Allegations of having Biological Weapons

Urine-filled balloons

Christian conservatives showed up carrying urine-filled balloons during a gay and lesbian pride festival in Santa Ana's Centennial Park in 1988, they taunted attendees with chants of "Go back to your closet," and hired an airplane to fly over the event carrying a banner reading, "Sodomites out of Santa Ana! No AIDS in OC!" Lou Sheldon declaring, "We just want to show these people their sins and lead them down the right path." (1)

In 2002, after a series of anthrax attacks were sent to several Democratic Senators' offices in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., National Public Radio reporter David Kestenbaum telephoned TVC executive director Andrea Sheldon Lafferty to ask if the group had been contacted by the FBI. Kestenbaum reportedly told Lafferty that TVC's criticism of Democratic U.S. Senators for opposing the use of the phrase "so help me God" in oaths sworn before Congress made TVC a likely suspect in the anthrax attacks. (2)

Louis Sheldon has declared that AIDS patients should be cut off from the rest of society and quarantined in "cities of refuge". (3) It is believed by some that Sheldon may not have been referring to just AIDS patients, but he may have actually been referring to gay people in general.

There are several instances where the Traditional Values Coalition has openly referred to transgendered individuals as being "she-males" (4), (5), (6). This term is considered to be derogatory by transgendered and non-transgendered individuals alike.

Jack Abramoff, through Susan Ralston, gave $25K to the Traditional Values Coalition. (7)

The Traditional Values Coalition is considered to be a Hate Group by the SPLC. (8)

The Christian Seniors Association is a group that has all the money donated to it go to the Traditional Values Coalition and is also run by a relative of Lou Sheldon.