U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, a Democrat, was re-elected in 2008 to his fifth term representing Utah’s 2nd District. He also belongs to the LDS church.

U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican, represents Arizona and is a member of the LDS church.

U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican, was elected in 2008 to represent Utah’s 3rd District in Congress. He is a member of the LDS church.

U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, a Republican, represents Utah’s 1st District and is a Mormon. He is a former high school teacher of American history and government who served 16 years in the state legislature.

Paul Djupe is a political scientist at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where he specializes in religion and politics. He edits the Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics series and has written about people of faith’s voting patterns, the religious right and faith-based opposition to socialism.

Laurie M. Johnson is a professor of political science and has taught a course on religion and politics at Kansas State University.

John-Charles Duffy is a visiting assistant professor in the department of comparative religion at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. From 2001-04, he helped coordinate a series of brown bag discussions on Mormon studies at the University of Utah.

Douglas Firth Anderson is a professor of history with a specialty in American religious history at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa.

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