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Alan Sears
Alma materUniversity of Louisville (BA, JD)
OccupationLawyer

Alan E. Sears is an American lawyer. He served as the

Meese Commission
.

Education, faith, and family

Sears graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Louisville.[1] He earned a J.D. degree from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law.[1]

Sears was raised in the Baptist church, but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1988 before marrying his wife, Paula.[2] Sears and Paula were jointly invested in the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great on June 29, 2017.[3]

Career

Government

Sears served as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office for western Kentucky. During his time as a federal prosecutor Sears served as staff executive director of the

Edwin Meese III, Smith's successor, announced the names of its eleven members in May 1985. Although he was not a voting member, Sears was influential on the commission and vigorously supported strengthening anti-obscenity laws.[1][4][2]

Sears served as associate solicitor under Secretary Donald Hodel at the Department of the Interior.[citation needed]

Alliance Defending Freedom

Sears led the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a Christian right legal advocacy group[5] founded in 1994,[2] for more than twenty years. Under his leadership, the ADF won a string of victories in lawsuits on behalf of the conservative Christian movement.[5] By 2014, the ADF had an annual budget of $40 million and more than 40 staff attorneys, and had "emerged as the largest legal force of the religious right, arguing hundreds of pro bono cases across the country."[5] Sears retired as ADF's president and CEO in 2017.[6][7] However, he continued to be an employee of ADF until 2020, when he earned $800,000 in the role of "Founder."[8]

In June 2017, Sears was named a knight of the Papal Order of St. Gregory.[9]

Writing

Sears has co-written two books with Craig Osten, both published by the Southern Baptist Convention's media and distribution division B&H Publishing Group.

The Homosexual Agenda, published in 2003, has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "an anti-LGBT call to arms that links homosexuality to pedophilia and other 'disordered sexual behavior'".[10] The book was accused of claiming that allowing same-sex marriage was a part of a secret agenda by activists to “lead young men and women into homosexual behavior” and trap them in a homosexual lifestyle.[11] The book also accused gay-rights advocates as trying to create a nation of “broken families and broken lives.”[12]

Sears and Osten also co-wrote The ACLU vs. America: Exposing the Agenda to Redefine Moral Values, published in 2005.[13]

Bibliography

  • Sears, Alan; Craig Osten (2003). The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today. B&H Books.
    ISBN 978-0-8054-2698-4
    .
  • Sears, Alan; Craig Osten (2005). The ACLU vs. America: Exposing the Agenda to Redefine Moral Values. B&H Books.
    ISBN 978-0-8054-4045-4
    .

Additional books by Alan Sears: Novels "In Justice", self-published through the Christian publishing house WinePress Publishing and "Trial & Error", self-published through the Christian Xulon Press.

References

  1. ^ a b c Ferrisi, Sabrina Arena (1 November 2014). "Fighting the good fight". Legatus. United States. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  2. ^ a b c McFeely, Tom. "Alliance Defense Fund's Chief Convert". National Catholic Register. United States. Archived from the original on 4 May 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  3. ^ "Scottsdale couple receive Church's highest honor for laity". 6 July 2017.
  4. ISBN 0521676541
    . Retrieved 13 April 2015. alan sears pornography.
  5. ^ a b c Erik Eckholm, "Legal Alliance Gains Host of Court Victories for Conservative Christian Movement", New York Times (May 11, 2014).
  6. ^ ADF Founder Alan Sears named 2017 Wilberforce Award recipient, Alliance Defending Freedom (press release) (May 23, 2017).
  7. ^ Stricklan, Anais (January 27, 2017). "Chronicle of Philanthropy".
  8. ^ "IRS Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax". ProPublica. May 18, 2021. Archived from the original on April 25, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
  9. ^ "Alan Sears, religious liberty advocate, named to Papal Order of St. Gregory". Catholic Business Journal. Archived from the original on 2017-09-15. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
  10. ^ "'Religious Liberty' and the Anti-LGBT Right". Southern Poverty Law Council. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  11. ^ "Opinion | Jeff Sessions' new "religious liberty task force" is a dangerous sham". NBC News.
  12. ^ Eckholm, Erik (12 May 2014). "Legal Alliance Gains Host of Court Victories for Conservative Christian Movement". The New York Times.
  13. ^ Sears, Alan; Osten, Craig (2003). The ACLU vs. America. Retrieved August 12, 2023.

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