Editing Alliance Defending Freedom (section)

===Shift to direct litigation===
The Alliance Defense Fund changed its name to Alliance Defending Freedom in 2012. The name change was intended to reflect the organization's shift in focus from funding allied attorneys to directly litigating cases.<ref name="press-name" />

By 2014, the organization had more than 40 staff attorneys, and had "emerged as the largest legal force of the [[Religious right in the United States|religious right]], arguing hundreds of pro bono cases across the country."<ref name="eckholm" /><!--copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Sears&oldid=809845026 --><ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Malley |first=Nick |date=2016-01-25 |title=Inside the Alliance Defending Freedom, the 'gay-hate' group hosting Tony Abbott |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/inside-the-alliance-defending-freedom-the-gayhate-group-hosting-tony-abbott-20160126-gmdu9o.html |access-date=2024-01-19 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Montini |first=E. J. |title=Montini: Business wants to use religion to discriminate against same-sex couples |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2016/06/08/montini-alliance-defending-freedom-discrimination-same-sex-couples-phoenix/85616540/ |access-date=2024-01-19 |website=The Arizona Republic |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Stewart |first1=Katherine |last2=Shephard |first2=Alex |last3=Shephard |first3=Alex |last4=McCrary |first4=Charles |last5=Ribovich |first5=Leslie |last6=McCrary |first6=Charles |last7=Ribovich |first7=Leslie |last8=Ford |first8=Matt |last9=Ford |first9=Matt |date=2022-07-11 |title=How Leonard Leo Became the Power Broker of the American Right |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/166993/leonard-leo-christian-right-future |access-date=2024-01-19 |magazine=The New Republic |issn=0028-6583}}</ref> ADF garnered national attention in the 2012 ''[[Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.]]'' case<ref name="sherry" /><ref name="burwell2022" /> as well as its 2014 challenge to the [[Affordable Care Act]].<ref name="eckholm" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/29/us/supreme-court-conestoga-obamacare-contraception/index.html|title=A Mennonite family's fight over Obamacare reaches Supreme Court|publisher=CNN|date=June 30, 2014|author=Bill Mears|access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref>