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Alliance Defending Freedom (fka Alliance Defense Fund) will likely come up in Barrett's confirmation hearing this week.
I've been reporting on ADF for more than a decade.
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Alliance Defending Freedom (fka Alliance Defense Fund) will likely come up in Barrett's confirmation hearing this week.
I've been reporting on ADF for more than a decade.
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In my first story, 2007, I reported on how they represented a local anti-LGBTQ coalition in Boyd County, KY, which was fighting diversity training in a public high school, stemming from local efforts to block a gay-straight alliance at the school.
2/x https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2007/04/01/the-legal-muscle-leading-the-fight-to-end-the-separation-of-church-and-state/
2/x https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2007/04/01/the-legal-muscle-leading-the-fight-to-end-the-separation-of-church-and-state/
The piece detailed how ADF had racked up a series of victories in court, based on the claim that religious organizations were victims of "viewpoint discrimination."
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One of ADF's attorneys that I interviewed for that story, who was very keen on ADF's agenda of overturning SCOTUS precedent on church/state separation, was Mike Johnson, who is now a Republican Congressman from Louisiana.
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You can read that whole story here:
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5/x https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2007/04/01/the-legal-muscle-leading-the-fight-to-end-the-separation-of-church-and-state/
Barrett has served as faculty for ADF's Blackstone Fellowship, which gives law students "the highest level training in Christian worldview and constitutional law to help break the stranglehold the ACLU and its allies have on our nation’s law schools and judicial system.”
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A decade after that first story, I wrote another piece on ADF, post-marriage equality, seemingly a crushing loss for the group and its allies.
It used those same claims of discrimination against Christians to first fight marriage equality, and then undermine it.
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It used those same claims of discrimination against Christians to first fight marriage equality, and then undermine it.
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They call it "religious freedom."
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I covered a 2017 press conference, where I found that same Mike Johnson (now Rep. Johnson), where GOP lawmakers announced their support for Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, whose case was before SCOTUS.
Here's what Johnson said:
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Here's what Johnson said:
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For that 2017 story, I read 146 briefs ADF had filed in the courts. The conclusion:
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