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People should be free to express their beliefs without the threat of government punishment. But right now, New York threatens to misuse the law to punish Emilee for her views on marriage unless we stand up and win in court. That’s why Emilee Carpenter needs your support as Alliance Defending Freedom stands with Emilee for her right to speak freely. A win for Emilee is a win for free speech. Our work to defend Americans like Emilee relies on the support of people like you. Will you give right now and DOUBLE your gift—dollar for dollar up to $1.5 million—thanks to a matching grant provided by a ...

When will it end? After ten years, Colorado cake artist Jack Phillips is still fighting for his right to speak freely. Even though the State of Colorado abandoned its prosecution of the cake artist, a local attorney is now going after Jack in civil court. The Colorado Court of Appeals just affirmed a trial court decision punishing Jack for not designing a custom cake celebrating a gender transition that an activist attorney requested. Alliance Defending Freedom is appealing that decision. What’s happened to Jack is a blatant of example of activists targeting, harassing, and punishing those who ...

Government officials are showing open hostility towards people for their religious beliefs. In February, Arizona’s Washington Elementary School District board voted unanimously to sever its 11-year partnership with Arizona Christian University (ACU), which had allowed student teachers and practicum students to gain valuable classroom experience, while providing a stable source of quality teachers for the district’s elementary schools. In severing the partnership, the school board cited zero complaints about ACU students or alumni, and administrators in the district had even asked for more ...

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Novel. Unprecedented. Staggering. These words have all been used to describe a federal appeals court decision that said Colorado officials can force artist Lorie Smith to create custom designs and promote messages that violate her beliefs. Lorie left the corporate design world to start her own design studio, 303 Creative, in 2012 so she could promote causes consistent with her beliefs and close to her heart, such as supporting children with disabilities, the beauty of marriage, overseas missions, animal shelters, and veterans. She was excited to expand her portfolio to create websites that ...

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested for silently praying. She wasn’t carrying a sign or engaging with anyone. She wasn’t even praying out loud. She was simply standing near an abortion clinic in the United Kingdom – peacefully praying in her mind. The introduction of “censorship zones” by Birmingham authorities criminalizes individuals perceived to be “engaging in any act of approval or disapproval” in relation to abortion, including through “verbal or written means, prayer or counseling…”. Isabel’s physical presence in the censorship zone wasn’t a crime in itself, it was the contents of her ...

Former Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran knows what it means to face the fire—both literal flames and the rising tide of threats to freedom of speech and religious liberty. Despite his sterling credentials—Cochran once held the nation’s highest firefighting role as U.S. Fire Administrator for the United States Fire Administration—he was fired from his position as Atlanta’s fire chief. Why? Because the government didn’t approve of his message about biblical marriage and sexuality that he included in a brief passage in a self-published book he wrote. We stood with Chief Cochran, and after years ...

The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved the two-drug chemical abortion regimen (commonly referred to as the “abortion pill”) in 2000. This was done through a reckless and, ultimately, illegal process that has put women and girls at increased risk for over 20 years. The mainstream media and its pro-abortion allies have not been honest about either the approval process or the dangerous impact chemical abortion drugs have on pregnant women and their unborn children. What happened during the approval process? Were chemical abortion drugs ever rigorously studied and tested to be safe and ...

It’s costly to tell the truth today. It can cost you your reputation, your livelihood, and even friends and family. But far greater is the cost of not standing up to these lies. They threaten not only our integrity and ability to live by our beliefs, but the future we will hand on to our children. Across the country, there are government efforts underway to force people to lie and speak against their beliefs. When the government tells you what you can and cannot say, it not only violates free speech rights, but it also teaches the next generation what is and isn’t acceptable to say. A ...

Praise God! The 5th Circuit has just ruled in favor of the doctors and medical organizations Alliance Defending Freedom is proudly representing in an effort to hold the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) accountable for recklessly and unlawfully approving chemical abortion drugs. The court has halted the approval of chemical abortion drugs. This will protect millions of women and girls that the Biden administration’s FDA put at risk by further expanding the availability of these drugs as it removed one of the few remaining critical safeguards. However, abortion advocates have vowed to appeal ...