American Values

American Values is a non-profit organization, created by Gary Bauer, "committed to uniting the American people around the vision of our Founding Fathers. It "...American Values serves to remind the public of the conservative principles that are so fundamental to the survival of our nation and to bring support and ideas to policy makers and empower our elected officials to have the support they need to do what is right, noble and good." Its introduction refers to a "culture of death [that] continues to be promoted in our media, courts and legislatures," describing abortion, stem cell research, and cloning as examples of "our country’s selfishness, justified under the euphemisms of choice and privacy." It supports a "federal marriage protection amendment and stressing the urgent need to rein in rogue judges."

It is a participant in the Coalition to Defend Free Speech, a group organized to block the charge proposed to the U.N. Commissioner on Human Rights by the Organization of the Islamic Conference in 1999. The charge was introduced by Pakistan, entitled "Defamation of Islam".