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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives Ryan Bangert regarding the U.S. House’s passage Thursday of the deceptively named “Respect for Marriage Act,” a bill that does far more than enshrine same-sex marriage into federal law by intentionally jeopardizing the religious freedom of millions of Americans who have sincerely held beliefs about marriage: “The House voted today to prioritize virtue-signaling over protecting the freedom to hold decent and honorable beliefs about marriage. This bill, which provides no protection ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Bowman regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Thursday with the U.S. Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo on behalf of Christian Employers Alliance urging the high court to take this case and rein in unaccountable bureaucrats. The brief argues that federal agency officials regularly exceed their executive authority by imposing mandates and spending tax dollars that harm the unborn, devalue religious freedom, and contradict biological distinctions based on sex, all without ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Kate Anderson, director of the ADF Center for Parental Rights, regarding the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision Friday to take the case of a group of parents challenging a Madison Metropolitan School District policy that instructs district employees to assist children of any age, upon their request, to adopt an identity at odds with the child’s biological sex without notice to or consent from parents and to conceal from parents the fact that school personnel are doing this unless the child “consents” to the ...

ADF attorneys represent Christian student group singled out for censorship

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Bowman regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Monday to hear Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, a case that involves holding federal agency officials accountable to protect religious freedom and the sanctity of life for all Americans: “Unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats are weaponizing federal laws to violate Americans’ most fundamental rights. As we explain in the brief we filed urging the Supreme Court to take this case, federal agency officials frequently disrespect Americans’ most cherished ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Vincent Wagner regarding a petition for appeal ADF attorneys filed Thursday with the Supreme Court of Virginia in Ibañez v. Albemarle County School Board after the Virginia Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of their case in February. The petition asks the Court to hear the case of a diverse group of parents and their children who are suing the Albemarle County School Board for implementing a discriminatory policy that creates a race-based hostile environment in local schools and violates students’ free ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Roger Brooks regarding a motion for admission that the state of Alabama filed Monday in Boe v. Marshall to allow ADF attorneys to join in representing the state to defend its law that protects children from harmful and unnecessary medical procedures, which is currently being challenged by the Biden administration and politicized interest groups: “Alabama is right to protect minors from harmful, irreversible, and strictly experimental medical procedures that permanently alter children’s bodies without any proven ...

The facts behind the Vermont locker room story: Randolph Union High School violated the rights of Travis and Blake Allen.

Group no longer denied access to benefits offered to other student clubs

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom General Counsel Kristen Waggoner regarding the finalization of South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s veto of the Fairness in Women’s Sports bill, H.B. 1217, after the state’s House of Representatives, by a 67–2 margin, rejected her proposed changes Monday because they would have gutted the bill: “We are profoundly disappointed that Gov. Noem vetoed South Dakota’s Fairness in Women’s Sports bill. The legislation would have protected female athletes at all levels, just as similar laws do in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Idaho. The fact ...