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The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), formerly the Alliance Defense Fund, is an American conservative Christian legal advocacy group [8] that works to expand Christian religious liberties and practices within public schools and in government, [9] [10] outlaw abortion, [11] [12] and oppose LGBTQ rights. [13]
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]
This allows the ADF to advance its agenda to force the state to adopt the ADF’s religious views. Standing, meaning the right to take a position in litigation, belongs to the litigants, not the ...
Sears led the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a Christian right legal advocacy group [5] founded in 1994, [2] for more than twenty years. Under his leadership, the ADF won a string of victories in lawsuits on behalf of the conservative Christian movement. [5]
Chris Hartman, executive director for the Fairness Campaign, said the bill could cause legal chaos by allowing conservative legal advocacy groups like Alliance Defending Freedom to "cash into ...
John Bursch is senior counsel and vice president of appellate advocacy with Alliance Defending Freedom and was the solicitor general in the Michigan Attorney General’s Office from 2011 to 2013.
She has been president, CEO, and General Counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom since 2022. In 2018, Waggoner was the lead defense counsel in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission .
In 2017, Alliance Defending Freedom announced that Farris would become its CEO and general counsel. [ 2 ] After Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election and refused to concede while making claims of fraud, Farris worked behind the scenes in his personal capacity on legal documents filed by Texas attorney general Ken Paxton to overturn ...