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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Zack Pruitt regarding the final rules announced Tuesday by nine executive agencies in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order on religious liberty, the U.S. attorney general’s memorandum on religious liberty, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer: “The American people lose when the government decides which beliefs should prevail. Instead, the federal government should treat religious Americans and organizations on an equal playing field with their ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Rachel Rouleau regarding the Biden administration’s radical change related to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 that illegitimately redefines “sex” in federal law, threatening women’s advancements in education and athletics and violating the rights of parents, students, and teachers: “The Biden administration’s radical redefinition of sex turns back the clock on equal opportunity for women, threatens student safety and privacy, and undermines fairness in women’s sports. It is a slap in the face to ...

PHOENIX — The Alliance Defense Fund is applauding Arizona’s enactment Tuesday of a bill known as “Jesse’s Law.” The new law, inspired by the amazing ordeal of Jesse Ramirez, closed a loophole in the decision-making process for patients who are physically unable to communicate their wishes regarding medical care. “Human life is valuable in its own right, and everyone deserves the chance to recover,” said ADF Senior Counsel Gary McCaleb. “This law ensures that seriously injured patients will not suffer the consequences of a hasty decision that could result in death by starvation or dehydration.” ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Vincent Wagner regarding a petition for appeal ADF attorneys filed Thursday with the Supreme Court of Virginia in Ibañez v. Albemarle County School Board after the Virginia Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of their case in February. The petition asks the Court to hear the case of a diverse group of parents and their children who are suing the Albemarle County School Board for implementing a discriminatory policy that creates a race-based hostile environment in local schools and violates students’ free ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel David Cortman regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision Friday declining to immediately halt enforcement of Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s discriminatory restrictions on churches during the coronavirus pandemic: “The First Amendment requires the government to treat religious organizations, at a minimum, the same as comparable secular organizations. When the government treats churches worse than casinos, gyms, and indoor amusement parks in its COVID-19 response, it clearly violates the Constitution. As ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom General Counsel Kristen Waggoner regarding a Colorado trial court’s decision that punishes cake artist Jack Phillips for not designing a custom pink-and-blue cake celebrating a gender transition when asked to do so by an activist attorney: “Jack Phillips serves all people but shouldn’t be forced to create custom cakes with messages that violate his conscience. In this case, an activist attorney demanded Jack create custom cakes in order to ‘test’ Jack and ‘correct the errors’ of his thinking, and the activist even threatened ...

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 Thursday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in Carter v. Southwest Airlines, in which a federal district court ordered in-house attorneys with Southwest Airlines to attend religious liberty training as part of a ruling in favor of a flight attendant whom the court determined the airline fired because of her religious beliefs: “Alliance Defending Freedom is a nationally recognized and ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Monday in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, a case in which high school football coach Joe Kennedy was suspended for engaging in 30 seconds of personal prayer at the end of a game: “As the Supreme Court has affirmed, Coach Kennedy’s personal prayer of gratitude at the end of a football game is protected under the First Amendment both as religious exercise and as private speech, free from government censorship ...

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 with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on behalf of Christian Employers Alliance in Pritchard v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois. A district court judge misinterpreted a provision in the Affordable Care Act to force health insurance plans to cover dangerous procedures that deny biological reality and seek to alter a person’s body to match their gender identity: “Those struggling ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Greg Baylor, director of the ADF Center for Religious Schools, regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit’s decision Wednesday in Buettner-Hartsoe v. Concordia Preparatory School, in which the court concluded that a charity or nonprofit’s 501(c)(3) status does not constitute receiving “federal financial assistance”: “The 4th Circuit confirmed what has always been true: a nonprofit’s tax-exempt status is not government funding and thus does not trigger multiple burdensome federal laws under which ...