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As a mother of five, Jessica knows what it’s like to provide a loving home. And as a widow, she knows what it’s like to lose a part of your family. So after hearing about another person’s adoption story, she felt inspired to make a happy home for children in need in the state of Oregon. But in Oregon, parents like Jessica must agree to use a child’s preferred pronouns, take children to LGBT-affirming events like Pride parades, and facilitate a child’s access to dangerous pharmaceutical interventions like puberty blockers and hormone shots that can sterilize a young child. The Oregon Department ...

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Some myths about religious freedom are accepted as truth and used to put down people of faith and religious organizations. When people say things like, “Religious freedom is just an excuse for discrimination,” we want you to be equipped to respond and set the record straight. Use ADF’s free guide to help you discuss religious freedom effectively. GET THE GUIDE Religious Freedom versus Discrimination We hope you found our Religious Freedom guide helpful. How do religious freedom and discrimination differ? Find out in our article, “ Is Religious Freedom Discrimination?” ...

The Biden administration is taking away lunch money from low-income kids who attend Christian schools like Dayspring Christian Learning Center in El Cajon, CA. Why? Because their school doesn’t agree with the government’s radical gender ideology. Tell the administration to stop using kids and their lunches as leverage to FORCE Christian schools to abandon their beliefs. Schools like Dayspring are being targeted by federal and state officials. This is wrong. Christian students and their schools shouldn’t be forced to give up critical lunch funding to follow their beliefs. Sign your name and ...

… in America.  Lydia Booth, a brave Mississippi 3rd grader was silenced by her school for wearing her “Jesus Loves Me” …

For more than 10 years, Colorado cake artist Jack Phillips has been dragged through courts because activists have targeted, harassed, and tried to punish him for his beliefs. In the third lawsuit targeting Jack and his business, Masterpiece Cakeshop, the Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s ruling that punished Jack for not designing a custom cake celebrating a gender transition, requested by an activist attorney. Jack serves everyone. But he can’t create every message that he’s asked to. The activist attorney said he wanted to “test” Jack and “correct the errors of [Jack’s] ...

Imagine feeling a conviction to adopt and care for other children—to love those who lack a loving home. And now imagine that your state is excluding you from adoption because you won’t contradict your beliefs— you won’t encourage a child to identify as the opposite sex or take them to receive cross-sex hormone shots intended to block their natural biological development. This is exactly the situation Jessica Bates faces in Oregon. Oregon officials are preventing Jessica and others like her from adopting a child if they believe sex is unchangeable—whether based on Scripture or biology. It’s a ...