For 34 years, Liberty Counsel has been committed to defending religious freedom, protecting the sanctity of human life, and upholding the family. In 2023, Liberty Counsel continued its frontline legal battles — and victories. By God’s grace, staying the course, and never giving up, together we have made great strides for life and liberty.

Read on to learn how YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT advanced the cause of liberty and made these wins possible. — Mat

This year has been a year of nonstop litigation defending our nation’s precious liberties. Yesterday, we reviewed the many religious accommodation and free speech cases we have won in 2023. Today, we will discuss our wins defending religious freedom.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WINS

This year was monumental for religious freedom with several key victories at the United States Supreme Court and lower courts that further enshrined religious liberty protections. 

We started out the year by filing an amicus brief in February in favor of former postal carrier Gerald Groff, a Christian, who was forced to quit his job at the U.S. Postal Service for not working on Sundays since he reserved Sundays as a day of worship and rest, according to his faith. In June, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Groff and further enshrined religious liberty accommodations for employees under the federal employment law known as Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

This case now solidifies greater protection for employees against religious discrimination. The Groff case will strengthen our fight for employees abused by the COVID shot mandates and much more.

In July, we won our lawsuit for Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) Rhode Island and its Good News Clubs against the Providence Public School District. The Good News Clubs are now free to hold after-school Bible clubs, and the school district is prohibited from discriminating against CEF. Liberty Counsel has represented CEF in hundreds of cases nationally and has never lost a case involving Good News Clubs.

As a result of our demand letter sent in July to committee members at Greenfield Public Schools in Massachusetts, they finally voted to approve the Providence Moldovian Baptist Church and its school, Providence Christian Academy. The Christian elementary school that was once discriminated against for its Christian curriculum is now holding classes.

As a result of our demand letter sent August 17 to public school administrators at Vigo County School Corporation in Indiana, a male, middle school P.E. teacher is no longer required to supervise a gender-confused girl in the boys' locker room.

We continued our momentum with a September court case, celebrating another victory for Kim Davis, the former Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk who was sued by two homosexual couples for not signing “same-sex marriage” licenses. We won in the Yates v. Davis trial with the jury awarding the plaintiffs zero damages. We continue to litigate in the Ermold case with the goal of taking this case to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Obergefell “same-sex marriage” opinion.

To begin the holiday season and continue our efforts to keep Christ in Christmas, we sent a demand letter on November 13 to the City of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, regarding its unconstitutional ban on Christmas holiday symbols, decorations, and expressions within public buildings and for its employees. Shortly thereafter, the city administrator quickly backpedaled and allowed employees to decorate for Christmas without restrictions.

PRO-LIFE WINS

Liberty Counsel has fought hard to successfully protect life in four states this year. Thanks to your support, Liberty Counsel was able to defend life in Kentucky, Oklahoma, Indiana, and South Carolina. We also have three pro-life cases pending in Arizona and Florida, including a ballot initiative.

We won a case at the DC Court of Appeals regarding a pro-life sidewalk counselor in Washington, DC, involving a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic.

We also have a pro-life sidewalk counseling case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court out of Harrisburg, PA.

In the last three years alone, Liberty Counsel has won all seven of the U.S. Supreme Court cases we argued or briefed, including playing a major part in overturning Roe v. Wade, and ending the “Lemon Test” that had been used for 51 years to censor religious speech, symbols, and actions ... and we aren’t done winning yet.

We at Liberty Counsel will never rest until our precious freedoms are fully secure. YOU can be a part of the victory with a generous, tax-deductible year-end gift to support our legal fund. Every donation made today will be DOUBLED IN IMPACT by the Victory in 2023 Challenge Grant. But hurry! This special grant expires at MIDNIGHT, December 31!

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

TAKE ACTION

The LGBTQ army is working to eliminate religious freedom for ALL Americans via HR 15, which specifically eliminates religious accommodations — even for your pastor and your church! Please fax Congress today!

We need your help to defend religious liberty. Support our legal fund today and have YOUR IMPACT DOUBLED by a generous Challenge Grant.