BURLINGTON, Vt. – In a win for foster families and religious freedom, Vermont officials have finalized a new policy clarifying that foster families need not abandon their religious beliefs or promote gender ideology to qualify as foster parents. This comes after Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys, representing two Christian foster families, appealed a lower court’s ruling in Wuoti v. Winters to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The families argued that Vermont officials violated their First Amendment rights by requiring them to speak in contrast to their beliefs on gender and sexuality as a condition of being licensed to care for vulnerable children.

WASHINGTON – X (formerly Twitter) filed a landmark legal challenge Monday to a $140 million fine imposed by the European Commission under the European Union’s Digital Services Act—a sweeping censorship regime that uses American technology companies to impose European speech restrictions on users worldwide, including in the United States.

ADF Senior Counsel Matt Bowman:  “Doctors and medical professionals are bound by oath to ‘do no harm.’ Yet some federally-funded health care programs across the nation are compelling future doctors to train how to perform abortions or push gender ideology, in direct contradiction of their religious or ethical beliefs….”