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Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is an advocacy organization whose goal is advocating, training, and funding legal cases on the issues of "religious freedom, sanctity of life, and marriage and family." [1] In 2012 the organization shifted its mission of funding allied attorneys to direct representation of clients though litigation. [2]
Becket, also known as the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, is a non-profit public interest law firm [4] based in Washington, D.C., that describes its mission to "protect the free expression of all faiths."
Mathew D. "Mat" Staver is an American lawyer and former pastor of several Seventh-day Adventist churches who became a Southern Baptist. [2] [3] [4] He is a former dean of Liberty University's law school.
The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC) is a US faith-based organization which focuses on upholding the historic Baptist principle of religious liberty.. With a staff of attorneys, public intellectuals, ministers and mobilizers, the Washington D.C.–based non-profit has a long history of advocating in the U.S. Supreme Court and working with Congress on issues relating to ...
The Rutherford Institute is a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of civil liberties, human rights, and religious liberties.Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, the non-profit organization's motto is "It's our job to make the government play by the rules of the Constitution."
According to the Thomas More Law Center website, its goals are to "preserve America's Judeo-Christian heritage, defend the religious freedom of Christians, restore time-honored moral and family values, protect the sanctity of human life, and promote a strong national defense and a free and sovereign United States of America". [3] [4]
Liberty Counsel is a 501(c)(3) [2] Christian ministry [5] that engages in strategic litigation [6] to promote evangelical Christian values. [7] Liberty Counsel was founded in 1989 [1] by its chairman Mathew Staver and its president Anita L. Staver, who are attorneys and married to each other.
The Free Exercise Clause prohibits government interference with religious belief and, within limits, religious practice. [2] To accept any creed or the practice of any form of worship cannot be compelled by laws, because, as stated by the Supreme Court in Braunfeld v. Brown, the freedom to hold religious beliefs and opinions is absolute. [3]