Burns Strider is the founder of the Eleison and The American Values Network. He has served in an array of high ranking positions within the Democratic party including as senior adviser and director of faith-based operations for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, director of religious outreach for the House Democrats and lead staffer for the […]

Paul Jarzembowski is the USCCB representative to the National Catholic Young Adult Ministry Association, which is an outreach to singles and couples in their 20s and 30s.

Frederick Lawrence is a theology professor at Boston College and the author of Punishing Hate: Bias Crimes Under American Law.

Rebecca Stotzer is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her research includes studies on racial and sexual discrimination.

Brian Levin is director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, a nonpartisan research and policy center at California State University, San Bernardino. Levin is also a professor of criminal justice at the university.

Peter Levine is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs in Tufts University’s Jonathan Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)  which studies young Americans’ civic engagement. He is also the author of The Future of Democracy: Developing […]

Gregory M. Herek is a psychologist at the University of California, Davis. He is a well-known scholar in the areas of prejudice against lesbians and gay men, hate crimes and anti-gay violence, and AIDS-related stigma.

Repent America is a Philadelphia-based evangelistic organization that works against homosexuality, abortion and evolution.

David King is a senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.