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Imagine feeling a conviction to adopt and care for other children—to love those who don’t even have one parent. And now imagine that your state is excluding you from adopting any child because you won’t agree to contradict your Christian beliefs— you won’t use inaccurate pronouns, take children to events like Pride parades, and facilitate a child’s access to dangerous procedures like potentially sterilizing puberty blockers. This is exactly the situation Jessica Bates faces in Oregon. Oregon officials are preventing Jessica from adopting because they disagree with her Christian beliefs—despite ...

… faithful and courageous in 2024, which is sure to be yet another challenging and consequential year. From taking on …

… like to lose a part of your family. So after hearing about another person’s adoption story, she felt inspired to make a …

What is happening? At a time when the need to provide children with a stable and loving home is at a point of “crisis,” many states are forcing adoptive parents to pass an ideological litmus test to qualify. In some states, if the parents aren’t willing to push the government’s message on sexuality and gender, they can’t adopt. Simply put: government officials and policies are actively discriminating against Americans of faith—prioritizing ideology over the needs of kids. That’s cruel, it harms children, and it’s unconstitutional. Who is harmed? Nearly 400,000 children are currently in the ...

Your generosity has been critical in helping secure wins in the stand for freedom. You’ve helped support many clients in need and helped secure victories in courts across the country. This means that you helped freedom prevail for every American. In Illinois, for example, your generosity helped support a legal victory for free speech on behalf of Maggie DeJong. While she was a graduate student, she shared her biblical and conservative views in class and online—and in response, several students complained and the school tried to silence her, even going so far as to tell her she wasn’t allowed ...

What would happen to faith-based nonprofits like pregnancy resource centers or homeless shelters if the government stopped them from hiring only employees who agreed with and lived out the organization’s values? According to two U.S. Supreme Court justices, “many non-profits would be extinguished from participation in public life.” But a Washington state employment law is being used to threaten the work of religious ministries. In 2021, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that religious organizations could be forced to hire people who disagree with, and refuse to live out, the ministries’ ...

Travis Allen and his daughter, Blake, were suspended for speaking up.

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 ...

Parents have a fundamental human right to direct the upbringing of their children. Support ADF Now “Religious liberty may be the most significant civil rights issue of our time, and ADF is the foremost defender of free speech on the frontlines of the fight.” -- Kyle Mann, Editor in Chief, The Babylon Bee Help Defend Parental Rights Although the law recognizes the rights of parents, parental rights are under increasing attack from public school indoctrination, state governments, and even the federal government. Together with like-minded partners, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) advocates for ...

The right to live and speak the truth is increasingly threatened. From policies that censor and punish everyday Americans for speaking according to their values, to government harassment of religious ministries. You see it more and more. Now you can take action to help fuel the effort to stand up for our God-given rights with a tax-deductible donation to Alliance Defending Freedom. ADF is the world’s largest legal organization committed to protecting religious liberty, freedom of speech, marriage and family, parental rights, and the sanctity of human life. We’re in this for the long haul. We ...