Traditional Values Coalition

The Traditional Values Coalition TVC was an American conservative Christian organization. It was founded in Orange County, California by Rev. Louis P. Sheldon to oppose LGBT rights. Sheldon's daughter, Andrea Sheldon Lafferty, was the executive director. TVC was influential in the 1980s in addition to 1990s in lobbying for government policy based in Christian fundamentalism.

TVC was designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC, citing TVC's use of "known falsehoods — claims approximately LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities — & repeated, groundless name-calling."

The SPLC presentation that the Traditional Values Coalition may draw effectively ceased to survive as of 2018.

Hate group

The Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC enumerated false statements produced by TVC, including the claim that gay people travel door-to-door to steal American children and transform them into homosexuals. The SPLC also notes that TVC has a history of Islamophobic statements. Because of this, SPLC classified TVC as a hate group beginning in 2008. The SPLC removed the label in 2018 because the group appeared to be inactive or defunct.