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

J. David Woodard is a professor of political science at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C., and author of The New Southern Politics.

Ferrel Guillory is a professor of journalism and director of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Walton Brown-Foster teaches a course on religion and politics at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain.

The Rev. Patrick Lynch is chair of the religious studies department at Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y. He is a Jesuit priest and has taught courses on Catholic social ethics, religion & politics and the Jesuits.

Bob Bennett is a former U.S. senator from Utah, as was his father, and is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bennett is now chairman of the Bennett Group, a consulting group for corporations in Washington, D.C.

Roberta Combs is president of the Christian Coalition, a political action organization that describes itself as “pro-family.” According to news releases on its website, the coalition has several times agreed with statements made by Mitt Romney.

U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, a Democrat, was elected to represent New Mexico in the Senate in 2008 after serving five terms in the U.S. House. He also had served as the state’s attorney general.

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is U.S. Senate majority leader and a member of the LDS church.