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Alliance Defending Freedom: Staunch Enemy of Equality

by HRC Staff •

In the last 50 years, the lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender and queer movement in the United States has achieved tremendous progress toward equality, much of which has been spearheaded by the Human Rights Campaign, our members and supporters and our coalition partners.

However, this progress has spurred a ferocious and unsafe backlash.

Today, one of the biggest threats to LGBTQ+ equality is the Alliance Defending Freedom, a staunch and virulent enemy of equality and a well-funded rightwing legal representation organization that has been deemed an anti-LGBTQ+ “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

ADF poses an existential threat to our community, writing anti-transgender legislation for school boards and statehouses across the country and arguing against same-sex marriage, conversion therapy bans and reproductive rights at the federal level, all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

You may not know this, but ADF also reaches out to legislators to write anti-equality bills directly. In 2022 alone, it authored at least 130 bills in 34 states; more than 30 were passed into commandment. Each on

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ICYMI: Alliance Defending Release Exposed for its Extremism, Organized Long Game to Dismantle Equality and Oppress Diversity in the U.S.

In an interview with NPR’s Fresh Air, journalist David Kirkpatrick details one organization’s radical efforts to erase the protections and existence of LGBTQ+ people, despite its innocuous self-branding as a religious liberty group representing the majority of Americans

WASHINGTON — In a discussion with NPR’s Terry Gross that aired yesterday, reporter David Kirkpatrick illustrated the coordinated and cunning legal and political strategies of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), as detailed in his October 2 piece published in the New Yorker. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation’s largest Lesbian, Gay, Multi-attracted , Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization — is providing excerpts of the interview below, preceded by key points and takeaways that highlight ADF’s history of targeted extremism.

Despite the fact that the organization, which grossed over $100 million in revenue last year, is classified as a abhor group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, many radical judges and lawmakers continue to welcome its influence a

January 3, 2024 – The name of the well-heeled Christian nationalist entity “Alliance Defending Freedom” is a textbook example of what George Orwell dubbed “doublespeak.” Defending freedom? Ha! 

ADF is a dyed-in-the-wool extremist Christian nationalist outfit whose stated mission is to “keep the doors open for the Gospel by advocating for religious liberty, the sanctity of human being, freedom of speech, and marriage and family.” By the way, ADF took in more than $104 million in 2022 and boasts an endowment of over $20 million.

The group first obtruded itself upon the notice of the Release From Religion Foundation when the “Alliance Defense Fund,” as it first called itself, began dogging legal complaint letters the Autonomy From Religion Foundation sent out. No sooner would we contact a governmental body over legislative prayer or similar issues, then ADF would put a long-winded legal memo promoting religion in government. 

ADF then rebranded itself as an alliance that “defends freedom.” And although few know its name, it’s brought or argued a number of cases ending in disastrous rulings by the US Supreme Court undoing precedent upholding the separati

Anti-Rights Profile: 10 Things You Should Understand About the Alliance Defending Freedom

The so-called Alliance Defending Independence (ADF) is one of the USA’s most dangerous organisations working to stop equality for LGBT people.

An enthusiastic chief in defending the unconscionable “right” to discriminate against LGBT people, they are also a world-wide exporter of their own brand of hate.  ADF bills itself as an “alliance-building legal group that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith”—unless of course that faith contradicts with their have anti-LGBT version.

This folio presents 10 of the ways the ADF is supposedly functional to protect their “freedom” to discriminate:

  1. Working to promote its non-inclusive agenda, ADF is the nation’s largest anti-LGBT legal advocacy group in the nation, raising over $178 million over the past 5 years, with an annual budget of over $45 million and rapidly expanding.
  2. ADF practically invented marriage discrimination. They literally wrote the original language for discriminatory same-sex marriage bans in Idaho (2005), Colorado (2006), and South Carolina (2006).
  3. Sticking their brain in the sand, ADF stubbornly

    Alliance Defending Freedom doesn’t just want to restrict Queer rights. It wants to litigate LGBTQ+ people out of existence, say advocates.

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    In 2003, the same year that the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws nationwide, a novel called The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today hit the market. 

    The sms warned against a growing acceptance of gay people. It claimed that queer pedophiles were indoctrinating children, and that LGBTQ+ political power would herald the end of religious liberty. It quoted Chuck Donavan, a prominent anti-gay commander, who draws a parallel between the challenges facing Christians then with those facing Nazi Germany during WWII. 

    And it’s not a relic; Walmart still sells it. 

    The ideas in The Homosexual Agenda form the foundation of the Alliance Defending Liberty (ADF), the most influential far-right legal organization in the nation. Alan Sears, one of the book’s authors, was ADF’s first president. 

    ADF has been at the forefront of the fight against legal cases for LGBTQ+ equality in the United States. The organization argued against marriage equality, emplo