While CWA was originally intended to be a local group, the organization was established nationwide within two years. LaHaye held a rally in a local San Diego auditorium which marked the beginning of CWA. LaHaye stated that she believed Friedan’s goal was 'to dismantle the bedrock of American culture: the family,' and that Christian women were not included in discussions of women's rights. Initially, CWA was a reaction to the National Organization for Women and a 1978 Barbara Walters interview with feminist Betty Friedan. LaHaye formed Concerned Women for America in 1979. The Desires of a Woman's Heart was released in 1993. A revised and expanded edition of the book, The New Spirit-Controlled Woman, was released in 2005. LaHaye wrote The Spirit-Controlled Woman in 1976, a companion to her husband's book The Spirit-Controlled Temperament. LaHaye and her husband co-authored The Act of Marriage: The Beauty of Sexual Love in 1976. In 69 years of marriage, the LaHayes had four children, Linda, Larry, Lee, and Lori, and nine grandchildren. She attended Bob Jones University (then named Bob Jones College) one year and married Tim LaHaye after that year in 1947. She graduated from Highland Park Community High School in 1946, the highest degree she would ever earn. From then on, Beverly Jean and her older sister Blanche Aileen used their stepfather's surname as their own.

Within two years, Nellie Elizabeth married Daniel Ratcliffe, a tool maker in the auto industry in Oakland County, Michigan. Her father was a factory worker in Southfield, Michigan and died of a ruptured appendix when Beverly was almost two years old. She was the wife of Tim LaHaye, the evangelical Christian minister and prolific author of the Left Behind series, until his death in 2016.īeverly Jean was born in metro Detroit, Michigan on April 30, 1929, to Lowell Ardo and Nellie Elizabeth (née Pitts) Davenport.

Beverly LaHaye (born April 30, 1929) is an American Christian conservative activist and author who founded Concerned Women for America (CWA) in San Diego, California in 1979.

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