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

Source: The Guardian

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

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

Adam Gabbatt in New York
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Mon 19 Jun 2023 11.00 BST
Last modified on Mon 19 Jun 2023 11.44 BST

With the US besieged by a rightwing culture war campaign that aims to strip away rights from LGBTQ+ people and others, blame tends to be focused on Republican politicians and conservative media figures.

But lurking behind efforts to roll back abortion rights, to demonize trans people, and to peel back the protections afforded to gay and queer Americans is a shadowy, well-funded rightwing legal organization, experts say.

Since it was formed in 1994, Alliance Defending Freedom has been at the center of a nationwide effort to limit the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people, all in the name of Christianity. The Southern Poverty Law Center has termed it an “anti-LGBTQ hate group” that has extended its tentacles into nearly every area of the culture wars.

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Through “model legislation” and lawsuits filed across the country, ADF aims to overturn same-sex marriage, enact a total ban on abortion, and strip away the already minimal rights that trans people are afforded in the US.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/19/alliance-defending-freedom-lgbtq-rights-america

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