The
Freedom for Christian Women Coalition (FreeCWC) and Jocelyn Andersen have used the Christian
Newswire in times past to distribute press releases. The news
service featured
an announcement of the Seneca
Falls 2 Evangelical Women's Rights Convention on July 2, 2010,
noting the formation of the FreeCWC.
Perhaps
that is why the Coalition was so shocked to learn this morning that
the Christian news distribution service, a subsidiary of the
Christian
Communication Network, has decided to censure their press release
concerning the petition
to the Council on Biblical Manhood and
Womanhood (CBMW). The FreeCWC decided to wait to submit a press
release to celebrate the collection of 200
signatures, and was thus was made by co-founder Andersen on
Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 10:55 AM. Christian Newswire sent
the notice of decline by email on the evening of April 6th.
Andersen
spoke with an individual named Gary McCullough at the agency on the
morning of April 7th. She was told that a committee
reviews submissions, and it was their decision to “not distribute”
the news release. McCullough would not disclose the reason for the
censure.
Read the
email that Andersen received as well as the original press release
below.
We
encourage the public to contact Mr. McCullough to let him know
how disappointed we are that the Christian Newswire will only support
press releases in favor of the subjugation of women.
And
naturally, the reader is invited to sign
the petition if they have not already done so.
Also of
interest is the appearance of the Biblical
Womanhood Statement arising from Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS). One wonders how this
substantially differs from the True
Woman Manifesto and their program which this writer finds manipulative.
The Associated Baptist Press published
an article suggesting that this new
initiative at SWBTS was a response to the FreeCWC petition. Read
more about the
president of the seminary, his
wife, and their participation with CBMW at a
recent article at The Wartburg Watch. Apparently, they are also
preparing
to make a submission to the Christian Newswire. May theirs be
approved.
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From: Dan McCullough dan@christiannewswire.com
To: Jocelyn Andersen, newsdesk
Subject:We have chosen not to distribute your news release "Freedom for Christian Women Coalition petitions CBMW to repent of war against women"
Apr 6, 2014 11:44:12 PDT
Receipt No: 2601-5764-1199-0128
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Freedom
for Christian Women Coalition
petitions
CBMW to repent of war against women
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
In
2010, the newly formed Freedom for Christian Women Coalition
(FreeCWC) sent by FedEx a demand that the Council for Biblical
Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) apologize for their destructive
teachings against women as outlined in the Danvers
Statement, a harmful document released in 1987 which has united
churches across denominational lines and has been adopted
and implemented within denominations and local churches worldwide.
To
date, almost four years later, CBMW’s response has been dead
silence.
However,
in 2010, Al Mohler, a
council member of CBMW and President of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary which is headquarters to CBMW—an
influential seminary that aggressively supports the oppression of
women through the precepts of the Danvers Statement—did attempt to
censure FreeCWC through a
tweet suggesting that supporters of the Apology Demand
seemed to be confused and poorly organized.
After
four years with no response from CBMW, the FreeCWC has now taken
their demand to Change.org
in the form of a petition to Owen
Strachan, Executive Director of CBMW.
With
200+ signatures, and rising, Christian men and women are uniting in
demanding change within the evangelical community regarding the
derogatory attitudes and teachings against women propagated through
CBMW, an organization committed
to the complete subjugation of women both on earth and—according to
Dr. Bruce
Ware, a council member of CBMW, Professor of Christian Theology,
and Father-In-Law to Executive Director Owen Strachan—throughout
eternity.
The
petition can be viewed and signed at: http://chn.ge/NrF3eV
Co-founder
of FreeCWC, Shirley
Taylor, and Special Consultant to FreeCWC, Cindy
Kunsman, are both available for comment.
Shirley
Taylor can be reached by email at: bwebaptist.women AT live DOT
com
Cindy
Kunsman can be reached by email at: undermuchgrace AT gmail DOT
com
History
of FreeCWC and the Apology Demand at ABPNews/Religious Herald:
Links
to FreeCWC:
