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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding a proposed friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Parents Defending Education v. Olentangy Local School District Board of Education in support of educators and students’ First Amendment right to speak according to their deeply held beliefs: “School policies that compel the use of pronouns inconsistent with sex force students and educators to speak contrary to their deeply held ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Greg Chafuen regarding Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s signing Wednesday of SB 1399, a bill ensuring that Arizona’s foster care service providers are able to continue serving Arizona’s foster children and foster parents according to their beliefs without fear of unjust government punishment: “Every child deserves the chance to be cared for by a loving family. When faith-based foster care service providers are empowered to operate according to their beliefs, more providers can recruit and serve more foster families to ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Zack Pruitt regarding the final rules announced Tuesday by nine executive agencies in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order on religious liberty, the U.S. attorney general’s memorandum on religious liberty, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer: “The American people lose when the government decides which beliefs should prevail. Instead, the federal government should treat religious Americans and organizations on an equal playing field with their ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Bowman regarding a proposed rule released Monday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that reinterprets federal law to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, requiring doctors to perform harmful medical procedures that seek to alter a patient’s biological sex even if the procedure violates the doctor’s medical judgment or religious beliefs. The new proposed rule would also prohibit discrimination on the basis of “termination of pregnancy”—an action that could ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding an emergency application for stay ADF attorneys filed Wednesday in New Yorkers for Religious Liberty v. City of New York that asks the U.S. Supreme Court to immediately halt a New York City mandate that forces city workers to be injected with the COVID-19 vaccine against their sincere religious beliefs: “New York City firefighters, teachers, police officers, sanitation workers, and other public employees have lost their livelihoods, and many are ...

ADF attorneys represent Young Americans for Freedom chapter, challenge mandatory student fee policy

State high court says Phoenix can’t violate artists’ freedom of speech, religion

ADF successful in this round of defending civil rights lawsuit against New York DMV’s attempt to silence life-affirming message

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Jacob Reed following a federal district court hearing held Monday in Christian Employers Alliance v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a case in which ADF attorneys represent CEA in a challenge to two Biden administration mandates that force religious nonprofit and for-profit employers to pay for and perform surgeries, procedures, counseling, and treatments that seek to alter one’s biological sex—actions that violate their religious beliefs: “The Constitution protects religious healthcare providers and ...

Supervisor endured suspension, transfer after expressing religious views at work