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Once the voice of mainstream evangelicalism in America, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) has had its share of public relations disasters over the last few years. In 2006, mega-church pastor Ted Haggard was forced to resign as president of the organization in the wake of sordid revelations about his involvement with a male prostitute. That was followed two years later by the resignation of vice president for governmental affairs Richard Cizik after he went soft on homosexual "marriage." His successor, Galen Carey, was not much of an improvement. In June 2010, he trumpeted a new initiative that included support for contraception to reduce abortions and teen pregnancies, strongly implying that the NAE might even partner with Planned Parenthood in an effort to find "common ground."
Most recently, the NAE accepted a $1 million grant from the aggressively pro-abortionNational Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and sponsored a forum in Washington, D.C. which featured National Campaign CEO Sarah Brown, a vocal advocate for contraceptive use by unmarried women.
Criticism of the NAE's leftward shift is coming from numerous quarters, including Marvin Olasky of WORLD Magazine and Mark Tooley of the Institute for Religion and Democracy(IRD). Perhaps most notably, the Manhattan Declaration has challenged the NAE's softening stand on public morality and has urged supporters to contact NAE president Leith Anderson, who has also demonstrated a lack of backbone of late, about their concerns.
This is not your father's NAE. The organization is rapidly losing credibility with the constituency for which it claims to speak. It is particularly providential that a new movement the caliber of the Manhattan Declaration is stepping in to fill the void.
http://www.examiner.com/article/nati...ng-credibility
Most recently, the NAE accepted a $1 million grant from the aggressively pro-abortionNational Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and sponsored a forum in Washington, D.C. which featured National Campaign CEO Sarah Brown, a vocal advocate for contraceptive use by unmarried women.
Criticism of the NAE's leftward shift is coming from numerous quarters, including Marvin Olasky of WORLD Magazine and Mark Tooley of the Institute for Religion and Democracy(IRD). Perhaps most notably, the Manhattan Declaration has challenged the NAE's softening stand on public morality and has urged supporters to contact NAE president Leith Anderson, who has also demonstrated a lack of backbone of late, about their concerns.
This is not your father's NAE. The organization is rapidly losing credibility with the constituency for which it claims to speak. It is particularly providential that a new movement the caliber of the Manhattan Declaration is stepping in to fill the void.
http://www.examiner.com/article/nati...ng-credibility
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