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… ADF Church & Ministry Alliance ADF Church Alliance is a legal membership program that exists to help best prepare and protect churches in the U.S. by … Ministry Alliance provides religious freedom legal help to Christian ministries. Across the U.S., religious ministries …

… reviewing, and preparing resources on every state’s abortion laws for ADF attorneys and allies to support and advise pro-life states, medical professionals, …

… Defending Freedom, where he plays a key role with the ADF Center for Academic Freedom. Since joining ADF in 2006, … , the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 8–1 that officials at a public college cannot get a free pass after … ruled that public universities cannot compel professors to say things they do not believe. In Adams v. Trustees of …

… the resources needed to ensure the ministry’s capacity to respond to opportunities. As the first president, CEO, and … Sears has assisted legislators and law enforcement officials from many countries and has spoken before … The New York Times , The Washington Post , the Associated Press, The Washington Times , The Seattle Post-Intelligencer …

… university’s requirement that forced unwilling students to contribute to campus activist groups. He led the challenge …  at the New Mexico Supreme Court. Lorence has worked on ADF’s Supreme Court cases, such as  NIFLA  (2018),  …  (2015), as well as other Supreme Court cases such as  Christian Legal Society v. Martinez (2010),  Good News Club …

… defending churches and ministries from trial courts to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1981, Mike was co-counsel in a … Widmar v. Vincent (454 US 263), establishing the right of Christian students to “equal access” to student union space … Williams. Mike was one of the first allied attorneys with ADF and served for 25 years on the Grant Review Committee, …

… the rights of students, professors, and organizations to speak, associate, and worship freely. Before joining ADF, Spena served as Deputy Policy Director in the Missouri governor’s office where he oversaw the state’s regulatory reform …

… state, and national levels. In 2017, with the help of ADF, Bernadette took legal action against a Fresno State … professor for leading a group of students in defacing her student group’s university-approved, pro-life chalk messages. She and her group won the lawsuit, helping to intensify her passion for the pro-life movement. …

… of the Center for Conscience Initiatives. When she joined ADF in 2012, Kiefer worked to defend the constitutionally protected freedom of churches, religious schools, and Christian ministries to exercise their faith without …

… President, and General Counsel Kristen Waggoner joined ADF in 2013 As the CEO, president, and general counsel of … and public advocacy. ADF also provides legal resources to nearly 4,000 churches and ministries through its Ministry … courts and tribunals. It has also successfully secured the release of hundreds of imprisoned Christians around the …