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Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF, formerly Alliance Defense Fund) is an American conservative Christian nonprofit organization with the stated goal of "defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through strategy, training, funding, and litigation."〔(Defending our First Liberty ), Pg. 3, Retrieved June 2, 2007, Alliance Defense Fund〕 ADF was founded in 1994 by Bill Bright (founder, Campus Crusade for Christ), Larry Burkett (founder, Crown Financial Ministries), James Dobson (founder, Focus on the Family), D. James Kennedy (founder, Coral Ridge Ministries), Marlin Maddoux (president, International Christian Media), and Donald Wildmon (founder, American Family Association), along with the leadership of over thirty other conservative Christian organizations.〔(History ), Alliance Defense Fund〕 ADF supports the inclusion of invocations at public meetings and the use of religious displays (such as crosses and other religious monuments) on public lands and in public buildings.〔Gizzi, John. "Alliance Defense Fund Promotes Religious Freedom." ''Human Events'' 65.28 (2009): 21. Academic Search Premier. Web. 15 Nov. 2011.〕 The ADF opposes abortion, and believes that healthcare workers have a right to decline participation in the performance of abortions and other practices an individual health worker finds morally objectionable. ADF opposes same-sex marriage and civil unions, as well as adoption by same-sex couples based on their belief that children are best raised by a married mother and father. ADF believes parents should be able to opt their children out of sex education in schools that run counter to a family's religious beliefs.〔 ADF states that it has "had various roles of significance" in thirty-eight wins before the United States Supreme Court, including such cases as ''Rosenberger v. University of Virginia'', ''Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York'', and ''Boy Scouts of America v. Dale''.〔(Supreme Court Victories ), Alliance Defense Fund〕 ADF represented a litigant in ''Perry v. Schwarzenegger'' in which the Supreme Court ruling in effect allowed same-sex marriage to proceed in California. On July 9, 2012, the Alliance Defense Fund changed its name to Alliance Defending Freedom. The name change was a strategic initiative designed to reflect the organization's shift in focus from funding allied attorneys to litigating cases. ==Organization== ADF's President, CEO, and General Counsel is Alan Sears. Sears was previously a Justice Department official under the administration of President Ronald Reagan, and has co-authored two books with Craig Osten: ''The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today'' and ''The ACLU vs. America: Exposing the Agenda to Redefine Moral Values''. The ADF is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. It has six branch offices, located in Sacramento, California; Lawrenceville, Georgia; Shreveport, Louisiana; Memphis, Tennessee; Washington, D.C., and Olathe, Kansas. In addition, the ADF Center for Academic Freedom is located in Nashville, Tennessee.〔(ADF Center for Academic Freedom - Faith has a Voice )〕 Major donors for the organization include the Covenant Foundation, the Bolthouse Foundation and the Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation, whose vice president is Blackwater Worldwide founder Erik Prince.〔Posner, Sarah. "(The Legal Muscle Leading the Fight to End the Separation of Church and State )" April 1, 2007, Washington Spectator Online〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alliance Defending Freedom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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