It was reported in the news recently that Promise Keepers has closed all eight of its U.S. regional offices and consolidated field work at its headquarters. This by no means indicates that Promise Keepers is going bye-bye, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.
I've mentioned the PKs once before, referring to them as "moronic," if memory serves. I was called on the carpet for that one in an email once, and it now strikes me that perhaps many of my readers aren't very familiar with this male-only organization. So let me share just a few tidbits.
The PKs are a deceptive bunch, and they're clever about it. They use male-positive language in their rhetoric to make it sound like a nice "let's-be-buddies-in-God" kind of thing. But their views aren't very nice to women, or other groups, for that matter. Bill McCartney, founder of the group, has spoken at Operation Rescue rallies. Operation Rescue, in case you've forgotten, is the anti-choice organization that advocates violence toward abortion doctors. McCartney was also pivotal in passing Colorado's anti-gay and lesbian amendment, which was so harsh it was later ruled unconstitutional.
Promise Keeper Tony Evans stated, "The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women." Tony is typical of the macho shitheads in this organization.
Wellington Boone, a frequent speaker at PK rallies, said, "I believe that slavery, and the understanding of it when you see it God's way, was redemptive." Keep in mind that the Promise Keepers claim they want an end to racial strife. Guess this is their idea of how to do it… get blacks to embrace slavery.
The Promise Keepers want to use the bible as the basis for the roles women hold in society. And as I've maintained, that role is pretty crappy. The bible is a rabidly sexist bunch of books, and the Promise Keepers know that. They like it that way.
The PKs talk it up nice, though, and lots of people swallow it. But it's nothing more than an organization devoted to male supremacy, pure and simple.
And that's abominable.
