Christian Legal Group Cancels SCOTUS Rally In Case Involving Transgender Issues Over Safety Concerns

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) canceled a rally that it intended to hold on Tuesday while the Supreme Court hears its case, the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

Though ADF often hosts rallies for its cases, the organization’s security team determined the safety concerns were too great to hold one for Chiles v. Salazar, which challenges a Colorado law that restricts counselors from having conversations with minors intended to change their “sexual orientation or gender identity.”

“We were told by our security team that it’s not safe, given the current political climate, for 🇺🇸US to even be outside speaking about this issue,” ADF senior counsel Kate Anderson told the DCNF.

“Instead of having free debate in our country, we’re seeing people resorting to violence and to threats,” she said. “And that’s particularly sad, disturbing when we’re talking about a case that’s all about free speech and allowing people to debate the things that are most difficult and most controversial in our country, so that we can come to good solutions that will help and save kids.”

While ADF’s security team made the call, the Supreme Court told ADF that they cannot secure speakers at an open air rally on this topic, Anderson said. The Supreme Court did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“We’ve all witnessed the wave of violent attacks in recent weeks—many of which are politically motivated, with apparent ties to radical gender ideology,” ADF CEO Kristen Waggoner wrote