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Balloons setup for a rally, as people wait to enter the US Supreme Court for a hearing of oral arguments from the Alliance Defending Freedom — Balloons setup for a rally, as people wait to enter the US Supreme Court for a hearing of oral arguments from the Alliance Defending Freedom
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By Emily Birnbaum

January 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM UTC

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It was late 2022 when hundreds of lawyers across America joined in a virtual Lord’s Prayer for Jeremy Tedesco and his mission to promote Christian values in corporate America.

A senior counsel at the country’s most powerful conservative legal group that helped orchestrate the end of Roe v. Wade, Tedesco was getting ready to spread the gospel: corporate diversity, equity and inclusion policies are anti-Christian and must be eradicated.