Snapshot: Alliance Defending Freedom | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS

Snapshot: Alliance Defending Freedom

Founded: 1994

Founders:

• Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ;

• Larry Burkett, founder of Christian Financial Concepts;

• Rev. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family;

• Rev. D. James Kennedy, founder of Coral Ridge Ministries;

• Marlin Maddoux, President of International Christian Media;

• Don Wildmon, founder of American Family Association;

• and 25+ other Christian ministries.

President, CEO, and General Counsel: Alan Sears

Book Sears co-authored: "The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom"

Board of Directors:

• Alfonso Aguilar

• Edward Christie

• Chapman B. Cox

• Marjorie Dannenfelser

• Richard Korpan

• Mark Maddoux

• Tom Minnery

• Charles W. Pickering Sr.

• John Rogers

• Terry Schlossberg

Revenue: $38,943,749 (2012)

Headquarters: Arizona

80% of all cases litigated have been won

38 U.S. Supreme Court victories

300 allied organizations

2,400 allied attorneys

52 states/territories represented

31 countries represented

44 in-house attorneys

200 current cases

Fights: Gay rights, same-sex marriage, secularism

Controversy: Accused of defending laws in Belize making homosexuality a criminal act subject to prison time.

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