Welcome to the Commonwealth Policy Center
The Commonwealth Policy Center (CPC) is dedicated to preserving the bedrock values of life, religious liberty, marriage, and fiscal responsibility in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It affirms as stated in the Kentucky Constitution that our civil, political and religious liberties come from God.
To that end, it seeks to educate the general public, work for sound public policies, and influence elections on behalf of conservative candidates.
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Is Kamala Harris Giveaway to First-time Homebuyers Good Policy?
Kamala Harris announced that she wants to oversee the building of three million new homes during her first term if she is elected President. She’s also proposing that the federal government distribute up to $25,000 to first time home buyers. She’s doing this because...
Lexington School Superintendent Denies Gender Neutral Bathrooms
Lexington's Mary E. Britton Middle School, which is now under construction, will have gender-neutral bathrooms which boys and girls will share. However, Superintendent Demetrus Liggins told the Kentucky legislature's Interim Joint Committee on Education that the goal...
Kentucky’s Amendment 2 Receives National Attention
Kentucky’s Amendment 2 would empower parents and give families more options for the best education fit for their children. Now, the vote is getting attention from a prominent national newspaper. The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board is encouraging Kentuckians to...
Latest Opinion Pieces
Moving Towards a Culture of Life: God, Family, and Community
During their convention in Chicago last month, Democrats united around the theme of freedom, and on no issue was freedom more clearly defined in progressive terms than the issue of abortion. The Democrats practiced what they preached. Planned Parenthood set up shop with a mobile abortion and vasectomy clinic just down the street.
A Biblical Response in Favor of School Choice Amendment 2
Recently, a pastor from Elizabethtown, KY gave misguided opposition to Amendment 2, Kentucky’s amendment to allow funding for new educational opportunities for students. He boldly claimed that assisting low-income families to afford private education with Christian guidance “may be harmful to communities and ultimately hurt our witness to the people that God has called us to evangelize.” If you didn’t get a chance to read it, his argument revolved around asking kids with religious backgrounds, as young as 5 years old, to carry the burden of evangelizing their public-school classrooms. He didn’t acknowledge that many of these kids are subject to underperforming school districts, increased violence and bullying, and far-left radical gender ideologies for kids as young as 1st grade.
Will tolerance and science be upheld at U of L?
Donald Trump’s momentum for President will likely carry Kentucky’s Amendment 2 ballot initiative across the finish line. His polling in Kentucky against recent dropout President Biden ballooned to predict a 31-point victory in November. There is little to suggest that Vice President Harris’s liberal policies and inability to connect with moderate Democrats—as witnessed in the 2020 Democrat Presidential Primary—will change this sentiment.