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Family Research Council believes the context for the full expression of human sexuality is within the bonds of marriage between one man and one woman.

We believe that objective, immutable, biological sex is a more fundamental way of determining an individual’s identity than subjective, changeable, psychological “gender identity,” and therefore, biological sex at birth should be the only such marker used by governments at any level for any purpose.

We believe that every person, no matter who they are sexually attracted to, is created in the image and likeness of God (Gen. 1:26). Therefore, all people are equal in dignity and value and must be treated with respect.

We believe that sexual attractions or other subjective psychological feelings do not define a person. Rather, every person is defined by their immutable, in-born biological sex, which is present and identifiable in the DNA of every cell in the human body. We believe our bodies are part of God’s creation. This includes our gender—our maleness and femaleness. While it is certainly true that some people identify very strongly as “gay,” “lesbian,” “bisexual,” “transgender,” or another identity and act according to this identity, this behavior does not define them, just as a so-called “straight” person is not defined by their “straightness.” Rather, the divinely intended purpose of human sexuality is inherently present in the complementarity of the male and female sex, as created by God and described in the first chapter of Genesis.

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Featured Resources On Sexuality

How the “Equality Act” Is Actually Unequal, Unfair, and Unjust

Department of Defense on Why Those with "Gender Dysphoria" Are Disqualified from Military Service

The SPLC's Teaching Tolerance: What Parents, Teachers, and Administrators Need to Know

The Bible's Teaching on Marriage and Family

Sexual Risk-Avoidance Education

How to Respond to the LGBT Movement

Evidence Shows Sexual Orientation Can Change

Why Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Should Never Be Specially Protected Categories Under the Law

Sex Education in Public Schools: Sexualization of Children and LGBT Indoctrination

Biblical Principles for Human Sexuality

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Gender Identity

Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act

State Policy Brief

Woke Disney: Why America's theme park should stop embracing 'gender-inclusivity'

FRC disappointed after judge temporarily enjoins the Arkansas SAFE Act, but confident the truth will prevail

Family Research Council Welcomes Jennifer Bauwens as Director of the Center for Family Studies, Releases New Publication on Ethical Principles for the Helping Profession

Gender Identity

Protecting the Vulnerable: A Call to Uphold Ethical Standards in Treating Gender Confusion

Biden administration ignores the science as it seeks to punish medical professionals, says Family Research Council

Family Research Council Welcomes Meg Kilgannon as Senior Fellow for Education Studies

Biden's First 100 Days Have Been a Nightmare for Social Conservatives

In first 100 days, President Biden has taken a record number of actions against life, family, and religious freedom tracked by FRC

Equality Act Assails Religious Freedom

A Biblical Rebuke of the Equality Act

Gender Identity

FRC Praises Arkansas Legislature for Enacting First-of-Its-Kind Bill to Protect Children from Experimental Gender Transition Procedures Over Governor's Veto

FRC Urges Arkansas Legislature Override Veto of SAFE Act and Protect Children

FRC Praises Arkansas legislature for protecting children from life-altering gender transition drugs, hormones, and surgeries

Gender Identity

Governor Noem Is Responsible for Killing South Dakota's Women's Sports Bill

Gender Identity

Let Little Girls Dream of National Championships

Gender Identity

How the “Equality Act” Is Actually Unequal, Unfair, and Unjust

Is the Equality Act Biden's dragonnade?

Gender Identity

Planned Parenthood supplies over half of reported US abortions, expands into transgender hormone therapy market, says Family Research Council

Gender Identity

House of Representatives Launches Greatest Ever Assault on Faith, Family, Life, and Freedom

Gender Identity

FRC urges US House of Representatives to reject the far-Left Equality Act

The 'Equality Act' Would Create a Religious 'Separate But Equal'

So-Called 'Equality Act' Harms Women, Punishes People of Faith, and Creates an Abortion Mandate says Family Research Council

Gender Identity

Biden's Transgender Military Order Is Based On Politics, Not Facts

President Biden Diverts Military Away from its Mission, Forces it to Pay for Gender Reassignment Surgeries

Gender Identity

Should extreme pro-abortionist Xavier Becerra be in charge of America's health care?

7 Executive Actions on Abortion, Gender Identity We Can Expect From Biden

FRC Warns Biden Executive Order Targets People of Faith and Faith-Based Organizations

Sexual Orientation

FRC Praises 11th Circuit Decision Striking Down Ban on Sexual Orientation Change Efforts

No Proof of Harm

Do Not Sterilize Children: Why Physiological Gender Transition Procedures for Minors Should Be Prohibited

Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg Gives Expert Testimony Against Anchorage Therapy Ban

FRC Releases New Publication on Biblical Principles for Human Sexuality

FRC's Cathy Ruse Receives 'Activist of the Year' Award

Justice Gorsuch botched Bostock v. Clayton County ruling on homosexual and transgender 'rights'

Supreme Court Fails to Exercise Restraint in Employment Cases, says Family Research Council

Gender Identity

HHS Corrects Dangerous Obamacare rule

Gender and Sexuality in the 2020 Election

FRC Releases New Publication Showing Extent of Radical Sex Education in Schools

Gender Identity

The Equal Rights Amendment Is a Fraud Using Women as the Prop

The Plague of Morally Toxic Public Schools

The Unfairness of "Fairness for All"

Gender Identity

FRC: 'Fairness for All' Bill Is Anything But

School Board Sex Politics With Students in Fairfax County

FRC's Patrina Mosley Offers Testimony Against D.C.'s Effort to Fully Decriminalize the Sex Trafficking Industry

Gender Identity

Family Research Council Joins 'Sex, Not Gender' Rally at the U.S. Supreme Court

Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg to Speak at 'Hope Gathering 2019' in TX

Pinch Yourself: New York City Walks Back LGBT Counseling Gag Rule

Former LGBT marchers shows need for religious freedom in counseling

Family Research Council Submits Comment Backing Trump Administration Sex Discrimination Rule

Sexual Risk Avoidance

'Don't kiss abstinence goodbye' How sexual abstinence before marriage can lead to a lasting marriage

VA governor's push to force transgender counseling on kids is smart leftist politics

Polyamory is for Pre-Teens in Public Schools. Oh, Really?

Adulterers: The New Protected Sexual Minority

Trans Activists: We're Normal, But You Must Pay To Fix Us

Is sexual orientation determined at birth? No.

Family Research Council Applauds HHS's Proposed Rule on Gender Identity, Abortion

LGBT 'equality' laws lose their foundation: Evidence shows sexual orientation can change

Evidence Shows Sexual Orientation Can Change

Gender Identity

Opinion: 'Gender X' wages war on reality

Gender Identity

Department of Defense on Why Those with "Gender Dysphoria" Are Disqualified from Military Service

Why Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Should Never Be Specially Protected Categories Under the Law

Get Your Kids Out of Government Schools, Right Now, Today

Are Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE) Effective? Are They Harmful? What the Evidence Shows

Gender Identity

Brown University is in Denial About Transgender Reality

California's 'Must Stay Gay' Bill Is Nearing Passage. Here's the Severe Harm It Would Do.

Fairfax County Votes to Tell Boys They Might be Girls

The Hidden Truth About Changing Sexual Orientation

The Crisis of Porn

Parents Stand Up for Children in Sex Ed Sit Out

More Sex Ed and Even More Stalinism at the Local School Board

Gender Identity

Summary of Trump Administration Policy on Transgender Military Service

President Trump's Transgender Military Policy Reflects Promise to Move Away from Political Correctness

Gender Identity

The EEOC's Ever-Expanding Definition of “Sex Discrimination”

Public School Assembly Tells Kids That Sex Changes Are Perfectly Normal

Chai Feldblum Should Not Be Reappointed to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

New York City Bans Politically Incorrect Sex Therapy

Is Gender Reassignment Surgery 'Medically Necessary'?

Trump's right: Transgender patriotism isn't the issue - military readiness is

Trump, Congress Should Halt Transgender Military Policy that Costs Billions

Family Research Council Statement on Pentagon Decision Delaying Transgender Mandate

Transgender Policy Could Cost Military Billions Over Ten Years

Sexual Risk Avoidance

President Trump Names Abstinence Education Leader to Top Post at HHS Department

Family Research Council Expert Testifies Before Massachusetts General Court

Gender Identity

Family Research Council Commends TX Gov. Abbott for Calling Special Session to Address Privacy Concerns

Gender Identity

Secretary Mattis: Focus on War-Fighting, Ditch the Social Engineering

Family Research Council Praises KY Court of Appeals Ruling in Favor of Christian Shop Owner

Family Research Council Statement on NCAA's Decision to End North Carolina Boycott

Pat McCrory Joins Tony Perkins on the Radio to Discuss the Repeal of North Carolina's House Bill 2

Family Research Council Statement on Passage of HB2 Compromise in North Carolina Legislature

Family Research Council Applauds Texas Senate Passage of the Texas Privacy Act

Family Research Council's Tony Perkins Testifies in Support of Texas Privacy Act

Supreme Court Gives Good News to Parents, Students Concerned About Bathroom Privacy

Sexual Orientation

Family Research Council Calls on Oregon Court to Affirm Bakers' Religious Liberty

Trump Returns Authority Over School Transgender Policies to States and Localities

Trump Reverses Federal Bathroom Folly, Will Fairfax Follow?

Reversal of School Bathroom/Shower Mandate is a Victory for Parents, Children says Family Research Council

Peter Sprigg Testifies Before New Hampshire House of Representatives

Peter Sprigg to Testify Before New Hampshire General Court

FRC Stunned By Washington State Court Ruling that Puts Florist's Own Home at Risk of Seizure

Texas and North Carolina Lt. Governors, Tony Perkins Discuss Privacy and Religious Freedom Protections

Texas and North Carolina Lt. Governors Join Tony Perkins to Discuss Privacy and Religious Freedom Protections

Family Research Council Welcomes Trump Administration's Step toward Reversing Edict Violating Parental Rights and Student Privacy

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Joins Tony Perkins on the Radio to Discuss the Texas Privacy Act

FRC's Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin Statement on Pres. Obama Commuting Most of Bradley Manning's Sentence

Family Research Council Files Amicus Brief with US Supreme Court in School Locker Room/Bathroom Case

Family Research Council Commends Texas Privacy Act

Trump Will Have His Hands Full Fixing Social Extremism in the State Department

Navy Begins Transgender Indoctrination

Religious Liberty and the Wedding Vendor Cases

A transgender military is a weaker, compromised military

The Liberal Media's Anti-Christian Witch Hunt of Chip and Joanna Gaines

Family Research Council Statement on ACC Championship Re-Locating to Orlando

Tony Perkins' Statement on Louisiana Flood

Family Research Council Statement on Judge's Rebuke of Obama's Overreach on Bathrooms

Gender Identity

Family Research Council Statement on NBA All-Star Game Re-Locating to New Orleans

Gender Identity

U.S. Supreme Court's Hold on School Bathroom Ruling Is Encouraging News for Schools Resisting Obama's Bathroom Edict

Sexual Orientation

The First Amendment Defense Act Should Not Protect Multiple Views of Marriage

Women in Special Ops and Selective Service

Regulations Regarding Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Family Research Council Criticizes Pentagon for Transgender Policy Change

Bathroom Incidents

Gender Identity

Family Research Council Applauds Texas, officials from 10 other States for Standing up to Obama Administration's School Bathroom, Locker Room Directive

Gender Identity

Family Research Council Statement on House Adoption of the Maloney and Byrne Amendments

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Gender Identity

Family Research Council Statement on New HHS Final Rule on Obamacare

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DOJ Threatens North Carolina Unless State Agrees to Bathroom Mandate

Family Research Council Statement on Gov. McCrory's Executive Order on H.B. 2

Should Individuals Who Identify as Transgender Be Permitted to Serve in the Military?

The Transgender Movement and 'Gender Identity' in the Law

The Inequality of the "Equality Act"

Can There Be 'Compromise' Between Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity Non-Discrimination Laws and Religious Liberty Protections?

How Fatherlessness Impacts Early Sexual Activity, Teen Pregnancy, and Sexual Abuse

Gender Identity

The Inequalities of the 'Equality Act'

FRC's Peter Sprigg Testifies Before Massachusetts Legislature on State SOGI Bill

Sexual Orientation

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Family Research Council Urges Pentagon to Focus on Readiness, Not a Transgender Policy

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Bruce Jenner: Christianity and Transgenderism Debate

Big Ben Gets It Right!

Sexual Orientation

Marriage at the Supreme Court: Why One-Man, One-Woman State Laws Remain Constitutional

Feminine Genius and the Sexual Difference

Understanding the Definitions of the New Sexual Tolerance

FRC Welcomes FCC Enforcement Action against Patently Offensive Broadcast

Family Research Council Warns Against FDA Recommendation to Allow Men Who Have Sex With Men to Donate Blood

FRC Cautions Against Lifting Blood Donor Deferral

Family Research Council Opposes DC City Council Vote

Supreme Court Opens Door to Lawless 9th Circuit Ruling

Obama Executive Order on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

A Tale of Two...Groups That Voluntarily Relinquished their Freedom to Associate

Ex-Gay Therapy Debate: The Truth Matters

FRC's Peter Sprigg Testifies before D.C. Council on Proposed Sexual Orientation Change Efforts Ban

FRC's Peter Sprigg to Testify before D.C. Council on Proposed Sexual Orientation Change Efforts Ban

FRC to Host Webcast Lecture on Sexual Risk Avoidance Education and 'War on Women' Debate

Maryland's New Show and Tell

FRC to Host Author of 'Can You Be Gay and Christian?'

Sexual Assault on Campus a Symptom of a Larger Problem

Sexual Risk-Avoidance Education

Family Research Council Hires Fired Fox Sports Analyst Craig James

Protect Client and Therapist Freedom of Choice Regarding Sexual Orientation Change Efforts

Gender Identity

Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance Project

How Are Younger Evangelicals Responding to Homosexuality?

How Do We Eradicate Sex Trafficking?

FRC Stands with Duck Dynasty's Robertson Family

Homosexual and Transgender Employment Bill Threatens Religious Liberty

FRC Warns Against Proposed Changes to Blood Donor Policy

Family Research Council Calls on Sen. Kirk to Apologize for Discriminating Against Pro-family Group

Same-Sex Marriage, Religious Liberty Collide in Case Presented to Supreme Court

FRC Disappointed in Senate's Approval of ENDA

Gender Identity

The ENDA Litigation Nightmare

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Gender Identity

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA): A Threat to Free Markets And Freedom Of Conscience And Religion

Revenge pornography is a symptom of a deeper problem

Manning, Manliness and the Bible

Why Science Doesn't Support Orientation-Change Bans

FRC to Host Lecture on the Impacts of Pornography on College Campus Life

Senate HELP Committee's Approval of ENDA Threatens Religious Liberty, Employers' Rights

NC Same-Sex Marriage Case May Endanger Religious Liberty

Politifact Deserves 'Pants On Fire' on Religious Liberty and Gay Marriage

New Scouting Policy on Homosexuality: A Study in Not Being Prepared

FRC to Host Webcast Lecture on Testimony of Former Lesbian University Professor

Sexual Assault in the Military a Symptom of Cultural Breakdown

FRC Commends Exxon Shareholders for Resisting Demands of Homosexual Activists

Slippery slope to accepting atheist Boy Scouts

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Boy Scouts Adopt Contradictory Policy on Gay Scouts, Leaders

FRC Ad Urges Boy Scout Delegates to Reject Resolution, Preserve Scouting's Timeless Values

Sexual 'dis'-orientation and the Boy Scouts

FRC Statement on Murder of Mark Carson

Catholic Scouts Won't Go Gay

Sexual Risk Avoidance

HHS Should Appeal Plan B Decision

Military can learn from sexual assaults

Deceit in the Boy Scouts

Sexual Orientation

Stark Discrimination Against Faith-Based Adoption Agencies

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Its So-Called 'Hate Groups'

Sexual Orientation

Homosexual Parent Study: Summary of Findings

ANSWERING THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER'S ATTACKS UPON FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL

Leviticus, Jesus, and Homosexuality: Some Thoughts on Honest Interpretation

On Love, Homosexuality, and Sin: An Evangelical Proposal

The Effects of Pornography on Individuals, Marriage, Family and Community

Homosexual Assault in the Military

Induced Abortion and Subsequent Preterm Birth

The HPV Vaccine and School Mandates: Questions and Answers

Sexual Orientation

Ten Arguments From Social Science Against Same-Sex Marriage

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