By Mat Staver, Liberty Counsel

It’s been a busy year for Liberty Counsel. With multiple cases pending in local, state, and federal courts, it sometimes feels as if the world is trying to silence truth and eradicate our Judeo-Christian values.

But Liberty Counsel was founded 34 years ago to ensure that America’s future WILL REMAIN free and that people will never be prevented from exercising their faith or speaking truth. Today, I’d like to spotlight just four of the major cases we have pending.

Overturning Christian Counseling Bans

Significant wins and a case pending at the Supreme Court.

The LGBTQ agenda has worked hard to coerce cities and states around the nation to ban Christian counseling, which has been shown to be effective in healing gender dysphoria and unwanted same-sex attractions.

Liberty Counsel won two cases at the federal court of appeals, striking down 23 such bans, freeing clients to receive counseling of their choice in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. However, 87 such bans remain across the nation. As we continue to fight for people to receive the lifesaving counseling of their choice, the U.S. Supreme Court is also considering taking up a change counseling case for its upcoming judicial session. Stay tuned. This could be the one that strikes down all the counseling bans.

Defending against Religious Employment Discrimination

Before the Supreme Court: Alicia Lowe, et al., v. Janet Mills, et al.

Liberty Counsel represents Maine healthcare workers against Gov. Janet Mills and four of Maine’s largest health systems, which violated religious discrimination protections in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The healthcare workers were fired for refusing to violate their deeply held religious convictions by taking an experimental shot derived from aborted fetal tissues. The U.S. Supreme Court is considering this case for its upcoming judicial session. The Justices will meet to consider the case this Friday, October 27. We will update you as soon as possible.

Defending First Amendment Pro-Life Journalism

Criminal trial to begin Nov. 3: State of California v. Sandra Merritt

Sandra Merritt is the first undercover journalist in California history to be criminally prosecuted and civilly sued for truthful investigative journalism. Because Sandra exposed the 1.7 billion-dollar-per-year global abortion giant, Planned Parenthood, committing unspeakable acts, Sandra now faces years in prison and 16 million dollars in fines and judgments.

The State of California’s criminal trial against Sandra is scheduled to begin November 3. Sandra’s case is the most expensive in our history.

Overturning Planned Parenthood’s free speech bans

Before the U.S. Supreme Court: Reilly v. City of Harrisburg

Colleen Reilly and Becky Biter have dedicated their lives to assisting women seeking abortion at their local Harrisburg, PA, abortion clinic. The two women provide quiet one-on-one conversations, peaceful sidewalk counseling, and prayer while distributing life-affirming literature.

Afraid of losing the opportunity to abort more children, Planned Parenthood leaned on the City of Harrisburg to ban pro-life literature distribution or speech near its abortion clinic. As a result of the city’s unlawful speech ban, one may talk about or distribute anything in the “buffer zone,” as long as the speech or literature is not pro-life.

Liberty Counsel has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking the High Court to take up this critical case to strike down the City of Harrisburg’s unlawful revocation of pro-life speech and viewpoints. We are also asking the Court to overrule its 2000 decision in Hill v. Colorado, which the Supreme Court Justices have also criticized as wrongly decided.

Liberty Counsel has many other ongoing cases. Some include defending parents and teachers from the LGBTQ’s ongoing assault against parental rights; protecting the right to life from those seeking to overturn state and federal abortion bans; and so much more.

But our fight is not simply before the Courts, but Congress as well.

There is a common element fighting us in each of these cases — Planned Parenthood and the LGBTQ mafia. Those forces are now working against us in tandem in Congress as well, via HR 15, the so-called “Equality Act.” If passed, HR 15 will make abortion up until birth federally protected, even as it revokes religious freedom protections from abortion and LGBTQ initiatives to force Christian institutions to accept, promote, and participate in practices that clearly violate religious tenets.

If passed, HR 15 will be a big blow to religious freedom.

Thus far, 212 Democrats have co-sponsored this bill. They only need six Republicans to join them and this religious-freedom-ending, baby-killing bill will be the law of the land.

We must STOP HR 15.

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

Grammar corrected with Grammarly.