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6 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
1. Michael Farris, CEO and general counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), attended the White House event last week announcing Judge Amy Coney Barrett as President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
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2. ADF, which defended a CO baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, has been designated an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

ADF said Farris “has never met Amy Coney Barrett in any capacity.”
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3. In 2017, it was revealed that Barrett had paid five times to speak at Blackstone Legal Fellowship, a training program for Christian law school students run by ADF.

Barrett claimed she initially was not aware that ADF ran the training program.
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4. The SPLC says ADF is a “legal advocacy and training group that has supported the recriminalization of sexual acts between consenting LGBTQ adults in the US and criminalization abroad.”
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5. The group also says ADF “has defended state-sanctioned sterilization of trans people abroad” and “claims that a ‘homosexual agenda’ will destroy Christianity and society.”
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6. ADF denies all of SPLC’s allegations, claiming its “limited engagement in these matters was based on our belief that marriage between one man and one woman is the best institution for human flourishing.”
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7 Oct
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But one was developed using a cell line derived from aborted fetal tissue — the result of the type of research Trump has sought to block.
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1. Vice President Joe Biden’s healthcare plan is transformative and should go a long way in lowering inequities in access to quality medical care.

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7 Oct
1. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) said in an address to state lawmakers earlier this week that stay-at-home orders are “useless” in keeping the virus from spreading, even as COVID-19 cases in her state continue to soar.
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1. Wisconsin will open a field hospital at the state fair grounds near Milwaukee to expand care for COVID-19 patients after hospitalizations in the state more than doubled over the past month.
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