Alliance Defending Freedom (fka Alliance Defense Fund) will likely come up in Barrett's confirmation hearing this week.
I've been reporting on ADF for more than a decade.
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In my first story, 2007, I reported on how they represented a local anti-LGBTQ coalition in Boyd County, KY, which was fighting diversity training in a public high school, stemming from local efforts to block a gay-straight alliance at the school.
The piece detailed how ADF had racked up a series of victories in court, based on the claim that religious organizations were victims of "viewpoint discrimination."
ICYMI on Friday, I have a new piece out w/ @RollingStone@typeinvestigate about the impact of Trump judges (not just on SCOTUS, but throughout the federal courts) on the use of "religious freedom" to discriminate against LGBTQ people.
During her confirmation hearings for the 7th Circuit, Amy Coney Barrett told the Senate Judiciary Committee, "I don't know what all of ADF's policy positions are."
The throughline of Unholy is that the Christian Right, white nationalists, the GOP, and the rest of Trump’s base share a hostility to democracy, its institutions, and its values like a free press, independent judiciary, and human rights and dignity.