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- Alliance Defense Fund attorneys represent Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association
- OCEAN GROVE, N.J. — At a hearing Tuesday, the New Jersey attorney general agreed to extend the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association’s time to respond to an investigation until a federal judge decides on two motions in the association’s lawsuit against the state. ADF attorneys represent OGCMA, which has been under investigation for declining a request to allow a “civil union” ceremony on its private property. “Religious groups have the First Amendment right to decide what takes place on their private property without government interference. The government cannot force a private Christian ...
- Photo artist forced to pay over $6,600 in attorneys’ fees for declining to photograph same-sex ceremony
- District court will decide on whether to affirm ministry’s right to use its property in manner consistent with its beliefs
- Photo artist told by civil rights commission to pay over $6,600 in attorneys’ fees for declining to photograph same-sex ceremony
- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Jim Campbell regarding a determination by the director of the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights that a Christian ministry engaged in “wrongdoing” for abiding by its faith: “The government should not be able to force a Christian organization to use its property in a way that would violate its own religious beliefs. Both the U.S. and New Jersey constitutions protect the freedom of faith-based groups to use their property in a manner consistent with those beliefs. That freedom trumps any state law that conflicts ...
- 86 members of Congress also among at least 45 briefs asking justices to rule in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop
- ADF attorneys representing Colorado cake artist Jack Phillips and his family business, Masterpiece Cakeshop, filed their opening brief Thursday with the U.S. Supreme Court.
- The U.S. Supreme Court has received numerous friend-of-the-court briefs in support of the freedom of a Washington state floral artist—and, by extension, other creative professionals—to decline to create artistic expression and participate in events with which they disagree.
- Washington Supreme Court ruled govt can force people to create artistic expression, participate in events with which they disagree