and presented the edited result as a liberal conspiracy against Christians. To its credit, Focus offers its readers a link to the coalition‘s actual letter (PDF) to President Obama, but the link is buried in footnotes.
Here is the coalition membership list that Focus didn’t want Christians and Jews to see:
African American Ministers In Action
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Americans for Religious Liberty
American Humanist Association
American Jewish Committee
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Anti-Defamation League
Asian American Justice Center
Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
B’nai B’rith International
Catholics for Choice
Center for American Progress Action Fund
Center for Inquiry
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Council for Secular Humanism
Disciples Justice Action Network
Equal Partners in Faith
Family Equality Council
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)
Hindu American Foundation
Human Rights Campaign
Interfaith Alliance
Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Lambda Legal
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
NA’AMAT USA
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Center for Transgender Equality
National Council of Jewish Women
NCLR (National Council of La Raza)
National Education Association
National Employment Lawyers Association
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
National Organization for Women
People For the American Way
PFLAG National (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
The Rabbinical Assembly
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Secular Coalition for America
Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF)
Texas Faith Network
Texas Freedom Network
Transgender Law Center
Union for Reform Judaism
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries
United Methodist Church, General Board of Church and Society
Women of Reform Judaism
This is the list that Focus shared with its readers:
American Civil Liberties Union, Americans for the Separation of Church and State, Catholics for Choice, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, National Education Association, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, National Organization for Women, People for the American Way, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and the Transgender Law Center.
