On March 4, the U.S. District Court of North Dakota issued a resounding religious freedom victory to all present and future members of the Christian Employers Alliance. A victory we’ve been praying for for years. We are humbled by God’s mercy in this victory and we are grateful to our Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys for diligently shepherding this case for the past two years.
During our interactive discussion, we discussed how this ruling impacts Christian businesses going forward.
While this decision is amazing, it is not universal. That means there are thousands of other Christian-owned, -operated, or -led businesses and ministries around the country that will endure intense pressure and scrutiny by agencies, financial firms, and even employees, to acquiesce to the culture’s attempt to redefine biology. As such, we explored ways we can encourage these organizations to join CEA and take advantage of the protections offered by this pivotal ruling.
SPEAKERS
SHANNON ROYCE, JD
President, CEA
MATT BOWMAN, JD
Senior Counsel
Alliance Defending Freedom
Matt Bowman serves as senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), where he focuses on the impact of administrative law on religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and family. He most recently joined ADF in December 2020. From 2017 – 2020, Bowman was a senior executive service appointee in the Trump administration, serving the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as deputy general counsel, and then in the Office for Civil Rights. Before joining HHS, Bowman was an accomplished litigator at ADF for more than 10 years. He filed and argued NIFLA v. Becerra in the lower federal courts, a case where the Supreme Court later protected the free speech of pro-life pregnancy centers. Before joining ADF in 2006, Bowman served as a law clerk for Judges Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Michael A. Chagares, at the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and for Judge John M. Roll at the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. For more information: ADFLegal.org/biography/matt-bowman.
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