FPN of Virginia – State Committee
On the web: http://familypolicy.net/va/
Telephone: (804) 419-4483 – Richmond, VA
Family Policy Network (FPN) is a grassroots organization that works with pro-family citizens to promote and defend traditional values. In Virgina, FPN’s actions are primarily geared toward cultural battles, which ordinarily involve bringing public awareness to anti-family positions taken by corporate and/or government decision-makers. Some examples of FPN’s activities in Virginia include:
– Confronting Public Broadcasting stations in the Commonwealth to limit their role in distributing a pro-homosexual video aimed at desensitizing schoolchildren to homosexuality. FPN mailed detailed instructions to tens of thousands of pro-family citizens on how to oppose PBS’s involvement in the “It’s Elementary” video, thereby limiting the video’s impact in Virginia.
– Exposing Anheuser-Busch’s efforts to promote homosexuality with its advertising budget by flying an airplane banner over 100,000 fans at a Martinsville NASCAR races that read, “BUD: STOP BACKING THE GAY AGENDA – WWW.GAYBEER.COM.”
– Successfully promoting passage of legislation requiring “In God We Trust” to be posted in all Virginia public schools. Subsequently commissioning the printing, packing and shipping of ample high-quality, full-color posters of the national motto to every school district in the state.
– Publicly criticizing efforts by otherwise conservative Virginia politicians to pander to homosexual activists and abortion activists.
State Director:
Marnie Deaton worked as a missionary with Campus Crusade for Christ for 10 years, both as a student volunteer at Penn State and as a staff member at Cornell and Rice Universities. She spent her summers working as a domestic and international missionary and met her husband while on a summer mission project in a closed country.
Marnie became interested in public policy while observing firsthand the poverty and oppression that was evident in third world countries. She worked with Concerned Women for America of Mississippi and most recently served as the Legislative Coordinator for Concerned Women for America of Virginia. In addition to directing the statewide efforts of FPN in Virginia, Marnie works to promote family-friendly public policy at the local level as the head of The Central Virginia Family Forum.
Marnie lives in central Virginia with her husband and four children.
Virginia Advisors:
– Mr. Tom Campbell, Fredericksburg, VA
– Mrs. Donna Clark, Yorktown, VA
– Mrs. Pat Martin, Tazewell, VA