Tag Archives: Alliance Defending Freedom

With the representation of the Alliance Defending Freedom, Prince William County Clerk Michele McQuigg today filed notice with the Fourth Circuit Court that she intends to appeal their overturn of Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage to the US Supreme Court. Utah has also announced its intent to file such an appeal, but has not yet done so. Via SCOTUSblog: McQuigg, …

Zack Ford has the story at Think Progress: After New Jersey passed its ban on ex-gay therapy for minors last year, two lawsuits were filed challenging the law, one by therapists wishing to continue to practice the harmful treatment and one by a family seeking to continue the treatment for their son. In November, a federal judge ruled against the …

When at first you don’t succeed, try the same tired argument that has lost dozens of times before: Attorneys for the state are telling a federal judge there’s a good reason Arizona won’t let gays marry: They can’t reproduce, at least not without the help of a third person. Papers filed in federal court defending the ban say voters, in …

Alliance Defending Freedom says it needs another $3M by the end of the month. According to the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, the ADF suckered $50,030,741 out of its followers for the fiscal year that ended on June 30th, 2013. For those unaware, the ADF is behind many anti-gay measures around country.

Speaking to Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Nicolle Martin, who just fucking lost her bakery case in Colorado, KKK-affiliated hate group leader Tony Perkins declared that gay rights advocates are going to start “rolling out the boxcars” for Christians.

“In America, we don’t separate a person’s creative expression from what he believes. Jack simply exercised the long-cherished American freedom to decline to use his artistic and creative talents to promote a message with which he disagrees. Because the government should not force him to choose between his faith and his livelihood, we are considering an appeal to the Colorado …

(Via Good As You)

(Via Good As You)

Via press release: Alliance Defending Freedom and the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund are jointly offering free legal analysis and possible pro bono representation to anyone losing his or her job or suffering other job-related consequences because of past support for California’s constitutional amendment affirming marriage as the union of one man and one woman. ADF organized the effort in …

Immediately upon the Supreme Court rejecting their appeal in the case of the anti-gay New Mexico photographer, the virulently anti-gay Alliance Defending Freedom launched a money beg.  According to the ADF, while the New Mexico Supreme Court “got it wrong,” that case was “not in vain” and they’ve got cases in other states that are still in progress. (Via Good …

“The First Amendment protects our freedom to speak or not speak on any issue without fear of punishment. We had hoped the U.S. Supreme Court would use this case to affirm this basic constitutional principle; however, the court will likely have several more opportunities to do just that in other cases of ours that are working their way through the …

The US Supreme Court today declined to hear the appeal of the New Mexico woman who refused to photograph the commitment ceremony of a lesbian couple. The case has been the linchpin of the anti-gay movement to allow businesses to turn away gay customers and was the starting point of numerous campaigns to legalize such discrimination by state law. Chris …

Alliance Defending Freedom yesterday a filed a brief in defense of Oklahoma’s gay marriage ban on behalf of Tulsa County Clerk Sally Smith.  The ban was overturned by a federal court in January and that ruling was immediately stayed pending an appeal, which was filed two days later by the ADF. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals should uphold Oklahoma’s …

Attorneys representing Norfolk County Clerk George Schaefer yesterday filed an appeal of the decision that overturned Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage. The filing claims, among other things, that the legalization of gay marriage will lead to brothers getting married for the tax and insurance benefits. Just like brothers and sisters have done since marriage was invented by God. “Same-sex marriage …

Next month Stanford University will host a conference on “marriage and family” that will feature speeches from some of the nation’s most notorious anti-gay crackpots. On the roster: Ryan T. Anderson (Heritage Foundation), Kellie Fiedorek (Alliance Defending Freedom), author Sherif Girgis (who was banned last week from testifying in Michigan’s marriage trial), and homocon horcrux Robert Oscar Lopez.  According to …

Alliance Defending Freedom, the anti-gay hate group that has battled LGBT rights in court cases and legislatures around the nation, presents the story of Barronelle Stutzman, the Washington state florist who refused to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding.  The Stutzman case and a handful of others have galvanized multiple GOP-dominated state legislatures to float bills that would legalize anti-gay …

Tonight on CNN, Newt Gingrich invited viewers to give their opinion on Arizona’s hate bill by tweeting either “sign” or “veto” using the Crossfire hashtag. After reporting that 88% of the CNN audience had tweeted “veto”, Gingrich himself did the same.

Sources close to Gov. Jan Brewer say today that she is likely to veto Arizona’s hate bill. Brewer, who has been in Washington attending the annual National Governors Association meeting this week, has publicly said she still has to look closely at the bill, but plans to “do the right thing for Arizona.” But privately, sources closer to Brewer say …