In the Business of Religious Freedom

<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW175072536 BCX4"> <p><em><span data-contrast="auto">The Washington Post</span></em> <span data-contrast="auto">loves to promote their reporting with the tagline, “democracy dies in darkness.” But in a</span> <a href= "https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/09/24/alliance-defending-freedom-wedding-lawsuit/"> <span data-contrast="none">published hit piece</span></a> <span data-contrast="auto">last month, designed to smear Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), they intentionally put readers in the dark with half-truths and thinly veiled insinuations, pointing to the fact that a number of ADF plaintiffs are no longer in business as evidence that ADF has “fabricated” religious freedom attacks on Christian vendors who cannot serve same-sex weddings.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p><a href= "https://breakpoint.org/correcting-the-record-on-303-creative/"><span data-contrast="none"> Just because some of the cases have been pre-enforcement challenges</span></a> <span data-contrast="auto">doesn’t change the fact that Alliance Defending Freedom has defended bakers, florists, photographers, and graphic artists from</span> <a href= "https://twitter.com/KWaggonerADF/status/1707503436353155287"><span data-contrast="none"> stiff state penalties</span></a> <span data-contrast="auto">for refusing to violate their conscience. The attack on</span> <a href= "https://www.breakpoint.org/the-end-of-barronelles-battle/"><span data-contrast="none"> Barronelle Stutzman</span></a> <span data-contrast="auto">lasted for more than a decade, and</span> <a href= "https://www.breakpoint.org/the-news-about-the-cases-of-jack-phillips-and-lydia-booth/"> <span data-contrast="none">Jack Phillips</span></a> <span data-contrast="auto">is</span> <em><span data-contrast= "auto">still</span></em> <span data-contrast="auto">being targeted by a trans-activist lawyer enabled by the state of Colorado.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,