Truth Is Winning
Dear Friends,
After years of watching biological reality dismissed, parental authority undermined, and religious conviction treated as an obstacle to be overcome, Americans have reason to celebrate.
On June 30, the United States Supreme Court delivered a landmark victory for women and girls, affirming that states may preserve female sports for biological females. The ruling recognized a truth that should never have become controversial: Equal opportunity for women depends upon acknowledging the biological differences between men and women.
Advocates' clients and female athletes Kaitlyn Slavin, Taylor Starling, Alyssa McPherson, Hadeel Hazzmeh, and Madison McPherson courageously defend fairness in women's sports.
For female athletes who have lost championships, roster positions, privacy, and opportunities, this victory matters. For parents who have been told that protecting their daughters is hateful, this victory matters. For every American who has watched political ideology attempt to legislate away biological reality, this victory matters.
Truth prevailed, and that is worth celebrating. It is also evidence of what can happen when courageous individuals are willing to speak, faithful Americans refuse to surrender, and experienced legal advocates are prepared to carry the fight forward.
A Supreme Court decision establishes a powerful legal principle, but that principle must still reach the schools, athletic fields, locker rooms, workplaces, churches, and communities where constitutional rights are being challenged.
California continues advancing policies that place ideology above fairness, safety, privacy, and biological reality. Parents continue to discover that public officials believe government should have greater authority over children than their own mothers and fathers. Teachers and school employees are pressured to use language they believe is false, conceal critical information from parents, or remain silent about their faith.
Christian employees are denied reasonable religious accommodations while secular preferences are readily accepted. Faith-based schools and ministries are told that they may participate in public programs only if they compromise the very beliefs that make them religious.
Month in Review:
- Urged the Presidential Religious Liberty Commission to Strengthen Protections for Students, Parents, and Teachers
- Submitted Comment to Presidential Religious Liberty Commission Defending Religious Freedom in Public Schools
- Launched Text Messaging to Deliver Timely Legal Updates and Urgent Calls to Action Directly to Our Supporters
- Filed a Supreme Court Brief Defending Equal Access to Public Benefits for Churches and Faith-Based Preschools
- Secured Religious Accommodations Protecting Teachers from Mandatory PRISM Training That Compelled Affirmation of LGBTQ+ and Gender-Identity Ideology Contrary to Their Christian Faith
- Filed Briefs Applying the Supreme Court’s Title IX Victory in Our Save Girls’ Sports Case and Advanced Discovery in a Second Case Defending Female Athletes
This is why Advocates for Faith & Freedom continues pressing forward. The Constitution was designed to provide a safe harbor for religious freedom, not merely a narrow permission slip granted by government officials when faith remains private and politically convenient.
Religious liberty means little if Americans are free to believe, but not free to live according to those beliefs.
It means little if parents may worship on Sunday but are excluded from decisions affecting their children on Monday. It means little if a Christian employee may hold a Bible at home but risks losing a career for requesting a religious accommodation at work. It means little if a student has freedom of speech only when that speech agrees with the prevailing ideology.
These are not isolated disputes. They reflect a broader cultural effort to redefine freedom as compliance and tolerance as agreement.
The institutions demanding conformity often possess enormous financial, governmental, and legal resources. The individuals resisting them may have little more than their faith, their conscience, and the conviction that surrender is not an option.
At Advocates for Faith & Freedom, we stand beside them. We provide legal representation without charge to our clients because constitutional rights should not belong only to those who can afford to defend them. We pursue cases that can shape the law far beyond one family, student, athlete, church, or employee.
We work to preserve religious freedom, parental rights, free speech, election integrity, the sanctity of human life, and the right of every believer to live out and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
This work is possible only because of you.
To our faithful partners in this ministry, thank you. Your prayers sustain our team. Your encouragement strengthens the individuals and families willing to place their names on a lawsuit. Your generosity allows our attorneys to confront government agencies, school districts, corporate legal departments, and well-funded ideological organizations. We cannot do this work without you.
Join Us in Michigan. This September, we will gather with friends and ministry partners to celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary and recommit ourselves to defending the freedoms entrusted to us.
Scan the QR Code or visit https://faith-freedom.com/advocates-for-faith-freedom-gala/ to learn more. If you are unable to attend in person, sponsorship opportunities offer another meaningful way to participate in the evening and invest in the legal work ahead.
We are grateful for every victory God has provided. We are grateful that truth is winning. Most of all, we are profoundly grateful for you, our partners in this ministry, who make it possible for us to continue defending faith, protecting families, and preserving freedom.
Together, we can turn today’s victories into lasting freedom for generations to come.
In Christ,
Robert Tyler
President and Chief Counsel
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
– 2 Corinthians 13:8
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