Free Speech and Religious Freedom

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Doug Welty handles cases for individuals, churches, clubs, and similar organizations whose free speech is being denied or curtailed by state or local government officials or government bodies in Virginia. (Government officials and bodies include not only boards of supervisors and similar officials of localities, but also the faculty, administrators, and governing boards of public K-12 schools and public colleges and universities.) 

Such free speech restrictions are, unfortunately, especially common today at public schools and universities, even in Virginia. Restrictions usually take the form of relegating religious clubs or associations, or other groups holding unfashionable or "politically incorrect" views, to a sort of second-class status, denying them funds and the use of facilities made available to those holding more favored viewpoints. 

If this has happened to you, or to your church, club, or association, please call or email Mr. Welty to arrange for a consultation. 

Doug Welty is an Allied Attorney of the Alliance Defense Fund. The ADF and its allies are dedicated to advancing the causes of religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, and traditional family values. Here is the court decision in Demmon v. Loudoun County School Board, a Virginia federal court case that Mr. Welty won involving religious speech.

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man abides in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” –John 15:5