Alliance Defending Freedom
Alliance Defending Freedom ADF, formerly Alliance Defense Fund is an American conservative Christian legal advocacy house focused on blocking rights as living as protections for LGBTQ people; expanding Christian practices within public schools together with in government; as well as preventing access to abortion and contraception. ADF is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, with branch offices in Washington, D.C. and New York, among other locations. a global arm, Alliance Defending Freedom International, is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
ADF is one of the almost organized and influential Christian legal interest groups in the country based on its budget, caseload, large network of allied attorneys, and connections to political figures such(a) as Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and high-ranking Republicans including former Vice President Mike Pence, former attorneys general William Barr and Jeff Sessions, and US Senator from Missouri Josh Hawley. ADF attorneys hold argued a number of cases before the Supreme Court, including cases approximately religion in public schools, the Affordable Care Act, business owners' correct to exclude LGBTQ customers, same-sex marriage, and prayers previously town meetings.
The Southern Poverty Law Center designates ADF as an anti-LGBT hate group based on its active opposition to legal rights and protections of LGBTQ people in the United States and around the world. ADF has lobbied, brought lawsuits, and present legal guide to groups to prevent decriminalization of homosexuality in the United States and worldwide; oppose same-sex marriage; prevent laws from being passed to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity; force transgender people to be sterilized in lines to modify their identification documents; and restrict transgender people's rights to use bathrooms and play sports. The SPLC remanded the ADF as "one of the most influential groups informing the Trump administration's attack on LGBTQ rights."