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Law students express concerns over pending Federalist Society event with Alliance Defending Freedom
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Law students express concerns over pending Federalist Society event with Alliance Defending Freedom
The event focuses on an upcoming Supreme Court case regarding religious beliefs and discrimination
By Julianne Saunders
November 13, 2022
Members of LGBTQ+ and progressive Law student organizations have expressed concerns over a Tuesday event sponsored by the Federalist Society at the School of Law. The event will feature Erin Hawley, senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom — a Southern Poverty Law Center-classified anti-LGBTQ+ hate group.
The event will preview 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, a pending Supreme Court case. ADF is defending a Colarado business refusing to provide services to same-sex couples based on First Amendment rights in the lawsuit.
The Federalist Society is an organization designed to foster free and open debate and does not support any particular political position, per its website. It sponsors several speaker events each year, many of which have drawn criticism in the past. An event hosted by the group last February called “Does Women’s Equality Require Abortion” was criticized for being mischaracterized as a conversation when equal weight was not given to the pro-choice argument. ... The Federalist Society declined to comment for this article.
The Southern Poverty Law Center lists ADF as an anti-LBGTQ+ hate group on its website, citing the organization’s propagation of known falsehoods surrounding the LGBTQ+ community — including the presence of a “homosexual agenda” that threatens to destroy Christian society. The group has supported the criminalization of gay sex along with legislation allowing Christains to deny goods and services to LGBTQ+ individuals in the public sphere.
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Law students express concerns over pending Federalist Society event with Alliance Defending Freedom
The event focuses on an upcoming Supreme Court case regarding religious beliefs and discrimination
By Julianne Saunders
November 13, 2022
Members of LGBTQ+ and progressive Law student organizations have expressed concerns over a Tuesday event sponsored by the Federalist Society at the School of Law. The event will feature Erin Hawley, senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom — a Southern Poverty Law Center-classified anti-LGBTQ+ hate group.
The event will preview 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, a pending Supreme Court case. ADF is defending a Colarado business refusing to provide services to same-sex couples based on First Amendment rights in the lawsuit.
The Federalist Society is an organization designed to foster free and open debate and does not support any particular political position, per its website. It sponsors several speaker events each year, many of which have drawn criticism in the past. An event hosted by the group last February called “Does Women’s Equality Require Abortion” was criticized for being mischaracterized as a conversation when equal weight was not given to the pro-choice argument. ... The Federalist Society declined to comment for this article.
The Southern Poverty Law Center lists ADF as an anti-LBGTQ+ hate group on its website, citing the organization’s propagation of known falsehoods surrounding the LGBTQ+ community — including the presence of a “homosexual agenda” that threatens to destroy Christian society. The group has supported the criminalization of gay sex along with legislation allowing Christains to deny goods and services to LGBTQ+ individuals in the public sphere.
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