Pic Of The Moment: Meet New Republican Speaker Mike Johnson

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19. He's also a member of the The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), formerly the Alliance Defense Fund.

That works to expand Christian practices within public schools and in government,[7][8] outlaw abortion,[9][10] and curtail the rights of LGBTQ people.[11] ADF is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, with branch offices in Washington, D.C., and New York, among other locations.[12] Its international subsidiary, Alliance Defending Freedom International, which is headquartered in Vienna, Austria,[13] operates in over 100 countries.[14]

ADF is one of the most organized and influential Christian legal interest groups in the United States[15] based on its budget, caseload, network of allied attorneys, and connections to significant members of the political right.[16][17][18] Individuals associated with ADF have included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett,[16][19] former vice president Mike Pence,[20] former attorneys general William Barr[21] and Jeff Sessions,[17][22] and Senator Josh Hawley.[23][24]

ADF attorneys have argued a number of cases before the Supreme Court, taking positions such as support for religious activity in public school and Christian prayer at town meetings; narrowing coverage of contraceptives under the ACA; prohibiting same-sex marriage, and supporting businesses in the wedding industry who refuse to service gay marriages.[25] ADF lawyers also wrote the model for Mississippi's anti-abortion legislation involved in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the decision that overruled the 49 year-old precedent case Roe v. Wade establishing the right to abortion.[26]

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) designates ADF as an anti-LGBT hate group, saying in 2017 that, since the election of President Donald Trump, ADF had become "one of the most influential groups informing the [Trump] administration's attack on LGBTQ rights."[11] The ADF has taken many anti-LGBT positions: it opposes same-sex marriage, decriminalization of same-sex sexual activity, and anti-discrimination laws, as well as taking an active role in writing model anti-transgender bills for state legislators.[11][27][28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_Defending_Freedom