![]() ![]() "I've learned to separate religious and political viewpoints from the people. In the letter, Weinstein asked Bezos "to reconsider and kindly reverse your decision and permit ADF once again to participate in the AmazonSmile program." "Mikey" Weinstein, the CEO and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says he wrote a letter of support to Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon on behalf of the ADF because of his years-long friendship with several of the ADF attorneys. Law Firm Receives Support From Unlikely DefenderĪs CBN News reported in 2018, the ADF received support from an unlikely defender – an organization whose CEO and founder says he pretty much disagrees with everything the ADF stands for in terms of law and policy.Īmazon had informed the nonprofit they were removed from the AmazonSmile program because the SPLC determines who is qualified. A left-wing gunman even used that erroneous SPLC map to find his target when he shot up the Family Research Council's office in Washington, D.C. But then it took a lurch to the far left and began to put conservatives and Christians on the SPLC website's hate map. As CBN News has reported, many people acknowledge the SPLC did good work years ago by targeting haters and racists like the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis. However, the SPLC has smeared the ADF as a hate group. ![]() ![]() "ADF is the world's largest legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, parental rights, and God's design for marriage and family," the ADF states on its website. We'll post it here if we hear back.Īs CBN News has reported, the ADF is one of the leading religious rights law firms in the U.S. Weida declined to comment.ĬBN News reached out to the Justice Department and to Matt Sharp at the ADF for comment. When checked by CBN News on Tuesday, Bruskin had not deleted his comment from Weida's post. The policy goes on to say, "Department employees should not make comments that can be perceived as showing prejudice based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or any other protected basis." The departments policy reads: "All Department employees should be aware of the following requirements governing the use of social media, and Department attorneys should consider obligations imposed by applicable rules of professional conduct." His response to the post appears to go against the Justice Department's policy in its employee manual concerning the personal use of social media. Are these the beliefs you hold? If so, then it's time we end our professional association."īruskin did not point out the reason for the "hate group" specification that he applied to the ADF. ![]() You're speaking at a conference for a hate group. In his reply, Bruskin wrote: "Jason, this is a hate group. In his LinkedIn post, Weida wrote: "Honored to speak with senior counsel Matt Sharp at Alliance Defending Freedom about the work we're doing in Florida to protect kids from experimental medical interventions and to defend parental rights, all thanks to the leadership of Governor DeSantis." attorney in Massachusetts who is now the assistant deputy secretary for Medicaid policy and quality at the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. Bruskin, assistant director of the commercial litigation branch in the Justice Department's Civil Division, who was previously a lawyer for the ACLU of Massachusetts, appeared to follow the lead of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-wing group that regularly calls the ADF and other conservative organizations "hate groups."īruskin wrote the term "hate group" when replying to a post by Jason Weida, a former assistant U.S. A Justice Department official recently labeled the religious liberty legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) as a "hate group" in a public reply to a LinkedIn post. ![]()
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