Tag Archives: Alliance Defending Freedom

SCOTUS Rejects Challenge To WA Ex-Gay Torture Ban

The Christian Post reports: The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal filed by a Christian therapist against Washington state’s ban on “gay conversion therapy,” allowing the law to remain in effect. In an orders list released Monday morning, the high court declined without comment a petition for a writ of certiorari in the case of Brian Tingley …

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Hate Group Wins Case For Anti-LGBTQ Photographer

Via press release from Alliance Defending Freedom: Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis, an Alliance Defending Freedom case that affirmed free speech for all Americans, ADF attorneys have successfully settled a lawsuit on behalf of a Virginia photographer. As part of the settlement, Virginia officials agreed that Bob Updegrove is free to create wedding …

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Texas Judge: Airline Must Take Training By Hate Group

The New Republic reports: A Trump-appointed Texas judge has ordered three senior Southwest Airlines lawyers to take eight hours of “religious-liberty training” from the far-right Christian hate group Alliance Defending Freedom. In his late Monday ruling, U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr specifically mandated the lawyers take the training as part of court-ordered sanctions for religious discrimination. He described ADF as …

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New Poll: 65% Oppose Refusing Service To LGBTQs

USA Today reports: Days after the Supreme Court’s ruling that businesses can deny same-sex wedding services if it clashes with their religious views, new data says most American voters disagree with that position. Last week, the nation’s high court sided with a Colorado business owner who argued a state non-discrimination law could not compel her to make same-sex websites. The …

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Hate Group: The Left Is Lying About Our SCOTUS Case

Via press release from Alliance Defending Freedom: In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic opinion protecting the free speech rights of all Americans, commentators and activists have propagated false information about 303 Creative v. Elenis. It’s time to set the record straight. “This desperate attempt to malign ADF, our client, and a critical ruling affirming all Americans’ free …

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Supreme Court Rules For Hate Group On LGBTQ Rights

The New Republic reports: Representing the plaintiff—303 Creative, a small business run by a Colorado woman named Lorie Smith—is Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a group whose founder dubbed it a “Christian legal army,” with a long history of opposing civil rights protections for LGBTQ people. But unlike the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, which at least involved real customers wanting a real …

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Accidentally Public Documents Show Hate Group Asked Medical Hate Group To Invent Anti-Transgender Data

The SPLC’s Hatewatch reports: Documents left public on a Google Drive by anti-LGBTQ+ hate group American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), first reported by WIRED, reveal nearly a decade of coordination between ACPeds and another hate group, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), to shore up anti-trans policy efforts and legal arguments with bespoke research. A new trove of internal documents from the …

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WaPo: Trump Judge Appears Likely To Ban Abortion Pills

The Washington Post reports: The federal judge who could upend access to a widely used abortion medication pressed government lawyers in a hearing Wednesday about the safety and approval process for the drug, which has been on the market in the U.S. for more than two decades. While the antiabortion group challenging the drug acknowledged there is no precedent for …

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Hate Group Backer To Air $20 Million In Super Bowl Ads

Lever News reports: The foundation behind a $20 million Super Bowl advertising campaign to promote “the Jesus of radical forgiveness, compassion, and love” has also bankrolled a conservative nonprofit leading efforts to roll back abortion rights and allow businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ+ customers. During the Super Bowl next weekend, viewers around the country will watch two Christianity-themed messages from …

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Anti-LGBTQ Baker Loses Appeal In Trans Cake Case

The Christian Post reports: A three-judge panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled against Christian baker Jack Phillips, having concluded that he was wrong to refuse, on religious grounds, to bake a cake celebrating transgenderism. In a decision released Thursday, Judge Timothy Schutz authored the panel’s opinion affirming an earlier trial court decision against Phillips, concluding that the …

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Hate Group Sues New Mexico Over Assisted Suicide Law

The Christian Post reports: A doctor and a Christian medical group have filed a lawsuit against New Mexico over an assisted suicide law passed last year they say violates their sincerely-held religious objections to the controversial practice. Dr. Mark Lacy and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations filed a lawsuit against New Mexico on Wednesday in the United States District …

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Justices Appear To Side With Anti-LGBTQ Hate Group

The Washington Post reports: The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed sympathetic Monday to an evangelical Christian graphic artist from Colorado who does not want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples, despite the state’s protective antidiscrimination law. Those justices seemed amenable to businesswoman Lorie Smith’s argument that the state may not compel her to create speech that violates her religious …

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LIVE AUDIO: Supreme Court Hears Anti-LGBTQ Case

Reuters reports: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in a major case pitting LGBT rights against a claim that the constitutional right to free speech exempts artists from anti-discrimination laws in a dispute involving an evangelical Christian web designer. The justices are set to hear Denver-area business owner Lorie Smith’s appeal seeking an exemption from a Colorado …

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Monday: SCOTUS To Hear Haters’ Anti-LGBTQ Lawsuit

NBC News reports: A conservative evangelical Christian who opposes same-sex marriage and runs a business in Colorado designing websites, including for nuptials, Lorie Smith sued the state because she would like to accept customers planning opposite-sex weddings but reject requests made by same-sex couples wanting the same service. Smith has not been sanctioned for refusing to design such a website …

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Hate Group ADF Has The Marriage Sadz: This “Cynical Bill Is A Direct Attack On Our First Amendment” Rights

Via press release from the Alliance Defending Freedom: This dangerously cynical and completely unnecessary bill is a direct attack on the First Amendment. It does nothing to change the legal status of same-sex marriage anywhere. But it undermines religious freedom everywhere and exposes Americans throughout the country to predatory lawsuits by activists seeking to use the threat of litigation to …

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Hate Group Sues To Overturn Approval Of Abortion Pill

Politico reports: A group of anti-abortion organizations sued HHS and the FDA on Friday in a bid to reverse the FDA’s approval of the abortion medication mifepristone. Lawyers from the conservative Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom filed the suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Amarillo on behalf of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, …

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Sotomayor Rejects Hate Group’s Vaccine Challenge

NBC News reports: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday rejected a bid to prevent New York City from enforcing its Covid vaccine mandate for municipal workers against a group teachers, firefighters and others who challenged the policy. The justice denied an emergency request, received by the court on Nov. 4, to block the policy by individual municipal workers, as …

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Haters Lose Appeal Against WA Ex-Gay Torture Ban

Law & Crime reports: A federal appellate court has upheld the constitutionality of a Washington state law that prohibits therapists from trying to change a minor’s sexual orientation or gender identity, ruling that the treatment is conduct, not protected speech. The three-judge panel rejected arguments from the Alliance Defending Freedom that Washington’s 2018 ban on conversion therapy for minors violated …

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Hate Group Sues CVS Over Firing Of Clinic Nurse Who Refused To Dispense Contraceptives And Abortion Pills

The Christian Post reports: A nurse practitioner in Virginia is suing CVS, alleging that the pharmacy chain illegally fired her for refusing to distribute contraceptives. The Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the Virginia Circuit Court for the County of Prince William on behalf of Paige Casey. She worked as a nurse practitioner at several CVS MinuteClinic locations …

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Hate Group Coalition Claims Marriage Equality Bill Will Legalize Polygamy, Open Marriage, Incestuous Marriage

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: Senate Republicans are feeling the pressure to defend marriage and the natural family, as two large grassroots coalitions warn them that a controversial bill will fuel frivolous litigation and subject the most fundamental unit of society to an infinite variety of experimentation and tampering. H.R. 8404, which proponents of redefining marriage have …

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