The organization pushed to overturn Roe v. Wade. It also has its sights on rolling back LGBTQ rights.
Freedom has been busy this year. Its senior legal council, Matt Sharp, has been on the move, parachuting into different state courthouses to testify or voice support for some of the, Sharp showed up in support of an Indiana bill that would forbid the Department of Child Services from removing trans kids from homes where their parents reject their child’s gender identity.
The homophobia got so bad that Southwick started to have suicidal thoughts and realized he needed to get out. He told ADF senior leadership that he was experiencing “same-sex attraction,” and they made the “mutual decision” that he would not graduate from the fellowship. “For all ADF leadership, the idea is that if we continue to move towards LGBTQ rights, we’re betraying God. So the way to get God to favor America again is to restore the U.S. as a Christian nation,” says Southwick.
“They are injecting an anti-LGBTQ and anti-woman agenda at every level of government. By having influence over policy in these positions, that can result in further erosion to the rights of this community,” says Heidi Beirich, the CEO of Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, a group that investigates extremist movements in the U.S. and Europe.They sound innocuous when they throw out terms like ‘pro-family,’ et cetera. But that’s not what this is. And most Americans don’t know that.
institutions. They have offices in Brussels close to the European Union’s headquarters; in Geneva and Vienna near their respective United Nations offices; and in Strasbourg near the European Court of Human Rights. “We have a group of actors inside the U.N. who are actively trying to undermine the human rights of others in society,” says Datta, who believes people who vet these applications likely mistook ADF as a benevolent Christian legal organization. “Unfortunately, their members are highly intelligent and well educated. They are able to blend into the decision making and policymaking field because they look like they belong there.
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