Advocacy
Concerned Women for America's public policy advocacy efforts are based on its six "core issues," which they see as Biblically-based and supported by scripture. These are:
- Family - "CWA believes that marriage consists of one man and one woman. We seek to protect and support the Biblical design of marriage and the gift of children." CWA donated $409,000 in support of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state of California. CWA also opposed the 1988 Act for Better Child Care (H.R. 3660), which would have provided government-sponsored child care for families in which both parents are working.
- Sanctity of Human Life - "CWA supports the protection of all innocent human life from conception until natural death. This includes the consequences resulting from abortion."
- Education - "CWA supports reform of public education by returning authority to parents." In 1983, CWA helped the plaintiff in the case Mozert v. Hawkins County School Board, a district court case in which said plaintiff believed it unconstitutional for said public school district to require specific reading material for students.
- Pornography - "CWA endeavors to fight all pornography and obscenity."
- Religious Liberty - "CWA supports the God-given rights of individuals in the United States and other nations to pray, worship and express their beliefs without fear of discrimination or persecution."
- National Sovereignty - "CWA believes that neither the United Nations nor any other international organization should have authority over the United States in any area. We also believe the United States has the right and duty to protect and secure our national borders."
Concerned Women for America's major areas of public policy activity in recent years have consisted of opposition to LGBT political causes (especially recognition of same-sex unions), promoting laws restricting abortion, supporting bans on embryonic stem-cell research, and working against pornography.
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