Sunsara Taylor, Ron Luce
"The O'Reilly Factor," March 27, 2006
Ron Luce, founder of Teen Mania and organizer of the "BattleCry" campaign, appeared Monday evening, March 27, on "The O'Reilly Factor" program and again repeated the bogus claim that his organization, and by implication the "BattleCry" campaign are not political in nature. Clearly this is not the case.

According to the conference program distributed at the San Francisco "BattleCry" stadium event two days ago, Teen Mania's East Coast Regional Coordinator is a Republican politician from Maryland, John McKinnis, who is actively involved in the "Legislative portion of the BattleCry Campaign."

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According to the conference program distributed at the San Francisco "BattleCry" stadium event two days ago, Teen Mania's East Coast Regional Coordinator is a Republican politician from Maryland, John McKinnis, who is actively involved in the "Legislative portion of the BattleCry Campaign." McKinnis recently completed a failed bid for a Congressional seat, a political effort to which Ron Luce personally made a substantial financial contribution. The "BattleCry" legislative strategy is described as a "lobbying effort" to "pass legislation" in a new brochure just released by Teen Mania (on pages 9 and 10).

Earlier the same day of his appearance on O'Reilly's show, Luce spoke before the Vision America conference in Washington DC, run by a man whose latest work is entitled "Liberalism Kills Kids." The Washington Times, reporting on this conference, headlined their story "'Values voters' call for congressional action." One year before, Luce had been named as an Executive Committee member of Vision America's "Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration."

Vision America's list of so-called "legislative remedies," titled "The Values Voters' Contract with Congress," may serve as the framework for Luce's legislative agenda, given the close relationship between Luce and that organization. The "Values Voters' Contract" is also analogous in form and eventual purpose to the "Teenage [sic] Bill of Rights" presented at the "BattleCry" events. A previous version of this so-called "Bill of Rights" that can be seen on the cover of their most recent "Acquire the Fire" event manual, includes the line, "We refuse to be led by those who are morally bankrupt."

Posted March 27, 2006
Revised April 30, 2006