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Amy Coney Barrett has done 5 paid speaking engagements for Alliance Defending Freedom — an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled a hate group.
Now, she's being asked to answer for her ties to the organization.
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2/ In 2003, the same year that the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws nationwide, a book called "The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today" hit the market. It warned against a growing acceptance of gay people.https://bit.ly/3lYiCyW
3/ "The Homosexual Agenda" claimed that gay pedophiles were indoctrinating children, and that LGBTQ+ political power would herald the end of religious freedom. Alan Sears, one of the book's authors, was Alliance Defending Freedom's first president.https://bit.ly/3lYiCyW
4/ Founded in 1994, ADF billed itself as the antidote to the American Civil Liberties Union. Today, ADF is the most powerful far-right legal org in the nation, and has been at the forefront of the fight against legal cases for LGBTQ+ equality in the U.S.https://bit.ly/3lYiCyW
5/ ADF:
argued against marriage equality, employment discrimination protections and transgender bathroom access.
took the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, which involved a baker who refused to serve a same-sex couple over religious objections, to the SCOTUS.https://bit.ly/3lYiCyW
6/ Since her nomination to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017, Amy Coney Barrett has faced fierce criticism for her involvement with ADF.
27 LGBTQ+ orgs strenuously opposed her nomination three years ago, in part due to her association with ADF.https://bit.ly/3lYiCyW
7/ Zack Ford, former LGBTQ editor for progressive news outlet ThinkProgress, says the media has largely mischaracterized ADF as a conservative Christian legal organization. He believes ADF is an extremist hate group. https://bit.ly/3lYiCyW pic.twitter.com/uKfRlpPGkg
8/ LGBTQ+ advocates say that ADF and other similar groups "exported hate" after their anti-LGBTQ+ agendas started failing in the United States. ADF launched its international work in 2011.https://bit.ly/3lYiCyW
9/ ADF abroad:
In 2015, ADF argued in favor of the forced sterilization of transgender people before the European Court of Human Rights.https://bit.ly/3lYiCyW
10/ ADF abroad:
In Jamaica, the group battled to keep anti-sodomy laws on the books, despite human rights reports that LGBTQ+ people in the country faced extraordinary violence and even death. The group did the same in Belize and India.https://bit.ly/3lYiCyW
11/ Amy Coney Barrett has tried to distance herself from ADF. During her 2017 appeals court confirmation process, she told Sen. Al Franken she wasn't aware that in accepting an invitation to speak for ADF's Blackstone Legal Fellowship program, she was working with the group.
12/ During her Supreme Court confirmation proceedings last week, Sen. Patrick Leahy asked Barrett if she knew that ADF had worked for decades to re-criminalize homosexuality. "I am not aware of those efforts, no," she said.https://bit.ly/3lYiCyW
13/13 Michael Farris, the CEO of ADF, attended Barrett's White House Rose Garden announcement event earlier this month.
Neither ADF nor Barrett responded to a request to comment for this article.
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