The American conservative Christian nonprofit organization that Alan Sears served as the president, CEO, and general counsel of until January 2017 is headquartered in what Arizona city?
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Alan Sears Alan E. Sears is an American lawyer. He served as the president, CEO, and general counsel of the Alliance Defending Freedom until January 2017. Sears was the staff executive director of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, popularly known as the "Meese Commission".
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Alliance Defending Freedom Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF, formerly Alliance Defense Fund) is an American conservative Christian nonprofit organization with the stated goal of advocating, training, and funding on the issues of "religious freedom, sanctity of life, and marriage and family." The ADF is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and runs a "Center for Academic Freedom" in Nashville, Tennessee. It also has six branch offices, located in Sacramento, California; Lawrenceville, Georgia; Shreveport, Louisiana; Memphis, Tennessee; Washington, D.C., and Olathe, Kansas.
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Mark Driscoll Mark A. Driscoll (born October 11, 1970) is an American evangelical Christian pastor, author, and the former pastor of Mars Hill Church, a megachurch in Seattle, Washington. He resigned on October 14, 2014. In 1996, Driscoll co-founded Mars Hill Church, which as of March 2014 had grown to 14,000 members in five states and fifteen locations. He also founded The Resurgence, a theological cooperative, and co-founded several other parachurch organizations: Churches Helping Churches, a church planting network called "Acts 29" and The Gospel Coalition. He has written for the "Faith and Values" section of the "Seattle Times", "OnFaith", and the Fox News website. Driscoll has also authored a number of popular Christian books. Described as "an evangelical bad boy, a gifted orator and charismatic leader" and "hip yet hard-line", he is known for promoting "culturally relevant" yet theologically conservative Christianity. He favors "vintage" aesthetics and a "down to earth", yet at times "aggressive", preaching style.
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Faithful Word Baptist Church Faithful Word Baptist Church is a fundamentalist Independent Baptist church in Tempe, Arizona, in the United States founded by Pastor Steven Anderson ( born July 24, 1981 ). The church describes itself as "an old-fashioned, independent, fundamental, King James Bible only, soul-winning Baptist church." Members of the church meet in an office space located in a strip mall. Anderson established the church in December 2005 and remains its pastor.
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KASA (AM) KASA (1540 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format. Licensed to Phoenix, Arizona, United States, the station serves the Phoenix area. The station is currently owned by Kasa Radio Hogar, Inc.
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Center for a Just Society The Center for a Just Society is a conservative non-profit organization located in Washington, DC. The Center focuses on providing conservative answers to social justice issues and is most known for the work of its chairman, Ken Connor. Connor was the lawyer for Jeb Bush during the Terri Schiavo case and served as the president of the Family Research Council before leaving and founding the Center in 2004. The Center is known for its online publications and has raised controversy in the conservative community for its work defending access to the courts.
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Justice at the Gate Justice at the Gate is an evangelical Christian political organization that advertises itself as "building the partnerships to mobilize Christians to pray effectively and vote righteously." It is currently based in San Antonio, Texas and is led by Alice Patterson.
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Christian Care Ministry Christian Care Ministry is a not-for-profit organization based in Melbourne, Florida. It was founded by Dr. E John Reinhold in 1993, as a division of the American Evangelistic Association (AEA), with the goal of providing biblical healthcare solutions for Christians. The organization manages four programs centered on biblical health and wellness: Healthy Church, Manna, Medi-Share. In September 2012, the organization introduced PrayerStream, a free social networking resource that allows users to instantly share prayer requests worldwide.
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American Center for Law &amp; Justice The American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) is a politically conservative, Christian-based social activism and watchdog for corruption organization in the United States. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and associated with Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The ACLJ was founded in 1990 by law school graduate and evangelical minister Pat Robertson to protect constitutional and human rights worldwide. ACLJ generally pursues constitutional issues and conservative Christian ideals in courts of law. The leaders of the ACLJ also occasionally engage in public debates to present their perspective on legal and constitutional issues.
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Arizona State Board for Charter Schools The Arizona State Board for Charter Schools (ASBCS) is a state agency in the state of Arizona. It is the regulator for the state's charter schools. It is headquartered inside of the Executive Tower at the Arizona state capitol building in Phoenix.
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Sears-Kay Ruin The Sears-Kay Ruin are the remains of what once was a fortification of the Hohokam, an ancient Native-American tribe. The ruins are located in the area of the Tonto National Forest just outside of the town of Carefree, Arizona. On November 24, 1995, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places, reference #95001310.
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Arizona Department of Corrections The Arizona Department of Corrections is statutory responsible for the incarceration of inmates in 10 prisons in the U.S. state of Arizona. As of December 2015, the ADC manages over 42,643 imprisoned inmates and over 5,466 inmates who have been paroled or that are statutorily released. ADC is also in involved in recruitment and training of Correctional Officers at the Correctional Officer Training Academy (COTA). It has its headquarters in Downtown Phoenix.
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Southern Baptist Convention The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a Christian denomination based in the United States. With more than 15 million members as of 2015 , it is the world's largest Baptist denomination, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and the second-largest Christian denomination in the United States after the Catholic Church.
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National City Christian Church National City Christian Church, located on Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C., is the national church of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (often abbreviated as the "Disciples of Christ" or "Christian Church"). The denomination grew out of the Stone-Campbell Movement founded by Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell of Pennsylvania and West Virginia (then Virginia) and Barton W. Stone of Kentucky.
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Chandler, Arizona Chandler is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and is a prominent suburb of the Phoenix, Arizona, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). It is bordered to the north and west by Tempe, to the north by Mesa, to the west by Phoenix, to the south by the Gila River Indian Community, and to the east by Gilbert. As of July 2015, the population was 260,828 according to the United States Census Bureau, According to the city's official website, Chandler's Transportation & Development Department estimated the population, as of May 2016, to be 247,328. It also has satellite locations for many technology companies, including Intel and Orbital ATK.
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Deseret Book Deseret Book ( ) is an American publishing company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, that also operates a chain of bookstores throughout the western United States. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, the holding company for business firms owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Deseret Book is a for-profit corporation registered in Utah. Deseret Book publishes under four imprints with media ranging from works explaining LDS theology and doctrine, LDS-related fiction, electronic resources, and sound recordings such as Mormon Tabernacle Choir albums.
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Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona. With 1,615,017 people (as of 2016 ), Phoenix is the fifth most populous city nationwide, the most populous state capital in the United States, and the only state capital with a population of more than one million residents.
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EarthLink EarthLink is an IT services, network and communications provider headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The company serves more than 150,000 businesses and 1 million U.S. consumers. On November 7, 2016, Windstream Holdings announced a merger with Earthlink for about $1.1 billion in stock. The combined company, which will retain the Windstream name, will be headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization The Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, also known as Flag or FSO, is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Within the worldwide network of Scientology corporations and entities, the FSO is officially referred to as the "spiritual headquarters" of the Church of Scientology. The organization is located in Clearwater, Florida.
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Centennial Park group The Centennial Park group is a fundamentalist Mormon group, with approximately 1,500 members that is headquartered in Centennial Park, Arizona. The Centennial Park group broke with Leroy S. Johnson, leader and senior member of the Priesthood Council of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church), in the early 1980s. There is no formal relationship between the FLDS Church and the Centennial Park community. The group is also known as the "Second Ward", "The Work of Jesus Christ" and "The Work".
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Kelli Ward Kelli Ward ("née" Kaznoski; born January 25, 1969) is an American politician and osteopathic physician. A member of the Republican Party, Ward was elected in 2012 to serve in the Arizona State Senate representing the fifth legislative district. She was unopposed for election in 2014. While serving in office, she continued to practice medicine in the emergency departments in Lake Havasu City and Kingman, Arizona.
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Constantin Querard Constantin Querard is a conservative political consultant based in Arizona.