Priests for Life is one of the largest anti-abortion groups in the country. The Rev. Frank Pavone is the group’s leader.

The National Pro-Life Religious Council is a Christian coalition. Organizations that have representatives on its board are listed on the website.

Medical Students for Life of America is an outreach organization of Students for Life of America. Jon Russell is national coordinator for the medical group.

Barbara Brown Zikmund is a historian and a fellow at the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Her research and writing has focused on the role of women in the church, the evolution of 20th-century Protestant denominations (with special attention to the United Church of […]

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention. Hannah Daniel is the commission’s director of public policy.

Sue Crawford is a professor of political science and international relations at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. One of her specialties is the role of religious institutions in public policy. She co-edited Christian Clergy in American Politics and co-authored Women With a Mission: Religion, Gender and the Politics of Women Clergy.

Read a Jan. 31, 2007, San Francisco Chronicle story about homeless youth who are LGBT.

Read a Jan. 15, 2006, Los Angeles Daily News article, posted by Jews on First, about a Simi Valley school board member’s proposal for a secondary school anti-discrimination program.

Read a Jan. 10, 2007, Washington Post story about approval by the Montgomery County (Md.) Board of Education of a sex education curriculum for eighth- and 10th-graders that discusses sexual orientation.