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Since Alliance Defending Freedom’s founding in 1994, Ministry Friends like you have helped ADF play a role in more than 70 victories for freedom at the U.S. Supreme Court. And since 2011 alone, you have helped fuel freedom’s defense in 15 Supreme Court wins in which we’ve served as lead or co-counsel. This is your generosity in action—the legacy of freedom that you’re helping to leave. Freedom advocates like you have helped secure free speech for college students sharing the Gospel on their college campuses, religious freedom for Christian foster and adoption agencies, freedom of conscience ...

It all began when Bank of America, one of the world’s largest banks sent abrupt notices to a Memphis-based church and Indigenous Advance, one of its ministry partners. The bank said they were closing their accounts and even the ministry’s credit cards. And they both had only 30 days to switch to a new bank. Bank of America didn’t even give a specific reason. All it said was that it simply no longer wanted to serve the ministries’ “business type” and that Indigenous Advance has exceeded the banks “risk tolerance.” But Indigenous Advance isn’t ideological or partisan. And it’s had the same ...

The violation of freedom is no longer an ill-defined threat—it’s happening right in our backyards. Our culture is buying into dangerous lies about the family, life, and what it means to be human—and it’s snowballing quickly. Alliance Defending Freedom’s clients can tell you just how close to home this hits. But it’s through the generosity of people like you that we can stand up for individuals, ministries, and churches whose First Amendment rights are violated by the government. When ministry leaders, pastors, teachers, artists, and parents are told that they aren’t allowed to live and speak ...

Thanks to the support of Ministry Friends like you, Alliance Defending Freedom can help support the everyday work of over 4,500 network attorneys who help protect our freedoms from overreaching government actions. These attorneys—both Allied Attorneys and Blackstone Fellows—generously donate their time and talents to increase the reach and power of our alliance. The Grants and Funding Program provides strategic support and financial assistance to these network attorneys so they can go toe-to-toe with the well-funded opponents of freedom in key cases. Cases like the Minnesota small-town ...

For 60 years, the heart of the mission of Medford, OR-based 71Five Ministries has been to bring the hope of Jesus Christ to the youth in their community through trusting mentor relationships. The ministry has long participated in a state grant program designed to support existing services for youth at risk of disengaging from school, work, and community. Yet after being approved for over $400,000 in grants, the state rescinded the funds. The state discriminated against the group because of its Christian beliefs. The state claims the ministry is ineligible for the grants because it only hires ...

Around the world, it’s becoming more difficult—and dangerous—for Christians to live out their faith.

Online media such as Facebook and Twitter have become the primary way many, if not most, Americans access the news. But government officials have been pressuring Big Tech to do their dirty work for them—trying to sidestep First Amendment safeguards to censor viewpoints the government doesn’t like. Freedom needs to be safeguarded—even on social media. That’s why Alliance Defending Freedom is standing for the protection and preservation of free speech in cases where government actors, including the Biden administration, have been caught pressuring technology companies to do their bidding. “Using ...

We urgently need your support. Our fiscal year ends on June 30 th and we are falling behind on securing the $4.1 million in funding that we need to raise to help enable us to continue standing against censorship, the lies of gender ideology, and government attempts to override the rights of parents. From defending free speech and religious freedom, to challenging the Biden administration’s unlawful and devastating rule changes to Title IX that redefine “sex” to include gender identity, there is much work to be done. As we’re a non-profit organization, our work is wholly dependent on support ...

Our culture lies to pregnant women, and tells them that abortion is “health care,” that it’s a simple, painless procedure. In truth, abortion destroys innocent life and often leaves women struggling with significant physical and psychological pain. Alliance Defending Freedom is the world's largest legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, parental rights, and God's design for marriage and family. When it comes to these issues, we aren’t on the sidelines—we're in the action achieving significant victories for freedom. We were honored to ...

Today is Paralegal Appreciation Day, and our dedicated and impressive team of paralegals deserves the spotlight—and your support. Behind every ADF win advancing freedom—from the U.S. Supreme Court to courtrooms across the nation—is a team of paralegals who are critical to assisting ADF attorneys and clients. ADF paralegals help present complex cases—spanning years and involving a vast amount of information—in simple language to courts and legislatures. Today, we celebrate the vital role of ADF paralegals in helping defend clients and secure freedoms that will last far into the future. And ...