Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Sharp:  “Government is at its best when it enacts laws to protect life, women’s health, and free speech and to empower families as they raise their children…. We commend the Kansas Legislature for overriding the governor’s vetoes to enact such bills today….”

PORTLAND, Ore. – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a licensed clinical social worker will be available for media interviews Monday following oral argument in Theis v. InterMountain Education Service District Board of Directors at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in Portland.

ADF Senior Counsel Greg Chafuen: “Parents have the right and responsibility to guide the upbringing and education of their children. The government shouldn’t stop families from raising their children in their family’s faith. S.B. 248 respects parents’ educational decisions, allowing public school children to be briefly excused from school to receive free, off-campus religious instruction taught by private charitable organizations….”