Alliance Defending Freedom
Scottsdale, AZ
Revenue: $101,821,939
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Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is a radical legal advocacy organization known for promoting religious bigotry in the guise of religious liberty. It creates novel legal arguments to provide people and institutions of faith special rights in society. It believes that Christians are superior and therefore bequeathed with unique constitutional protections. ADF essentially works to create a legal apartheid, where right wing Christians live by their own set of separate rules.
ADF is a wealthy organization with more than $100 million in annual revenue. It is also influential, claiming to have won 15 Supreme Court victories with an 80% success rate. The organization has a vast network of almost 5,000 attorneys, many of whom are members of the Federalist Society and other right wing grooming organizations.
The group is notably anti-LGBTQ and promotes discrimination and conversion therapy, which has led the Southern Poverty Law Center to label it an official hate group. ADF is adamantly anti-choice on abortion, soft on democracy and calls the separation of church and state “a myth”.
ADF’s most famous alumnus is House Speaker Mike Johnson, who worked at the organization from 2002-2010, rising to the position of Senior Legal Counsel. Johnson’s work mostly involved stripping LGBTQ people of rights, although he worked on other issues beyond his gay obsession. His cases included:
He defended Louisiana’s 2004 Marriage Protection Amendment (which defined marriage as between a man and a woman) against legal challenges – a case in which he argued before the state courts to uphold the ban on same-sex marriage.
- Johnson also challenged local pro-LGBTQ+ policies; for example, in 2003 he filed suit (on ADF’s behalf) to overturn New Orleans’ domestic partner registry and its extension of health benefits to city employees’ same-sex partners, arguing that “a city can’t decide what marriage is”.
- Johnson was a key organizer of ADF’s public campaigns in schools – notably, he helped spearhead the “Day of Truth” initiative (launched in 2005) which encouraged students to express religious objections to homosexuality as a response to the LGBTQ-supportive Day of Silence.
- Notably, Johnson also collaborated with now defunct Exodus International (an evangelical ministry promoting “conversion therapy”) in joint efforts like the Day of Truth events.
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