Alan Sears is president, CEO and general counsel of the Alliance Defending Freedom, a legal alliance based in Scottsdale, Ariz., whose focus is defending religious liberty. The ADF sponsors the Day of Dialogue in schools around the country to “counter the promotion of the homosexual agenda and express an opposing viewpoint from a Christian perspective.” It also supported the […]

Read an April 8, 2009, Washington Post feature on the complex preparations for a Greek Easter feast.  

Annie Van Avery is executive director of Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere, based in San Francisco.

Kenneth Roth is executive director of Human Rights Watch. Read the organization’s 2001 report “Hatred in the Hallways: Violence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools.”

Judy Shepard, whose son Matthew was murdered in an anti-gay crime, established the Matthew Shepard Foundation, which has offices in Casper, Wyo., and Denver. She supports anti-discrimination programs in schools and legislation against hate crimes.

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.”

Jody M. Huckaby is executive director of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians & Gays, which has a program for safe and inclusive schools.

Read a Feb. 8, 2011, column in Religion Dispatches by Joanna Brooks, a religion scholar and writer who grew up in a conservative Mormon home. The LDS church has taken a low-key, media-savvy approach to the often-scathing satirical musical The Book of Mormon, Brooks writes.