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You know, all this time no one has really given too much notice to the real backers of Prop 8—the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF).  The Alliance Defense Fund is in their words— a legal alliance defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through strategy, training, funding, and litigation.

In other words they’re a bunch of wealthy extremely conservative attorneys  who are determined to keep this country as white bread hetero as possible at any and all costs.  And they’ve been hard at work at it since ‘94.  For the Prop 8 trial which commences Monday morning, Charles J. Cooper (an ADF member) and other attorneys from the law firm of Cooper and Kirk along with ProtectMarriage.com General Counsel Andrew Pugno will be making up the legal team for Prop 8’s defense.

But the Alliance Defense Fund organization is the motherlode—the real home base for these attorneys and the org that provides all the coin to back the Prop 8 case. Protect Marriage is just a front. Don’t fall for it. ADF is where it all begins and ends. You need to know this. The media likes to dumb folks down and divert their attention away from the real playas and string pullers.  The ADF Web site is listed at the bottom of this post along with other Pro Prop 8 resources for your voyeuristic pleasure.

Here’s a partial list of Supreme Court cases that ADF has funded and won over the years:

Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia

Summary: University of Virginia helped fund student group activities with the exception of religious groups. Guess who took the University to court and changed all that? You got it. Now University of Virginia funds religious groups, too thanks to ADF.

Good News Club v. Milford Central Schools

Couldn’t get enough of a good thing so ADF launched the nationwide “Equal Access Project” to build on the precedent set in the Rosenberger case. As a result of many allied efforts, the court held in Good News that student Bible clubs meeting after hours in middle schools does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

The court issued a 5–4 ruling upholding the Ohio school voucher program, allowing parents to remove their children from under performing public schools and use government vouchers for private or religious schools.

Translation: White conservative religious folks didn’t want their kids going to school with inner-city heathens and where mad that the state wouldn’t give them vouchers to fund their children attending private religious schools. So ADF took up their cause and won. Now the conservative white kids don’t have to be subjected to negro children and latino offspring.  And the state of Ohio pays for it.

Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston

In 1992, the Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston (“GLIB”) requested that it be allowed to march in the parade alongside the usual attendees. GLIB argued that they were not primarily a group aimed at conveying a “gay, lesbian, and bisexual message”; rather, they said they were Irish descendants who happen to be gay, lesbian, and bisexual, and who are proud of both their sexual orientation and their Irish ancestral nationality. The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council refused to allow GLIB to march in the parade. Hence, a Supreme Court case was born. Guess who doesn’t get to march in the St. Patty’s Day parade i Boston anymore?

Lewis v. Alfaro (California State Supreme Court)

In a 7-0 ruling, the California State Supreme Court ruled in favor of the ADF’s position that the mayor of San Francisco, Calif., acted illegally when he ordered the city and country clerk to issue “marriage” licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of state law. The court also ruled, 5-2, that the 4,000 “marriage” licenses were invalid.

Forum for Equality PAC et al., v. the Honorable W. Fox McKeithen, et al.

The Louisiana State Supreme Court unanimously overturned the decision of a
state district court judge who had ruled that Louisiana’s Defense of Marriage
Amendment was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court declared that the
amendment was constitutional.

If you’d like to see more of ADF’s handy work in the Supreme Court you can check out the entire list of Supreme Court cases they’ve won click here at Supreme Court Victories.

These guys are some serious players, folks. This here trial about to happen is a bonafide case of good vs. evil. May the force be with us. And we ain’t kiddin.

Allied Defense Fund: www.alliancedefensefund.org

Strongest Local Ally:

California Family Council: http://www.californiafamilycouncil.org/

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