Randy Thomasson is founder and president of SaveCalifornia.com, formerly titled Campaign for Children and Families. It is an extremely anti-gay group.

Rick Scarborough is founder and head of Vision America, based in Lufkin, Texas, which encourages pastors and congregations to promote Judeo-Christian values in local, state and national issues. He favors overturning tolerance policies in public schools that require acceptance and protection of gays and lesbians. He wrote Liberalism Kills Kids (21st Century Press, 2006).

Read an article about Mitt Romney’s religion posted on the Institute for Religious Research website.

Timothy Johnson is Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis-St. Paul. His books include, as co-author, Religious Institutions and Minor Parties in the United States. He wrote the entry on Roe v. Wade for the Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics.

Read a September 2010 Religion News Service story posted by The Huffington Post about the increasing prominence of Mormonism in the national arena.

Read a March 26, 2011, New York Times column by Maureen Down on “the Mormon moment.”

A June 7, 2011, post at the Following Faith blog of The Salt Lake Tribune asks whether “all this national attention [is] good for Mormons?”

See a June 10, 2011, post at the Houston Chronicle‘s Sacred Duty blog that dispels certain myths about Mormonism.

Read a June 15, 2011, blog post at The Economist magazine on Mormons.