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The Washington Post reports:
Beverly LaHaye, an evangelical activist who helped organize a powerful right-wing backlash to the feminist movement, rallying opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion, gay rights and other perceived threats to “traditional family values,” died April 14 at a retirement home in El Cajon, Calif. She was 94.
Her death was announced in a statement by Concerned Women for America, the Washington-based public policy organization she founded and once led. The statement did not give a cause.
While her husband, Southern Baptist minister Tim LaHaye, preached about the “end times” and made a fortune as a co-author of the best-selling “Left Behind” series of apocalyptic novels, Mrs. LaHaye developed a following of her own as the longtime president of Concerned Women for America, or CWA.
Read the full article. Tim LaHaye died in 2016 at age 90.
Concerned Women For America’s Beverly LaHaye Institute has appeared here many times over the years, first in 2010 when its leader compared LGBTQ families to Hitler Youth during a speech at CPAC.
In 2011, we heard from them when they raged that princesses in Disney movies were “influenced by the homosexual movement.”
In 2013, the Institute helped organize an evangelical meeting on copying Russia’s anti-LGBTQ crackdown.
In 2014, they accused Obama of attempting to impose “homosexual values” on Uganda.
Concerned Women For America itself has filed countless lawsuits against same-sex marriage, adoption by same-sex couples, the repeal of DOMA, the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and numerous state-level bills on anti-LGBTQ discrimination.
In 2014, the CWA famously argued before the US Supreme Court that LGBTQ Americans are “too powerful” to claim discrimination.
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