Top 5 ways speech, religious freedom and life were all under attack in 2022
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Top 5 ways speech, religious freedom and life were all under attack in 2022. Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling was a huge victory, but freedoms remain at risk.
Kristen Waggoner is CEO, president, and general counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom. Follow her on Twitter @KWaggonerADF or follow ADF @ADFLegal.
If the government can do this, it can do the same to any of us — from forcing LGBT web designers to condemn same-sex marriage to forcing atheists to design church flyers. That violates the First Amendment, and it gives the government the power to silence and punish any of us who hold views officials dislike. That’s authoritarian and dangerous. There are cases similar to Lorie’s pending right now where artists face ruinous penalties and even jail time, and we’ll likely see the so-called Respect for Marriage Act used as a cudgel to punish Americans. Free speech is for everyone, and that freedom is on the line in Lorie’s case. We expect a result most likely this summer.
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