Help Missouri Reclaim State Control of Education Standards

The Missouri General Assembly passed HB1490 on Thursday, May 15. The main purpose of the bill is to define a system wherein state education experts will evaluate and recommend state K-12 education standards. HB1490 passed the House 131-12 and the Senate 23-6. While not going nearly as far in returning local control of education as […]

House Update for May 30, 2014

Ways and Means Committee: This week, the House Ways and Means Committee marked up three important pieces of legislation that focused on charitable giving. HR 4619 makes permanent the rule allowing certain tax-free distributions from individual retirement accounts (IRAs) for charitable purposes.  It allows Americans who are 70½ and older to donate up to $100,000 […]

[LBB] CWA Continues the Fight for Religious Liberty

This week Concerned Women for America (CWA) submitted its latest religious freedom brief in an important case against ObamaCare’s assault on conscience rights, Reaching Souls v. Sebelius. Read more on the Legal Blurb Blog on our Legal Studies Page.

CWA of Missouri Commended for Great Common Core Meetings

Jill, Yes you did do it again…you hit another one out of the ball park with your presentation to us Thursday night in Sedalia. This is the fourth two-hour session I have attended that the CWA has presented. Amazingly none have ever been the same. The Common Core subject is fluid and ever changing. And […]

“All gave some; some gave all.”

Today, a mother is longing for her son. A wife is missing her husband. Children are wishing they could spend the weekend with their mom or dad. Sisters are missing their brother who went to war one day and never returned.

Senate Legislative Update for May 23, 2014

Human Rights Abuse: This week, Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) and Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire) worked to help save a woman in Sudan who has been sentenced to death for refusing to recant her Christian faith.

House Legislative Update for May 23, 2014

Sex Trafficking — This week, the House passed two sex trafficking bills.  Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) worked with House staffers to strengthen these bills. 

A Real War on Women

There’s an imaginary War on Women that exists only in the minds of Democratic politicians trying to scare voters and score political points. And then there’s the real War on Women.

NFL’s Michael Sam and Our Response as Christians

I’m sure your newsfeed was flooded with recent articles and photos displaying the infamous Michael Sam kiss during the 2014 NFL draft. Sam had his detractors, but those in the ever-tolerant NFL weren’t having any of it.

New Hampshire Senate Voting to Quash Free Speech

The New Hampshire House voted on May 15 to establish a 25-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics so pro-life protestors cannot get close to them. The bill singles out American citizens who want to exercise their First Amendment right to protest outside of abortion clinics. No other group is targeted by New Hampshire lawmakers. For […]

CWALAC Barron Opposition Letter

Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) and its more than half a million members around the country respectfully ask that you oppose the nomination of David J. Barron to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. To read more, click here.  

DO WHAT YOU ARE CALLED TO DO!

On May 13, 2014, I, along with hundreds of others, traveled to Richmond to stand either in support of traditional marriage or (as they say) “marriage equality”. Why does someone who is close to sixty years old take a day off from work and on a beautiful spring travel over two and a half hours? […]