Editing Alliance Defending Freedom (section)

{{Short description|American Christian legal advocacy group}} 
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{{Infobox organization
| logo = ADF-logo.png
| logo_alt = Logo of Alliance Defending Freedom
| formation = {{start date and age|1993|03|25}}<ref name="corp" />
| type = [[Non-profit organization]]
| tax_id = 54-1660459
| purpose =
| headquarters = [[Scottsdale, Arizona]], U.S.<ref name="990-2013" />
| leader_title = [[Chairman]]
| leader_name = Terry Schlossberg<ref name="irs2020" />
| leader_title2 = [[President (corporation)|President]] and [[Chief Executive Officer|CEO]]
| leader_name2 = [[Kristen Waggoner]]<ref name="waggoner-ceo" />
| volunteers = 1,351<ref name="IRS22" />
| name = Alliance Defending Freedom
| abbreviation = ADF
| logo_size = 100
| mission =
| employees = 395<ref name="IRS22" />
| employees_year = 2022
| volunteers_year = 2022
| revenue = $104,490,113<ref name="IRS22">{{cite form 990 | url=https://adflegal.org/sites/default/files/2023-05/2021%20ADF%20990%20Public%20Copy%20Final.pdf | signatory-last=Eggleston | signatory-first=Rebecca | preparer-last=Batson | preparer-first=Ted R. Jr. | tax-year=2021 | org=Alliance Defending Freedom | ein=541660459 | signature-date=May 11, 2023 | modification-date=May 22, 2023 | via=adflegal.org | access-date=June 18, 2023 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601123734/https://adflegal.org/sites/default/files/2023-05/2021%20ADF%20990%20Public%20Copy%20Final.pdf | archive-date=June 1, 2023}}</ref><ref name="irs2020" /><ref name="irs2022" />
| revenue_year = 2022
| expenses = $81,311,475<ref name="IRS22" />
| expenses_year = 2022
| endowment = $20,295,829<ref name="IRS22" />
| endowment_year = 2022
| budget = $104,000,000<ref name="Good News Club" />{{rp|84}}<ref name="irs2022" />
| budget_year = 2022
| website = {{Official URL}}
| former name = Alliance Defense Fund
}}
{{Conservatism US}}
The '''Alliance Defending Freedom''' ('''ADF'''), formerly the '''Alliance Defense Fund''', is an American socially [[Christian right|conservative Christian]] legal advocacy group<ref name="company-profile" /> that has played a role in at least 74 Supreme Court victories and directly represented 15 parties in Supreme Court wins.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alliance-defending-freedom-adf-supreme-court-abortion-drug-case-global/ |title=How the group behind the Supreme Court abortion drug case is expanding its fight globally |website=[[CBS News]] |date=14 June 2024 |access-date=27 May 2025}}</ref> It works to expand Christian religious practices within public schools and in government.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.newsweek.com/alliance-defending-freedom-religious-freedom-free-speech-lgbtq-supreme-court-980736 |title= Who is Alliance Defending Freedom? Christian Legal Powerhouse Behind Supreme Court Abortion Victory |date=26 June 2018 |access-date=6 April 2025| work=Newsweek}}</ref><ref name="Human Events" /> ADF is most known for its stance on [[United States anti-abortion movement|outlawing abortion]],<ref name="bennett-masterpiece" /><ref name="vile-adf" /> opposing [[same-sex marriage]] and other [[LGBT rights|LGBTQ rights]],<ref name ="splc-profile" /> transgender rights, and [[LGBT rights opposition|anti-discrimination laws]].{{ r | splc-profile | transrights | eu-sterilize}} ADF is headquartered in [[Scottsdale, Arizona]], with branch offices in several locations including [[Washington, D.C.]], and [[New York, New York|New York]].<ref name="international" /> Its international subsidiary, Alliance Defending Freedom International, with headquarters in [[Vienna]], Austria,<ref name="adf-intl-about" /> operates in over 100 countries.<ref name="adf-goes-global" />

ADF is one of the most organized and influential Christian legal interest groups in the United States<ref name="bennett" /> based on its budget, caseload, network of allied attorneys, and connections to significant members of the [[political right]].{{ r | WaPoBlackstone | holden | eckholm }} [[Mike Johnson]], a former ADF attorney,<ref name="johnson-christian-right" /><ref name="johnson-motherjones" /> [[October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election|was elected]] [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House of Representatives]] on October 25, 2023.<ref name=2023-house-speaker/><ref name=2023-johnson-cbs/> Others who have been associated with ADF include [[U.S. Supreme Court]] Justice [[Amy Coney Barrett]],{{ r | WaPoBlackstone | farris-barrett }} former vice president [[Mike Pence]],<ref name="pence-advisory" /> former attorneys general [[William Barr]]<ref name="barr" /> and [[Jeff Sessions]],<ref name="holden" /><ref name="sessions-adf" /> and Senator [[Josh Hawley]].{{ r | hawley-blackstone | erin-hawley-fedsoc}} Since the [[U.S. presidential election, 2016|election]] of President [[Donald Trump]], ADF has become "one of the most influential groups informing the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|[Trump] administration]]".<ref name="Mascaro-20234">{{Cite news |last=Mascaro |first=Lisa |date=August 29, 2023 |title=Conservative Groups Draw Up Plan to Dismantle the US Government and Replace It with Trump's Vision |url=https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922112031/https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981 |archive-date=September 22, 2023 |access-date=July 8, 2024 |publisher=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref><ref name="splc-profile" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Belanger |first=Ashley |date=2023-04-27 |title=WebOps platform Pantheon defends hosting "hate groups" as developers quit |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/webops-platform-pantheon-defends-hosting-hate-groups-as-developers-quit/ |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=[[Ars Technica]] |language=en-us}}</ref><!--Please do not remove "SPLC designated it an anti-LGBTQ hate group" from the lead without first getting consensus to do so on the Talk page. Please see the Archives for previous discussions.--> It has been designated by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] as an [[List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-LGBT hate groups|anti-LGBT hate group]].

ADF attorneys have argued, and won, a number of cases before the Supreme Court. It has taken positions including support for religious activity in public school and Christian prayer at [[town meetings]], narrowing [[Health insurance|insurance coverage]] for [[contraception|contraceptives]], prohibiting [[same-sex marriage]], and supporting businesses in the [[wedding industry]] that refuse to service gay marriages.<ref name="wapo-powerhouse" /> ADF lawyers wrote the model for Mississippi's anti-abortion legislation, leading to the Supreme Court decision in ''[[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization]]'' to overrule ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' that had established a [[right to abortion]] in America in 1973.<ref name="adf-who" />