WASHINGTON — Concerned Women for America’s (CWA’s) chief counsel Jan LaRue will speak at a forum for congressional staff on Capitol Hill on Thursday, May 19 from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. in the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2322, to mark Victims of Pornography Month, a time to raise awareness of the tragedies pornography brings into the lives of people it touches. Panelists will address obscenity enforcement, corporate participation and violence against women and children.

The summit is sponsored by Concerned Women for America, the Beverly LaHaye Institute, the American Decency Association, Citizens for Community Values (CCV), the Center for Reclaiming America, Enough is Enough, Focus on the Family, Kids First Coalition, Morality in Media, the National Law Center for Children and Families, and the Salvation Army.

Other speakers at the forum include Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), Rep, Mike Pence (R-Indiana), Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-Pennsylvania), Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Florida), CCV President Phil Burress, and Focus on the Family’s Daniel Weiss.

Mrs. LaRue is a nationally recognized expert in pornography law. She has authored several amicus curiae briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, federal and state appellate courts on the subject of pornography law and other constitutional issues. She has assisted legislators and law enforcement agencies to regulate sexually oriented businesses and prosecute obscenity and child pornography cases.

Mrs. LaRue will address the history of federal obscenity laws, the federal statutes and their constitutionality in relation to the First Amendment and Supreme Court precedent.