Catholic Public Policy Organizations
Catholics (or like-minded Christians) have formed a number of organizations that offer individuals opportunities to be active in advocating for public policy. Listed below are a few of them.
- Catholics for the Common Good (CDG) is a lay apostolate for the evangelization of culture based on the social teachings of the Catholic Church. It is founded in response to the call of Pope John Paul II for the new evangelization and the U.S. bishops' call for faithful citizenship. CCG was invaluable in the Proposition 8 campaign to protect the definition of marriage in California.
- The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to protect marriage and the faith communities that sustain it. Founded in 2007 in response to the growing need for an organized opposition to same-sex marriage in state legislatures, NOM serves as a national resource for marriage-related initiatives at the state and local level. NOM was a major contributor to the success of the campaigns in California and Maine to ban “gay marriage.”