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I know this is more than four paragraphs, but you have to register and there is a whooooolllle lotta loony I left out....
Concerned Women for America always takes the most uncompromising positions. The group, founded 25 years ago in San Diego, almost never settles for half a loaf. And at the first hint of backsliding, it attacks its conservative comrades with the same fury it unleashes on liberals.
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Like other such groups, for example, it opposes abortion and marriage for gays and lesbians. But the organization also objected to this year's proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage because, officials say, the language did not go far enough — it did not ban civil unions. They hope a 2005 version will close loopholes that could have sanctified marriage by another name.
The group opposes hate crime legislation too, because it says making attacks on gays a special crime suggests the government approves of homosexuality.
In addition to drawing immutable lines in the sand, the group finds ways to advance its interests. So its antiabortion efforts not only include pressuring the Food and Drug Administration to rescind approval of the RU 486 abortion pill, but also seek enactment of the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act. That measure, to be introduced in the coming Congress, would require doctors to tell a woman seeking an abortion after 20 weeks that the fetus would feel pain during the procedure. It also would require doctors to offer anesthesia to both the mother and fetus.
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Religious liberty, as the group defines it, includes lifting the Internal Revenue Service ban on churches participating in politics. And it includes cheering judges who display the Ten Commandments in public places and championing courts that uphold the right of schoolchildren to say "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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The organization also has been a leader in the attack on "Kinsey," the movie about the life of sex-research pioneer Alfred C. Kinsey. The "ultimate goal" of Kinsey and his followers, the group's website says, has been "to normalize pedophilia, or 'adult-child sex.' "
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