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Promise Keepers: Bill Mccartney
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The founder of Promise Keepers is former University of Colorado head football coach Bill McCartney. He has used militaristic rhetoric indicating the group has the same belligerence and political designs as the Religious Right.
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In February 1996, a Promise Keepers' gathering of thousands of clergymen in Atlanta Georgia featured a special meeting for recruiting military chaplains. Air Force Gen. Richard Abel (ret.). who manages Bill Bright's military penetration ministry, addressed this meeting,as did Lt Col. Chuck Stecker (ret.), a 23-year Army Special Forces veteran who now manages the Promise Keepers organization in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
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Contrary to this warning, Promise Keepers teaches the gate is wide and the way is broad. Bill McCartney's statement in Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper (copyright 1994, original hard cover edition) exemplifies this.
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While founded by Bill McCartney, Promise Keepers is now led by a board of directors. It has ... received endorsement from James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Dobson has effectively promoted Promise Keepers through his nationwide radio broadcasts.
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Promise Keepers is a not-for-profit, 501(C)3 organization. The organization is governed by a 16-member board of directors and operates under the daily direction of CEO Bill McCartney, President Randy Phillips, and Chief Operating Officer Thomas Fortson. The organization is headquartered in Denver, CO., and employs a full-time staff of 452.
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McCartney provided the inspiration behind Promise Keepers, but he's ... been its biggest source of controversy. In 1992 he campaigned for a Colorado anti-gay-rights amendment, calling homosexuality "an abomination against almighty God" (Promise Keepers' official position is that homosexuality is a sin which "violates God's design".). Campus protests followed, and Representative Pat Schroeder (D., Colo.) called him a "self-anointed ayatollah." The Anti-Defamation League reprimanded him for using his position at a state school to air his religious views. It took the threat of a suit from the ACLU to make him stop holding mandatory prayer meetings for his players. He was a featured speaker at Operation Rescue events and publicly defended two players accused of date rape by saying, "Rape by definition is a violent act, and I don't think that's what we're talking about here."
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