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ADF (previously called the Alliance Defense Fund) was founded in January 1994 by Christian leaders as a legal counterweight to the ACLU, which had advocated for causes like gay rights and abortion and against school prayer.
In 2000 the Blackstone Legal Fellowship was founded with 24 participants.
The Christmas Project was launched in 2003.
By 2004, the organization had contacted 3,600 school districts to inform them that they were not required by the Constitution to have holiday celebrations inclusive of all religions.
In 2005 the first Day of Truth (later called "Day of Dialogue") was held with over 1,100 students in 350 schools participating.
In 2008, ADF created the Pulpit Freedom Sunday.
On July 9, 2012, the Alliance Defense Fund changed its name to Alliance Defending Freedom.
“People of faith were being outgunned in court,” founder Alan Sears told the New York Times in 2014.
In 2014, ADF achieved a legal victory in a case challenging the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
In 2017, The Nation called ADF a “Christian-right” powerhouse" and “a training ground for future legislators, judges, prosecutors, attorneys general, and other government lawyers—including, notably, in the Trump administration.”
As of 2019 it had tripled its spending in the European Union to £1.5 million.
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