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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Julia Payne regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Friday with the Utah Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. State of Utah on behalf of Utah Eagle Forum in support of the state’s pro-life law, which Planned Parenthood is challenging: “Utah is eager to affirm that life is a human right and, to that end, the state has enacted a pro-life law protecting that most fundamental of rights for the unborn. Pro-life laws like Utah’s also help women by ensuring they have the ...

Colorado Civil Rights Commission finally abandons its harassment of cake artist who prevailed at US Supreme Court

New brief reveals that civil rights commissioner lumped in Christian cake artist with slave owners, Holocaust perpetrators

ADF attorneys serving as co-counsel with the Montana Attorney General’s Office urge state court to uphold pro-life law

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Greg Chafuen regarding South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s signing Monday of HB 3105, a bill sponsored by Rep. Richie Yow and Sens. Billy Garrett and George Campsen that ensures churches and other religious organizations are allowed to remain open during a state of emergency on the same or better terms as other businesses and services: “Houses of worship and religious organizations provide soul-sustaining operations that are essential to our society and protected by the First Amendment. While public officials ...

Gov. Reynolds asks state’s high court to finally allow fetal heartbeat law to take effect

ADF attorneys file suit after Mich. school district prohibits student from distributing personal invitations to Vacation Bible School

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Justice will write a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a lawsuit Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed against a Michigan school district last year. The school district prohibited a student from attaching a religious message to candy cane ornaments he passed out to classmates at Christmas. “The DOJ’s determination to convey its opinion in this case indicates that the present administration has a keen interest in seeing the First Amendment liberties of school children preserved,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeff Shafer. Of the thousands of civil rights ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Christiana Kiefer regarding the Kansas Legislature’s override of Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto Wednesday of the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, a bill that protects opportunities for women and girls in athletics by ensuring they are not forced to compete against males playing on women’s sports teams: “We commend the Kansas Legislature for securing a level playing field for Kansas’s female athletes by overriding Gov. Kelly’s misguided veto of the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act. When the law ignores biological ...

ADF secures decision ordering Mich. school district to allow elementary student and his mother to distribute flyers inviting classmates to Christian summer camp