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Thanks to the support of Ministry Friends like you, Alliance Defending Freedom can help support the everyday work of over 4,500 network attorneys who help protect our freedoms from overreaching government actions. These attorneys—both Allied Attorneys and Blackstone Fellows—generously donate their time and talents to increase the reach and power of our alliance. The Grants and Funding Program provides strategic support and financial assistance to these network attorneys so they can go toe-to-toe with the well-funded opponents of freedom in key cases. Cases like the Minnesota small-town ...

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys are defending the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) and two pregnancy centers challenging Vermont state officials for unconstitutionally restricting the centers’ speech and provision of services. But pregnancy resource centers across the state of Vermont—those like Branches—find themselves stifled after the state passed a law impeding the ability of pro-life pregnancy centers to continue providing help and support to Vermont women and families. The law censors the centers’ ability to advertise their services. It also impedes their ...

Victory for Orthodox Jewish counselor who sued to protect his First Amendment freedoms

Sign up and download your copy The freedoms of educators and students are increasingly threatened. Why? Because government officials are silencing speech that the government disagrees with and punishing Americans for engaging in honest discussion and debate. Some policies seek to compel educators or students to express messages that aren’t true. These unlawful directives force educators to deceive and mislead parents and students to avoid plain truths when talking with each other. But don’t educators and students have the right to live and speak the truth—without fear of punishment? Or do ...

President Biden has promised to sign the “Equality Act” into law during his first 100 days if given the chance. Now, with its recent passage in the House, the chances of the “Equality Act” being signed into law are higher than ever before. The “Equality Act” would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes to many existing federal nondiscrimination laws. And though “nondiscrimination” sounds good in theory, that is not what this bill is truly about. The “Equality Act” is a deliberate and dangerous attempt to force people of faith to abandon their sincerely held beliefs ...

ADF attorneys available for media interviews prior to, following hearing Thursday

Colorado Civil Rights Commission finally abandons its harassment of cake artist who prevailed at US Supreme Court

The Biden administration is trying to mandate gender identity ideology on Christian college campuses.

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Greg Chafuen regarding Gov. Eric Holcomb’s signing Thursday of SB 263, a bill sponsored by Sens. Eric Koch, Liz Brown, and Aaron Freeman that ensures churches and other religious organizations are allowed to remain open during a state of emergency on the same terms as other businesses and services: “Houses of worship and religious organizations provide soul-sustaining operations that are essential to our society and protected by the First Amendment. While public officials have the authority and responsibility to ...

… to effectively opt-out of the policy. The current policy allows teachers to compel students to affirm these beliefs …