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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Julie Marie Blake regarding the formal comment ADF attorneys submitted Monday urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to withdraw its proposed rule that redefines “sex” in federal health law to add abortion, gender identity, and sexual orientation: “The Biden administration’s proposed health care mandate would impair some of our most fundamental human rights: the right to life, freedom of speech, religious exercise, parental rights, and freedom of conscience. Specifically, the proposed rule ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Advocacy Strategy Emilie Kao regarding California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing Thursday of SB 107, which gives California courts the ability to strip parents in other states of their parental rights if their child travels to or is taken to California to obtain life-altering hormones and irreversible surgeries. The law ignores the established authority of the other 49 states and increases the risk of irreparable harm to America’s children: “Parents have the fundamental right to direct the ...

ADF attorneys available for media interviews following hearing Thursday

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Emilie Kao, vice president of advocacy strategy, regarding a letter the Promise to America’s Parents Coalition sent Monday to California Gov. Gavin Newsom urging him to stand up for the safety and protection of children by vetoing SB 107. This dangerous piece of legislation would give California courts the ability to strip parents in other states of their parental rights if their child travels to California to obtain life-altering and irreversible surgeries. It also ignores the established authority of the other ...

ADF attorneys file friend-of-the-court brief in defense of Indiana law that preserves fairness, equality for female athletes

ADF attorneys represent College of the Ozarks

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Friday on behalf of five Christian school associations in favor of the freedom of New York’s Yeshiva University not to sponsor student clubs that undermine its religious beliefs: “No court should force a religious organization to undermine its own faith and mission. If an activist group can use the courts to force Yeshiva University to sponsor an official club on campus that undermines the school’s own ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Kate Anderson, director of the ADF Center for Parental Rights, regarding a brief ADF attorneys filed Tuesday in the Rockingham County Circuit Court in Virginia on behalf of a group of parents and teachers in D.F. v. Harrisonburg City Public School Board, asking the court to temporarily halt the school board from usurping parents’ right to direct the upbringing of their children and forcing teachers to violate their religious beliefs by affirming the board’s view on gender identity while their lawsuit proceeds: ...

ADF attorneys represent Michigan-based Christian Healthcare Centers

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Erica Steinmiller-Perdomo regarding new guidance the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued Friday in response to a federal lawsuit ADF attorneys brought against the Biden administration for threatening to take away children’s lunches because they attended a Christian school. The USDA agreed to automatically respect exemptions to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for all religious schools “on religious grounds if there is a conflict between Title IX and a school’s governing religious tenets:” “On behalf ...