The Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society is a socially conservative U.S. think-tank and advocacy group[1] that opposes abortion, divorce, and homosexuality, promoting instead the "child-rich, married parent" family.
[9] In January 2012, Robert W. Patterson resigned from his job as an aide in Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare after Governor Tom Corbett's administration rejected a request to allow him to continue as editor of the Howard Center's journal, The Family in America.
His column had proposed that "birth-control pills suppress women's sexual pleasure" and suggested "condom use deprives women of "remarkable chemicals" in semen that elevate their mood and self-esteem.
"[10] In November 2013, Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) denied a meeting hosted by the Howard Center and the World Congress of Families access to a Senate meeting room.
The meeting eventually went on as scheduled after House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) intervened.