The Alliance Defense Fund issued a letter Thursday to the Office of Staff Judge Advocate at Fort Hood, Texas, urging it to enforce the law by charging the suspect in the Fort Hood massacre with the killing of all 14 of the dead victims in the Fort Hood massacre, including the pre-born child of Private Francheska Velez.

ADF Senior Legal Counsel Steven H. Aden will be available by phone for media interviews Tuesday following a hearing in the lawsuit Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas v. Johnson.  Planned Parenthood filed the lawsuit after the director of its Bryan health center, Abby Johnson, quit her job after observing an abortion procedure.  Planned Parenthood is seeking a temporary injunction to prohibit her from using records the abortion clinic falsely alleges she copied.  ADF attorneys are providing legal assistance to Johnson and the Brazos Valley Coalition for Life in preparation for Tuesday’s hearing.

The new “hate crimes” bill expected to be signed into law by President Obama Wednesday is another nail in the coffin for the First Amendment, according to attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund.

Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund are ready to offer free legal help to students who participate in the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity should the students’ First Amendment rights be violated. The event, being held Tuesday at schools across the U.S., offers pro-life students an opportunity to express their viewpoint on the subject of abortion.

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Alliance Defense Fund allied attorneys have reached a major milestone, having donated more than $100 million worth of pro bono litigation work toward the fight for religious liberty across the globe. Since its launch in 1994, more than half a million pro bono hours have been contributed by attorneys trained at the National Litigation Academy, a growing group now totaling more than 1,300.

Across America, a growing number of conscientious pastors are recognizing and exercising their right - indeed, their obligation - to apply biblical truth to contemporary public policy issues.

Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence will be available for media interviews following oral arguments Wednesday before the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark case involving a cross-shaped veterans’ memorial currently covered up by a box in California’s Mojave Desert.

Eighty-three churches from 30 states and the District of Columbia participated in the Alliance Defense Fund’s second annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday on Sept. 27. Pastors at those churches preached biblically-based sermons about the positions of electoral candidates and current government officials. More than twice the number of pastors participating in last year’s inaugural event exercised their constitutional right to free religious expression this year, despite a controversial rule often used by the Internal Revenue Service and activist groups to silence churches.

A Dallas judge ruled on Thursday to hear a “divorce" lawsuit between two men whose same-sex “marriage” was performed in Massachusetts, declaring the state marriage amendment and the state’s Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. The Texas Attorney General will appeal the ruling and Alliance Defense Fund attorneys are planning to file a friend-of-the-court brief opposing the Texas court’s ruling, which moves to recognize the men’s out-of-state same-sex “marriage” in defiance of the Texas Family Code and a voter-approved constitutional amendment recognizing marriage as between one man and one woman.