Senior Counsel & Director of the Center for Religious Schools at Alliance Defending Freedom
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Greg Baylor retweeted
Pastors, missionaries, and worship leaders choose a heavenly calling over earthly treasures. Penalizing ministry training programs because the gov’t doesn’t think their graduates earn “enough” harms students, undermines religious exercise and the law protecting it. Thank you, @SenatorLankford and @SenTedCruz. ADF stands with you.
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Greg Baylor retweeted
Overnight, the Senate agreed to postpone the Protect College Sports Act vote until September.
This was the right call. It gives Congress time to fix the loose language we’ve warned about and ensure the bill cannot be misused to undermine women’s sports laws.
ADF commends the many senators, attorneys general, female athletes, allies, and everyday Americans who courageously stood for girls across this nation. We look forward to working with Congress and the White House to get this right.
Greg Baylor retweeted
Indiana led the way protecting girls’ and women’s sports by banning males from competing against female athletes.
The Protect College Sports Act being voted on in the U.S. Senate will be exploited by leftists to undo that progress and override our state law protections.
The Senate must amend the bill so it clearly shields laws like ours and keeps women’s athletics for women only.
Pleased to be joined by five other AG's from states who have been on the cutting edge of this battle: @AGJamesUthmeier, @AGSteveMarshall, @AGDerekBrown, @Okla_OAG, and Acting Attorney General Cori Mills of Alaska.
Read our letter here:
Greg Baylor retweeted
Thank you for your leadership! @AGToddRokita, @AGJamesUthmeier, @AGSteveMarshall, @AGDerekBrown, @Okla_OAG, and Acting Attorney General Cori Mills of Alaska.
Indiana led the way protecting girls’ and women’s sports by banning males from competing against female athletes.
The Protect College Sports Act being voted on in the U.S. Senate will be exploited by leftists to undo that progress and override our state law protections.
The Senate must amend the bill so it clearly shields laws like ours and keeps women’s athletics for women only.
Pleased to be joined by five other AG's from states who have been on the cutting edge of this battle: @AGJamesUthmeier, @AGSteveMarshall, @AGDerekBrown, @Okla_OAG, and Acting Attorney General Cori Mills of Alaska.
Read our letter here:
Greg Baylor retweeted
This state AG letter asking GOP Senators to amend the “Protect College Sports Act” is FIRE:
“Nor is it an answer to our concerns that such an amendment would jeopardize bipartisan support for [the bill] ... The fact that it might only confirms that those who press to allow men in women’s sports intend to exploit the bill’s ambiguities to undo the progress we have made protecting young women. That is unacceptable.”
SPOT ON. @AGToddRokita, @AGSteveMarshall, Cori Mills, @AGJamesUthmeier, @Okla_OAG, @AGDerekBrown
Indiana led the way protecting girls’ and women’s sports by banning males from competing against female athletes.
The Protect College Sports Act being voted on in the U.S. Senate will be exploited by leftists to undo that progress and override our state law protections.
The Senate must amend the bill so it clearly shields laws like ours and keeps women’s athletics for women only.
Pleased to be joined by five other AG's from states who have been on the cutting edge of this battle: @AGJamesUthmeier, @AGSteveMarshall, Derek Brown of Utah, @Okla_OAG, and Acting Attorney General Cori Mills of Alaska.
Read our letter here:
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Greg Baylor retweeted
The Protect College Sports Act protects the NCAA. The NCAA does NOT protect female athletes.
Unless it's amended, I do not support the Protect College Sports Act. There is no room for ambiguity.
Greg Baylor retweeted
When it comes to our daughters’ sports and spaces, uncertainty isn’t good enough.
FIX the Protect College Sports Act.
Greg Baylor retweeted
The Protect College Sports Act is well-intentioned. But while it’s trying to fix the chaos and money in college football, women are once again getting thrown under the bus.
The bill limits states’ ability to set eligibility requirements. In 27 states, laws already protect women’s sports by declaring men ineligible for women’s teams. This bill leaves a wide-open crack for the NCAA (or a future hostile administration or activist judge) to claim those state laws are null and void for college athletics.
There is no room for ambiguity when the rights of girls on the field and in the locker room are at stake.
We just won a landmark Supreme Court victory upholding state laws that keep men out of women’s sports. We should not hand the other side a tool to undo it.
Tighten the language. Fix the bill. Make it clear you're not sacrificing women’s sports and female athletes.
Fix the money problems in men’s sports without sacrificing the girls.
A bill that claims to protect college sports must actually protect the female athletes who play them.
Greg Baylor retweeted
We have worked so hard for the last decade to turn the tide. Don't inadvertently hurt the great strides we have made!
🚨 URGENT: The current version of the Protect College Sports Act could jeopardize women’s sports. Every Senator who cares about women’s equal opportunity should act immediately to clarify that this bill does not preempt state laws protecting girls’ sports.
There is a simple fix available: ensure the preemption of state laws is narrow.
We are living in a moment where lawyers can’t even define what a woman is. There’s no room for ambiguity. Let’s not undo the hard-fought gains or pass permanent legislation that could jeopardize these victories.
We are thankful for President Trump’s legacy of protecting women’s sports to date. We don’t want to see it undone.
It’s time to keep girls on the field, not sideline them again.
ADF urges Senate to clarify college sports bill won’t preempt state women’s sports laws – ADF Media adfmedia.org/press-release/a…
URGENT!!
🚨 URGENT: The current version of the Protect College Sports Act could jeopardize women’s sports. Every Senator who cares about women’s equal opportunity should act immediately to clarify that this bill does not preempt state laws protecting girls’ sports.
There is a simple fix available: ensure the preemption of state laws is narrow.
We are living in a moment where lawyers can’t even define what a woman is. There’s no room for ambiguity. Let’s not undo the hard-fought gains or pass permanent legislation that could jeopardize these victories.
We are thankful for President Trump’s legacy of protecting women’s sports to date. We don’t want to see it undone.
It’s time to keep girls on the field, not sideline them again.
4/5 A number of comments on the proposed version of the rule argued that applying the earnings test to religious studies programs at faith-based institutions would violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and that an exemption should be added to the final rule.
3/5 As I have mentioned before, according to the Department's own data, this provision has a disproportionately adverse impact on students training for the ministry. The proposed rule also threatened programmatic and even institutional eligibility for Pell Grants.
2/5 Among other things, the rule implements the so-called "Do No Harm" provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill, under which the Department will withhold federal loans from students in programs whose graduates aren't earning (in the eyes of the government) "enough" money.
1/5 The Department of Education released its final rule yesterday regarding "accountability" in Higher Education Act Title IV student aid programs.
3/3 ADF is grateful to the U.S. House Appropriations Committee for calling attention to the situation. In a report on a bill it just passed, the committee described the problem and urged ED to take the concerns expressed in public comments into account.
2/3 A preliminary assessment by the Department of Education indicated that programs in religion and religious studies would be among those hardest hit. A proposed ED reg exacerbates the problem, threatening students' access to Pell Grants.