Family Research Council

WASHINGTON, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council (FRC) announced that almost 110,000 petitions have been gathered - all within the last 72 hours - in response to last Friday's Washington Post report stating that anti-Christian activists had met with senior Pentagon officials to press for the court martial ... read more

WASHINGTON, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Anna Higgins, Family Research Council's Director of the Center for Human Dignity released the following statement following the decision today by the Food and Drug Administration to make Plan B available over the counter to girls as young as 15 years ... read more

WASHINGTON, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a chilling new Federal Bureau of Investigation interrogation video just released, Floyd Lee Corkins, who stormed the Family Research Council's (FRC) headquarters on August 15, 2012 and started firing, says that he picked his target from the Southern Poverty ... read more

WASHINGTON, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council (FRC) congratulated Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and the state of Kansas for the passage and signing of Kansas SB 199. The law establishes a new adult stem cell research and treatment center at the University of Kansas Medical ... read more

NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council (FRC) will host a news conference at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) annual convention in Nashville, Tennessee today, Tuesday, March 5. FRC President Tony Perkins and FRC Executive Vice President Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin will be ... read more

NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council (FRC) will host a news conference at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) annual convention in Nashville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 5. FRC President Tony Perkins and FRC Executive Vice President Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin will be ... read more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council policy experts will be available to discuss President Obama's State of the Union address, and how his social policies will affect families and the military. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080930/FRCLOGO) The following FRC policy experts will be available to discuss issues related ... read more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Responding to a new proposed regulation today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Family Research Council (FRC) expressed strong opposition to HHS and the Obama administration's continued violation of religious freedom through its "contraceptive mandate." (Logo: ... read more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, Family Research Council's Executive Vice President, released the following statement in response to news reports that the Pentagon will end its policy of "no women in units that are tasked with direct combat": (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080930/FRCLOGO) "Women have ... read more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An effort by an anti-religious organization to bar voluntary prayer at West Point indicates both the desperation of those who wish to scrub American public life of religion and their misunderstanding about the role of religion in our public institutions, according ... read more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins made the following comments regarding language in the U.S. Department of Defense reauthorization bill: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080930/FRCLOGO) "We are happy to see that Congress has included language in the Department of Defense reauthorization bill that will ... read more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council (FRC) will host Dr. Russell Moore, Dean of the School of Theology and senior vice president for academic administration at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, for a lecture on adoption on December 4 at noon Eastern. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080930/FRCLOGO) The ... read more