Centers For Decency is based on an active volunteer/ membership base and prayer..

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We are the nation's only Morality and Decency Conference Speaker's bureau since l995 with an adventurous and abundant 13-year history  of standing with our families, communities, volunteers, members and interested parties across this Nation to bring FamilyValues into all  areas of public policy. CFD is apart of Alleluia Ministries, a nonprofit organization.

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What We Do We direct people's focus on seven issues, which we have determined need foundation values and where we can have the greatest impact. At its root, each of these issues is a battle over cultural views. 

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CFD is a combination of skill in expertise and an active network of people across the Nation working to mutually address goals and concerns. Meet the CFD Morality and Decency Conference Speakers. CFD works with many other groups around the country. Find these and other sources of information on our links page.

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Mission Statement The mission of CFD is to encourage, equip, motivate, and educate the family and community by offering Morality and Decency Conference Speakers, articles, information; thereby battling pornography and obscenity,  promoting family values from our citizen-base through the power of prayer, then educational action, and finally by impacting our society - resulting in revival of moral values in our country.

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Vision Statement The vision of CFD is for women or like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and revitalize the family to its traditional position allowing each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and become all they can become as a responsible citizens.

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Get Involved—Join CFD

• Giving a donation of any dollar amount makes you a member of CFD. We welcome all like-minded women and men.
• Find a Prayer/Action  Group in your area. These closely knit groups offers various involvements.

Scientific Thought and Data on Porn

Those who defend pornography often make the argument that there is no conclusive scientific proof that pornography causes sex crimes. Here's how Nadine Strossen, president of the ACLU, responded to the question, "But how can you defend pornography? Isn't it harmful to women?" ("In Defense of Pornography: A conversation with Nadine Strossen," New York Native, 1/23/95):

"The pro-censorship feminists claim that pornography causes direct harm to women is unsupported by the facts. In writing this book ["In Defense of Pornography"] I searched the social science literature for evidence that exposure to sexually explicit pornographic material causes...violence against women. But we have discovered that a causal connection has never been established." Had Ms. Strossen been searching the social science literature "for evidence" of a causal connection between pornography and sexual violence, it would have been found. Note the research in the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography: Final Report (U.S. Department of Justice, 1986, at pp. 901-1035); an abridged version of the Final Report (Rutledge Hill Press, ISBN 0-934395-42-X) is available from Centers For Decency.But Ms. Strossen wanted more than evidence of a causal connection—she wanted research that establishes a connection. Here's how the Supreme Court (Paris Adult Theater I v. Slaton, 413 U.S. 49) responded to a similar demand:"But it is argued that there are no scientific data which conclusively demonstrate that exposure to obscene material adversely affects men or women or their society ... We reject this argument ... 'We do not demand of legislatures 'scientifically certain criteria of legislation' ... From the beginning of civilized societies, legislators and judges have acted on various unprovable assumptions." [413 U.S. at pp.60-61]The Paris Court went on to say [413 U.S. at p.63]:"If we accept ... the well nigh universal belief that good books, plays and art lift the spirit, improve the mind, enrich the human personality, and develop character, can we then say that a state legislature may not act on the corollary assumption that commerce in obscene books, or public exhibitions focused on obscene conduct, have a tendency to exert a corrupting and debasing impact leading to anti-social behavior? 'Many of these effects may be intangible and indistinct, but they are nonetheless real.'"

'Causative Factor'
One reason why the Paris Court did not demand of the Georgia legislature that it demonstrate with "scientifically certain criteria" a connection between antisocial behavior and obscene material is because human behavior cannot easily be studied in alaboratory. There are too many variables to determine to a scientific certainty what role one variable (for example, pornography) plays in a particular behavior (or example, rape). Scientific Data