The American Freedom Coalition (AFC) is a group which seeks to unite conservatives to work toward what it believes are common goals, including anticommunism. [1] Anti-communism is opposition to communist ideology, organization, or government, on either a theoretical or practical level. ...

Its president is Robert Grant, who is also founder and chairman of the lobby group Christian Voice. Civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference served as AFC vice-president until his death in 1990, and two former Congressmen (Richard Ichord and Bob Wilson) are cochairmen. Other national officers of American Freedom Coalition are former U.S. Congressmen Billy Lee Evans, Walter H. Judd, John LeBoutillier, Eldon Rudd, and Roger H. Zion; retired U.S. Senator Carl T. Curtis, former Defense Intelligence Agency head Gen. Daniel Graham; former senior policy adviser to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Joseph Churba ; and former U.S. ambassador to Honduras and Colombia Phillip Sanchez.[2] Dr. Robert Grant is often called the father of the modern Christian right in America. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ralph David Abernathy (March 11, 1926 – April 17, 1990) was an American civil rights leader. ... The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), first known as Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration) is a civil rights organization founded in January 1957. ... Robert Bob Carlton Wilson (1916–1999), a American Republican politician, was a member of the United States House of Representatives. ... Billy Lee Evans (November 10, 1941 -) was an American politician who served in both the United States Congress and the House of Representatives. ... Walter Henry Judd (born September 25, 1898, Rising City, Nebraska – 1994) earned his medical degree at the University of Nebraska in 1923. ... Carl Thomas Curtis (March 15, 1905 January 24, 2000) was an American politician, most notable as a long-serving congressman and senator from Nebraska. ... DIA seal The Defense Intelligence Agency is a major producer and manager of intelligence for the United States Department of Defense. ... Daniel Graham (born November 16, 1978 in Torrance, California) is an American football tight end who plays for the New England Patriots of the NFL. // Early years At Thomas Jefferson High School in Denver, Colorado, Graham won the Randy Brewer award, which was given to the schools most inspirational...

The coalition, while independent, receives copious support from the Unification Church. Grant, whose organization openly cooperates with organizations of the Unification Movement such as CAUSA and the American Constitution Committee, defends his organization from charges of a "conspiracy" or "secret links" with the Unification Church, maintaining that the AFC "is not a church coalition, nor does it seek to emphasize the concerns or doctrines of any particular church." To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Nonetheless, some evangelical Christian leaders are uncomfortable with the group because of the Unification Church link.

External links

• Christianity Today: "Unification Church Ties Haunt New Coalition"
• Groupwatch profile
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