Well-funded Christian group behind US effort to roll back LGBTQ+ rights

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Advocacy groups condemn Alliance Defending Freedom as ‘a danger to every American who values their freedoms’. MsReads via guardian

“Alliance Defending Freedom has been instrumental in the dismantling of Roe and the ongoing efforts to eliminate abortion nationwide,” Muqaddam said.

She added: “I think that’s exactly what is happening in the LGBTQ context as well. Their goal is to limit individual rights as much as possible.”shows the breadth of its involvement in rightwing culture wars. The organization touts its work opposing abortion, on opposing same-sex marriage and opposing trans rights.

But Emerson Hodges, a research analyst at the SPLC, said what ADF is really doing is attempting to “undo LGBTQ social and legislative progress”. Worryingly, there are signs that ADF, and other groups like it, are growing in influence. As Republican politicians and rightwing media fan the flames of an extremist culture war,that donations to ADF, which is a registered non-profit, more than doubled from 2011 to 2021.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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