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  • For more than 10 years, Colorado cake artist Jack Phillips has been dragged through courts because activists have targeted, harassed, and tried to punish him for his beliefs. In the third lawsuit targeting Jack and his business, Masterpiece Cakeshop, the Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s ruling that punished Jack for not designing a custom cake celebrating a gender transition, requested by an activist attorney. Jack serves everyone. But he can’t create every message that he’s asked to. The activist attorney said he wanted to “test” Jack and “correct the errors of [Jack’s] ...
  • $4.1 MILLION FISCAL YEAR-END GOAL Your God-given rights are facing mounting threats from government officials and activists. Religious freedom is being restricted. Free speech is being curtailed. The rights of parents are being ignored. And biological reality—that we are created male or female—is being attacked. There’s too much at stake to be silent. Will you take a stand right now? Alliance Defending Freedom is in courts and legislatures across the nation advocating for you, holding accountable government officials who are misusing the justice system and co-opting Big Banks and Big Tech to ...
  • Our First Amendment right to free speech advances human flourishing, protects other civil liberties, and allows people with diverse views to live together well.
  • Parents who want to adopt shouldn’t face discrimination for their deeply held Christian beliefs. They shouldn’t be denied access to available government opportunities because of their faith. Yet that’s precisely what’s happening to Jessica Bates—a mother of five who is seeking to adopt and care for a sibling pair. Oregon is flat-out rejecting Jessica’s application for failing to “meet the adoption home standards.” In other words, she won’t tell boys they can be girls and girls they can be boys, take children to events like Pride parades, or facilitate a child’s access to potentially ...
  • $1 MILLION CHALLENGE GRANT OPPORTUNITY As a concerned citizen who cares about keeping the door open for the Gospel and securing freedom’s future, we bet you feel like you sometimes have to stay quiet about your beliefs ... to self-censor. In this cultural moment, your God-given rights are facing mounting threats from government officials and activists. Religious freedom is being restricted. Free speech is being curtailed. The rights of parents are being ignored. And biological reality—that we are created male or female—is being denied by officials as high as the Biden administration itself ...
  • Help ADF defend them and others standing for free speech! Jacksonville, FL-based Queen of Angels Catholic Bookstore and owner Christie DeTrude simply strive to honor God and wish to promote their beliefs, including through the store’s website and YouTube channel. The bookstore joyfully serves all people, and sells its products to anyone, but Christie and her employees cannot speak a message they disagree with. An outrageous Jacksonville law is compelling businesses to speak inconsistent with their beliefs by promoting government-approved ideologies—or face devastating fines. Like far too many ...
  • Coach David Bloch has given so much to the snowboarding program at Woodstock Union High School (WUHS) in Vermont. As the founder of the program, he has invested countless hours in student athletes. But none of that mattered when Coach Bloch respectfully shared his beliefs regarding gender with two athletes—and became the latest American punished for acknowledging biological reality. Before a competition pitting the WUHS girls’ snowboarding team against a team that included a male, two student athletes were discussing the issue. Coach Bloch overheard the conversation and simply spoke to the ...
  • On behalf of Alliance Defending Freedom, I want to thank you for your generous support. You’ve chosen to partner with the growing alliance of those who are paving the way for freedom. This is a generational work—achieving significant victories that change the law and culture of our nation. So that we hand our children and grandchildren an America that respects and values its foundational freedoms. You’re helping to ensure we’re there to defend Americans who are living out their faith, and paying a high price for doing so. Artists like graphic designer Lorie Smith, cake artist Jack Phillips ...
  • Three decades ago, 30 Christian leaders saw a need to combat the decades-long efforts of activists and government officials to drive expressions of faith out of the public square. Others said it was too late, that the culture had already been lost. But these determined Christian leaders stepped out in faith and founded Alliance Defending Freedom to protect God-given freedoms in the courts and to recruit and train attorneys dedicated to that mission. Today, by God’s grace, we stand as the world’s largest legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of ...
  • Your Year-End Gift Will Help Maximize the Impact for Freedom Your God-given rights are facing mounting threats. And there’s simply too much at stake to not act. Will you stand with Alliance Defending Freedom at this critical moment and help take on three threats to the rights of all Americans in 2024? Your tax-deductible year-end gift—to be added to a special $500,000 challenge grant to maximize the impact for freedom—will help take on: Government censorship: The attacks on conscience are increasing as activists use government power to censor our speech. The redefinition of what it means to be ...