spreading debunked conspiracy theories about the Obama administration spying on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, along with other lies.Robertson, the virulently anti-LGBTQ+ televangelist, founded the ACLJ in 1990 to counter the work of the American Civil Liberties Union and other liberal-leaning legal nonprofits.
Much of the ACLJ’s work in the 1990s and early 2000s involved fighting marriage equality.It helped draft the Defense of Marriage Act, the law passed in 1996 that denied federal government recognition to same-sex marriages and allowed states to deny recognition to such marriages performed in other states, therefore depriving same-sex couples of many of the rights associated with marriage.