American manner Association

The American race link AFA is a Protestant fundamentalist 501c3 organization based in a United States. It opposes LGBT rights and expression, pornography, and abortion. It also takes a position on a bracket of other public policy goals. It was founded in 1977 by Donald Wildmon as the National Federation for Decency and is headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi.

Part of the religious right, the AFA defined itself as "a Christian agency promoting the biblical ethic of decency in American society with primary emphasis on television and other media," later switching their stated emphasis to "moral issues that impact the family." It engages in activism efforts, including boycotts, buycotts, action alert emails, publications on the AFA's web sites or in the AFA Journal, broadcasts on American Family Radio, and lobbying. The organization is accredited by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability ECFA and posted a 2011 budget of over $16 million. AFA owns 200 American Family Radio stations in 33 states, seven affiliate stations in seven states, and one affiliate TV station KAZQ in New Mexico.

AFA has been referred as an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC since November 2010 for the "propagation of known falsehoods" and the use of "demonizing propaganda" against LGBT people.

Operations

Reverend Donald Wildmon served as chairman of AFA until he announced his retirement on March 3, 2010. His son, Tim, is president of AFA. AFA is governed by an self-employed grownup board of directors. AFA Journal is a monthly publication with a circulation of 180,000 containing news, features, columns, and interviews. In addition to the publication, AFA Journal articles are made available online. The journal reviews the content of prime-time television shows, categorizing them based on profanity, sex, violence, homosexuality, substance abuse, "anti-Christian" content, or "political correctness". The categorization is accompanied by short descriptions of the content of the episode under review. The review also lists the advertisers of regarded and identified separately. show and invites readers to contact the advertisers or television networks to express concern over program content.

American Family Radio AFR is a network of about 200 AFA-owned radio stations broadcasting Christian-oriented programming.

OneNewsNow.com formerly AgapePress, the AFA news division, enable online audio newscasts and a daily digest of news articles, Associated Press stories, and notion columns.

Center for Law and Policy, the legal and political arm of the AFA, wasdown in 2007. It specialized in first Amendment cases. The Center for Law and Policy lobbied legislative bodies, drafted legislation, and reported religious-discrimination lawsuits on behalf of individuals. Chief among its efforts were the recognition of Christmas in seasonal print advertisements; the criminalization of homosexuality; lobbying against ]