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Dan T. Cathy Chick-fil-A bio

Read about Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy, who tries to incorporate Christian teachings into the work ethic of his huge and popular business, including closing his fast-food outlets on Sundays. Chick-fil-A was embroiled in controversy in 2012 following a series of comments by Cathy opposing same-sex marriage.

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Thomas C. Berg

Thomas C. Berg is a law professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. He is a leading expert on church-state issues and has written on religious land use questions. He supports the rights of religious organizations to choose members based on religion and sexual conduct. He has also written about religious speech in the workplace.

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Andrew Koppelman

Andrew Koppelman is a professor at Northwestern University Law School in Evanston, Ill., where he teaches law and political science. His books include Antidiscrimination Law and Social Equality (Yale University Press, 1996), The Gay Rights Question in Contemporary American Law (University of Chicago Press, 2002) and Defending American Religious Neutrality (Harvard University Press, 2012). His position is that waivers are appropriate and […]

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Randall Ellis

Randall Ellis is vice president of public affairs for Legacy Health Community Services and former executive director of the Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas. Ask him to discuss whether religious groups’ efforts to be excluded from nondiscrimination policies have affected campus attitudes toward gays and lesbians.

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Janet R. Jakobsen

Janet R. Jakobsen is associate professor and director of the Center for Research on Women at Barnard College in Columbia University, New York. She co-authored Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (Beacon Press, 2004).

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Bruce Reitman

Ask Bruce Reitman, dean of student affairs at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., about the problems for universities when they are asked to choose between the rights of gays and lesbians and freedom of association for religious groups. The meeting of such divergent opinions is an opportunity for students and faculty to enrich a university […]

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Human Rights Campaign

The Human Rights Campaign is the country’s largest civil rights organization working for sexual equality. Its Religion & Faith Program supports programming efforts in many different groups and also offers its own resources and event support for religious LGBT advocacy.

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Christian Legal Society

The Christian Legal Society is a nonprofit Christian organization headquartered in Virginia that consists of lawyers, judges, law professors and law students. Its members are bound to follow the “commandment of Jesus” and to “seek justice with the love of God.”

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Alliance Defending Freedom

The Alliance Defending Freedom is a watchdog group that was founded by Bill Bright, the evangelical minister who started Campus Crusade for Christ, and several other evangelical leaders. It concerns itself with three main issues: religious liberty, “sanctity of life” and traditional marriage. It is based in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Kristen Waggoner is CEO, president […]

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