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Vision & Goals
Overview
The Constitutional Freedom
Foundation (CFF) is a nonprofit organization that is committed
to defending religious and civil liberties and to protecting
traditional marriage and the natural family from mounting
threats. By educating the public and providing legal services
to safeguard religious liberties, morality, and family values,
the CFF acts as a nonprofit private attorney general, where
appropriate, in enforcing neglected just laws.
As a public-interest law firm, the CFF provides a national
network of attorneys from disparate practice areas who are
committed to defending the religious rights of Americans from
every religious tradition and to upholding traditional
familyvalues. The CFF cooperates and coordinates
with other organizations with similar missions.
Freedom of
Religion
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The CFF is devoted to
vigorously defending religious freedom as an inalienable human
right, overcoming religious discrimination, protecting the
religious expression of all traditions, and maintaining the
freedom of religious people and institutions to openly and
publicly participate in governmental affairs on an equal basis
with everyone else. Specifically, the
CFF provides
legal services and educational resources in the following
areas:
Education
Marriage
Equal Access to Public Facilities
Free Speech & Public Displays
Patriotism & Religion
Political Speech & Churches
Prayer (in school, at work, in public)
Students Religious Rights
Taxing Nonprofit Institutions
Zoning & Land Use
Protecting Marriage & Family
The CFF is also dedicated to
defending and advancing the centrality of the family, the
institution of marriage between a man and a woman, and the
sanctity of human life.
The goals of the foundation are:
1 . To
uphold the Constitution of the United States of America
- Through educating the public;
- By challenging erroneous judicial interpretation in
the courtroom;
- By representing those affected by erroneous and
unconstitutional government action;
- By filing amicus briefs in support of traditional
constitutional values.
2. Combating the proliferation of pornography and its
attendant moral and community degeneration and abuse of the under-aged and
innocent.
3. Upholding the freedom of religion and combating
any attempts to confuse the establishment of religion clause with efforts to
stop citizens from openly and publicly practicing the religion of their
choice.
4. Acting as a non-profit private attorney general, where appropriate in
enforcing neglected just laws for the benefit of the general public and the
injured.
Your donations are tax deductible.
Our
Quest to Discover, Implement and Defend Natural Law
Ultimately we seek discernment of the natural laws regarding
fundamental human rights and the government of mankind. We
believe they exist but recognize that reasonable minds might
differ regarding what they are and how they should be
incorporated into the political constitution of government.
While there is no guarantee that man will ultimately be
successful in such discernment and implementation, better than
anyone both before and after them, we believe our founding
fathers constructed the most efficient and effective
constitutional framework to maximize our chances for success in
our quest. We seek to reacquaint people with that framework and
ultimately defend it in our courts of law. We seek to restore
our 10th Amendment rights to local self-determination and to
turn back judicial activism which has undemocratically wrought
such fundamental changes in our form of government. We believe
that fundamental changes to our constitutional form of
government that do not come about by the voice of the people
through the formal amendment process, are philosophically
illegitimate and should be reversed.
We believe that history tends to repeat itself and that no
matter how wealthy or powerful a nation might be, it is not
immune to the natural consequences of disobedience to natural
law that the well known historical pattern of both the rise
and fall of great nations, and even civilizations, is still
operative and can only be ignored at our peril.
We heartily agree with the following sentiments expressed by
George Washington in his farewell address:
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political
prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In
vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should
labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these
firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere
politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and
cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections
with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked where
is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the
sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the
instrument of investigation in courts of justice? And let us
with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be
maintained without religion....reason and experience both forbid
us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of
religious principle. Tis substantially true that virtue and
morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule
indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free
government. Who that is a sincere friend of it can look with
indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the
fabric?"(W. David Stedman & LaVaughn G. Lewis (ed.) Our Ageless
Constitution (Evanston, IL; Stedman & Associates, 1987),
emphasis added)
We believe that morality and virtue are necessary pre-requisites
to the preservation of liberty. We agree with Alex de
Tocqueville that when people divorce themselves from the notion
of right [and wrong]...the love of independence becomes a mere
destructive passion. (Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in
America, Book 1, Part 1, Chapter XVI)
Consequently, we are particularly concerned about the defense of
religious freedom, public morals, and the preservation of our
constitutional form of government as originally constructed by
our founders.
Ultimately, our success depends upon the financial support of
those who agree with our philosophy. Therefore we solicit your
help in this regard. Since we are a registered 501(c)(3)
organization, contributions to our foundation qualify as
tax-deductible charitable contributions.
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