{"id":1708610,"date":"2022-10-24T06:30:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708610"},"modified":"2022-10-24T09:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T13:20:13","slug":"tom-tradup-in-praise-of-alliance-defending-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-tradup-in-praise-of-alliance-defending-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Tradup: In Praise of Alliance Defending Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftom-tradup-in-praise-of-alliance-defending-freedom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708610&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5423eecf-c667-4ece-b495-da9c2d4b69c0-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p id=\"isPasted\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With the 2022 Midterms just 16 days away, all signs point to the richly-deserved Red Tsunami sweeping the current nest of vipers in the Democratic Party out of leadership positions in Congress. Over the weekend, the\u00a0<\/span><em>Real Clear Politics<\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0polling average predicted Republicans will regain the U.S. Senate with a 53-47 majority&#8230;which RCP projects will include new U.S. Senators Herschel Walker (R-GA) and Blake Masters (R-AZ.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">While that outcome on November 8th will help pump the brakes on disastrous Biden Administration policies which have inflicted damage on every aspect of American society in a scant two years\u2026whichever political party controls Congress, unfortunately, won\u2019t stop the continuing assault on our Freedom of Religion, the First Amendment and parental rights in America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">That job will fall\u2014as it has for nearly three decades&#8211;to the nation\u2019s largest Christian and conservative legal defense organization: Scottsdale, Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom. ADF is best known to most Americans as the legal group that has already won 14 victories in the U.S. Supreme Court including its successful defense of Masterpiece Cake Shop owner Jack Phillips; he\u2019s the suburban Denver baker who was harassed by the State of Colorado because he declined to create a same-sex wedding cake which would violate his deeply held Christian faith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">ADF was established by evangelical Christian leaders including James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family; Alan Sears, former director of the Meese Commission; D. James Kennedy, co-founder of Coral Ridge Ministries; and my one-time boss the late Marlin Maddoux, an Assemblies of God pastor and founder of the USA Radio Network. Alliance Defending Freedom is commonly seen as a powerful counterweight to the abysmal American Civil Liberties Union which has increasingly devoted itself to backing Leftist causes such as trying to ban Nativity scenes from town squares across America and helping turn public schools into cesspools of secular indoctrination of our children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Michael Farris, a former Lt. Governor of Virginia who also founded the Home School Legal Defense Association in the 1980s, spent several years serving as CEO and General Counsel of ADF. He recently told me that Alliance Defending Freedom \u201chas the mission of keeping the doors open for the Gospel. There are so many forces in our society today that want to foreclose all of our freedoms\u2026and ultimately they\u2019re railing against God himself in important ways.\u201d Farris says these include attacks on the Biblical truth of God creating men and women as separate genders as well as seeking to diminish the sanctity of life itself by promoting so-called \u201cabortion rights.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Farris says Alliance Defending Freedom receives over 500 requests for legal help every month, and from all 50 states. He warns that in recent years there has been an increasing fierceness of the attacks on Christian students, adding that \u201cit is alarming just seeing the sheer numbers of calls ADF is getting from parents at wits end about what\u2019s going on at their kid&#8217;s public schools.\u201d These include parents reporting their kids are being taught they are racist because of their skin color, and that their Christianity makes them \u201coppressors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What makes Alliance Defending Freedom so unique is that the non-profit never charges its ever-expanding number of clients a dime for their legal services. Instead, the non-profit organization counts on donations from concerned Americans to support ADF\u2026which may ebb and flow based on the news cycle. (High-profile cases like Christian florist Barronelle Stutzman being threatened by government overreach in Washington State\u2014or the aforementioned Supreme Court victory in the Jack Phillips case\u2014clearly help increase donations.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Currently, several radio talk show hosts including Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, Todd Starnes, Brandon Tatum, and Eric Metaxas are raising funds on the air (<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/give.adflegal.org\/brandon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/give.adflegal.org\/brandon<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">) and interviewing ADF clients like Selina Soule\u2026a former Connecticut high school runner who lost the opportunity to compete for a spot in the New England Regional Championships because two biological males (who \u201cidentified\u201d as female) competed and won in her event. Selina applauds ADF lawyers for standing beside her and other female athletes in litigating against mandates that the sexes are equal in sports, adding that ADF lawyers demonstrate courage as well as legal acumen. \u201cMost people are afraid of retaliation from coaches and administrators, from colleges and the workplace,\u201d she says. \u201cWithout women being protected by Title IX, there will be no women\u2019s sports programs. Everyone with a passion needs to stand up and speak out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Alliance Defending Freedom has a demonstrated track record of standing up\u2014and winning litigation\u2014for its clients as they challenge the \u201cwoke agenda\u201d that threatens the First Amendment and religious freedoms of all Americans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Salem Radio Network talk host Hugh Hewitt\u2014who on Monday plans to devote his entire three-hour show to generating financial donations (<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/give.adflegal.org\/hugh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/give.adflegal.org\/hugh<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">) for ADF\u2014has been allied with the 501c(3) non-profit legal group for over 20 years. \u201cA third of their donations come from people who send in $50 or less,\u201d Hewitt says, adding \u201cThat speaks volumes of how many Americans want to keep ADF in the fight for religious liberties and defending parents\u2019 rights nationwide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As stated initially, the Midterms are critically important\u2026 so be sure to vote on November 8th. But please know that regardless of which political party governs America in the next Congress\u2026if government overreach can threaten Selina Soule or Jack Phillips, it can also happen to you. On that fact alone, you might skip a night at the movies or a couple of pizzas and instead invest that same money in a tax-deductible donation to an organization that will always have your back: Alliance Defending Freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\nTrending on Townhall Video\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2022 Midterms just 16 days away, all signs point to the richly-deserved Red Tsunami sweeping the current nest of vipers in the Democratic Party out of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1708613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}