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Conservative Groups Urge Lawmakers To Back Amendment Protecting Traditional Views On Marriage

March 1st, 2024

Dozens of conservative organization leaders are sending a letter to members of Congress on Friday demanding they adopt protections for religious Americans who support the traditional idea of marriage.

The signees urged Republicans in the House of Representatives to prioritize passing the “Roy Marriage Amendment,” named after Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, to protect religious freedom, according to the letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Advancing American Freedom (AAF), a conservative policy organization founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, spearheaded the letter and included signatures from Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, Joe Waresak, president of the James Dobson Family Institute, and Tom McClusky, director of government affairs for Catholic Vote, among others.

“As the leaders of organizations dedicated to protecting religious liberty and other First Amendment liberties for all Americans, we encourage you to include the Roy ‘Marriage Amendment’ in the upcoming appropriations bills,” the letter reads. “The language would provide much-needed protection to organizations and individuals who hold traditional beliefs on marriage from discrimination by the federal government.”

If adopted, the amendment would prohibit the government from engaging in “any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral conviction” regarding marriage between a man and a woman, according to the text. It also prevents the federal government from eliminating a religious group’s tax exemption status for their beliefs on marriage.

Roy submitted the amendment to the House in 2022 in an attempt to include it with the “Respect for Marriage Act,” which requires all fifty states to recognize same-sex marriages from other states and was passed in December of that same year.

The House is currently attempting to avoid a government shutdown after failing to pass a new budget for fiscal year 2024 in September. Members voted Thursday to extend the deadline to March 8, prompting AAF to encourage lawmakers to push the amendment through before a potential shutdown.

“This provision is needed now more than ever, for no one should ever fear government punishment for holding to traditional marriage as the unique blessing that it is for all. We strongly encourage you to once again include the Roy ‘Marriage Amendment’ in upcoming appropriations bills,” the letter concludes.

AAF Support the Roy Amendment Letter

FDA & Danco Laboratories v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine

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AAF Files Amicus Brief on FDA’s Controversial Approval and Monitoring of Abortion Drug Mifepristone

February 29th, 2024

Advancing American Freedom led an amicus brief with over 30 other amici on the FDA’S peeling back of safety protocols and the doubtful approval standards of mifepristone, an abortion drug.

“The Biden administration has prioritized abortion absolutism over safety when approving drugs and cutting out physicians supervision to make abortions more frequent in the wake of the Dobbs decision,” said J. Marc Wheat, AAF General Counsel. “The FDA’s decades-long avoidance of public review must end. The Court must not defer to the FDA’s interpretation, but should exercise independent judgement and recognize the FDA’s expansion of power that was not granted in the Constitution.”

Read the full amicus brief here.

AAF: “Biden Sells Out to the CCP Again”

February 29th, 2024

Advancing American Freedom issued the following statement after a bipartisan effort to override President Biden’s veto of legislation to stop China from receiving electric vehicle subsidies failed.

“President Biden has no problem subsidizing CCP companies here and in China at a cost to the American people.” said AAF Executive Director Paul Teller. “We need to be clear-eyed. The CCP is an existential threat to our economy and our national security. Not one American tax dollar should be flowing to CCP companies on the left’s sacred altar of climate change.”

Tim Chapman on Populism, the Politics of IVF, and Support for Ukraine

Tim Chapman is a Senior Advisor at Advancing American Freedom, a public policy advocacy organization founded by Vice President Mike Pence.

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AAF Defund Basel Rule Letter

AAF Files Amicus Brief Defending Pro-Life States against Biden Administration

February 26th, 2024

Advancing American Freedom led an amicus brief with over 30 other amici in Moyle v. US in which the Court will consider the legality of the Biden Administration’s interpretation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) as a vehicle for mandatory abortion in states with pro-life laws.

“The Biden administration is treating EMTALA like a Trojan horse, finding an abortion mandate in it for the first time since President Reagan signed it into law almost four decades ago,” said J. Marc Wheat, AAF General Counsel. “The Dobbs decision was clear, and pro-life states have made it clear through legislation they will protect innocent life and will not allow the Biden administration to use absurd interpretations of EMTALA to force abortions.”

You can read the amicus brief here.

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