History:
Oregon Family council, Inc. was established in 1980 primarily to provide Oregon's Christian community information about elections and voting. In the beginning this primarily took shape in the form of the Christian Voter's Guide and was distributed through a small network of Portland area churches.
Within four years, the popularity of the Christian Voter's Guide grew and soon it was being published an distributed to a statewide audience. Today over two thousand Oregon churches make the Christian Voter's Guide available to their congregations. The Christian Voter's Guide is also available in over 30 Christian bookstores around the state and of course to the thousands of voters across the state that receive a free copy delivered in their mailbox around election time.
In March of 2004 Oregon Family Council, Inc. founded the Defense of Marriage Coalition to orchestrate the YES on 36 Campaign. With support from numerous organizations, pastors, churches and individuals, 57% of Oregonians amended the Oregon Constitution to define marriage as only between one man and one woman. Oregon Family Council, Inc. realizes Measure 36 was simply one battle in a much larger culture war. That's why Defense of Marriage Coalition will continue its mission to secure, maintain and strengthen traditional marriage in Oregon.
With your help, Oregon Family Council, Inc. will continue educating, equipping, and motivating Oregon's Christian community to continue to be the "salt of the earth" and "light of the world" through strategic involvement in the civic arena.
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Structure:
Currently, Oregon Family Council, Inc. consists of three organizations. Oregon Family Council Political Action Committee, Oregon Family Council Education Foundation and Oregon Family Council
Oregon Family Council PAC works to elect pro-family candidates at all levels of state government. OFC PAC also supports pro-family ballot measures and issues.
Oregon Family Council EF publishes the Christian Voter's Guide and performs large-scale voter registration drives in communities throughout Oregon
Oregon Family Council is the lobbying arm of the organization, mainly focused on preventing harmful legislation from becoming Oregon law. OFC maintains an active presence in Salem during Oregon's bi-annual legislative Sessions.
Oregon Family Council, Inc. is a non-profit, non-partisan, non-affiliated organization and is governed by a local board of directors.
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