![]() ![]() ↑ If successful this could set a precedent allowing secularists to hand out material by authors like Richard Dawkins at Christian events.↑ Michael Allen, Christian Brian Johnson Sues to Hand Out Bibles at Gay Pride Rally.↑ Group makes noise over Day of Silence NBC News.↑ Alliance Defending Freedom Through The Years Southern Poverty Law Center.↑ 3.0 3.1 Alliance Defending Freedom at the Southern Poverty Law Center.↑ Alliance Defense Fund and Alliance Defending Freedom, SourceWatch.↑ 1.0 1.1 Alliance Defense Fund and Alliance Defending Freedom, Right Wing Watch.In April 2013, ADF attorney Lisa Biron was convicted of 6 counts of six counts of sexual exploitation of children, and one count of possession of child pornography when she filmed her own 14-year-old daughter having sex with two men on multiple occasions, and the ADF moved swiftly to whitewash their connection to Biron by removing mention of her on the ADF web site and Facebook page. As the proportion of Christians continues to decline the culture in the United States is likely to more closely resemble that of Britain, making it harder for the ADF to win cases. Polling evidence suggests that the percentage of Christians in the United States falls by about 1% yearly. Overall the Christian Legal Centre is less successful than the ADF claims to be.The Christian Legal Centre has lost a high proportion of the cases taken on, while the ADF claims a high success rate. The CLC and ADF jointly set up the UK based Wilberforce Academy, which tries to train Christians as public leaders. The Christian Legal Centre is a British organization suspected of receiving funding from the ADF. Major donors include James Leininger, Erik Prince, Bill and Bradley Foundation, Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation, Berniece Grewcock Foundation, and the Bolthouse Foundation, which insists that "man was created by a direct act of God in His image, not from previously existing creatures". The lawsuit was dismissed as moot because Texas (whom Paxton represented as AG), lacked standing regarding another state's election laws. Michael Farris, CEO of ADF, wrote and circulated a draft lawsuit that was used largely as the basis for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit against the states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin, claiming that the states unconstitutionally expanded use of absentee ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic. See the main article on this topic: 2020 U.S. Pushing for classroom prayer (often times Christian prayer).Generally giving Christians, especially conservative Christians, power to deny freedom to others.They even gave £15,000 to "radical feminist" organisation the Women's Liberation Front to fund anti-trans campaigning. They have also (unsuccessfully) defended laws which required the forced sterilisation of trans people. The ADF is additionally responsible for ghostwriting many sports bans on transgender women and other laws depriving transgender people of their rights. ![]() Transgender people - The ADF is responsible for the drafting of numerous anti-trans bathroom bills, and defended a Christian charity's decision to reject a homeless trans woman from staying in their shelter. ![]() They also support a Christian who wants to hand out Bibles at gay pride events. They have set up a "Day of Truth" in an attempt to counter the Day of Silence.
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