• June 13, 2014 10:25 am

    The Persecution Complex: The Religious Right’s Deceptive Rallying Cry

    …persecution. The Alliance Defending Freedom and the American Center for Law and Justice have played a similar role, cheered on by allies in groups such as the Family Research Council…

  • June 23, 2021 12:05 pm

    Unsportsmanlike: The Right-Wing Attack on Transgender Women and Children — PART I

    …to redefine religious liberty. Its lawyers have bragged about their strategic plan to overturn Roe v Wade and bring about a ban on abortion.” Alliance Defending Freedom President Michael Farris…

  • February 2, 2014 2:33 pm

    Globalizing Homophobia: How the American Right Supports and Defends Russia’s Anti-Gay Crackdown

    …too far with his study, the anti-gay Alliance Defending Freedom announced that Regnerus would join it at a panel at the United Nations seeking to inject anti-gay politics into discussions…

  • June 29, 2021 5:02 pm

    Unsportsmanlike: The Right-Wing Attack on Transgender Women and Children — PART II

    …by state legislators—60 of which focus on excluding trans youth from sports. Central to this effort is Alliance Defending Freedom, an anti-LGBTQ organization that helped draft the 2016 “bathroom bills.”…

  • July 25, 2011 2:12 pm

    The Right Wing Playbook on Anti-Muslim Extremism

    …Introduction Under the guise of defending freedom and American values, right-wing anti-Muslim activists are campaigning to prevent Muslim-Americans from freely worshiping and practicing their religion, curtail their political…

  • November 4, 2010 5:16 pm

    The Tea Party and Religious Right Movements: Frenemies with Benefits

    …mission statement this way: “to preserve America’s Judeo-Christian heritage by defending and promoting the three pillars of American civilization: freedom, faith and free markets.” David Barton, another bridge between the…

  • April 18, 2011 5:56 pm

    Barton’s Bunk: Religious Right ‘Historian’ Hits the Big Time in Tea Party America

    …Barton has told about the founders and American history simply aren’t true. Chris Rodda of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has effectively refuted one of Barton’s favorite claims — that…

  • March 15, 2016 1:38 pm

    The Obstruction Lobby: What the Outside Groups Working to Block a New Supreme Court Justice Really Want

    …interests of big business and the Religious Right. Although this alliance has so far relied on procedural arguments — making the bogus claim that there is a “tradition” or “precedent”…

  • September 9, 2013 2:41 pm

    Ken Cuccinelli: The Attorney General of the Tea Party

    …groups, including Concerned Women for America, Faith and Freedom Coalition and Liberty Counsel, and with far-right activists such as Del. Bob Marshall and Virginia Christian Alliance board member Joe Ellison….

  • August 9, 2015 3:16 pm

    The Activists And Ideology Behind The Latest Attacks On Planned Parenthood

    …before the first video was released, and Sullenger told an interviewer that the conservative legal behemoth Alliance Defending Freedom was also providing legal representation to the group. What Do They…

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