Alliance Defense Fund Profiled

Today's Washington Post profiles the Alliance Defense Fund and its work in fighting to give religion a place in public life. The Arizona-based conservative Christian organization has an annual budget of $20 million. One of ADF's founders, D. James Kennedy, says, "What we are really trying to protect are the things this country was founded on." However critics, like Americans United executive director Barry Lynn argues: "They're not for some form of generic religious freedom. They're for Christian superiority, that Christians take over the courts. They are living in this fantasy world where the majority religion, Christianity, is claimed to be literally under attack." Gary S. McCaleb, ADF's director of litigation, says that the group is involved in 80 to 100 open cases at any one time, and files one to two new cases each week. Last November, an AP article in the Post similarly profiled the group.