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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 ...

… its mission. Let’s take a more in-depth look at the details of this case. A pro-life pregnancy center in Connecticut saw its free … that compelled speech of this sort is unconstitutional. Case timeline April 2019 : Caring Families filed its lawsuit …

… to detail would land him at the U.S. Supreme Court. Tom’s case was combined with two other cases under Bostock v. … by the Court in June 2019. Let’s take a look at this case below. The Supreme Court ruled against Tom Rost of … possible. This includes everything from the smallest details, such as leaving a rose when a body is removed, to …

Former Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran knows what it means to face the fire—both literal flames and the rising tide of threats to freedom of speech and religious liberty. Despite his sterling credentials—Cochran once held the nation’s highest firefighting role as U.S. Fire Administrator for the United States Fire Administration—he was fired from his position as Atlanta’s fire chief. Why? Because the government didn’t approve of his message about biblical marriage and sexuality that he included in a brief passage in a self-published book he wrote. We stood with Chief Cochran, and after years ...

… views were not welcome at his school. Read more about his case below.   After expressing his views on gender dysphoria, … dysphoria. That is both wrong and unconstitutional.   Case timeline October 2017 : Dr. Josephson participated in a … disagree.   Learn more about Dr. Allan Josephson's case:   Watch: Dr. Josephson, his ADF attorney, and others …

… the 9th Circuit reversed the decision, allowing the ACLU’s case to move forward. ADF attorneys appealed the 9th Circuit … to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case in May 2010. Just under a year later, the Court ruled in … have only dreamed about the opportunity, previously.   Case timeline February 2000 : The ACLU filed a lawsuit on …

Counselors are increasingly coming under threat from local, state, and federal laws and policies that seek to insert the government’s preferred views on gender into private conversations between a counselor and clients who are minors. Counselors are facing the prospect of making a choice no American should ever have to make: speak the truth to clients knowing they might face devastating consequences, or abandon their faith in order to speak only government-approved values and perspectives. The government has no business censoring conversations between clients and counselors, and Alliance ...

… Association, to speak on a panel discussing a free speech case. Specifically at issue was a recent ADF Supreme Court … they violate constitutionally protected freedoms. In this case, college officials violated the First Amendment speech … Christian conservative find common ground talking about a case involving free speech? Monica Miller thought so. Kristen …

… employees without compromising their religious beliefs. Case timeline May 2012 : ADF attorneys filed a lawsuit on …

… when they use illegal edicts to do so.   Why does this case matter? ADF attorneys filed a lawsuit on College of the … the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the college’s case, leaving the issue unresolved. We are hopeful it will …