Civility Project Closed Due to Disinterest, Incivility

Incivility Is Truly Bipartisan, Says Project’s Founder Conservative Republican Mark DeMoss

ATLANTA, Jan. 14, 2011— The Civility Project - launched by conservative evangelical Mark DeMoss and liberal Lanny Davis of the Jewish faith to encourage civil discourse - was disbanded by its founders due to "lack of interest." 

Signed by only three of the 585 sitting governors and members of Congress invited to commit to the 32-word pledge, the call to civility in our country was met with indifference and hostility. "Whether or not there's violence, whether or not incivility today is worse than it's been in history, it's all immaterial. It's worse than it ought to be," DeMoss told The New York Times Jan. 13, 2011.

"As a conservative, I am embarrassed," DeMoss said on Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" last night. "Unfortunately, I think one thing in America that really is bipartisan is incivility."

"The call to civility isn't a call to unity - the bar is even lower than that and we should be able to disagree vigorously, but agreeably.  Civility has nothing to do with beliefs, but everything to do with behavior," said DeMoss. 

To interview DeMoss, contact Jennifer Willingham at 404.536.5377. More information is available at CivilityProject.org and DeMossNews.com/civilityproject.
 
About Mark DeMoss:
Mark DeMoss is president of The DeMoss Group, an Atlanta-based full-service public relations firm he founded in 1991.  The DeMoss Group is the largest public relations firm in the world representing Christian organizations and causes and counts the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Samaritan's Purse, Prison Fellowship, Compassion International, Campus Crusade for Christ and American Bible Society among its clients.  Mark is the author of The Little Red Book of Wisdom, published by Thomas Nelson in March 2007.   

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