Promise Keepers was simultaneously criticized by both Left and conservative Right

Evidence

However, Promise Keepers was not merely the Christian Coalition in disguise. Organizers instituted policies against lobbying and political endorsements and focused instead on reaching across religious and denominational divides, bringing together charismatics and Pentecostals with Southern Baptists, Methodists, and the growing contingent of nondenominational evangelicals, along with Catholics, liberal Protestants, and Mormons. Many liberal critics failed to realize that Promise Keepers had vocal critics on the Right as well as the Left. Some conservatives felt the movement was too ecumenical, and a threat to the authority of the institutional church, while others worried that it was influenced by “new age” teachings, wasn’t “conservative enough,” or didn’t adequately promote biblical literalism. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 349

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the reader’s contestation: the intra-right criticism complicates any single ‘dominant strand’ reading of the era.