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...group does not take an official position on abortion, but McCartney personally attacks the issue with fervor. "Abortion is a violation of the heart of God," he says. "That's a human life. It's precious to God, created in his image, and potentially that life will carry the very Spirit of God." The view has shown up in the official Promise Keeper News. Its July issue describes the current era as a time of "crisis" for the nation: "The legal undermining of the sanctity of human life, from the preborn to the old and infirm, represents a rejection...
...helm of Promise Keepers, McCartney has toned down some of his rhetoric. But part of what concerns NOW and other opponents is not what Promise Keepers' leaders say but what they fail to say. The group's mission is vague and unsettling regarding its relationships with women. It calls for men to take "spiritual leadership" over their wives, for example, and suggests that women follow. Feminists say this is a throwback to the days of women's servitude and oppression. Says NOW president Patricia Ireland: "Two adults standing as equals and peers taking responsibility for their family is a much...
...McCartney insists that a man's "leadership" at home actually translates into "servanthood" rather than domination. "You can talk around it, but the man has a responsibility before God," McCartney says. "He must stand before God and give an account. Did you take spiritual leadership in your home?... You know what a woman is told [in the Bible]? Respect your husband. O.K.? The way she would do that is that she would come alongside him and let him take the lead, and he in turn would lay down his life. He would serve her, affectionately and tenderly serve...
...coming up with all sorts of new issues to tackle--for example, counseling men on ways to get out of debt, to broaden and deepen the promises that must be kept. The days leading up to the rally, however, have been exuberant. The distant future does not faze McCartney. His trust is in the same God who inspired him seven years ago to start the movement. Promise Keepers, he says, is "gonna impact this country every conceivable way, for the good." He sees a chain reaction of conversions and personal transformations sweeping the country--starting with the revival rally...
...rally is still days away. But Bill McCartney is sitting quietly in his hotel room, preparing for the biggest gathering ever of the Promise Keepers, the group he founded seven years ago. A day full of meetings has caused his 6-ft. 1-in., 200-lb. frame to slump, turned his trademark baritone voice into a whisper and probably added a touch more gray to his short, salt-and-pepper hair. But his eyes, peering out from behind steel-rimmed tinted glasses, still possess an uncanny intensity as he meditates on the first chapter of Paul's Letter...